Yearbook on Space Policy 2006/2007 New Impetus for Europe
The Yearbook on Space Policy aims to be 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 Yearbo
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Edited by the European Space Policy Institute Director: Kai-Uwe Schrogl
Editorial Advisory Board: Herbert Allgeier Alvaro Azcarraga Alain Gaubert Peter Jankowitsch Andre Lebeau Jan-Baldem Mennicken
European Space Policy Institute Kai-Uwe Schrogl, Charlotte Mathieu, Nicolas Peter (eds.)
Yearbook on Space Policy 2006/2007 New Impetus for Europe
SpringerWienNewYork
European Space Policy Institute, Vienna, Austria Kai-Uwe Schrogl Charlotte Mathieu Nicolas Peter
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Preface Space policy is an issue area of particular strategic relevance. It receives a constantly growing attention by national governments and the European Union. It touches numerous important areas like security, science, technology, knowledge, information, mobility, environment or resource management, to name only a few. Through this, space policy draws from but also drives the most decisive aspects of modern society. An illustration for this statement can be given with a brief look on recent developments in space policy. In particular the adoption of the European Space Policy in May 2007, which had been jointly prepared by the European Space Agency and the European Commission, does have a tremendous impact on areas benefiting from space applications, like climate research, disaster management or resource management. The European Space Policy will also push areas like navigation or telecommunications, which are at the heart of the knowledge society and the megaissue of mobility. At the same time, security in all its facets is growingly depending on the use of space capabilities and space policy making has started to reflect this. On the global level, the initiatives for robotic and hu
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