Strategic challenges and threats of emergency periods, their negative impact on economic sustainability and quality of life

The article analyzes the challenges and threats of emergency periods. The object-subject area is the field of the impact of emergency periods on economic sustainability and quality of life. The purpose of the work is to substantiate the strategic possibilities of an optimistic orientation of strategic management at the state level to overcome emergency periods. The priority tasks are defined: 1) identification of strategically oriented challenges of emergency periods; 2) analysis of the negative impact of the emergency period and new opportunities for society and its national economy; 3) identification of the boundaries of the stages of the emergency period; 4) justification of the economic content of strategic public administration in the emergency period. Methods of work: discursive retrospective analysis within the framework of a qualitative approach to the economic study of emergency periods. The scientific work was carried out on the basis of the general theory of strategy and methodology of strategizing by V.L. Kvint, as well as the theory of industrial organization by Jean Tirol. It is concluded that emergency periods pose serious challenges, but they can also stimulate development and changes that contribute to improving the infrastructure and structure of the economy in the long term. Scientific and practical significance: the time frame of 3 (three) stages of the emergency period is justified, the main content of strategic public administration in the emergency period is developed and proposed. The scope of application of the results obtained: federal and regional authorities and administrations of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Emergency Situations, Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Labor, etc.).