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Space Politics and Policy: An Evolutionary Perspective provides a comprehensive survey of Space Policy. This book is organized around two themes. Space Policy is evolutionary in that it has responded to dramatic political events, such as the launching of Sputnik and the Cold War, and has undergone dynamic and evolutionary policy changes over the course of the space age. Space Policy is an integral part of and interacts with public policy processes in the United States and abroad. The book analy...

The Routledge Handbook of Public Aviation Law is the first book to incorporate a comprehensive analysis of Public Aviation Law - principally international, but also domestic law in a comparative context - in a single volume. International Law is pervasive in Aviation Law, and is incorporated into a number of major multilateral treaties (e.g., the Chicago Convention of 1944, for Public International Air Law). This is supplemented by various Annexes (promulgated by the International Civil Aviatio...

This book contains peer-reviewed papers from New Trends in Astrodynamics and Applications III, an international conference, held in August 2006 in Princeton, NJ. This conference presented current research in the field of astrodynamics with a special emphasis on the use of the methods of chaos theory and dynamical systems to find low energy trajectories. The volume provides applications to current and future space missions and dynamical astronomy.

The NEW edition of Aviation and the Role of Government by Harry Lawrence of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, features revisions of almost all chapters and four completely rewritten chapters, as well as new statutes and cases added throughout. Aviation and the Role of Government includes: updates to cover significant aviation related events in government and in transportationlegacy airline practices, low cost carriers, effects of bankruptcy and merger, effects of deregulation on airlines a...

This edited volume explores the question of the lawfulness under international law of economic activities in occupied territories from the perspectives of international law, EU law, and business and human rights. Providing a multi-level overview of relevant practices, policies and cases, the book is divided in three parts, each dealing with how different legal fields have come to grips with the challenges brought about by the question of the lawfulness under international law of economic activ...

Commercial Uses of Space and Space Tourism combines the perspectives of academics, policy makers and major industry players around three central themes: the international legal challenges posed by the dramatic changes to the spacefaring landscape; the corresponding legal and regulatory responses to these challenges at the national level; and topical questions of global space governance. Chapters cover emerging activities in commercial spacefaring, including space tourism and space transportatio...

International civil aviation is one of the most politically charged of commercial activities. Commercial considerations aside, civil aviation has been deemed important for military and intelligence purposes, as a means of encouraging national and imperial cohesion and as a status symbol. In this examination of civil aviation diplomacy between the United States and Britain in the period from 1919 to 1990, Alan Dobson demonstrates the influence the two countries had in developing the character of...

This volume contains the proceedings of the 63rd Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space held virtually in October 2020, as well as the report of the IISL Standing Committee on the Status of International Agreements Relating to Activities in Outer Space.

"This book provides up-to-date knowledge of space debris and valuable insights on how to grapple with this issue from legal, technical, economical and societal aspects. I would strongly recommend that everyone who is working on space development and utilizations and even non-specialists once read this book and think over how human being should be faced with this issue." –Prof. Shinichi Nakasuka, University of Tokyo, Japan Space Debris Peril: Pathways to Opportunities takes readers through the w...

This is the first book to explain how the government regulates the aviation industry. Chapter 1 defines key terms and pro vides an overall view of the industry. Chapter 2 describes the evolution of reg ulations and regulatory agencies. The third chapter explains how federal regu lators exercise authority. Chapter 4 dis cusses regulatory powers in state and lo cal governments. Chapter 5 explains how a regulation is formulated. Chapter 6 examines four categories of aviation: reg ulations related t...