In Hahn & Holt teaching course, survival skills are techniques that a person may use in order to sustain life in any type of natural environment or built environment. These techniques are meant to provide basic necessities for human life which include water, food,navigate and shelter etc..
In Hahn & Holt, learning of urban survival is a set of skills to recognize what is happening in the place where we are and in the world where we are moving at. We will need these mental and physical skills in order to adapt within that place and that world—our ultimate means of survival