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The Political Economy of the Space Age

How Science and Technology Shape the Evolution of Human Society

By: Andrea Sommariva

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The Political Economy of the Space Age

How Science and Technology Shape the Evolution of Human Society

By: Andrea Sommariva

This book provides answers to the questions of why human-kind should go into space, and on the relative roles of governments and markets in the evolution of the space economy. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach to answer those questions. Science and technology define the boundaries of what is possible. The realization of the possible depends on economic, institutional, and political factors. The book thus draws from many different academic areas such as physical science, astronomy, astronautics, political science, economics, sociology, cultural studies, and history. In the literature, the space economy has been analyzed using different approaches from science and technology to the effects of public expenditures on economic growth and to medium term effects on productivity and growth. This book brings all these aspects together following the evolutionary theory of economic change. It studies processes that transform the economy through the interactions among diverse economic agents, governments, and the extra-systemic environment in which governments operate. Its historical part helps to better understand motivations and constraints - technical, political, and economical - that shaped the growth of the space economy. In the medium term, global issues - such as population changes, critical or limited natural resources, and environmental damages – and technological innovations are the main drivers for the evolution of the space economy beyond Earth orbit. In universities, this book can be used: as a reference by historians of astronautics; for researchers in the field of astronautics, international political economy, and legal issues related to the space economy. In think tanks and public institutions, both national and international, this book provides an input to the ongoing debate on the collaboration among space agencies and the role of private companies in the development of the space economy. Finally, this book will help the educated general public to orient himself in the forest of stimuli, news, and solicitations to which he is daily subjected by the media, television and radio, and to react in less passive ways to those stimuli.

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Vernon Press

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1622732642

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A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing

By: Giovanni F. Bignami,Andrea Sommariva

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A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing

By: Giovanni F. Bignami,Andrea Sommariva

This book develops a credible scenario for interstellar exploration and colonization. In so doing, it examines: • the present situation and prospects for interstellar exploration technologies; • where to go: the search for habitable planets; • the motivations for space travel and colonization; • the financial mechanisms required to fund such enterprises. The final section of the book analyzes the uncertainties surrounding the presented scenario. The purpose of building a scenario is not only to pinpoint future events but also to highlight the uncertainties that may propel the future in different directions. Interstellar travel and colonization requires a civilization in which human beings see themselves as inhabitants of a single planet and in which global governance of these processes is conducted on a cooperative basis. The key question is, then, whether our present civilization is ready for such an endeavor, reflecting the fact that the critical uncertainties are political and cultural in nature. It is written in such a way as to allow the non-professional reader to become part of the debate on the future of space programs.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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8847053374

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The Future of Human Space Exploration

By: Giovanni Bignami,Andrea Sommariva

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By: Giovanni Bignami,Andrea Sommariva

For several decades it has been widely accepted that human space exploration is the exclusive domain of government agencies. The cost of performing such missions, estimated in multiple reports to amount to hundreds of billions dollars over decades, was far beyond what private entities could afford. That arrangement seems to be changing. Buoyed by the success of its program to develop commercial cargo capabilities to support the International Space Station, NASA is becoming increasingly open to working with the private sector in its human space exploration plans. The new private-public partnership will make 'planet hopping' feasible. This book analyses the move towards planet hopping, which sees human outposts moving across the planetary dimensions, from the Moon to Near-Earth Asteroids and Mars. It critically assesses the intention to exploit space resources and how successful these missions will be for humanity. This insightful and accessible book will be of great interest to scholars and students of space policy and politics, international studies, and science and technology studies.

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216

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1137526580

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The Clash of Legitimacies

The State-building Process in Late Medieval Lombardy

By: Andrea Gamberini

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The Clash of Legitimacies

The State-building Process in Late Medieval Lombardy

By: Andrea Gamberini

Historians have long understood the period 1100 to 1500 to be the key phase in the genesis of the modern state. In this innovative work, Andrea Gamberini examines the case of late medieval Lombardy to show that the advent of the state did not extinguish the traditional values and principles of political cohabitation that had long been in place.

