Severe Space Weather Events:Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts: A Workshop Report

By NAS Committee on the Socioeconomic Impacts of Severe Space Weather Events, Posted 10/08/09

Link: http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12507&utm_medium=etmail&utm_source...

"The adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology--power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies--are well known and well documented, and the physical processes underlying space weather are generally well understood. Less well documented and understood, however, are the potential economic and societal impacts of the disruption of critical technological systems by severe space weather. As a first step toward determining the socioeconomic impacts of extreme space weather events and addressing the questions of space weather risk assessment and management, a public workshop was held in May 2008."