Just published in the special issue on hydrogeoethics of the journal Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews

We are glad to inform that the editorial of the special issue "Hydrogeoethics in Sustainable Water Resources Management Facing Water Scarcity in Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions" of the journal Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews has been published.

This editorial is entitled:

"Hydrogeoethics in sustainable water resources management facing water scarcity in Mediterranean and surrounding regions" 

and authored by Helder I. Chaminé, Manuel Abrunhosa, Maurizio Barbieri, Acacia Naves, Ezzoura Errami, Alexandra Aragão, Giuseppe di Capua.

The editorial is fully open access and can be downloaded here:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42990-021-00069-2

It can be cited as follows:

Chaminé H.I., Abrunhosa M., Barbieri M., Naves A., Errami E., Aragão A. and Di Capua G. (2021). Hydrogeoethics in sustainable water resources management facing water scarcity in Mediterranean and surrounding regions. Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-021-00069-2. 

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Other publications on geoethics in the IAPG website:

https://www.geoethics.org/publications

IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: 
https://www.geoethics.org

4th Round Table on Geoethics in Peru

18 December 2021

11:00-14:00 (GMT-5)

After holding three round tables on Geoethics in Peru, as part of the activities of the Peruvian Section of the International Association for Promoting Geoethics and with the support of the IAPG-Peru Student Group, IAPG-Peru organizes the 4th Round Table on Geoethics, entitled: "On geoethics in Peru: Towards the development of geoethical policies".

The main goal of the activity is to promote the debate on ethics in the geoscience profession, focusing on different fields of activity, through critical reflections and analyses of case studies.

Participants will receive certificates of attendance.

Organizing Committee:

Pedro Isique, Sandra Villacorta, Judith Sullón, César Chacaltana, IAPG-Peru Student Group.

Programme:

11:00 - Inauguration, by Round Table Moderator: Eng. Pedro Pedro Isique, IAPG-Peru Coordinator.

11:10 - Theme 1: Importance of the IESO Olympiads in Geoscience Education, by Dr. Amelia Calonge (IGEO Council Member)

11:40 - Theme 2: On the importance of reducing the practice of negative behaviors in research activities: cases of plagiarism and falsification, by Ciro Bedia (UNMSM)

12:10 - Theme 3: Geoscientific reflections on the social responsibility of geoscience institutions, by César Chacaltana (ASPP)

12:40 - Theme 4: On the inclusion in the geoscience community: women and people with disabilities, by Millarca Valenzuela and Natalia Astudillo (IAPG-Chile)

13:10-13:25 - Plenary with panelists

13:25 - Closing remarks by panelists

13:45 - Closing remarks on the round table by Roberto Greco (IAPG Continental Coordinator for South America)

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Other events on geoethics:

https://www.geoethics.org/events

IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: 
https://www.geoethics.org

IAPG talk on Geoethics in Mexico

25 October 2021

Sandra Villacorta

Sandra Villacorta (Scientific Coordinator of IAPG-Peru) gives a talk on geoethics at the First International Congress "Study and Application of Geoscience on Earth and in the Space" (Primer Congreso Internacional "El Estudio y la Aplicación de las Geociencias en la Tierra y en el Espacio") in Mexico.

The title of Sandra's talk is "Geoethics and its importance in Latin America" (Geoética y su importancia en América Latina). 

The congress is organized by Centro de Inteligencia y Análisis Estratégico under the auspices of the Centro de Investigaciones Geopoliticas en Energia y Medio Ambiente de México.

Sandra Villacorta will present the principles of geoethics, the Geoethical Promise, the Cape Town Statement on Geoethics and the latest advances in promoting geoethics worldwide. Moreover, she will show examples from Peru in order to reflect on the importance of applying the values of geoethics in the Latin America.

Sandra founded the Peruvian Section of the IAPG in 2014.

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Other events on geoethics:

https://www.geoethics.org/events

IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: 
https://www.geoethics.org

Round table on geoethics in Bolivia

22 October 2021

The online roundtable on geoethics is included in the programme of the XXIV Bolivian Geological Congress that is held in La Paz (Bolivia) and is organized by IAPG-Bolivia.

Date: 22 October 2021

Time: 10:30 GMT-4

Speakers:

10:30 - 10:45 Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG-Italy)

10:45 - 11:00 Pedro Isique (IAPG-Peru)

11:00 - 11:15 Elizabeth Rovere (IAPG-Argentina)

11:15 - 11:30 Wilfredo Ramos Collorana (IAPG-Bolivia)

11:30 - 12:00 Comments and conclusions

Zoom link: 

https://zoom.us/j/93744345358?pwd=ZEVBY0ZtbGIwQXBjSW9KL0ZvdXVudz09

Meeting id: 937 4434 5358

Metting password: 765948

Elizabeth Rovere (IAPG-Argentina)

Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG-Italy)

Pedro Isique (IAPG-Peru)

Wilfredo Ramos Collorana (IAPG-Bolivia)

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Other events on geoethics:

https://www.geoethics.org/events

IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: 
https://www.geoethics.org

Seminar on geoethics at the GSAf

29 October 2021

Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG co-founding member and treasurer) holds an online seminar on "Foundations of Geoethics", organized by the GSAf - Geological Society of Africa for its seminar series.

