Kandyba, Y.I.Segida, K.Y.Plakhotnyk, A.V,2011-09-232011-09-232011Часопис соціально-економічної географії: Міжрегіональний збірник наукових праць. – Харків, 2011. – Вип. 10(1) – С.119-122https://ekhnuir.karazin.ua/handle/123456789/4612The 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.envital activity safetysocial-geographic researchsustainable developmentfunctions of the social geographyArticle