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Space-based Disaster Management: The Need For International Cooperation
Edited by: Ranganath Navalgund, Valery Menshikov and Joseph Akinyede

                                                    Foreword

I am pleased to welcome the present International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) study that will support discussions during the historic Heads of Space Agencies Summit on November 17, 2010 in Washington DC, USA. Prepared during a record time of one year with an unprecedented support, this study constitutes one of the four pillars of the Summit dialogue.
In addition four successful IAA conferences contributed to the input of the four studies, namely: the Academy Day in Bremen on planetary robotic exploration, the IAA conference in Riga on disaster management, IAA conference in Nagoya on climate change and the Academy Day in Prague on human spaceflight.
I would like to thank the Study group members who have prepared this study and the Trustees of the Academy who have reviewed it. I would like to particularly thank the Summit Coordinator, Dr. Jean-Michel Contant, IAA Secretary General, who has coordinated these four studies and remarkably secured the 25 Heads of Space Agencies, as of October 1st, 2010.
I would also like to extend my thanks to the Co-Chair of the Steering Committee and Summit Program Manager, Mrs. Corinne Jorgenson, President, Advancing Space and the Co-Chair of the Steering Committee, Mrs. Mary Snitch, Director, Lockheed Martin Corporation for their valuable contributions to the studies and Summit preparation.
After 50 years of existence the International Academy of Astronautics is recognized by space agencies as a unique elite body that can help advancing international cooperation. It has been observed that much current cooperation programs are aging such as the International Space Station (ISS) initiated with just a few countries. Many newcomers are joining the club of emerging space countries and more than half of the current space agencies did not exist at the beginning of ISS. The result is a need to enlarge significantly the circle of the current partners for international space cooperation.
The IAA with members from all over the world is engaged in extending the frontiers of knowledge in space exploration and also its applications to solve the day-to-day problems of humankind. Academicians have worked in unison to achieve the set goals of the Academy and it is inspiring to note the many IAA emerging activities. In view of the Summit achieving successful concrete preliminary results, many space agencies have already welcomed the Academy serving as catalyst for years to come with several subsequent implementation meetings and studies.

Gopalan Madhavan Nair
President
International Academy of Astronautics

Док. 632824
Перв. публик.: 10.11.10
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