The proceedings and short research papers from the annual Adventure Risk Research Symposium, held every year since 2019.

Proceedings from the Adventure Risk Research Symposium, 2019 to 2021. The Adventure Risk Research Symposium brings together adventure risk and safety researchers to present their findings and share ideas. The focus of the symposium is on qualitative and quantitative empiricism as a means of improving understanding or practice for wilderness and adventure risk management and safety.Download the app or desktop reader software.

Managing Risk is the adventure guide's resource for risk management and systems planning. The second edition etext is fully updated,revised and expanded from the original widely adopted Managing Risk textbook. Adventure guiding is anchored in managing risk, and this etext builds the risk assessment and systems planning skills all professional outdoor guides require. Equal parts guide manual and management reference, this book is required reading for pro guides, program managers, and owner/...

Each book offers:The latest information on a field of interestTraining and educational requirements for each careerSalary statistics for different positions within each fieldUp-to-date professional and Internet resources

Resilience has become an important topic on the safety research agenda and in organizational practice. Most empirical work on resilience has been descriptive, identifying characteristics of work and organizing activity which allow organizations to cope with unexpected situations. Fewer studies have developed testable models and theories that can be used to support interventions aiming to increase resilience and improve safety. In addition, the absent integration of different system levels ...

Some books address outdoor leadership; others focus on adventure programming. None delve into the specifics of both topics like Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming, Third Edition, does.The first edition of this book helped define the body of knowledge for an emerging profession. Two editions later, this groundbreaking text—now in full color—provides adventure leaders with the tools and evidence they need to show that their outdoor programs are effective and have ...

Behavioral Science in the Wild helps managers understand how best to incorporate key research findings to solve their own behavior change challenges in the real world – from lab to field.Behavioral Science in the Wild helps managers to implement research findings on behavioral change in their own workplace operations and to apply them to business or policy problems.As the second book in the Behaviourally Informed Organizations series, ...

While research and common sense tells us that experiential learning is more effective than the more traditional process of information assimilation (where teachers lecture, test, and grade), high school, college, and university teachers continue to use paper-and-pencil tests as their primary grading and assessment tool. Many students fail to see the relevance of these sort of tests and are bored with passive methods of learning. Using Experiential Learning in the Classroom: Practical I...

Inclusive Leisure: A Strengths-Based Approach blends theoretical and practical information to prepare students to apply the concept of inclusivity to all aspects of the leisure and recreation field.Inclusive Leisure delivers foundational content to help readers understand inclusion and applies this knowledge to practical and applied scenarios. Grounded in a strengths-based approach, which focuses on a person’s abilities rather than their limitations, the comprehen...

Outdoor Leadership, Third Edition, introduces students to a wide variety of theories and concepts that are integral to the understanding of outdoor leadership, and it demonstrates how these concepts come to life in the field. Written by a team of internationally recognized authors, the text introduces eight core competencies that are essential to outdoor leadership:Foundational knowledgeSelf-awareness and professional conductDecision making and ju...

Resilience Engineering (RE) studies have successfully identified and described many instances of resilient performance in high hazard sectors as well as in the far more frequent cases where people and organisations cope with the uncertainties of daily operations. Since RE was first described in 2006, a steady accumulation of insights and efforts have provided the basis for practical tools and methods. This development has been documented by a series of texts in the Resilience Engineering P...

As cities in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly experiencing the impacts of climate change, many are starting to include climate considerations in their planning and policymaking processes. Cities are not only looking to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, industries, and transportation to prevent future climate change but are also looking to prepare for and manage climatic changes that have already been set in motion.Urban climate adaptation to date has m...