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ECOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF SECURITY. CULTURAL FRAMEWORKS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND RESILIENCE
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Facing of growing challenges related to the climate crisis and environmental degradation, this paper explores the strategic combination of an ecological perspective with a safety culture in order to build the sustainable resilience of social-technical systems. Traditional safety culture focuses on reducing of the risk of operational accident. However, in modern society, this needs to be extended to planetary and environmental risks. The aim of this work is to develop a theoretical Ecological Safety Culture Framework that integrates sustainable development values and proactive ecological attitudes with the basic dimensions of safety culture (leadership commitment, reporting, learning). The article posits that eco-responsible attitudes, such as waste minimization, resource efficiency and the ethics of long-term environmental protection, are a proactive precursor and reinforcing factor for overall safety culture. Organizations and societies that adhere to strong environmental ethics are inherently better prepared to manage complex risks and build resilience to shocks. The analysis is a review of the literature and a conceptual synthesis. The conclusions indicate that environmental safety should be seen not as an additional cost or requirement, but as an integral value in the organizational mission, which translates into fewer operational accidents, increased crisis preparedness and greater social legitimacy of activities. The proposed framework provides a basis for future empirical research on the effectiveness of this integration.
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