RISK AND DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AS A TOOL OF SOCIAL ECOLOGY
Social ecology is knowledge that combines natural science and humanitarian disciplines. The natural science component contains risk analysis and assessment of environmental damage (i.e., tools of rational environmental management). Risk analysis is defined as inter- and multi- disciplinary science and practice involved in studying the likelihood of risks to an individual, society, and state and private enterprises at local, regional, national or global level. As an example, we consider a probabilistic model of the risk that an ecosystem will not come to its climax state. Environmental damage is a decrease in the usefulness of an environment due to its pollution or other change. As an example, assessments of anthropogenic damage to fishery in a freshwater ecosystem are considered.