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Discipline on Hazards

Summary

Basic concepts of security and hazards, risks and their management, threats, dangers, disasters. Historical development of terms, socio-cultural context of understanding and solving the risks. Hazard treatment, hazard as a philosophical category. The terms hazard, security, risk, danger, etc., from a gnoseological viewpoint. Systematic and system approach to the solution of security, general rules, tools and methods of its study. Discipline on security as a multidisciplinary scientific discipline, contribution of natural, technical and social sciences to the problem solutions in the area of security. Specific areas of security – healthcare and epidemiology, working environment, environment, social risks, terrorism and war conflicts. Crises, their principle, origin, development and solution. Crisis paradoxes as development factors of a society. Crisis management, internal stability and resistance of society.

Literature

Kovář,L.:Disaster threatens humanity? Rubiko Prag 2003, ISBN 808583992X 
Layer of Protection Analysis: Simplified Process Risk Assessment, Center for
Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), ISBN:0-8169-0811-7
Guidelines for Analyzing and Managing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed
Chemical Sites, Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), ISBN: 0-8169-0877-X 
M.T. Todinov: Reliability and Risk Models, John Wiley & Sons 2005,
ISBN-10: 0470094885 
Časopisy: 112, Rescue Report, Spektrum

Advised literature

RBDM (Risk Based Decision Making) Guidelines: Volume 1-4. http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg5211/E-Guidelines.asp. US Coast Guard.
Aven, T, and Renn, O.: Risk Management and Governance. Concepts, Guidelines and Applications. Heidelberg and New York (Springer 2010)
Jovanovic, A.S.; Renn, O. and Schröter, R.: Social Unrest. OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies. Paris (OECD Publishing 2012)
Major Hazards and Their Management ; by Geoff Wells; Institution of Chemical Engineers, Rugby, UK, 305 pages.


Language of instruction čeština
Code 050-0003
Abbreviation NoN
Course title Discipline on Hazards
Coordinating department Department of Civil Protection
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc.