survival techniques
Staying alive methods
Survival techniques are methods for staying alive in dangerous or resource-scarce situations—finding water, building shelter, starting fires, signaling for rescue.
The term applies to wilderness emergencies but extends to any crisis: The book covers survival techniques for economic collapse.
Beyond practical skills, survival techniques can describe strategies for enduring difficult circumstances: Her survival techniques for office politics included never responding to emails after midnight.
- fight or flightThreat-triggered physiological state
- map readingInterpreting geographic diagrams
- first aidInitial injury treatment
- compass useDirectional tool operation
- fire-makingStarting a controlled blaze
signal fire · lean-to shelter · foraging · dead reckoning · fishing · hunting · wild game · terrain analysis · CPR · celestial navigation · water purification · emergency evacuation · wound dressing · body heat · emotional regulation · food preservation · camping · route planning
- first aidbandage, bandages, first aid kit, tourniquet, gauze pads
survival techniquesluxury living
Comfortable existence with abundance
creature comforts · modern conveniences · indulgences · pampering · convenience
survival techniqueshelplessness
Lacking ability to cope
learned helplessness · incompetence · reckless abandon · ignorance · naivety