Planning of Safety of Cities and Territory from the Point of View of Population Protection in the Czech Republic

Jiri Pokorny, Barbora Machalova, Simona Slivkova, Lenka Brumarova and Vladimir Vlcek
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Jiri Pokorny: Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB—Technical University of Ostrava, Lumirova 13/630, 700 30 Ostrava-Vyskovice, Czech Republic
Barbora Machalova: Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB—Technical University of Ostrava, Lumirova 13/630, 700 30 Ostrava-Vyskovice, Czech Republic
Simona Slivkova: Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB—Technical University of Ostrava, Lumirova 13/630, 700 30 Ostrava-Vyskovice, Czech Republic
Lenka Brumarova: Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB—Technical University of Ostrava, Lumirova 13/630, 700 30 Ostrava-Vyskovice, Czech Republic
Vladimir Vlcek: Fire Rescue Services of the Moravian-Silesian Region, Vyskovicka 40, 700 30 Ostrava-Zabreh, Czech Republic

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 22, 1-17

Abstract: Ensuring territorial safety is one of the state’s main tasks, and the public administration plays a primary role in fulfilling it. The safety and sustainability of a territory is ensured by, inter alia, safety planning, including spatial planning. Spatial planning contains safety requirements for population protection. The requirements for ensuring the safety of the population included in the spatial plan vary significantly between countries. The existing population protection requirements contained in the spatial plan have been unsatisfactory for a long time. The main issue is that they are out of date and difficult to apply. The article presents a new proposed method for determining requirements for the protection of the population, which is based on evaluating the risks in the cities and territory. The specific population protection requirements are determined based on the resulting risks and their scaling. The requirements are classified as general when the territory is not faced with external risks or specific when there are such risks. The method is applied to the conditions of the Czech Republic. In terms of national standard specifics, there are requirements in areas of public infrastructure, public utility buildings, and public benefit measures. The method for determining population protection requirements can be considered applicable in a general form by various countries if the national standards specifics or other aspects are taken into account.

Keywords: sustainability of the territory; population protection; civil protection; territorial risks; safety planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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