Outdoor Leadership

This completely revised and updated handbook details the critical skills and concepts every professional or volunteer outdoors leader needs to know. An authoritative exploration of such topics as effective decision-making, group dynamics, risk management, self-awareness and evaluation, conservation, and more.

Covers skills including expedition planning, navigation, safety and leadership in the outdoors.

Addresses outdoor leadership and adventure programming.

Outdoor Adventure Education: Foundations, Theory, and Research steeps students in the theories, concepts, and developments of outdoor adventure education, preparing them for careers in this burgeoning field.

Outdoor adventure activities are becoming an increasingly popular part of physical education programs. The physical risks of these activities are often foremost in the minds of both instructors and participants, yet it is managing group behaviour which can prove to be the most difficult.

Aerial Adventure Environments: The Theory and Practice of the Challenge Course, Zip Line, and Canopy Tour Industry provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the aerial adventure industry. This text combines the key components of high and low ropes challenge courses, zip lines, canopy tours, and aerial adventure parks into one essential guide.

Adventure Education: Theory and Applications allows students to get a broad view of adventure education and programming for effective facilitation and leadership preparation in adventure programming.

This handbook breaks down the fundamental concepts of outdoor leadership with a deep focus on decision-making in backcountry terrain in order to maximize participant safety and enjoyment.

Safety is paramount in outdoor education and leadership; these case studies demonstrate what can go wrong and how to prevent such happenings in the future.

This bestselling guide to Australia's most venomous creatures is an indispensable reference for all travellers libraries. This new edition gives details of more than 60 of Australia's most venomous creatures, with full colour photographs, maps to show their habitats, and illustrations to help with identification.