Title | Planetary Defense [electronic resource] : Global Collaboration for Defending Earth from Asteroids and Comets / edited by Nikola Schmidt |
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Imprint | Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019 |
Edition | 1st ed. 2019 |
Connect to | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01000-3 |
Descript | XXXV, 475 p. 93 illus., 88 illus. in color. online resource |
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