The Fair and Responsible Use of Space

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The general concepts of fairness and responsibility

   1. The general concepts of fairness and responsibility

      • Wolfgang Rathgeber

      Pages 1-10

3. Fairness and responsibility in space activities

   1. Fairness and responsibility in space activities

      • Ray A. Williamson

      Pages 11-17

4. United Nations’ space policy to preserve peace and sustainable development

   1. United Nations’ space policy to preserve peace and sustainable development

      • Ciro Arévalo-Yepes

      Pages 19-25

5. Current questions regarding fair and responsible use of space — summarising introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-28

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   2. Fair and responsible uses of space: a perspective from an emerging space country

      • Peter Martinez

      Pages 29-45

   3. Peaceful uses of outer space vs. militarisation: a cost-benefit analysis

      • Theresa Hitchens

      Pages 46-59

   4. The space debris environment and its impacts

      • Fernand Alby

      Pages 60-72

   5. Space situational awareness: an overview

      • Giovanni Gasparini, Valérie Miranda

      Pages 73-87

6. Fair rules on orbit — summarising introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-91

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   2. Data transfer issues

      • Wolfgang Rathgeber

      Pages 92-100

   3. Cooperation within the UN system

      • Luboš Perek

      Pages 101-108

   4. Current international space security initiatives

      • Ben Baseley-Walker

      Pages 109-121

   5. Space traffic control: issues and options

      • William Ailor

      Pages 122-131

   6. The concept of space traffic management as a basis for achieving the fair and equitable use of outer space

      • Kai-Uwe Schrogl

      Pages 132-142

7. Achieving global engagement — summarising introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-145

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   2. How to engage current and future space actors

      • Driss El Hadani

      Pages 146-153

   3. The role of international organisations for the fair and responsible use of space

      • Kazuto Suzuki

      Pages 154-164

   4. Youth contributions to the debate on space security

      • Agnieszka Lukaszczyk, Alex Karl

      Pages 165-174

8. Annex

   1. Annex

      • Wolfgang Rathgeber, Kai-Uwe Schrogl, Ray A. Williamson

      Pages 175-189

As space applications become central to modern interaction, more and more entities are becoming involved in space activities. Consequently, strategies to establish the coordinated, ethically justifiable and sustainable conduct of space activities have to be found. Such an endeavour requires addressing current questions regarding the use of space, dealing with fair rules in orbit and discussing the way towards achieving truly global engagement on space security issues. The book outlines the current situation and identifies key challenges from the policy perspective. Taking this one step further, it also formulates principles and recommendations for global action. Nineteen eminent personalities from the space sector have united for this project, which is based on a conference organised at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in November 2008 in Vienna.

• Space Activities
• Space Debris
• control
• space
• space activitiy
• space policy

From the reviews:

“This book is very complete and very interesting for those interesting in the study policies about the use of the space. The book brings a lot of specialists where they present their ideas and speculation how the space shall be organized and explored for the good of humankind. I really reccommend this book if you are interested in this kind of political questions. … This book is a classical and I reccommend it for your personal library.” (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, bookinspections.wordpress.com, November, 2013)

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