Geo-Societal Narratives: Contextualising Geosciences

ISBN-13: 9783030790301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Bohle, Martin

Opis

This 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.

Spis treści

Why 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

Index

O autorze

Martin Bohle was a manager of EU science programs. He obtained a Docteur ès Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (CH). His interests are societal geosciences and geophysical fluid dynamics. Affiliated with the Ronin Institute (NJ, USA), he cooperates with the International Association for Promoting Geoethics.

 Eduardo Marone, Professor at the Federal University of Paraná (Center for Marine Studies), obtained a PhD in Physical Oceanography at the University of São Paulo. He is Director of the Training Centre of the International Ocean Institute for Latin America and the Caribbean and was a leading Author for the Millennium Assessment.

Blurb

This 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.

Martin Bohle was a manager of EU science programs. He obtained a Docteur ès Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (CH). His interests are societal geosciences and geophysical fluid dynamics. Affiliated with the Ronin Institute (NJ, USA), he cooperates with the International Association for Promoting Geoethics.

Eduardo Marone, Professor at the Federal University of Paraná (Center for Marine Studies), obtained a PhD in Physical Oceanography at the University of São Paulo. He is Director of the Training Centre of the International Ocean Institute for Latin America and the Caribbean and was a leading Author for the Millennium Assessment.