Long-Term Power Outage and Preparedness of the Population of a Region in the Czech Republic—A Case Study

Štěpán Kavan, Olga Dvořáčková, Jiří Pokorný and Lenka Brumarová
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Štěpán Kavan: Faculty of Health and Social Studies, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, 370 11 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
Olga Dvořáčková: Faculty of Health and Social Studies, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, 370 11 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
Jiří Pokorný: Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 700 30 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Lenka Brumarová: Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 700 30 Ostrava, Czech Republic

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 23, 1-14

Abstract: The power outages that have occurred in recent years around the world point to widespread problems with consequences for the lives and health of the population, but also material damage. This is a case study that focuses on the evaluation of the preparedness of the population of a selected region in the Czech Republic for a long-term power outage. This article deals with a case study that focuses on the evaluation of the preparedness of the population of the Karlovy Vary region in the field of emergency survival. Part of the study is the evaluation of the respondents’ answers, which provides an overview of the actual state of preparedness for power outages on a sample group of respondents in the Karlovy Vary region. The research method used was a survey using questionnaires. The obtained information was subsequently statistically evaluated by nonparametric correlation using Kendall’s tau b . From the presented results of the survey, it is clear that the inhabitants of smaller municipalities are better prepared for a power outage and can create basic conditions for emergency survival.

Keywords: long-term power outage; security; emergency survival; civil protection; population readiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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