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Safeguarding the population and economic facilities from natural disasters is not only a capitalintensive endeavor, but also a science-intensive sphere. It requires a powerful knowledge base in basic and applied science. It also needs the integration of efforts of the scientific community and the community of practitioners—RAS scientists, field-specific specialists, and the corporate sector. The synergy of joint actions would help not only find and implement efficient ways of solving an important problem of the country’s national security but also overcome the current crisis and move the economy onto a path of stable growth.
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Original Russian Text © B.N. Porfiriev, 2016, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2016, Vol. 86, No. 1, pp. 3–14.
RAS Corresponding Member Boris Nikolaevich Porfiriev is a deputy director of the RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting and head of the Laboratory for the Analysis and Forecasting of Natural and Technological Risks to Economic Development at the same institute.
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Porfiriev, B.N. The economics of natural disasters. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 86, 1–11 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331616010020
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