Assessment of geoecological vulnerability as a tool for coping capacity development to emergencies

Abstract

The analysis of prerequisites of development and introduction in Ukraine of modern approach to a problem of the ensuring preventive safety based on methodology of an assessment of geoecological vulnerability to emergency situations is studied in the article. Comparative analysis of characteristics of “emergency situation” and “geosystem” in terms of vulnerability conception allowing conclude that adaptation of the conception in Ukraine can effectively be solved by use of research tools of constructive geography and geoecology. SWOT analysis of an assessment of geoecological vulnerability methodology introduction in Ukrainian regulation system of the prevention and liquidation of emergency situations is studied