Катастрофы: социально-экономические аспекты

Abstract

Due to analyses of the greatest catastrophes, their reasons and consequences, we can conclude about the real threat for the further modern earth civilization existence. As far as catastrophes cause human losses, and prevention of them, as well as liquidation and minimization of their consequences are essentially limited in time and material resources, in our opinion, conceptual theory of catastrophes should be constructed on social and economic base with the use of system synergetic analysis. In the article, there have been specified the following notions: catastrophe, emergency situation and a state of emergency; there has been presented a catastrophe classification.