Tuesday, January 31, 2017


Towards Sustainable Mining
(by MAC - Mining Association of Canada)


Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) is the Mining Association of Canada’s (MAC) commitment to responsible mining. It is a set of tools and indicators to drive performance and ensure that key mining risks are managed responsibly at our members’ facilities. Adhering to the principles of TSM, our members demonstrate leadership by:

  • Engaging with communities.
  • Driving world-leading environmental practices.
  • Committing to the safety and health of employees and surrounding communities.

The program was established in 2004 and its main objective is to enable mining companies to meet society’s needs for minerals, metals and energy products in the most socially, economically and environmentally responsible way. The program’s core strengths are:

Accountability: Participation in TSM is mandatory for all MAC members. Assessments are conducted at the facility level where the mining activity takes place--the only program in the world to do this in our sector. This provides local communities with a meaningful view of how a nearby mine is faring.

Transparency: Members commit to a set of guiding principles and report their performance against the program’s 23 indicators annually in MAC’s TSM Progress Reports. Each facility’s results are publicly available, and are externally verified every three years.

Credibility: TSM includes ongoing consultation with a national Community of Interest (COI) Advisory Panel. This multi-stakeholder group helps our members and communities of interest foster dialogue, improve the industry’s performance and shape the program for continual advancement.

Read more: http://mining.ca/towards-sustainable-mining



Documents and online resources on topics of interest for geoethicshttp://www.geoethics.org/resources

Monday, January 30, 2017


Position statement on water stewardship
(by ICMM - International Council on Mining and Metals)


This position statement sets out ICMM members’ approach to water stewardship. Water stewardship is the use of water in ways that are socially equitable, environmentally sustainable, and economically beneficial.1 Effective stewardship requires collaboration and concerted action from all parties, including government, civil society, business and local communities through inclusive stakeholder engagement.

The commitments in this position statement require members to:
-Apply strong and transparent water governance.
-Manage water at operations effectively.
-Collaborate to achieve responsible and sustainable water use.

The position statement will not apply retrospectively.


Download (pdf file): http://www.icmm.com/website/publications/pdfs/position-statements/2017_icmm-ps_water-stewardship.pdf



Documents and online resources on topics of interest for geoethicshttp://www.geoethics.org/resources

Friday, January 27, 2017


Geoethics and IAPG at the XX Argentine Geological Congress


Great news from IAPG-Argentina!

IAPG-Argentina co-organizes with GEVAS-Red Argentina the Symposium "Geological Hazard and Geoethics" (Peligro geológico y geoética) at the XX Argentine Geological Congress, that will be held in Tucumán (Argentina), from 7 to 11 August 2017.

Convenership: Elizabeth Rovere, Felipe R. Rivelli, M.D. Vazquez Herrera, Roberto A. Violante

Symposium description (in Spanish):
http://congresogeologico.org.ar/simposios/peligro-geologico-geoetica/

Thanks to Elizabeth Rovere​ and Roberto Violante!

Other events organized by IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: http://www.geoethics.org/events

Thursday, January 19, 2017


A congress in Morocco: "Earth Sciences for Society"


This congress, entitled "Earth Sciences for Society" will be held in El Jadida/Marrakech (Morocco), from 20 to 24 March 2018.
It is organized by the Arabian Geosciences Union (ArabGU), the African Association of Women in Geosciences (AAWG) and the African Geoparks Network (AGN) in collaboration with the Faculty of Sciences, Chouaïb Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco.

Theme 9 is dedicated to "Geoethics". Convenership: Peter Bobrowsky (Canada), Ezzoura Errami (Morocco), Silvia Peppoloni (Italy), Zakaria Hamimi (Egypt).

Abstract submission
The abstracts should be sent as an attached file to congress.morocco@gmail.com before 30th October 2017. 
The name of the electronic file must include the name of the first author, e.g. Salisu.doc. 
Authors will receive the acceptance and invitation letters within few weeks after the reception of the registration forms and abstracts.

Download the First Circular (pdf file)

Wednesday, January 18, 2017


World Conference on Research Integrity


Tony Mayer
5th WCRI will take place from 28 to 31 May 2017 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Tony Mayer, IAPG Corresponding Citizen Scientist on "Research Integrity", is a Conference Co-Chair.

Website of the 5th WCRI: http://www.wcri2017.org/

Monday, January 9, 2017


LAST CALL !

Deadline: 11 January 2017

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

IAPG session on Geoethics at EGU 2017


EGU General Assembly 2017 will be held in Vienna from 23 to 28 April 2017. 


Submit you abstract in the IAPG Session EOS14:

Geoethics: ethical, social and cultural implications of geoscience knowledge, education, research and practice

The conveners invite abstracts on both practical and theoretical aspects of geoethics, including case studies. The aim of the session is to develop ethical and social perspectives on the challenges arising from human interaction with natural systems, to complement technical approaches and solutions, and to help to define an ethical framework for geoscientists' research and practice in addressing these challenges.

