Planetary Defense, 1st ed. 2019 Global Collaboration for Defending Earth from Asteroids and Comets Space and Society Series
Acknowledgements.- Dedication.- Foreword.- Preface.- List of Contributors.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Planetary Defense as the Unique Historical Opportunity to Shape Our Shared Destiny.- Part I: Defining the Threat and Current Efforts.- Chapter 2: The Cosmic Impact Hazard.- Chapter 3: What are NEOs and the Technical Means and Constraints of Solar System Mapping?.- Chapter 4: Methods, Means and Governance of Solar System Observation.- Chapter 5: Technical Architecture to Deepen Our Solar System Awareness.- Chapter 6: Vision of Perfect Observation Capabilities.- Chapter 7: Overview of Asteroid Threat Mitigation Methods.- Chapter 8: NASA NEO Deflection Application: Current Capabilities and Limitations.- Chapter 9: Near-Earth Objects and the United Nations.- Chapter 10: A Consideration of a National Approach: The US Planetary Impact Emergency Response Working Group (PIERWG) A Joint Effort Between NASA and FEMA.- Part II: Thinking About the Risk, Responding to the Threat and the International Dynamics.- Chapter 11: Evolution of Security Studies and the Resulting Perspectives of an Asteroid Threat.- Chapter 12: Asteroid Impact Risk Assessment: Rationalizing the Threat.- Chapter 13: Uncertainty and Risk at the Catastrophe Threshold.- Chapter 14: Conceptualizing the Asteroid Threat and Searching for a Balanced Answer Between Effectiveness and Desirability.- Chapter 15: Weapons of Mass Protection? Rogue Asteroids, Nuclear Explosions in Space, and the Norms of Global Nuclear Order.- Chapter 16: Dilemmas for Planetary Defense Posed by the Current International Law Framework.- Chapter 17: ‘No Conscience of its Own:’ The Need for Global Space Ethics Review.- Chapter 18: The Conundrum of Commercial Space.- Part III: The Architecture of Global Collaboration on Planetary Defense.- Chapter 19: The Overview Effect and Planetary Defense.- Chapter 20: Cosmopolitan Rationale for Planetary Defense.- Chapter 21: Dawn of Cosmopolitan Order? The New Norm of Responsibility to Defend Earth And the Planetary Council.- Chapter 22: Global Space Governance Mechanisms and Planetary Defense Mechanisms.- Chapter 23: New Enemy, Old Pact? Past Defense Pacts and Future Planetary Defense Treaty.- Chapter 24: Why a World State is Unavoidable in Planetary Defense: On Loopholes in the Vision of a Cosmopolitan Governance.- Chapter 25: The Moon Base as a Commercial Hub.- Chapter 26: The Multipurpose Lunar Base as a First-Line Biosphere Defense and as a Gateway to the Universe.- Chapter 27: Will Planetary Defense Change a Realist World?.- Index.
Date de parution : 01-2019
Ouvrage de 475 p.
15.5x23.5 cm