Citizen safety and rights protection in emergencies: Legal insights

• Published in: BIO web of conferences 2024, Vol.138, p.3036
• Main Authors: Arkhireyskaya, Tatyana, Borisov, Yan, Sokolova, Anna, Sokolova, Oksana
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 2117-4458; 2117-4458
• DOI: 10.1051/bioconf/202413803036

The subject of the article is the safety of people and society and the sustainability of public bodies in emergency situations. The trends influencing the changes in the theoretical and normative bases of ensuring environmental safety and protection of subjective rights are revealed: the change in the nature and character of emergency situations, the increase in the anthropogenic origin of man-made and natural disasters: cyber-attacks, infectious pandemics, terrorism. The structure of legal regulation of the subject of research is presented, which includes international, national, regional, local (municipal) levels; the place of the category “safety” in the legal system, its subtypes, including environmental safety, is analyzed. The peculiarity of regulatory mechanisms, which have not only normative-legal, but also normative-technical character, is determined. Municipal practices related to the research topic, including the sphere of civil and fire protection, are presented and analyzed on the basis of the Russian example. Conclusions are formulated that the legislative and law enforcement components of dealing with emergency situations should take into account the transformation of their nature and imply, first of all, strategic planning, taking into account the latest aspects of environmental safety, the dynamics of threats, as well as international environmental cooperation.