The Origins and Recent Development of Civil Protection in the Czech Republic and Abroad

The diploma thesis " The Origins and Recent Development of Civil Protection in the Czech Republic and Abroad " is based on the theoretical part, which will be devoted to population protection. This concept represents the fulfillment of tasks in planning, organizing and carrying out prevention activities, ensuring emergency preparedness and crisis management, crisis situations and their solutions. These activities are closely related to the performing tasks related to the protection of life, health, property and the environment in events of emergencies and crisis situations of non-military and military character. The introduction will introduce the basic concepts that will be linked throught the text. The main essence of the theoretical part is the history and the recent of civil protection and the protection of the population in the world, the European Union, selected countries: Slovakia, Germany, Austria, Poland and in the Czech Republic. A large part of the theoretical work according to significant time periods in this area of civil protection in the Czech Republic. The diploma thesis contains a practical part. It is developed on the basis of a system of questionnaires. They are ivided by age categories. Here is analyzed the evaluation of the population in terms of protection of the population, their own security comparison with the past in the field of civil protection in the Czech Republic, in the European Union and in the world. The aim of the work is to divide into selected stages of civil defense from beginning in the Czech Republic and in the other countries. What were the reasons for the emergence of civil defense and protection and in legal norms or international conventions were historically stated. General awareness of the issue of protection of population according to a questionnaire survey. This work can be used for study purposes in the field of population protection or to compare the modern concept of security of population protection and comparison with history. The protection of the population has been and will continue to be at the forefront of the state's interest in the distant future. In this situation, this diploma thesis would be used for further study of the author in the field of doctoral studies in this area