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Title: Avalanche Crisis Management, (Not Including Outdoor Activities) New Practical Guide to the Attention of Mayors and Local Executives
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Oceane Vibert, Francois Rapin, et Jean-Pierre Requillard
Description: In France, in case of avalanche risk, local politicians have to "prescribe measures required by the circumstances". This is the duty of legitimate con...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-07.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, prevention, crisis management, inhabitants
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Title: Avalanche Rescue and Mission Risk in Norway 1996-2010
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Albert Lunde, Krister Kristensen
Description: Well documented data from Norwegian avalanche rescue missions are evaluated according to risk assessment. Data have been collected from police records...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-08.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, risk assessment, risk management
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Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping Plan for the Catalan Pyrenees
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Pere Oller, Marc Janeras, Olga Costa, Carles García-Sellés, Elena Muntán, Glòria Martí, Pere Martínez
Description: The avalanche cartographic information collected up to present for the Catalan Pyrenees pointed out the existence of localities at risk because of thi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-23.pdf
Keywords: pyrenees of catalonia, avalanche hazard mapping, hazard zoning, risk
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Title: Integration of a Drifting Snow Scheme in the French Operational Modeling for Avalanche Risk Forecasting: Validation Over 10 Years
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: G. Guyomarc’h, Y. Durand1, G. Giraud, F. Naaim-Bouvet
Description: For several years the Snow Study Centre of Météo-France and the Snow avalanche engineering and torrent control research unit of IRSTEA have been...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-04.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow modeling, in-situ measurements, operational forecast for avalanche hazard
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Title: Double Mesures de Hauteurs de Neige: Une Innovation Pour Mieux Gérer le Risque d’Avalanche en Temps Réel sur les Routes de Savoie (France)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Gaëlle Bourgeois, Alain Duclos, Stéphane Caffo
Description: Savoy's regional government manages more than 3000km of roads, including approximately 1000km over the elevation of 1000m. More than a hundred sectio...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-05.pdf
Keywords: blowing snow, remote weather station, snow height measurement
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Title: Avalanche Risk Management in Winter 2012/13 in Monterosa Ski Resort – Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Prola A., Welf A., Durand N., Frigo B., Dellavedova P., Segor V.
Description: Monterosa Ski is one of the most important resorts in the North/West Italian Alps. Extending through three valleys in two regions (Aosta Valley and Pi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-15.pdf
Keywords: ski resort, avalanche, risk management
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Title: Impressions from Applying ISO 31000 to an Avalanche Mitigation Project
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Alan Jones
Description: ISO 31000 is an international standard for risk management. It offers standard risk concepts, terminology and processes for diverse organizations and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-18.pdf
Keywords: iso 31000, risk management, avalanche risk, avalanche mitigation
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Title: Risk Perception and Precaution Adoption: A Study in the Field of Out-of-Bounds Skiing
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Mathilde Gletty, Dongo Rémi Kouabenan, Aurélie Landry
Description: The avalanche phenomenon in out-of-bounds is particularly deadly for young people aged between 15 and 30 years. The French National Association for th...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-14.pdf
Keywords: out-of-bounds, youth, risk perception, protective behavior, prevention
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Title: Shifting Audience and the Visual Language of Avalanche Risk Communication
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jernej Burkeljca
Description: As more people venture out into avalanche terrain we must also deal with a shift in avalanche bulletin audience. They are the core product of avalanc...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-19.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletins, risk communication, visual language, avalanche awareness
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Title: Could the Mediatization of the Biggest Avalanches Help for the Advancement of the Accidents Prevention?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Philippe Descamps
Description: Avalanches causing casualties are very often at the front page of the press and strongly contribute to forge the representation of mountain activities...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-21.pdf
Keywords: accidents, information, news, training, awareness
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Title: Integration of a Drifting Snow Scheme in the French Operational Modelling for Avalanche Risk Forecasting: Evaluation by Avalanche Forecasters
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Daniel Goetz, Vincent Latu, Gilbert Guyomarc’h, Yves Durand, Gérald Giraud, Jean-Marie Willemet
Description: Snow drift modelling is a difficult challenge due to the large range of concerned working scales and the permanent interaction between snow, meteorolo...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-10.pdf
Keywords: drifting snow, modelling, avalanche risk, forecast, evaluation
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Title: NAVAL: A Computer-Based Tool for Avalanche Risk Scenarios Definition
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Massimiliano Barbolini, Francesco Stefanini, Lisa Bonomi
Description: The software NAVAL has been developed in order to support avalanche experts and decision makers to promptly define and visualise probable avalanche ri...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-12.pdf
Keywords: risk management, avalanche risk scenarios, computer-based tool, google earth
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Title: Crisis Management
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Paul Bonhomme, Copil
Description: The national labor syndicate of the French mountain guides is regularly confronted with crisis situations. The probability of occurrence of an accide...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-35.pdf
Keywords: help, crisis, media, processing, communication
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Title: Integrated Management and Participative Approach on an Avalanche Prone Territory: How to Develop a Collective Understanding of the Vulnerability and of the Organization of Isolation
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Vincent Boudières, Pauline Texier, Amandine Crevolin
Description: An integrated and holistic risk management assumes that all types of measures for natural disaster reduction are considered. Generally, measures of pr...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-36.pdf
Keywords: risk management, participatory 3d map, résilience
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Title: The Residents’ Evacuations Due to the Avalanches Risk During the Winter 2012-2013 in France
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: François RAPIN
Description: Several evacuations of homes were realized in France during the last winter 2012-2013. This had not happened for several years (2008 and 1999). The mu...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-44.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, evacuation, crisis management
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