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Perception of beach safety at a destination beach on the Great Lakes
Canadian Geographer / Geographie CanadienAbstractSurf‐related drowning fatalities are a public health concern in the Great Lakes region of North America, and within Canada there are few beaches with lifeguards and no regional beach safety strategy. This short paper presents the results of a survey completed in the northern hemisphere summer of 2022 to determine the perceptions of beach users ...
Chris Houser
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Economic Analysis of Beach Safety Level on the Contingent Valuation in Haeundae Beach
Journal of Coastal Research, 2014ABSTRACT Jo, E.; Yun, H.S.; Suh, Y.C.; Lee, J., and Lee, J.L., 2014. Economic analysis of beach safety level on the contingent valuation in Haeundae Beach. The beach is the most popular tourism place during the summer vacation, which contributes to local economic improvement and plays the key role in beach tourism resources.
Jooyong Lee, Jung Lyul Lee
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Australian Beach Safety and the Politics of Shark Attacks
Coastal Management, 2012There are no simple government solutions when sharks bite people. These rare and sometimes fatal incidents are fraught with uncertainties and command a disproportionate amount of psychological space in the minds of the public, as well as a large degree of policy space and funding from many governments. Responses to mitigate shark bite incidents involve
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Perceptions of beach safety: A comparison of beach users and managers
Coastal Management, 1989Abstract Today's beach manager must balance legal obligations to protect users from injuries with recreation users’ expectations for reasonably safe and enjoyable recreation opportunities. Thus beach managers must have a thorough understanding of their legal obligations as well as the expectations of their recreation users if they are to formulate risk‐
James E. Fletcher +2 more
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A probabilistic model of bathing beach safety
Science of The Total Environment, 1975An improved mathematical model for bathing beach safety is proposed. It is derived by joining the probability of infection from a given dose (Poisson distribution and the probability of acquiring such a dose (lognormal distribution). Even in the absence of better clinical and epidemiological data, the model permits an assessment of relative risk from ...
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2018
Many beach lifeguarding organizations recognize that, as providers of public safety, their primary role of drowning prevention through rescue is invariably underpinned by promotion of water and non-water beach injury prevention. In keeping with the axiom (attributed to Benjamin Franklin in relation to fire safety) that an ounce of prevention is worth a
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Many beach lifeguarding organizations recognize that, as providers of public safety, their primary role of drowning prevention through rescue is invariably underpinned by promotion of water and non-water beach injury prevention. In keeping with the axiom (attributed to Benjamin Franklin in relation to fire safety) that an ounce of prevention is worth a
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Beach safety education for primary school children
International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2016Childhood drowning remains a serious public health problem worldwide. The Australian Water Safety Council has set as one of its highest priorities the reduction of drowning deaths in children aged 0-14 years. However, concerns have recently been raised that many students completing primary school still lack the ability to recognize potential aquatic ...
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The Long Beach public safety information subsystem
Proceedings of the May 16-18, 1972, spring joint computer conference on - AFIPS '72 (Spring), 1971Not many years ago, officials in a city with a five year capital improvement plan, a "master" plan, and a computer that handled payroll calculations and utility billing were termed relatively progressive. This was considered a dynamic approach to the use of modern management techniques and computer technology.
George M. Medak +2 more
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Beach safety and millennium youth: travellers and sentinels.
2009Sun, sand and surf remain a major attraction for young travellers worldwide. Indeed, beaches are a key competitive feature for many tourist destinations wishing to capture the youth market. Ironically, young people between the ages of 18 and 34 years, which includes the oldest of the Y-Generation cohort, and especially males and international tourists ...
Wilks, Jeff, Pendergast, Donna
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