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Silvia Peppoloni and Giuseppe Di Capua (Eds.)

Geoethics for the Future: Facing Global Challenges
2024, p. xxxi+401, Elsevier, ISBN 978-0443156540. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2022-0-00487-6

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Key Features

  • Covers upcoming and current key topics, and emphasizes the urgency to find reference frameworks and effective solutions to the issues associated with them.

  • Includes multifaceted analyses on relevant topics, by leveraging the cross-cutting contributions of experts to address urgent, global, and complex issues related to human-Earth system interaction.

  • Provides an indispensable basis for discussion to guide scientists in considering their own responsibilities and to highlight the societal relevance of the geosciences.

  • Discusses philosophical, ethical, social, political, economic, legal, and theological aspects of geoscience, technological applications, and anthropogenic impacts on physical environment through the lens of geoethics, in time of profound planetary changes.

  • Bridges the geosciences, social sciences, and humanities, aiming to address the socio-ecological crisis from multiple perspectives and with greater effectiveness.


Description
Geoethics for the Future: Facing Global Challenges offers a set of points of view on highly topical issues in geosciences and beyond, including societal relevance of geosciences, georesources, sustainable development, geoeducation, georisks, data, as well as philosophical, legal, political, scientific considerations about anthropogenic global changes and the Anthropocene, enabling readers to acquire multifaceted knowledge on topics of global relevance in the 21st Century. This book explores topics vital to our historical moment and the future of human societies, through the analyzes by scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds, emphasizing the need for new cultural and scientific frameworks to address global issues. It aims to foster multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches for problem-solving, by integrating diverse knowledge and visions to effectively tackle urgent global challenges.
Serving as a significant milestone in geoethics, this book provides academics, researchers and students with insights into the ethical and societal dimensions of various challenges arising from human impact on the Earth system.

Table of contents

- Front Matter (free download)

- Copyright (free download)

- List of contributors (free download)

- About the editors (free download)

- Acknowledgments (free download)

- Placet natura regi terram (free download)

- Introduction: Geoethics for the future (free download)

- Part I: Ouverture: Grounding geoethics through philosophical analyses
- Part II: Geoethics and the Anthropocene: Defining an ethical framework for Earth system governance
- Part III: Empowering the geoscience—society interface with geoethical perspectives
- Part IV: Geoethics to shape new educational models for future planetary citizens

- Index (free download)

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List of chapters​

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  • Introduction: Geoethics for the future (Silvia Peppoloni and Giuseppe Di Capua) (free download)

 

Part I: Ouverture: Grounding geoethics through philosophical analyses

  • Chapter 1 - The divergent philosophical and scientific accounts of the root of human ethics (J. Baird Callicott)

  • Chapter 2 - Order and place in environmental ethics and esthetics (Roger Paden)

  • Chapter 3 - The relationship between human and nature in modern culture (Bernard Feltz)

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Part II: Geoethics and the Anthropocene: Defining an ethical framework for Earth system governance

  • Chapter 4 - Making sense of the Anthropocene (Manuel Arias-Maldonado)

  • Chapter 5 - Etiology of the ecological crisis: Building new perspectives for human progress through geoethics (Silvia Peppoloni and Giuseppe Di Capua)

  • Chapter 6 - Geoethics and the Anthropocene: Five perspectives (Reinhold Leinfelder, Julia Adeney Thomas, Davor Vidas, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz)

  • Chapter 7 - Challenging buzzideas: Global challenge phrases undermining ethical action (Ilan Kelman)

  • Chapter 8 - From biophilia to geophilia: A challenging but necessary expansion (Sofia Belardinelli and Telmo Pievani)

  • Chapter 9 - Geoethics in the Anthropocene: Law as a game changer (Alexandra Aragão)

  • Chapter 10 - Matters of environmental politics to inform geoethics (Javier Romero, Pierrick Chalaye, Emerson Sanchez, Elizabeth G. Dobbins)

  • Chapter 11 - Geoethical thinking as geogovernance: A geopolitical theology perspective (Francesc Bellaubi)

  • Chapter 12 - Historic perspectives for responsible earth system governance (Jan Kunnas)

  • Chapter 13 - Earth system governance: A governance perspective on geoethics (Frank Biermann)

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Part III: Empowering the geoscience—society interface with geoethical perspectives

  • Chapter 14 - Geoscience for Earth stewardship, sustainability, and human well-being: A conceptual framework for integrating planet, prosperity, and people (Iain S. Stewart)

  • Chapter 15 - Geoscience–society interface: How to improve dialog and build actions for the benefit of human communities (Billy M. Williams, Brooks R. Hanson and Rajul Pandya)

  • Chapter 16 - The key groups of interest in geoscience for sustainability (Maria Angela Capello, Iain S. Stewart and Denise M. Cox)

  • Chapter 17 - Significance and insights from indigenous communities in Latin America: Cultural and societal factors and challenges in UNESCO Global Geoparks (Artur A. Sá, José Luís Palacio-Prieto, José Patricio Melo, Elizabeth Silva, Thais Guimarães, Bilberto Zavala, Patrícia Herrera, María Jesús Bravo Pérez, Carlos Merizalde, José Luis Sánchez Cortez, Emmaline M. Rosado-González)

  • Chapter 18 - Delivering critical raw materials: Ecological, ethical, and societal issues (Richard Herrington and Sarah Gordon)

  • Chapter 19 - Critical minerals and rare earths elements: Ethical and societal considerations (Mark Rachovides, Nikolaos Arvanitidis, Demetrios Constantinides, Florian Anderhuber)

  • Chapter 20 - The future of mining: Technical progress and its implications (Vitor Correia, Philipp Hartlieb and Eberhard Falck)

  • Chapter 21 - Strategic planning toward sustainable urban planning models? The case of municipal directors in Denmark (Thomas Skou Grindsted, Majken Toftager Larsen and Henrik Toft Jensen)

  • Chapter 22 - Multihazard analyses and their implications for the defense of society against natural phenomena (Marta López-Saavedra and Joan Martí)

  • Chapter 23 - Responsible volcano risk management (Gordon Woo)

  • Chapter 24 - Risk communication in a rapidly evolving environment: The ethical and societal challenges (Irina Dallo, Michèle Marti, Laure Fallou, Florian Haslinger)

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Part IV: Geoethics to shape new educational models for future planetary citizens

  • Chapter 25 - Geoscience education: Changing paradigms (Nir Orion)

  • Chapter 26 - A global geoscientific skills gap is threatening a sustainable future (Julie A. Hollis, Peter Betts, Caroline Tiddy, Glen Burridge)

  • Chapter 27 - Educating on sustainable development in Latin America: Lights and shadows (Ma. Laura Ortiz-Hernández, Enrique Sánchez-Salinas and Tania Sánchez-Ortiz)

  • Chapter 28 - Effective strategies, data, and tools for teaching geoethics (Joseph J. Kerski)

  • Chapter 29 - Engaging the climate crisis with art (Mika G. Tosca)

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