ADED: Adventure Education

Also available in print @ Interurban BF 353.5 N37 H37 2019

This Handbook serves as a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of women in outdoor learning environments (OLEs). Research and collective experiences in OLEs suggest that many women feel invisible, relegated, marginalized, and undervalued.   In response, this Handbook celebrates women scholars and practitioners from numerous fields, such as experiential outdoor education, adventure education, adventure therapy, and gender studies. Global in perspective and capacious in content, this one-stop volume is an indispensable reference resource.

This is a key reference guide for the exploration of leisure and outdoor recreation. It reflects the multidisciplinary nature of these fields and contextualizes the leading research and knowledge on key concepts, theories and practices.

Covers wilderness, austere, and remote management of specific medical and traumatic conditions, including cold injuries and heat illnesses, lightning injuries, animal bites and envenomations, psychiatric emergencies, low-pressure altitude and high-pressure diving physiology and illnesses, drowning, infectious disease, and much more. Offers information on basic rigging and patient packaging; high- and low-angle rescue; swiftwater and open water rescue; use of ground and air-based rescue vehicles; caving rescue; Search and Rescue (SAR); mountaineering rescue; and wilderness management of special events and severe storms.