No, me neither, Oz. I taught a short field landing was used to meet short LDA limitations. A soft field technique for the obvious.
A precautionaray search & landing was just that: A precautionary process that involved a search for a place to land - which may or may not be an airstrip - a systematic inspection of the proposed landing area taking into account time/fuel/daylight/weather factors and then a decision to land or to continue searching. If landing then a judgement about what landing technique is likely to be appropriate: Short, soft, minimum time etc.