Conceptualizing the Asteroid Threat and Searching for a Balanced Answer Between Effectiveness and Desirability

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F19%3A10392335" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/19:10392335 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01000-3_14" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01000-3_14</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01000-3_14" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-01000-3_14</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Conceptualizing the Asteroid Threat and Searching for a Balanced Answer Between Effectiveness and Desirability

Original language description

This chapter utilizes the theory of securitization, as previously explained, and applies it to the asteroid threat. As the threat itself is clearly detectable by scientific means, it might look as if there are no political implications. This chapter claims the opposite. The fact that we can scientifically detect an asteroid merely precedes a political decision on how best to deal with it, no matter whether it is on a collision course or not. Securitization not only brings the threat to the fore of global debates, but it also legitimizes certain mitigation measures. Planetary defense is a delicate topic because currently, the most effective mitigation measure is nuclear deflection. However, using a nuclear warhead euphemistically called a &apos;Nuclear Explosive Device&apos; creates new dilemmas. Thinking about alternatives for planetary defense that could become part of a broader infrastructure in space provides more than just security defined as the absence of threat; rather, it provides an opportunity to promote human flourishing in space and on Earth. Scientific authorities produce knowledge applicable to threat mitigation, but at the same time this creates responsibility and requires ethical reflection. This chapter explains in detail how a decision based simultaneously on rational and normative values should look.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL01000181" target="_blank" >TL01000181: A multidisciplinary analysis of planetary defense from asteroids as the key national policy ensuring further flourishing and prosperity of humankind both on Earth and in Space</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Planetary Defense

ISBN

978-3-030-00999-1

Number of pages of the result

14

Pages from-to

217-230

Number of pages of the book

475

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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