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Title: Risk Management With Mandatory Upper Risk Threshold in the World’s Largest Mountaineering School
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Manuel Genswein, Krister Kristensen
Description: At the beginning of the new millennium, the DAV Summit Club, the commercial mountaineering school of the German Alpine Club and world’s largest...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-03.pdf
Keywords: risk management, residual risk threshold, mountain guiding
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Title: Progression en Terrain Enneigé Progression in a Snowy Environment
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Paul Bonhomme and Copil
Description: Whether it is in winter, in summer or still for a journey, the guide is very often brought to evolve in snowy environment. Beyond this, he is the onl...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-04.pdf
Keywords: management, constraints, tools, project
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Title: White Risk 2.0 – A New Web-Based Platform for Avalanche Education
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Samuli Aegerter, Daniel Landolt
Description: In 2006 we developed the interactive learning CD „White Risk“ for promoting avalanche awareness. It rapidly became a popular product for a...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-08.pdf
Keywords: white risk, avalanche education, web-based platform, e-learning, didactics, trip planning
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Title: La Chamoniarde, 40 Years of Avalanche Risk Prevention for Off-Piste Skiers and Ski-Tourers in Chamonix
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ludovic Ravanel
Description: With a long tradition of skiing and mountaineering, and deeply committed to the principle of responsibility of mountain practitioners, Chamonix has de...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-13.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk for practitioners, information, education, training, chamonix
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Title: Ski-Touring, Avalanche Risk and Human Factors
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Boris Valat, et Ludovic Ravanel
Description: Every winter, mountain practitioners are directly confronted with the question of avalanches. During the 2011-2012 season, 32 avalanche accidents and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-14.pdf
Keywords: ski touring, avalanche risk, human factors, decision making
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Title: Assessing the Impact of Avalanche Safety Training Courses in Andorra (2009 – 2012)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Aina Margalef, Pere Esteban
Description: Since 2009, the EDNA has been performing courses about safety on avalanche terrain in Andorra. After 4 years, we carried out a survey asking the atten...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche safety course, transceiver training, risk perception
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Title: Risk Appraisal and Decision Making in Front of Avalanche Risk: A Pilot Study With Backcountry Skiers
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Andres Chamarro, Gloria Marti, Tatiana Rovira, Francesc Carola, Jordi Fernández-Castro
Description: Studies and knowledge of human factor in avalanche fatalities are scarce or even null in the study area. Consequently, research into how people evalua...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-30.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, risk appraisal, decision-making
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Title: STIPP, A Spanish French Project That Combines Experience and Technology to Dissemimate Information on Both Sides of the Pyrenees in Order to Prevent Risk Situations in Mountain Areas
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Comet B., Dupouy J., Avellanas M, Mayo S., Rodrigalvarez V., Cisneros C., Coll J., Sierra M., Anglés R., Asiain D., Pons A., Robert A., Hurtado R.
Description: Supported by the Interregional Co-operation Program Spain-France-Andorra POCTEFA INTERREG IV A 2007-2013 the STIPP Project was developed by different ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-32.pdf
Keywords: technology, information, satellite, weather station, server, telemedicine, mountain, healthcare, rescue, crossborder, risk prevention
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Title: How Semantics and Resilience from Twitter are Being Used to Avalanche Awareness Risk
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Francesco Bartoli, Igor Chiambretti
Description: Twitter is a new form of communication that makes large use of abbreviations to address specific scopes during the response to natural disasters. Duri...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-36.pdf
Keywords: twitter, resilience, communication, hashtag, semantic, avalanche
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Title: Collecting Snow Measurements with Ushahidi: Arpa Piemonte Experience During Winter 2013
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: R. Cremonini, A. R. Gaeta, E. Solero, R. Pispico, M. Faletto, M.C, Prola, S. Barbero
Description: Accurate and updated measurements are critical for snow stability conditions assessment and avalanche risk evaluation. Recently, Arpa Piemonte has cus...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-43.pdf
Keywords: snow measurements, smartphone app, geo-referred information
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Title: Vulnerability: Caught in an Avalanche – Then What are the Odds?
Date: 2012
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Alan S.T. Jones
Description: Vulnerability is an essential component in qualitative and quantitative avalanche risk analyses. It is the probable consequences given that the eleme...
Object ID: issw-2012-001-008.pdf
Keywords: vulnerability, avalanche properties, destructive avalanches, avalanche risk management, hazard index,
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Title: Avalanche Analysis and Management in the Ski Resort Rosa Khutor Regarding the 2014 Sochi Olympics Games
Date: 2012
Authors: Fanny Bourjaillat, Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Stefan Margreth, Leonid Andreev, Alexander Boyko, Jean-Luc Vallier
Description: The 2014 winter Olympics games will take place in Russia near Sochi in the Caucasus Mountains. Several sites have been retained there: both close to ...
Object ID: issw-2012-134-141.pdf
Keywords: olympics games, avalanche study, avalanche management
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Title: Snow Immersion Suffocation- The Silent Killer at Ski Areas
Date: 2012
Authors: Paul Baugher
Description: From 1990/91 to 2011/12, there have been sixty-four Snow Immersion Suffocation (SIS) cases reported at U.S. ski areas. Comparing inherent risks at ski...
Object ID: issw-2012-220-226.pdf
Keywords: snow immersion, suffocation, sis, narsid, ski area, risk management, ski safety, skier education
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Title: Who Is Involved In Avalanche Accidents?
Date: 2012
Authors: Benjamin Zweifel, Frank Techel, Christian Björk
Description: Off-piste and backcountry skiers, snow-shoers, climbers, heli-skiers, hikers, ski patrollers and many more: The range of people who are involved in av...
Object ID: issw-2012-234-239.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche accident statistics, human factors
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Title: Snow Safety Control Operations: An Interactive Web-Based Approach
Date: 2012
Authors: Phoebe B. McNeally, Jim Collinson, Randy Trover, Peter Schory
Description: Snow safety and ski patrol at skis areas are faced with the daunting task of maintaining avalanche control routes and artillery controlled areas. In t...
Object ID: issw-2012-290-293.pdf
Keywords: ski patrolling, starting zones, avalanche run-out, geographic information systems (gis),
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