Full Description
This book seeks to bridge disciplinary and scholarly gaps by bringing together a range of social science studies to capture state-of-the-art advancements in the field of advanced air technology governance, as the vision for the future of aviation systems evolves.
With novel and innovative developments taking place in many different technological fields, the future of aviation is at a pivotal point. Advanced air technologies including drones, Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing vehicles, and electric/hydrogen-fuelled Conventional Take-Off and Landing aircraft could transform how we live, move, and transport goods. What we call 'Future Flight' encompasses a complex range of legal, social, economic, cultural and environmental issues that cut across a diverse range of sectors, stakeholders and disciplines. This book discusses the transformative nature of emerging advanced air technologies through an inter- and cross-disciplinary lens, with chapters covering law, economics, geography and accessibility, alongside other relevant issues that look beyond conventional methodologies and traditional disciplines.
The book will be of interest to academics, practitioners, policy makers, regulators and those stakeholders working at the intersection of law, policy and governance of emerging technologies, science, the environment and the economy.
Contents
Introduction
Section I: Understandings and Perceptions of Future Flight
1. (Re-)Imagining Future Flight in the UK: Public Responses to Future Flight Media Imagery and their Implications
2. Perceptions of Future Flight Technologies through a Social Psychological Lens: The stereotypes we hold and the impacts they have
3. Advanced Air Mobility Grey Literature: Key Themes and Frames
Section II: Shaping Experiences of Future Flight
4. Accessibility in Current Air Travel: Considerations for Future Flight Technologies
5. From Hindsight to Foresight: Leveraging TRSE Research for Inclusive Future Flight Development
6. Understanding Uncertainties for the Future of Drone Deliveries Through Stakeholder Engagement and Co-Design
7. Trials, Representations and Uncertainties: Involving People with Advanced Air Mobilities.
8. Approaching Future Flight: Urban Life and Design in the Drone Age
Section III: The Governance of Future Flight
9. Advocating a Multilevel Governance Analysis of Advanced Air Mobility
10. The Tentative Governance of Drone Systems: Balancing Hierarchical and Collective Mechanisms?
11. The EU's Direction of Air Travel: Charting the Flight Plan to Realise a 'Droning' Ambition
12. Envisioning Sustainable Future Flight Ecosystems
