Overview
- Is the first work to address both the legal regime for the exploitation of orbits and asteroid mining
- Discusses the most recent developments in the field of space resource exploitation
- Integrates an in-depth analysis of the meaning of property rights in the analysis of space resource exploitation
- Analyses the elaborate rules on the use of orbits as limited natural resources
Part of the book series: Space Regulations Library (SPRL, volume 9)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- International space law
- International Telecommunication Union
- Natural resources
- Property law
- Space law and the VCLT
- Self-referential structure of space law
- Moon Agreement
- Space and telecommunications
- Space law: defined
- Outer space
- Void immateriality
- Space treaties
- Appropriation of celestial bodies
- Celestial bodies and their natural resources
- Physical scope of Article II OST
- Physical scope of Article 11 (3) MA
- Activities of states on the Moon and other celestial Bodies
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
About this book
This book aims to find a workable interpretation of the non-appropriation principle that is compatible with both the existing international space law framework and the move of the private space industry towards the mining of asteroids and other celestial bodies. It does so by analysing the rules on the use of orbits as limited natural resources as a concrete indication of how space resources can be exploited by one user while respecting the non-appropriation principle and the interests of other users in space. This analysis is complemented by a thorough review of the meaning of property rights in the context of the existing international space law regime. This allows the author to distinguish between the lawful exploitation and unlawful appropriation of resources in a manner that could pave the way for a workable asteroid mining regime that takes into account the needs of individual companies and the international community.
Exclusive use in an inclusive environment frames the legal regime of the exploitation of natural resources in outer space as the most pressing example to date of the tension that arises between the rights of a single spacefaring actor and the interests of the broader international community. Though academic in its approach in dealing with one of the most fundamental issues of space law to date, the book has very practical ambitions. By offering a pragmatic interpretation of the space law principles that are likely to remain the legal foundations of asteroid mining for the foreseeable future, Exclusive use in an inclusive environment hopes to inform academics, practitioners and policymakers alike in their future attempts at working out a fair, equitable and effective management regime for the exploitation of natural resources in outer space.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exclusive Use in an Inclusive Environment
Book Subtitle: The Meaning of the Non-Appropriation Principle for Space Resource Exploitation
Authors: Philip De Man
Series Title: Space Regulations Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38752-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38751-2Published: 03 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81740-8Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-38752-9Published: 25 July 2016
Series ISSN: 1572-6134
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9558
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 481
Topics: Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History