Overview
- Addresses current debates around geoethics
- Approaches geoethics from an interdisciplinary angle
- Discusses the practical application of geoethics
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This book explores the potential of geoethics, as designed within the operational criteria of addressing the deeds and values of the human agent as part of the Earth system. It addresses three key questions: i) what should be considered 'geoethics' in an operational sense, ii) what is peripheral to it, and iii) is there a case therefore to establish a denomination, such as geo-humanities or geosophy, to capture a broader scope of thinking about geoscience and its interactions with society and the natural world, for the benefit of the geo-professionals and others.
The book begins by framing, contextualising and describing contemporary geoethics, then goes on to cover several examples of geoethical thinking and explores the societal intersections of geosciences in the planetary ‘human niche’. The concluding chapter discusses the challenges facing the emerging field of geoethics and how it may evolve in the future.
Bringing together a set of experts across multiple interdisciplinary fields this collection will appeal to scholars, researchers, practitioners and students within geosciences and social sciences, political sciences as well as the humanities. It will interest those who are curious about how ethical reflections relate to professional duties, scholarly interests, activities in professional geoscience associations, or responsible citizenship in times of anthropogenic global change.
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Keywords
- geoethics
- geo-humanities
- ethical framework
- professional ethics
- environmental ethics
- Earth-society-centric narratives
- Earth system
- responsible conduct of sciences
- geosciences
- planetary human niche
- citizens’ narratives
- Kohlberg’s hierarchy of moral adequacy
- anthropogenic global change
- geosophy
- Environmental Geography
- economic geology
Table of contents (5 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Martin Bohle is an oceanographer and works in Belgium as a science manager at the European Commission. He obtained his Docteur ès Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, Switzerland, and his research interests cover societal geosciences and geophysical fluid dynamics. As Research Scholar at the Ronin Institute, New Jersey, USA, he cooperates with the International Association for Promoting Geoethics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring Geoethics
Book Subtitle: Ethical Implications, Societal Contexts, and Professional Obligations of the Geosciences
Editors: Martin Bohle
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12010-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12009-2Published: 21 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12010-8Published: 13 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 214
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Earth System Sciences, Environment Studies, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Environmental Geography, Economic Geology, Environmental Philosophy