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1 - An introduction to risk, adventure and risk management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

By
Tracey J. Dickson
Edited by
Tracey J. Dickson  and
Tonia L. Gray
Tracey J. Dickson
Affiliation:
University of Canberra
Tonia L. Gray
Affiliation:
University of Wollongong, New South Wales
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Summary

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller, author, activist and lecturer, 1957

Focus questions

  1. How are the terms ‘risk’ and ‘risk management’ used in organisations that conduct activities, programs or events in the outdoors?

  2. What is the role of risk in their activities?

  3. Why do people participate in activities in the outdoors?

  4. What is the role of adventure in today's society?

  5. What facilitates or limits people's pursuit of adventure?

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Risk Management in the Outdoors
A Whole-of-Organisation Approach for Education, Sport and Recreation
 , pp. 1 - 24
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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