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Title: Avalanche Protection for Construction Site
Date: 2009
Authors: Thomas Rentsch, Ruedi Stüssi
Description: “Linthal 2015” is as more than 1.5 billion project in the eastern Alps of Switzerland to expand an existing hydro power plant. Several con...
Object ID: issw-2009-0592-0596.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, prevention, artificial release, working site, avalanche blasting
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Title: Avalanche Education As Public Service
Date: 2009
Authors: Klaus Kranebitter
Description: Unavailable
Object ID: issw-2009-0599.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche gear, judgment, risk management, avalanche strategies
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Title: Information Value of the Avalanche Bulletin for Snowsports
Date: 2009
Authors: Florian Hellberg, Chris Semmel, Paul Mair
Description: Unavailable
Object ID: issw-2009-0605.pdf
Keywords: avalanche bulletin, pictograms, ski touring study
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Title: Intuition, Recognition and Patterns – Decision-Making by Mountain Guides in Avalanche Situations
Date: 2009
Authors: Jan Mersch, Anton Kühberger
Description: The community of professional mountain guides is an expert group in the field of avalanche danger. In a naturalistic decision making framework we stu...
Object ID: issw-2009-0606-0609.pdf
Keywords: naturalistic decision making, critical decision method, recognition primed decisions, intuition, avalanche risk management
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Title: Trend Analysis of Canadian Avalanche Accidents: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card Has Not Reduced the Number of Accidents
Date: 2009
Authors: Bob Uttl, Mekale Kibreab, Kelly Kisinger, Jan Uttl
Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card (Haegeli & McCammon, 2006), a Canadian government avalanche prevention initiative, was designed to h...
Object ID: issw-2009-0610-0613.pdf
Keywords: avaluator, obvious clues, avalanche accident trends, avalanche fatalities
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Title: Pitfalls in the Analyses of Accident Records: The Meaning of Missing Values
Date: 2009
Authors: Bob Uttl, Kelly Kisinger
Description: Accident records are frequently used to learn about conditions and behavior before, during, and after accidents. However, accident records frequently ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0614-0618.pdf
Keywords: avaluator, obvious clues, accident records, missing values, avalanche prevention
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Title: Avaluator's Obvious Clues Prevention Values are Inflated: Evidence from Canadian Avalanche Accidents
Date: 2009
Authors: Bob Uttl, Kelly Kisinger, Mekale Kibreab, Jan Uttl
Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card (Haegeli & McCammon, 2006) was designed to help recreationists to avoid avalanche accidents, and ther...
Object ID: issw-2009-0619-0622.pdf
Keywords: avaluator, obvious clues, risk reduction, missing values
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Title: On Superiority of Simple Solutions to Complex Problems and Other Fairy Tales
Date: 2009
Authors: Bob Uttl, Jan Uttl
Description: The simple is desirable; the complex is confusing. The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card (Haegeli & McCammon, 2006), a Canadian government...
Object ID: issw-2009-0623-0627.pdf
Keywords: avaluator, obvious clues, simple solutions, complex problems, avalanche avoidance
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Title: Avalanche Hazard and Visitor Numbers- A Study in Lochaber, Scotland
Date: 2009
Authors: Grahma Moss
Description: Avalanche hazard in Scotland is characterized by rapidly changing weather, rugged topography and a snowpack shaped above all by wind. Avalanche foreca...
Object ID: issw-2009-0628-0632.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecast, decision making process, scotland, mountain visitor numbers
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Title: Apprehension of Avalanche Risk and Decision Making Process in a Mediumhigh Mountain Range. The Case of the Vosges (France)
Date: 2009
Authors: Florie Giacona, Brice Martin
Description: Mentioning avalanche risk in the Vosges generally causes a certain incredulity for this range of modest height and its irregular snowfalls. However, ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0633-0635.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, sluff, vulnerability, decision-making, medium-high mountain, representation
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Title: Promotion of Secure Mountain Exploration by the Anna Pasek Foundation
Date: 2009
Authors: Pawel Chrustek
Description: The Anna Pasek Foundation (www.annapasek.org) was established at the beginning of 2008 in memory of Anna Pasek – a Polish student from the Jagi...
Object ID: issw-2009-0636-0639.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, alpine training base, anna pasek
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Title: Safety is Freedom
Date: 2009
Authors: Henry Schniewind
Description: This paper shows how a group of mountain and business professionals are combining avalanche safety awareness, education and information with modern p...
Object ID: issw-2009-0640-0643.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, off-piste, awareness, education, safety
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Title: Human Factors in Avalanche Accidents: Evolution and Interventions
Date: 2009
Authors: Ian McCammon
Description: Errors in judgement have long been identified as key contributors to backcountry avalanche accidents. Our understanding of human error in avalanche t...
Object ID: issw-2009-0644-0648.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, human factor, human error, education, decision making
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Title: Practical Risk Assessment and Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain. An Overview of Concepts and Tools in Switzerland
Date: 2009
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Paul Nigg
Description: Risk assessment and decision making tools for backcountry and off-piste skiing have changed time and again. Basic avalanche knowledge about the main ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0654-0658.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, risk assessment, decision making
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Title: Rules, Knowledge, Distance and Intuition - The Development of Risk Management Skills for Decision-Making in Avalanche Situations
Date: 2009
Authors: Jan Mersch, Wolfgang Behr
Description: Avalanches represent a major threat to people in high Alpine regions during the winter. However, a discrepancy exists between actual expert decisions...
Object ID: issw-2009-0659-0663.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, naturalistic decision making, recognition and patterns, intuition, risk management
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