Active fans and grizzly bears: Reducing risks for wilderness campers

Sakals, M. E.; Wilford, David; Wellwood, Debbie W.; MacDougall, Sandra

doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.06.031

Cited by 7 publications

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“…The on‐going project on which Couper and Ansell's paper is based seeks to apply fluvial geomorphology to outdoor recreation practices, specifically river crossings by hillwalkers. This follows Sakals et al . 's (2010) application of geomorphology and ecology to understand the risk of bear attack to wilderness campers in southwestern Yukon, Canada.…”

Section: Exploring the Outdoors: The Special Sectionmentioning

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Confluences of human and physical geography research on the outdoors: an introduction to the special section on ‘Exploring the outdoors’

Couper¹,

Yarwood

2012

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This special section of Area demonstrates the multiple ways that geographers engage with the outdoors. Human and physical geographers have pursued different paths of academic research on the outdoors, ranging from 'objective' empirical epistemologies to understandings of outdoor spaces as socially constructed. The special section highlights that more-than-representational accounts and more-thanscientific encounters have the potential to bridge human and physical geographies and lead to new understandings of the outdoors. In this editorial overview we argue for the outdoors as a site of boundary crossing between human and physical, and between 'academic' and 'explorer' , geographies.

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Section: Exploring the Outdoors: The Special Sectionmentioning

confidence: 56%

Confluences of human and physical geography research on the outdoors: an introduction to the special section on ‘Exploring the outdoors’

Couper¹,

Yarwood

2012

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“…Ten protected areas with the highest incident occurrence were selected to determine the level of risk experienced by visitors. Accepting the notion that risk reflects a combination of the probability of an adverse event occurring and the severity of the consequences of such an event, 16 the approach employed was 2-fold.…”

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Visitor Incidents in Western Australian Protected Areas, 2011–2017

Gstaettner

2020

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

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IntroductiondProtected areas in Western Australia are a significant resource base for nature-based tourism and recreation. Visitor incidents are of special interest to managers of these areas because of concerns regarding public safety. The ongoing monitoring and analysis of visitor incidents plays a major role in reducing incident occurrence. MethodsdIncident data recorded by the Parks and Wildlife Service from July 2011 to June 2017 were analyzed for an overview of trends and patterns of incident occurrence. For parks with the highest incident frequency, the level of risk experienced by visitors, combining incident probability and severity, was determined. ResultsdA total of 459 visitor incidents were recorded, 77±11 per year. Minor incidents accounted for 48% of incidents, 43% were major, and 8% were fatal. Trip/Slip incidents were most frequent. Fatalities were mostly falls from a height or water-related incidents. Karijini National Park (highest number of incidents) and Ningaloo (highest number of fatalities) were identified as priority areas for managing visitor risk. The greatest individual visitor risk values were calculated for Mitchell River and Karijini national parks. ConclusionsdRecreational injuries are of great concern to the Parks and Wildlife Service in Western Australia. Quantifying and categorizing visitor incidents helps in understanding the trends and patterns of incident occurrence in protected areas, and priority areas for targeted visitor risk management intervention can be identified.

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