Time: 14:00 GMT (15:00 Nigeria and Morocco time; 16:00 Egypt and South Africa time)

Zoom link: https://uit.zoom.us/j/62221567781

Meeting id: 622 2156 7781

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Other events on geoethics:

https://www.geoethics.org/events

IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: 
https://www.geoethics.org

Special session on geoethics in Chile

26 October 2021

The Chilean section of the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG) is pleased to invite you to the special session ‘Towards the construction of the Geoethics Code for the geoscience community in Chile’ in the upcoming Symposium of the Geology of Chile (SAGChi).

This virtual session will take place on Tuesday October 26th through the SAGCHI platform (https://sociedadgeologica.cl/simposio-actualizacion-de-la-geologia-de-chile-2021/) and aims to join the geoscience community in Chile to discuss about the social role of the people that work in this field. The language of the session is Spanish.

The keynote speakers of the session are:

Luisa Pinto Lincoñir, Associate Professor, Universidad de Chile, and coordinator of IAPG-Chile: "¿Qué principios y qué valores? El desafío de la construcción de un código de geoética". (What principles and what values? The challenge of building a code of geoethics). 

Roberto Lencina Kairuz, Researcher, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina, member of IAPG-Argentina: "Litio en la Puna Argentina: La percepción de las comunidades indígenas y el rol de los geocientíficos ¿un dilema ético de la transición energética?". (Lithium in the Argentinian Puna: The perception of indigenous communities and the role of geoscientists, an ethical dilemma of the energy transition?)

Mauricio Mella Barra, Geologist, Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería: "Servicio Público e Investigación Científica: Una mirada ética desde las emergencias geológicas". (Public Service and Scientific Research: An ethical perspective from geological emergencies.

For more details, please write to geoeticachile@gmail.com

IAPG-Chile hopes you can join the seminar!

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Other events on geoethics:

https://www.geoethics.org/events

IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: 
https://www.geoethics.org

Happy

 International Geoethics Day 2021

14 October 2021

#geoethicsday2021

This is the 5th edition of the International Geoethics Day! 

You are all invited to celebrate the International Geoethics Day 2021.

Post a photo of you together with a geological item of the place/country where you live (outcrop, rock, mineral, fossil, geological landscape and/or process) on social media by using the hashtag: #geoethicsday2021.

Silvia Peppoloni (Italy)

Cesar Chacaltana Budiel (Peru)

Giuseppe Di Capua (Italy)

Farah Abdelouahed (Morocco)

Iana Clésia Silva Garbin (Brazil)

Sowreh Rezaei (Iran)

Moe Zaw Oo (Myanmar)

Adriana Nave (Italy)

Jean-José Ferracci Ceccaldi (France)

Isah Abdulhakim Nasir (Nigeria)

Giuseppe Cugno (Italy)

Mehbob Ul Haq Abbasi (Pakistan)

Muhammad Awais (Italy)

Said Mukhtar & Syed Wasim Sajjad (Pakistan)

Walter Andreeff (Canada)

Pedro Isique (Peru)

We remind you that several sections of the IAPG have organized events to celebrate this important day for geoethics and our association.

IAPG-Bangladesh has organized a meeting at the Shaheed Mokhlesur Rahman Auditorium of the Geological Survey of Bangladesh (GSB) and requested to all the geoscience community of the country to join the International Geoethics Day. This initiative is leaded by Abdul Baquee Khan Majlis and Jahangir Alam (IAPG-Bangladesh co-coordinators).

IAPG-Turkey has organized a webinar on natural hazards and geoethics with the following speakers: Nur Beyaz Erkizan (Mugla Sitki Kocman University - Department of Philosophy) with a talk entitled "The ethos of being or on being able to love kosmos/universe"; Ayhan Sol (METU Department of Philosophy) with a talk entitled "Morality of Catastrophes and Doomsaying". Yüksel Örgün Tutay (IAPG-Turkey co-coordinator) is moderator of this event, organized in cooperation with TMMOB (Chamber of Geological Engineers).

