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Title: Pitfalls in Development of Avalanche Accident Risk Reduction Tools
Date: 2010
Authors: Bob Uttl, James Taylor, Jan Uttl
Description: We present a new avalanche accident prevention tool for recreational backcountry users: the 7CF. We evaluated the new tool's effectiveness on hundreds...
Object ID: ISSW_O-023.pdf
Keywords: avaluator avalanche accident prevention card, obvious clues, risk reduction, avalanche accidents
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Title: New Insights Into Skier-Triggering of Slab Avalanches
Date: 2010
Authors: Joachim Heierli, Karl W. Birkeland, Ron Simenhois, Peter Gumbsch
Description: Most skiers trigger the slab avalanche in which they are caught. Preventing those accidents necessitates a better understanding of the factors contrib...
Object ID: ISSW_O-040.pdf
Keywords: skier-triggering, slab avalanches, anticrack model, risk
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Title: Avalanche Risk Reduction in the Continental Climate: How to Implement an Effective Boot Packing Program
Date: 2010
Authors: Karen R. Sahn
Description: Ski resorts in the continental climate are challenged with safely opening steep terrain early season. Providing a skiable product with timeliness corr...
Object ID: ISSW_O-058.pdf
Keywords: boot packer, shear plane disruption, avalanche risk reduction
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Title: New Mobile and Web-Based Services for Backcountry Skiers
Date: 2010
Authors: Jan Eckert, Christoph Suter
Description: The WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF developed White Risk mobile, an IPhone-application which was presented at the ISSW-Europe 2009 i...
Object ID: ISSW_P-034.pdf
Keywords: prevention, planning, service-design, interface-design
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Title: Visitor Risk Management Applied to Avalanches in New Zealand
Date: 2010
Authors: Don Bogie, Mike Davies
Description: The Department of Conservation (DOC) manages a third of the land in New Zealand. This is also where the majority of avalanches occur. Many huts, track...
Object ID: ISSW_P-037.pdf
Keywords: visitor risk management, department of conservation, avalanche terrain
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Title: Applying New Uncertainty Related Theories and Multicriteria Decision Analysis Methods to Snow Avalanche Risk Management
Date: 2010
Authors: Jean-Marc Tacnet, Mireille Batton-Hubert, Jean Dezert, Didier Richard
Description: Making the best decision in the event of a snow avalanche encounters problems in the assessment and management process because of the lack of informat...
Object ID: ISSW_P-040.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, risk management, expert judgement, reliability, uncertainty, decision making, multicriteria decision analysis, analytic hierarchy process (ahp), information fusion, fuzzy sets theory, possibility theory, evidence theory, dempster shafer t
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Title: Improving the Interoperability and User-Friendliness of the French Snow Avalanche Information Systems
Date: 2010
Authors: Laure Vidaud-Barral, Jean-Marc Tacnet, Michael Deschâtres, Mylène Bonnefoy, Didier Richard
Description: Snow avalanches are rapid mass movements that put humans and material assets at risk with dramatic consequences. Risk reduction is reduced through str...
Object ID: ISSW_P-043.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, risk management, information systems, data quality, information sharing, software engineering, interoperability
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Title: Heading Beyond the Gates: Who is Most at Risk of Getting Involved in Avalanche Incidents Out-of-Bounds?
Date: 2010
Authors: Matt Gunn, Pascal Haegeli, Wolfgang Haider
Description: The popularity of out-of-bounds skiing and snowboarding has been growing steadily over the last decade despite the avalanche risk inherent to the acti...
Object ID: ISSW_P-047.pdf
Keywords: out-of-bounds skiing, multidimensional risk assessment, sensation seeking scale, selfefficacy, risk communication
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Title: Is Going From Snow Avalanche Analysis to Decision Making Different for Snow Scientists or Practitioners? Overview of the Two Contexts.
Date: 2010
Authors: Séba stien Escande, Dominique Létang
Description: Snow avalanche analysis is needed either for experts to reduce the risk for people and assets at risk or for skiers and alpinists to choose the best w...
Object ID: ISSW_P-050.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche analysis, decision making, snow scientists, snow practitioners, mountain guides
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Title: Avalanche Forecasting for Large Area Mechanized Ski Guiding
Date: 2010
Authors: Mike Wiegele
Description: It is a given that practitioners need to provide a safe and enjoyable experience to their clients, they also have a legal responsibility to provide a ...
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Keywords: avalanche forecasting, ski guiding, avalanche danger, five step method
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Title: Simple Calculations of Avalanche Risk for Backcountry Skiing
Date: 2009
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer, Cora Shea
Description: The avalanche risk from backcountry skiing and its dependence on the regional danger ratings have not been estimated—notably in North America. ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0336-0340.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, backcountry skiing, comparative risk, skier-triggering, regional avalanche danger
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Title: The Current State of Avalanche Risk Analysis and Hazard Mapping in Uzbekistan
Date: 2009
Authors: Eleonora Semakova, Sergey Myagkov, Richard L. Armstrong
Description: This paper includes new results of avalanche mapping in Uzbekistan. The avalanche caused damage distribution in Uzbekistan is presented. The descript...
Object ID: issw-2009-0509-0513.pdf
Keywords: potential danger territories, avalanche risk, avalanche hazard mapping
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Title: Evolution of Avalanche Risk Reduction on the Alaska Railroad
Date: 2009
Authors: David Hamre
Description: Unavailable
Object ID: issw-2009-0533-0537.pdf
Keywords: railroad, ahi, risk, calculations
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Title: Protect – A Swiss Approach to the Assessment of the Effectiveness of Mitigation Measures
Date: 2009
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Hans Romang
Description: PROTECT describes a general procedure to assess the effectiveness of mitigation measures and includes detailed instructions for avalanches, rockfall,...
Object ID: issw-2009-0538-0542.pdf
Keywords: mitigation measure, hazard map, avalanche defence, risk management
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Title: Avalanche Risk in a Changing Climate Development of a Landslide and Avalanche Risk Model
Date: 2009
Authors: Heidi Bjordal, Jan Otto Larsen
Description: In Norway, approximately 2000 landslides and avalanches affect the road network every year. Projected climate changes will give a milder and wetter cl...
Object ID: issw-2009-0564-0566.pdf
Keywords: climate change, landslide and avalanche frequency, acceptable risk level
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