Do We Need More Fire Protection Units as an Impact of Population Aging and Industry 4.0 in the Czech Republic?

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RIV/00216275:25410/16:39901150

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Do We Need More Fire Protection Units as an Impact of Population Aging and Industry 4.0 in the Czech Republic?

Original language description

The Czech Republic entered the stage of population aging. In addition, the Czech Republic might challenge an impact of Industry 4.0. As a consequence, it is to expect that more people will stay at home in order to spend there more time either as elderly, jobless or pensioners. Thus, more fire risk which might impact on public spending on fire protection might emerge. The paper deals with an impact of population aging and Industry 4.0 on the national capacity for fire protection in the Czech Republic. The authors made an attempt to know if more or less fire protection units will be needed as ongoing population aging and Industry 4.0 implementation will continue. Therefore, they construct a dynamic model in simulation software Stella. System Dynamics is an useful and effective method for the investigation of complex social systems. As an input, demographic data provided by Czech Statistical Office and fire statistics provided by the Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic have been used. The initial Stella model will be developed into more complex model further because simulation proved that there should be an impact of demographic aging and the fourth industrial revolution on need of fire protection capacity. More fire protection units should be needed; however, number of fire protection units has been decreasing in the Czech Republic since 1986. Most of them are run by municipalities and operated by volunteers, hence, the fire protection is inexpensive and substitution volunteer fire protection units by Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic might cause an increase of public spending. Aging population and unemployment affects the number of interventions FRS. Reducing the number of members of the FRS in the future could cause problems. A simple model confirmed possible problems, but the question merits a deeper analysis.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA14-02424S" target="_blank" >GA14-02424S: Methods of operations research for decision support under uncertainty</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

SMART AND EFFICIENT ECONOMY: PREPARATION FOR THE FUTURE INNOVATIVE ECONOMY

ISBN

978-80-214-5413-2

ISSN

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e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

723-728

Publisher name

UNIV TECHNOLOGY, FAC BUSINESS &amp; MANAGEMENT

Place of publication

Brno

Event location

Brno

Event date

May 19, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000408885200089