Model of system dynamics of a complex ergatic super system of technogenic and ecological safety of the state

Abstract

Human society exists surrounded by the natural environment and consuming its material and energy resources and returning to it harmful waste of its activities. The planet’s ecosystem is a set of components of the “noosphere”, the super-complex interaction of which determines its general state. Industrial and agricultural production and vital activities of human society absorb huge amounts of mineral resources in the form of minerals and energy, fresh water, atmospheric oxygen, resources of flora and fauna, violating the “systemic” sustainability of the environment, polluting the land, water and air with harmful industrial waste. All this leads to the gradual exhaustion of the planet’s ecosystem abilities to self-healing (properties of “homeostasis”) and threatens the occurrence of man-caused accidents and disasters as well as violation of normal living conditions for the mankind. Thus, it is the scientific field of “civil defence” and practical activities on technogenic safety which are gaining national importance for the country.

The paper presents a structural and functional model of a complex ergatic super system, which implements all the principal attributes of the “state” super system at the first level of decomposition to the “subsystems” being areas of the activities. A generalized simulation model of system dynamics for the “state” super system has been developed. An algorithm for the implementation of a simulation model of system dynamics is presented. The methodological basis of the research for the social and technical sciences is the “systems approach”, the scientific concept of systemology, the object of which is “society” as a “super-complex system” of its abstract scientific model. An ergatic “complex” system is considered to be an artificial formation of organizational type, the composition of “forces” of specialists which is able to form the desired (in terms of volume and modality) “effect” upon objects of controlled use of general and special purpose “resources”. The “technogenic and ecological safety” (TES), object of the scientific research, should therefore be considered as a “complex” system which is a “subsystem” to the national safety system, and the latter a subsystem of the “state” super system (according to the principle of “hierarchy” of complex systems by L. von Bertalanffy).