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Human Governance Beyond Earth - Implications for Freedom (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Human Governance Beyond Earth - Implications for Freedom (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Series: Space and Society
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This book extends the discussion of the nature of freedom and what
it means for a human to be free. This question has occupied the
minds of thinkers since the Enlightenment. However, without
exception, every one of these discussions has focused on the
character of liberty on Earth. In this volume the authors explore
how people are likely to be governed in space and how that will
affect what sort of liberty they experience. Who will control
oxygen? How will people maximise freedom of movement in a lethal
environment? What sort of political and economic systems can be
created in places that will be inherently isolated? These are just
a few of the major questions that bear on the topic of
extra-terrestrial liberty. During the last forty years an
increasing number of nations have developed the capability of
launching people into space. The USA, Europe, Russia, China and
soon India have human space exploration programs. These
developments raise the fundamental question of how are humans to be
governed in space. This book follows from a previous volume
published in this series which looked at the Meaning of Liberty
Beyond the Earth and explored what sort of freedoms could exist in
space in a very general way. This new volume focuses on systems of
governance and how they will influence which of these sorts of
freedoms will become dominant in extra-terrestrial society. The
book targets a wide readership covers many groups including: Space
policy makers interested in understanding how societies will
develop in space and what the policy implications might be for
space organisations. Space engineers interested in understanding
how social developments in space might influence the way in which
infrastructure and space settlements should be designed. Space
scientists interested in how scientific developments might
influence the social structures of settlements beyond the Earth.
Social scientists (political philosophers, ethicists etc)
interested in understanding how societies will develop in the
future.
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