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Explores the political feasibility of planetary defense
Provides a comparison and assessment of available political models regarding planetary defense
Suggests a complex policy, as well as engineering and architectural solutions to building a strong planetary defense
Part of the book series: Space and Society (SPSO)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Defining the Threat and Current Efforts
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Front Matter
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Thinking About the Risk, Responding to the Threat and the International Dynamics
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book examines how various asteroid deflection methods can change global political affairs. The authors believe that the final policy for potential Earth impacts should be based on practical engineering solutions and innovative architectural structures, while at the same time reflecting the most recent political science contributions in ethical security studies and security cosmopolitanism. Their focus is not limited to effective engineering solutions, but rather extends to how such proposals resonate in possible political structures of the future.
Planetary defense cannot be achieved with technology alone; the chapters in this volume highlight the issues that arise when space science and technology intersect with political science. This complex interdisciplinary project not only demands global participation and collaboration, but also proposes the way we can achieve it. The authors explore various concepts of governance and their far-reaching implications for planetary defense and vice versa—how scientific progress in Solar System observations and asteroid collision engineering influence political science and put pressure on the international legal framework.
The text is intentionally written for a diverse scholarly and diplomatic audience in a style accessible to non-specialists and practitioners and can be read by those across diverse disciplinary backgrounds.
Keywords
- Coronal mass injections
- Outer space threats
- Dangerous objects in low earth orbit
- space debris removal
- Biosphere protection against asteroids and comets
- Asteroids That Threaten Earth
- Comet Collisions with Earth
- Methods of NEO deflection
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Political Science, Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Nikola Schmidt
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Planetary Defense
Book Subtitle: Global Collaboration for Defending Earth from Asteroids and Comets
Editors: Nikola Schmidt
Series Title: Space and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01000-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00999-1Published: 14 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01000-3Published: 26 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2199-3882
Series E-ISSN: 2199-3890
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 475
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 88 illustrations in colour
Topics: Military and Defence Studies, Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis