Drones and Unmanned Aerial Systems: Legal and Social Implications for Security and Surveillance
Ales Zavrsnik (Ed.)
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Hardback. Editor(s): Zavrsnik, Ales. Num Pages: 348 pages, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: LNDC2; UBJ; UBL; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
This book tackles the regulatory issues of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) or Remotely-Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS), which have profound consequences for privacy, security and other fundamental liberties. Collectively known as drones, they were initially deployed for military purposes: reconnaissance, surveillance and extrajudicial executions. Today, we are witnessing a growth of their use into the civilian and humanitarian domain. They are increasingly used for goals as diverse as news gathering, aerial inspection of oil refinery flare stacks, mapping of the Amazonian rain-forest, crop spraying and search and rescue operations. The civil use of drones is ... Read more
This book tackles the regulatory issues of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) or Remotely-Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS), which have profound consequences for privacy, security and other fundamental liberties. Collectively known as drones, they were initially deployed for military purposes: reconnaissance, surveillance and extrajudicial executions. Today, we are witnessing a growth of their use into the civilian and humanitarian domain. They are increasingly used for goals as diverse as news gathering, aerial inspection of oil refinery flare stacks, mapping of the Amazonian rain-forest, crop spraying and search and rescue operations. The civil use of drones is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
348
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
582g
Number of Pages
275
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319237596
SKU
V9783319237596
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About Ales Zavrsnik (Ed.)
Ales Zavrsnik Doctor of Law ( LL.D.), Assistant Professor, is researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. He is a postdoctoral Yggdrasil fellow at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at University of Oslo (2012) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute fur auslandisches und internationals Strafrecht, Freiburg i. Br. (2009) ... Read more
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