Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides an accessible overview of the societal relevance of contemporary geosciences. Engaging various disciplines from humanities and social sciences, the book offers philosophical, cultural, economic, and geoscientific insights into how to contextualise geosciences in the node of Culture and Nature.
The authors introduce two perspectives of societal geosciences, both informed by the lens of geoethics. Throughout the text core themes are explored; human agency, the integrity of place, geo-centricity, economy and climate justice, subjective sense-making and spirituality, nationalism, participatory empowerment and leadership in times of anthropogenic global change. The book concludes with a discussion on culture, education, or philosophy of science as aggregating concepts of seemingly disjunct narratives.
The diverse intellectual homes of the authors offer a rich resource in terms of how they perceive human agency within the Earth system. Two geoscientific perspectives and fourteen narratives from various cultural, social and political viewpoints contextualise geosciences in the World(s) of the Anthropocene.
Table of ContentsWhy Geo-Societal Narratives?
Current Definition and Vision Of Geoethics
Geo-Ethics Beyond Enmeshment: Critical Reflections on the Post-Humanist Position in the Anthropocene
After the Permafrost: A Provisional Outline
A Critique of (Weak) Anthropocentric Geoethics
Exploring the Relevance of the Spiritual Dimension of the Noosphere in Geoethics
Dealing with the Subjectivity of the Human-Earth Interdependence. How to promote responsible conducts towards the environment: A Semiotic Cultural Psychological Analysis
A Copernican Moment: Engaging Economic Ethics in Orchestrating the Geocentric Turn in Economics
Geoethics: A Reality Check from Media Coverage of the Anthropocene
Geoethics vs. Geopolitics. Shoring up the Nation in the Anthropocene Cul-De-Sac
Sustainable Small-Scale Fishing and Artisanal Mining Need Policies Favourable to a Level Playing Field
Climate Change, Uncertainty and Ethical Superstorms
GAIA’s Futures in The Anthropocene: A Call for Evolutionary Leadership
Geo-Scientific Culture and Geoethics
Humanistic Geosciences a Cultural and Educational Construction?
Geosciences and Geoethics in Transition – Research Perspectives from Ethics and Philosophy of Science. A Commentary
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