Editors:
- Captures the imagination of readers in asking detailed questions about the first human planetary settlement beyond Earth
- Details the many human factor issues faced by a lunar society, including health, religion, relationships, and work
- Emphasizing environmental preservation on the Moon, the book serves as conceptual lunar guide for space program planners
Part of the book series: Space and Society (SPSO)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Perspectives from Culture History
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Front Matter
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Engineering, Industrial, and Agricultural Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Medical and Health Perspectives on Human Lunar Settlement
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Front Matter
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Social, Political, and Legal Frameworks for Lunar Settlement
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Front Matter
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Philosophical, Educational, and Religious Perspectives
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About this book
Each chapter identifies the complex, interdisciplinary issues of the human factor that arise in the early phases of settlement on the Moon. Besides practical issues, there is some emphasis placed on preserving, protecting, and experiencing the lunar environment across a broad range of occupations, from scientists to soldiers and engineers to construction workers.
The book identifies utilitarian and visionary factors that shape human lives on the Moon. It offers recommendations for program planners in the government and commercial sectors and serves as a helpful resource for academic researchers. Together, the coauthors ask and attempt to answer: “How will lunar society be different?”
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Editors and Affiliations
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The Human Sentience Project, LLC, Tucson, USA
Margaret Boone Rappaport
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Department of Social Sciences, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland
Konrad Szocik
About the editors
Dr. Margaret Boone Rappaport has increasingly specialized in the field of space neuroscience, with major publications as lead author in Acta Astronautica ("Neuroplasticity as a Foundation for Human Enhancements in Space') and in a special collection in the journal NeuroSci, on "Neuroplasticity as a Foundation for Decision-Making in Space"). She is a cultural anthropologist and biologist by training, who has owned two of her own companies, The Human Sentience Project, LLC (2013-present) and Policy Research Methods, Incorporated (1987-2006), where she provided contract research services to Federal government agencies, institutions of higher education, and associations, in the Washington, DC area. She testified before Congress twice, and recently provided expert recommendations on Cislunar Space programming and policy to the executive branch. She received the doctorate in 1977 from the Ohio State University, and went on to lecture at Georgetown and George Washington Universities, remaining in academia for a total of 15 years. She is the author of 6 books, three under "Boone" and 3 under "Rappaport".
Konrad Szocik received his PhD in Philosophy in 2013 from Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Currently, he is assistant professor at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów and visiting fellow at the Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center at Yale University. His research areas include cognitive and evolutionary study of religion, evolution of cooperation, and the idea of the manned mission to Mars and Mars colonization. Dr. Konrad Szocik has taken his background in Philosophy to use it in the applied field of space studies. Not only is he Editor of a book on Mars, and a book on Human Enhancements, both published by Springer, he has also maintained an active publication record in respected journals, such as Space Policy, Futures, and Acta Astronautica. He also serves as editor of the “Studia Humana” journal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Human Factor in the Settlement of the Moon
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Editors: Margaret Boone Rappaport, Konrad Szocik
Series Title: Space and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81388-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81387-1Published: 20 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81390-1Published: 21 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81388-8Published: 19 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2199-3882
Series E-ISSN: 2199-3890
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 317
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Public Policy, Medicine/Public Health, general, Research Ethics, Religious Studies, general