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0198824319

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Manipulating Courts in New Democracies

Forcing Judges off the Bench in Argentina

By: Andrea Castagnola

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Manipulating Courts in New Democracies

Forcing Judges off the Bench in Argentina

By: Andrea Castagnola

When can the Executive manipulate the composition of a Court? What political factors explain judicial instability on the bench? Using original field data from Argentina's National Supreme Court and all twenty-four Provincial Supreme Courts, Andrea Castagnola develops a novel theory to explain forced retirements of judges. She argues that in developing democracies the political benefits of manipulating the court outweigh the costs associated with doing so. The instability of the political context and its institutions causes politicians to focus primarily on short-term goals and to care mostly about winning elections. Consequently, judiciaries become a valuable tool for politicians to have under their control. Contrary to the predictions of strategic retirement theory, Castagnola demonstrates that there are various institutional and non-institutional mechanisms for induced retirement which politicians have used against justices, regardless of the amount of support their party has in Congress. The theoretical innovations contained herein shed much needed light on the existing literature on judicial politics and democratization. Even though the political manipulation of courts is a worldwide phenomenon, previous studies have shown that Argentina is the theory-generating case for studying manipulation of high courts.

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164

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Routledge

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1351986074

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Energy and Sustainability IV

By: C. A. Brebbia,A. M. Marinov,Andrea Alberto Mammoli,C. A. Safta

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Energy and Sustainability IV

By: C. A. Brebbia,A. M. Marinov,Andrea Alberto Mammoli,C. A. Safta

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Energy and Sustainability, held in Bucharest, Romania, 2013.

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WIT Press

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1845647289

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hp-Version Discontinuous Galerkin Methods on Polygonal and Polyhedral Meshes

By: Andrea Cangiani,Zhaonan Dong,Emmanuil H. Georgoulis,Paul Houston

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hp-Version Discontinuous Galerkin Methods on Polygonal and Polyhedral Meshes

By: Andrea Cangiani,Zhaonan Dong,Emmanuil H. Georgoulis,Paul Houston

Over the last few decades discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods (DGFEMs) have been witnessed tremendous interest as a computational framework for the numerical solution of partial differential equations. Their success is due to their extreme versatility in the design of the underlying meshes and local basis functions, while retaining key features of both (classical) finite element and finite volume methods. Somewhat surprisingly, DGFEMs on general tessellations consisting of polygonal (in 2D) or polyhedral (in 3D) element shapes have received little attention within the literature, despite the potential computational advantages. This volume introduces the basic principles of hp-version (i.e., locally varying mesh-size and polynomial order) DGFEMs over meshes consisting of polygonal or polyhedral element shapes, presents their error analysis, and includes an extensive collection of numerical experiments. The extreme flexibility provided by the locally variable elemen t-shapes, element-sizes, and element-orders is shown to deliver substantial computational gains in several practical scenarios.

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3319676733

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The Political Economy of the Space Age

How Science and Technology Shape the Evolution of Human Society

By: Andrea Sommariva

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How Science and Technology Shape the Evolution of Human Society

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The Future of Human Space Exploration

By: Giovanni Bignami,Andrea Sommariva

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By: Giovanni Bignami,Andrea Sommariva

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A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing

By: Giovanni F. Bignami,Andrea Sommariva

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A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing

By: Giovanni F. Bignami,Andrea Sommariva

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Book's by Andrea Sommariva

The Political Economy of the Space Age

The Political Economy of the Space Age

A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing

A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing

The Future of Human Space Exploration

The Future of Human Space Exploration

The Clash of Legitimacies

The Clash of Legitimacies

Manipulating Courts in New Democracies

Manipulating Courts in New Democracies

Energy and Sustainability IV

Energy and Sustainability IV

hp-Version Discontinuous Galerkin Methods on Polygonal and Polyhedral Meshes

hp-Version Discontinuous Galerkin Methods on Polygonal and Polyhedral Meshes

The Political Economy of the Space Age

The Political Economy of the Space Age

The Future of Human Space Exploration

The Future of Human Space Exploration

A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing

A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing

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