Institute of Sociology
of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Lukyanets A.S., Maksimova A.S., Bezverbnaya N.A. Social and Demographic Consequences of Technogenic Disasters in Russia in the Period of 1990-2019, 2020. Issue 4-3, pp. 371-377.



Lukyanets A.S., Maksimova A.S., Bezverbnaya N.A. Social and Demographic Consequences of Technogenic Disasters in Russia in the Period of 1990-2019, 2020. Issue 4-3, pp. 371-377.
ISSN 1818-4057
DOI 10.17513/vaael.1097
РИНЦ: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=42784192

Posted on site: 09.06.20

 


Abstract

The article discusses the features of technological disasters that occurred in the Russian Federation in the period from 1990 to 2019, and revealed their scale in terms of socio-demographic damage. The dynamics of industrial accidents by types is considered: transport, industrial, mixed. Socio-demographic losses are estimated. The largest number of technological accidents in Russia occurs in transport, they account for 62 % of all deaths and 11 % of all injured during the period 1990-2019. cumulative result. The study revealed that direct population losses as a result of the largest technological accidents over thirty years were not so significant: 6.5 thousand people were killed and about 10 thousand were injured, compared with annual losses, for example, from suicide or homicide. For the period 1990-2018. the total number of deaths due to technological disasters in the total number of deaths from external causes did not exceed 0.1 %. The absence of regularities in the occurrence and occurrence of technological disasters has been established: the dynamic range of the number of accidents, the total number of fatalities and injuries resulting from technological disasters in Russia can not be described using the trend.