The session EOS14 will be convened by Silvia Peppoloni, Nic Bihlam, Martin Bohle, Giuseppe Di Capua, Eduardo Marone.

Read more about the session description at:
http://www.geoethics.org/egu2017-eos14

Submit an abstract: 
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/session/23692 

(Deadline: 11 January 2017)

Wednesday, January 4, 2017


The IAPG section of Romania


Welcome to the IAPG section of Romania! 

The section will work under the responsibility of Antoneta Seghedi, senior Researcher at the National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology (GeoEcoMar) in Bucharest and president of the Geological Society in Romania; and Dorina Camelia Ilies, Professor at University of Oradea, Department of Geography, Tourism and Territorial Planning.

Currently IAPG-Romania can count on 14 members.  


Antoneta Seghedi
Antoneta Seghedi is former manager of the National Museum of Geology of the Geological Institute of Romania, where she worked in educational and public programs for the Museum. She is also custodian of a Natura 2000 protected site in Romania and founder of the NGO "Association GeoD for promoting geodiversity". She started her scientific career in 1972, at the Geological Institute of Romania, working in the Department of Geological Maps. She was involved in mapping for more than 30 years, contributing to, or coordinating 9 published and 11 still unpublished geological maps in the areas of Dobrogea and the South Carpathians. She started with metamorphic petrology and structural geology, but working in low-grade and very low-grade metamorphic terranes, she also became interested in sedimentary petrology and sedimentology. She also studied borehole cores, especially those that penetrated the pre-Mesozoic basement both in North Dobrogea Orogen, and in the East Moesian Platform. She coordinated or contributed to geological report and studies and atlases of metamorphic structures. In the late nineties she was involved in several IGCP projects, as well as in the project TESZ of the EUROPROBE program. This fueled her curiosity in paleogeographic terrane affinities and reconstructions. In 2006 she became involved in projects on geohazards and geoheritage protection. For two and half years she was the manager of the National Museum of Geology. She realized that the museum, established in the eighties, was very appreciated by specialists but not really appealing to the public, the main target of the museum. Since a change of the permanent exhibitions was not possible, together with her team of young and very dedicated people, she started to elaborate educational and public programs and projects, in order to explain the museum exhibitions and make it easy to understand by school children and families. She also managed to accomplish several temporary exhibitions, deliver lectures and organize summer schools. In the summer of 2009 she started to work in the National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology – GeoEcoMar, on issues related to protected areas, but also did regional geological studies for CCS. Recently, she has started to coordinate a new educational project. She is project manager of the Transylvanian Dinosaur Museum, a project involving several NGOs and institutions, including GeoEcoMar, to valorise the most important paleontological heritage of Romania, the dwarf dinosaurs from Haţeg country. A project that blends science and art, the Transylvania Dinosaur Museum means reconstructing all terrestrial ecosystems found in the Late Cretaceous on Haţeg island, as well as developing educational and public programs and projects.


Dorina Camelia Ilies
Dorina Camelia Ilies has 23 years of experience in the didactic and research activity. Actual field of interest is the investigation and mapping of natural and cultural heritage and its valorization for touristic purpose (master courses and Ph.D. school in Geography); concerning the research activity:  she has published more than 80 scientific papers in national and international scientific journals; she has been collaborator in international research teams for geotourism and environmental tourism maps elaboration related to two natural protected areas in Italy. She has been coordinator of national and international projects concerning rural thematic tourism; and collaborator for the Crisana Maramures. She worked for the Geographical Atlas of Tourism Heritage (Coord. Ilies A., 2014), which received the Romanian Academy Award in 2016.


Other IAPG national sections: http://www.geoethics.org/sections.html

Tuesday, January 3, 2017


DEADLINE IS APPROACHING!
11 January 2017

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

IAPG session on Geoethics at EGU 2017


EGU General Assembly 2017 will be held in Vienna from 23 to 28 April 2017. 


Submit you abstract in the IAPG Session EOS14:

Geoethics: ethical, social and cultural implications of geoscience knowledge, education, research and practice

The conveners invite abstracts on both practical and theoretical aspects of geoethics, including case studies. The aim of the session is to develop ethical and social perspectives on the challenges arising from human interaction with natural systems, to complement technical approaches and solutions, and to help to define an ethical framework for geoscientists' research and practice in addressing these challenges.

The session EOS14 will be convened by Silvia Peppoloni, Nic Bihlam, Martin Bohle, Giuseppe Di Capua, Eduardo Marone.

Read more about the session description at:
http://www.geoethics.org/egu2017-eos14

Submit an abstract: 
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/session/23692 

(Deadline: 11 January 2017)