Disaster Management and International Space Law.

Intro -- Disaster Management and International Space Law -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 Addressing Disasters in Today's World -- 2 A Premise on the Method -- 1 Disaster Prevention -- 1.1 A Historical Overview -- 1.2 What Is a "Disaster" of International Significance? -- 1.3 Natural and Man-Made Disasters -- 1.4 The Prohibition of Transboundary Pollution -- 1.5 The Duty to Notify Impending Man-Made Disasters -- 1.6 Conclusions -- 2 Humanitarian Assistance in the Wake of Disasters -- 2.1 The Consent of an Affected State to Humanitarian Assistance -- 2.2 Explicit and Implicit Refusal to Humanitarian Assistance in International Practice -- 2.3 Arbitrary Refusal to Humanitarian Assistance in Situations of Armed Conflict -- 2.4 Arbitrary Refusal to Relief Flights -- 2.5 Arbitrary Refusal to Humanitarian Assistance in Situations of Disaster -- 2.6 Refusing Humanitarian Assistance and Human Rights -- 2.7 What Happens When Humanitarian Assistance Is Arbitrarily Refused? -- 2.8 Refusing Humanitarian Assistance and the Role of the Security Council -- 2.9 Towards a Responsibility to Protect in Case of Disaster? -- 2.10 Airdrops and the Defence of Necessity -- 2.11 Ascertaining the Arbitrariness of Refusal -- 2.12 The Duty to Provide Humanitarian Assistance upon Request -- 2.13 Conclusions -- 3 The Operation of Satellites and the Consent of the Underlying State -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Is a Delimitation between Airspace and Outer Space Needed? -- 3.3 Usque ad Coelum -- 3.4 Spatialist Theories -- 3.5 Functional Theory -- 3.6 Conclusions -- 4 Remote Sensing and Disaster Management -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Legal Value of General Assembly Resolutions -- 4.3 The Legal Value of the Remote Sensing Principles -- 4.4 The Principles of Remote Sensing as a Means to Interpret the Outer Space Treaty.

4.5 The State's Right to Privacy -- 4.6 The Right to Disseminate Sensed Data to Third Countries -- 4.7 The Transfer of Remote Sensing Technology -- 4.8 The Sensed State's Right to Access Sensed Data -- 4.9 Access to Sensed Data and Customary Law -- 4.10 Reasonable Cost Terms in Practice -- 4.11 Provisions and Omissions of the Resolution on Early-Warning of Disaster and Relief -- 4.12 Data Transmission for Early-Warning of Disaster and Relief -- 4.13 Verification of Remote Sensing Principles -- 4.14 Conclusions -- 5 Telecommunications and Disaster Management -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Consent of the Target State for Fixed Services -- 5.3 The Consent of the Target State for Non-fixed Services -- 5.4 The Priority of Distress and Safety Telecommunications -- 5.5 The Special Protective Regime for Distress and Safety Frequencies -- 5.6 Conclusions -- Final Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Disaster Management and International Space Law Diego Zannoni offers a systematic analysis of the main legal issues involved in both preventive measures regarding disasters and their relief phase, with a special focus on major space applications.

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