International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

Climate change is causing disasters such as floods, whirlwinds, storms, drought, or other extreme weather events that have not yet occurred in certain areas of the world or have not occurred to such an extent and intensity as it is happening now or is predicted in the foreseeable future. Government and, in particular, crisis management system should reflect these facts in order to prepare itself and the population on such events. People should also be interested in preparing for and adapting to these changes and related crisis events. The aim of the article is to examine preparedness of the population in the Slovak Republic and, in particular, to analyse the barriers to climate change adaptation of the population. For the analysis are used the questionnaire survey results on this topic. The initial results indicate the influence of the population by various barriers and factors.

The perception, awareness and understanding of risk by the population are important factors for the society safety, which contribute to increasing the preparedness of the population for the effects of crisis events, whether natural, industrial, economic, social, or in enterprise. The article focuses on the analysis of the need for education of students in the area of risk management and crisis management. The research groups were only students, not the population in general. The results were achieved by analysing the current state of education at the Faculty of Security Engineering – University of Žilina and a partial statistical evaluation of the questionnaire survey among students of this faculty. The results indicate that the risk perception of students is relatively low and the need for education in this field is justified.

Changes in the security environment should therefore be reflected by this system in order to prepare the population on the crisis events that have not yet occurred or have not occurred to such an extent or magnitude. The aim of the article is to examine the current system of civil protection in the Slovak Republic from the point of view of activities devoted to the preparation of the population and to the analysis of the population itself for crisis events through the analysis of the questionnaire survey results. Initial results indicate clear deficiencies both in the civil protection systems and in the preparedness of the population for crisis situations.