IAPG-India has organized an International Workshop on "Geoethics with focus on Geohazards and Mining Disasters" in cooperation with National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) and Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR). Surya Parkash (IAPG-India coordinator) and Vincent Cronin (IAPG-USA co-coordinator) will open this event. Several speakers will discuss about "Geoethics for Tunnel Investigations in Himalaya", "Geoethics and Mining Disasters", "Geoethics and Geohazards", "Ethics of Disaster Research".

IAPG-Peru has prepared a video with photos that national members of our association took in Peru to geological outcrops and landscapes. 

​Past editions of the International Geoethics Day:

https://www.geoethics.org/geoethics-day

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IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: 
https://www.geoethics.org

Initiatives to celebrate the International Geoethics Day 2021

14 October 2021

The 5th edition of the International Geoethics Day is coming!

Several sections of the IAPG are organizing events to celebrate this important day for geoethics and our association.

IAPG-Bangladesh is organizing a meeting at the Shaheed Mokhlesur Rahman Auditorium of the Geological Survey of Bangladesh (GSB) and requested to all the geoscience community of the country to join the International Geoethics Day. This initiative is leaded by Abdul Baquee Khan Majlis and Jahangir Alam (IAPG-Bangladesh co-coordinators).

IAPG-Turkey has organized a webinar on natural hazards and geoethics with the following speakers: Nur Beyaz Erkizan (Mugla Sitki Kocman University - Department of Philosophy) with a talk entitled "The ethos of being or on being able to love kosmos/universe"; Ayhan Sol (METU Department of Philosophy) with a talk entitled "Morality of Catastrophes and Doomsaying". Yüksel Örgün Tutay (IAPG-Turkey co-coordinator) is moderator of this event, organized in cooperation with TMMOB (Chamber of Geological Engineers).

IAPG-India has organized an International Workshop on "Geoethics with focus on Geohazards and Mining Disasters" in cooperation with National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) and Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR). Surya Parkash (IAPG-India coordinator) and Vincent Cronin (IAPG-USA co-coordinator) will open this event. Several speakers will discuss about "Geoethics for Tunnel Investigations in Himalaya", "Geoethics and Mining Disasters", "Geoethics and Geohazards", "Ethics of Disaster Research".

IAPG-Peru is preparing a video with photos that national members of our association took in Peru to geological outcrops and landscapes. 

We remind you that you are all invited to celebrate the International Geoethics Day 2021 on 14 October, by sending an email to iapgeoethics@aol.com with a photo of you together with a geological item of the place where you live (outcrop, rock, mineral, fossil, geological landscape and/or process). In alternative, post your photo on social media by using the hashtag: #geoethicsday2021.

Moreover, if you want to organize an event (conference, webinar, seminar, field trip, etc.) to celebrate the International Geoethics Day, please inform the IAPG Secretariat by sending an email to: iapgeoethics@aol.com. IAPG will be happy to promote your event.

Hashtag: #geoethicsday2021

​Past editions of the International Geoethics Day:

https://www.geoethics.org/geoethics-day

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IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: 
https://www.geoethics.org

New book just printed!

We inform you that a new important book (16 chapters, 20 authors) has been just printed:

Bohle M. and Marone E., Eds. (2021). Geo-societal Narratives - Contextualising geosciences. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, XXV+221 pp., ISBN 978-3030790271. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79028-8.

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.

This book is dedicated to Mario Bunge.

Chapters:

BOHLE M. AND MARONE E.

Why Geo-societal Narratives?

PEPPOLONI S. AND DI CAPUA G.

Current Definition and Vision of Geoethics

BLOK V. 

Geoethics Beyond Enmeshment: Critical Reflections on the Post-humanist Position in the Anthropocene

MILLIGAN T.

After the Permafrost: A Provisional Outline

FRIGO G. AND IFANGER L.A.

A Critique of (Weak) Anthropocentric Geoethics

BELLAUBI F. 

Exploring the Relevance of the Spiritual Dimension of Noosphere in Geoethics

ROCHIRA A. AND SALVATORE S. 

How to Promote Responsible Conducts Towards the Environment: A Semiotic Cultural Psychological Analysis

HERRMANN-PILLATH C. 

A Copernican Moment: Engaging Economic Ethics in Orchestrating the Geocentric Turn in Economics

SKLAIR L.

Geoethics: A Reality Check from Media Coverage of the Anthropocene

CONVERSI D.

Geoethics Versus Geopolitics. Shoring up the Nation in the Anthropocene Cul-de-sac

NAUEN C.E. 

Sustainable Small-Scale Fishing and Artisanal Mining Need Policies Favourable to a Level Playing Field

KUNNAS J.

Climate Change, Uncertainty and Ethical Superstorms

NELSON C.

GAIA’s Futures in the Anthropocene: A Call for Evolutionary Leadership

NAGY G.M. AND BOHLE M.

Geo-scientific Culture and Geoethics

MARONE E. AND BOUZO M.

Humanistic Geosciences: A Cultural and Educational Construction

POTTHAST T.

Geosciences and Geoethics in Transition: Research Perspectives from Ethics and Philosophy of Science—A Commentary

This book on the Springer Link website:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-79028-8 

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Other books and special issues on geoethics in the IAPG website:

https://www.geoethics.org/books-on-geoethics

IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: 
https://www.geoethics.org

Geoethics in a Training Course on Oceans

November 2021 - February 2022

Eduardo Marone (IAPG-Brazil coordinator) is chair of the module "Geoethics" in the Training Course on Ocean Governance, Ocean Sciences, and Geoethics, organized by the International Ocean Institute - Training Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean (IOI-TC-LAC).

The IAPG is partner organization of this training course.

Download the flyer (pdf)

Read more

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Other events on geoethics:

https://www.geoethics.org/events

IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: 
https://www.geoethics.org

Just published in the special issue on geoethics of the journal Sustainability

We are glad to inform that the a new paper has been published in the special issue "New Advances on Geoethics and Sustainable Development" of the journal Sustainability. The guest editors of this special issue are Silvia Peppoloni and Giuseppe Di Capua.

The paper published is entitled:

"Geoethics to Start Up a Pedagogical and Political Path towards Future Sustainable Societies" 

and authored by Silvia Peppoloni and Giuseppe Di Capua.

This paper is fully open access and can be downloaded here:

https://f420cbad-ec08-4c39-902f-b0e5afecb44a.filesusr.com/ugd/5195a5_9cffb8e6b1824c68b3097ec627e46db2.pdf?index=true

Abstract:

"The development of geoethics is at a turning point. After having strengthened its theoretical structure and launched new initiatives aimed at favouring the spread of geoethical thinking, geoethics must deal with some issues concerning the social organization of dominant cultures, the existing economic structures, and the political systems that govern the world. Nowadays geoethics must move towards the construction of a pedagogical proposal, which has a formative purpose, for future generations and the policy leaders, but also a political one, in the noble sense of the term, that is, concerning the action of citizens who take part in public life. The pedagogical and political project of geoethics will have to be founded on the principles of dignity, freedom, and responsibility on which to ground a set of values for global ethics in order to face planetary anthropogenic changes. Furthermore, this project must be inclusive, participatory, and proactive, without falling into simplistic criticism of the current interpretative and operational paradigms of the world, but always maintaining realism (therefore adherence to the reality of the observed facts) and a critical attitude towards the positive and negative aspects of any organizational socio-economic system of human communities. In our vision there can be no sustainability, adaptation, or transition in human systems that do not pass through an ethical regeneration of the human beings, who are aware of their inborn anthropocentric and anthropogenic perception/position and assume responsibility for the consequences of their actions impacting the Earth system. In fact, the ecological crisis is the effect of the crisis of humans who have moved away from their intimate human nature. Through this paper we want to enlarge disciplinary areas that should be investigated and discussed through the lens of geoethical thinking and propose geoethics for an ethical renewal of societies, making them more sustainable from a social, economic, and environmental perspectives."

This paper can be cited as follows:

Peppoloni S. and Di Capua G. (2021). Geoethics to Start Up a Pedagogical and Political Path towards Future Sustainable Societies. Sustainability, 13(18), 10024. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131810024. 

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Other publications on geoethics in the IAPG website:

https://www.geoethics.org/publications

IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: 
https://www.geoethics.org

The issue n. 2 - 2021 
of the IAPGeoethics Newsletter is out!

The issue n. 2 - 2021 of the Newsletter of the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics was released on 4 September 2021.

Summary:

• New GSL book: Geoethics - Status and Future Perspectives
• New book: Geosciences and the Sustainable Development Goals
• International Geoethics Day 2021
• Watch the videos of the Short Course on Geoethics
• 10 years of sessions on geoethics at the EGU General Assembly: watch the video
• miniGeology interviewed Peter Bobrowsky on geoethics
• Special Issue of the journal Sustainability (call for papers) "New Advances on Geoethics and Sustainable Development": two new papers published
• New article: Linking Geological Heritage and Geoethics
• IAPG supports the Lisbon Declaration on Humanities, Open Research and Innovation
• Geoethics in the 2021 IPBES-IPCC document
• IAPG report included in the 2020 Annual Report of the IUGS
• The IAPG section of Bolivia
• The IAPG section of Afghanistan
• IAPG-Peru has a new coordinator
• New member of the IAPG Board of Experts
• IAPG Task Group on Responsible Speleology
• Past events
• Articles from the IAPG Blog
• Donations

Download the IAPGeoethics Newsletter n. 2 - 2021

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