La percezione del rischio geomorfologiconegli sport all’aria aperta

Outdoor sports usually take place in natural environments that include dangers and difficulties. This way it is inevitable to confront ourselves with the geomorphological risks. This is well known to the people that practise them, but the risk concept is very different from the one accepted by the scientific community, taken from the UNESCO proceeding. In fact, instead of the terms: hazards, vulnerability, and specific and total risk, the terms objective and subjective risks, third person risks, and difficulty are more likely to be used. The present paper studies the meaning of these words and their eventual correspondences (normally partial) with the scientific terms. It also examines the risk and the geomorphological hazard perception in the main outdoor sports. At last, this study evidences that due to the scarce communication with the mass-media and the complexity of the used words, the scientific terms were not integrated in the common language, and there still is a cause-effect relationships confusion between natural geomorphological processes and human activities.