CONSEQUENCES OF ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS UPON HUMAN SECURITY

It is well-known the surrounding environment and the human society often bears the action of some extremely dangerous phenomena with diverse origin, natural or human, able to produce destructive and brutal detunl.ng in certain established systems or situations. These events (earthquakes, volcanic er...

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Main Author: Mirela ATANASIU
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academy of Romanian Scientists Publishing House 2011-12-01
Series:Annals: Series on Military Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.aos.ro/wp-content/anale/MTVol3Nr2Art.8.pdf
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Summary:It is well-known the surrounding environment and the human society often bears the action of some extremely dangerous phenomena with diverse origin, natural or human, able to produce destructive and brutal detunl.ng in certain established systems or situations. These events (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, landslides, storms, Hoods, drought, fires, technological accidents, conflict situations, etc.) usually occur unexpectedly and can cause many victims, a large amount of material damage, ecological unbalances and even severe disturbances of the psychological and moral state of the population being under the incidence of the respective phenomenon. The ecological disasters summing-up shows this genre of events has continuously multiplied, with more apocalyptical and diversified effects than ever. Moreover, these phenomena changed their probabilistic structure and intensity as to the same type of phenomena recorded a decade ago, this making harder any preventive measure.
ISSN:2066-7086
2457-8312