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Geoethics for the future : facing global challenges /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Peppoloni Silvia (Editor), Di Capua Giuseppe (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2024.
Subjects:
Earth sciences > Moral and ethical aspects.
Research > Moral and ethical aspects.
Sciences de la terre > Aspect moral.
Recherche > Aspect moral.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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
  • References
  • 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
  • References
  • 3
  • The relationship between human and nature in modern culture∗
  • 1. Introduction
  • 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
  • References
  • 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
  • References
  • 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
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • 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