Geoethics for the Future

Facing Global Challenges

Silvia Peppoloni, Giuseppe Di Capua, Silvia Peppoloni, Giuseppe Di Capua

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780443156540
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443156557
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Biological Sciences

Geoethics for the Future: Facing Global Challenges offers the latest points of view on highly topical issues in geosciences, including climate change, sustainable development, and energy transition, enabling readers to acquire multifaceted knowledge of topics of global relevance and highlighting the importance of the issues affecting geosciences in the 21st Century. The book outlines how geoethical considerations are integral in providing new insights and analyses for improving the theoretical structure of geoethics and its practical applications, with an aim to create conditions for sharing perspectives on the best ways for implementing scientific action to face global anthropogenic changes. - 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• List of contributors
• About the editors
• Acknowledgments
• Placet natura regi terram
• Introduction: Geoethics for the future
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : The divergent philosophical and scientific accounts of the root of human ethics
• Chapter 2 : Order and place in environmental ethics and esthetics
• Chapter 3 : The relationship between human and nature in modern culture∗
• Chapter 4 : Making sense of the Anthropocene
• Chapter 5 : Etiology of the ecological crisis: Building new perspectives for human progress through geoethics
• Chapter 6 : Geoethics and the Anthropocene: Five perspectives
• Chapter 7 : Challenging buzzideas: Global challenge phrases undermining ethical action
• Chapter 8 : From biophilia to geophilia: A challenging but necessary expansion
• Chapter 9 : Geoethics in the Anthropocene: Law as a game changer
• Chapter 10 : Matters of environmental politics to inform geoethics
• Chapter 11 : Geoethical thinking as geogovernance: A geopolitical theology perspective
• Chapter 12 : Historic perspectives for responsible earth system governance
• Chapter 13 : Earth system governance: A governance perspective on geoethics∗
• Chapter 14 : Geoscience for Earth stewardship, sustainability, and human well-being: A conceptual framework for integrating planet, prosperity, and people
• Chapter 15 : Geoscience–society interface: How to improve dialog and build actions for the benefit of human communities
• Chapter 16 : The key groups of interest in geoscience for sustainability
• Chapter 17 : Significance and insights from indigenous communities in Latin America: Cultural and societal factors and challenges in UNESCO Global Geoparks
• Chapter 18 : Delivering critical raw materials: Ecological, ethical, and societal issues
• Chapter 19 : Critical minerals and rare earths elements: Ethical and societal considerations
• Chapter 20 : The future of mining: Technical progress and its implications
• Chapter 21 : Strategic planning toward sustainable urban planning models? The case of municipal directors in Denmark
• Chapter 22 : Multihazard analyses and their implications for the defense of society against natural phenomena
• Chapter 23 : Responsible volcano risk management
• Chapter 24 : Risk communication in a rapidly evolving environment: The ethical and societal challenges
• Chapter 25 : Geoscience education: Changing paradigms
• Chapter 26 : A global geoscientific skills gap is threatening a sustainable future
• Chapter 27 : Educating on sustainable development in Latin America: Lights and shadows
• Chapter 28 : Effective strategies, data, and tools for teaching geoethics
• Chapter 29 : Engaging the climate crisis with art
• Index
• A