Yearbook on Space Policy 2010/2011: The Forward Look

✍ Scribed by Spyros Pagkratis (auth.), Peter Hulsroj, Spyros Pagkratis, Blandina Baranes (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 334
• Series: Yearbook on Space Policy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Yearbook on Space Policy is the reference publication analysing space policy developments. Each year it presents issues and trends in space policy and the space sector as a whole. Its scope is global and its perspective is European. The Yearbook also links space policy with other policy areas. It highlights specific events and issues, and provides useful insights, data and information on space activities. The Yearbook on Space Policy is edited by the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) based in Vienna, Austria. It combines in-house research and contributions of members of the European Space Policy Research and Academic Network (ESPRAN), coordinated by ESPI. The Yearbook is designed for government decision-makers and agencies, industry professionals, as well as the service sectors, researchers and scientists and the interested public.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
European Space Activities in the Global Context....Pages 3-74
Developments in Space Policies, Programmes and Technologies Throughout the World and in Europe....Pages 75-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
The Establishment of the UK Space Agency....Pages 115-127
The New German Space Strategy: How Strategic Is It?....Pages 129-140
“Towards a Space Strategy for the EU that Benefits Its Citizens”: The EU’s Declaration of Intents for Space....Pages 141-157
Space-Based Capabilities for Internal Security Operations: A Critical Assessment of the Case of Land Border Surveillance....Pages 159-174
European Access to Space: Challenges and Perspectives....Pages 175-189
Cooperation in Space Between Europe and Israel in Light of the Recent ESA-ISA Agreement....Pages 191-206
Recent Development of Japan’s Space Policy: The Quasi-Zenith Satellite Programme and the Space Policy Making Process....Pages 207-221
What Future for GEOSS? Results from the November 2010 GEO Ministerial Meeting....Pages 223-234
Digital Divide and the Global Crisis....Pages 235-251
Space Debris: Legal Framework, Issues Arising and New ISO Guidelines in 2010/2011....Pages 253-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Chronology: June 2010–May 2011....Pages 269-298
Bibliography of space policy publications July 2010–June 2011....Pages 299-307
Back Matter....Pages 309-322

✦ Subjects

Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Political Science, general; Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space; R & D/Technology Policy