Current Challenges of Risk Assessment in Light of Population Protection

Absztrakt

The package of cardinal laws on Disaster Management, effective from 01 January 2012, has fundamentally transposed the procedures of population protection by introducing risk assessment of hazard sources concerning population protection. The system thus designed, has reliably functioned in the past six years and has ensured the hazard response planning of settlements based on real-life vulnerabilities, thus population protection planning. However, it was developed in a very different security environment. Thus, apart from natural and man-made hazard sources, it does not address the assessment of hazards concerning the population, bound to the armed defense of the country or armed operations. For the sake of the six-year operation, the changed security environment and the all-hazard approach, it is advisable to review the current system. The purpose of this study is, besides raising the problem and presenting the current “Fuzzy” logic process in Hungary, to propose a solution to expand it for the sake of an all-hazard approach.