This material is the first part of a single research material on the topic. The presented scientific article is devoted to the analysis of two important areas in the state’s activities to protect against disasters: disaster prevention and liability for their consequences. The work reflects the theoretical and legal aspects of the issue under study. The author bases his arguments on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, other international documents, as well as research by various scientists on these issues. Prevention serves as the basis for the disaster protection mechanism, since it allows reducing the scale of consequences. As interim conclusions, the author defines the role of preventive measures as one of the elements of the disaster protection mechanism, affecting the element of responsibility.

prevention from disaster, liability for the consequences of disasters, protection from disaster, Sendai Framework, social responsibility, international law of disaster

Lisauskaite Valentina Vlado – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology Department, East Siberian Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (110, Lermontov st., Irkutsk, 664074, Russian Federation); Associate Professor of the Department of International Law, Law Institute, Siberian Federal University (6, Maerchaka st., Krasnoyarsk, 660075, Russian Federation), RSCI Author ID: 525324, ORCID: 0000-0003-3694-9966, e-mail: vlado@mail.ru

Lisauskayte V. V. Osobennosti otvetstvennosti gosudarstva v kontekste preduprezhdeniya bedstvij i ih posledstvij v ramkah ispolneniya mezhdunarodnogo mekhanizma zashchity ot bedstvij. Chast' 1 [Features of state responsibility in the context of disaster prevention and their consequences in the framework of implementation of the international mechanism for protection from disaster. Part 1] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2025, no 3(110), pp. 119–124. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2025.3.119 (in Russian)

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