FACTORS AND CONSEQUENCES OF AN INCREASE IN ACTIVITY OF HAZARDOUS NATURAL PROCESSES AND IN MAGNITUDE OF ELEMENTAL CALAMITIES
S.B. KUZMIN
V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 664033, Irkutsk, ul. Ulan-Batorskaya, 1, Russia
kuzmin@irigs.irk.ru
Keywords: natural disasters, risk, damage, urbanization, management of territories, standardization of assessment parameters
Abstract
Decades are considered from the global and regional perspective. These factors are responsible for an increase in the magnitude and destruc tive force of elemental calamities and natural catastrophes. The current situation causes managerial bodies to increasingly often introduce emergencies of a natural and natural-technogenic character and take systematic efforts to assess ecological and eco nomic risks. Compensation for damage to the population, economy and territories, surrounding landscapes and ecosystems, and elimination of consequences of elemental calamities and natural catastrophes have been very expensive for society and the State in recent years.
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