Overview
- This book looks at space activities from the point of view of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and
- in an interdisciplinary, intercultural, and historical/futures-oriented perspective
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Space Development (BRIEFSSPACE)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jim Dator is Professor and Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Future Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. He has been Co-Chair of the Space and Society Division of the International Space University, Strasbourg, France, since 1994. He also taught at Rikkyo University (Tokyo, for six years), the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, the University of Toronto, and the InterUniversity Consortium for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.
He is a Danforth Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and Fulbright Fellow.
His main areas of interest are political futures studies (especially the forecasting of alternative futures and the design of preferred futures of governance, law, education, and technology); space and society, especially the design of governance systems for space settlements; the political-economic futures of North America, the Pacific Island region, and east Asia, especially Japan and Korea; and media production and the politics of media, and the effects of media on political and other human relations and consciousness.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Foundations of Human Space Exploration
Authors: James A. Dator
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Space Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3094-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: James A. Dator 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3093-3Published: 03 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-3094-0Published: 03 February 2012
Series ISSN: 2191-8171
Series E-ISSN: 2191-818X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 107
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Political Science, Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space