Geoethics for the future : facing global challenges / edited by Silvia Peppoloni, Giuseppe Di Capua.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peppoloni, Silvia, editor.

Di Capua, G. (Giuseppe), editor.

ScienceDirect (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Earth sciences--Moral and ethical aspects.

Earth sciences.

Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2024.

Contents:

Front Cover

Geoethics for the Future

Geoethics for the Future: Facing Global Challenges

Copyright

Contents

List of contributors

About the editors

Acknowledgments

Placet natura regi terram

Introduction: Geoethics for the future

1. The starting point

2. Beyond the turning point

3. A pathway of knowledge

4. A cultural change

5. Towards new horizons

References

I

Ouverture: Grounding geoethics through philosophical analyses

1

The divergent philosophical and scientific accounts of the root of human ethics

1. Introduction

2. Philosophical accounts of the root of human ethics

2.1 Greek natural philosophy and its relation to Greek moral philosophy

2.2 Greek moral philosophy

2.3 Modern moral philosophy

3. The scientific account of the root of human ethics

4. Conclusion

2

Order and place in environmental ethics and esthetics

1. The history and uses of "order"

2. "Order" and "disorder"

3. "Place" and "landscape"

4. Disordered values

5. Geoethics, geoesthetics, geotourism

3

The relationship between human and nature in modern culture∗

2. Human-nature and human-animal relations in western culture

2.1 Descartes and the scientific relation to nature

2.2 Ecological science: Toward a new type of control

2.3 Ecocentric metaphysics

2.4 Respect for animals and anthropocentrism

2.4.1 Anthropology and evolution

2.4.2 Esthetics and responsibility

3. Environmental crisis and the crisis of modernity

4. Ecological transition and critical modernity

II

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

4

Making sense of the Anthropocene

1. Introduction: A star is born

2. What the natural sciences say

3. How social sciences and humanities respond to the Anthropocene

4. The golden spike, or when worlds collide

5. Conclusion

5

Etiology of the ecological crisis: Building new perspectives for human progress through geoethics

1. Introduction: An epochal transition

2. Ecological crisis as an ontological-aesthetic crisis

3. Looking at the past: The deep roots of the crisis

4. Looking at the future: Possible scenarios

4.1 Dystopian scenario

4.2 Reality scenario

4.3 Utopian scenario

4.4 Factors that influence the realization of the scenarios

5. Designing a future world through the lens of geoethics: Reflections and proposals

5.1 The geoethical vision of the Anthropocene concept

5.2 Rethinking the value of geosciences for society

6. Conclusions

6

Geoethics and the Anthropocene: Five perspectives

1. Introduction

2. Energy

3. International law

4. Multidisciplinarity

5. Futures literacy

6. Mutually beneficial relationships

7. Epilogue: Geoethics in the Anthropocene

References

7

Challenging buzzideas: Global challenge phrases undermining ethical action

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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0443156557

9780443156557

Publisher Number:

40032406771

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