Vital activity safety as the subject of inquiry of social geography

Abstract

The following article considers vital activity safety in the context of social-geographic research. The possibilities of realiza-tion of social geography’s new functions are substantiated by providing technogenic population vital safety. A modern paradigm of safety understanding in social science and reasons of its reformation are analyzed. Main contradictions of functioning and co-development of the “human-environment-technosphere” system are revealed. Main point of population vital activity safety in the conditions of the sustainable development is determined.