lunedì 7 febbraio 2022

Storie della Scienza. Terra


Da non perdere!

8 febbraio 2022 
ore: 21.00 

Rai Scuola
(canale 146 del digitale terrestre)


Progetto Scienza “Storie della Scienza” è il programma condotto dal filosofo della scienza Telmo Pievani, con la partecipazione della giornalista scientifica Silvia Bencivelli, che approfondisce come e perché la scienza sia diventata così centrale nel mondo di oggi. Le puntate raccontano la storia e l’evoluzione del pensiero scientifico, con le scoperte, le intuizioni, gli esperimenti, le invenzioni, l’applicazione del metodo scientifico. Storie della scienza che ci hanno svelato le regole del mondo e fondato la nostra civiltà.

Quanti anni ha il nostro pianeta? Rispondere a questa domanda ha significato, per gli scienziati del passato, interrogare fossili e minerali. Ma osservare la forma e la natura del pianeta, la sua composizione, significa anche rendersi conto che non ha sempre avuto l’aspetto che conosciamo oggi. Dalle osservazioni di Wegener sui confini di Africa e Sud America che hanno portato a sviluppare la teoria della deriva dei continenti, alla mappatura dei fondali marini che ci ha permesso di scoprire la rift valley oceanica e di sviluppare la teoria della tettonica delle placche, allo studio delle composizioni delle meteoriti, fino all’osservazione degli altri pianeti, è sempre più chiaro che la Terra ha avuto tante forme, che non hanno a volte niente a che fare con la nostra esperienza diretta. E, di conseguenza, che la nostra vicenda di esseri umani è solo un brevissimo capitolo in una storia che va avanti da miliardi di anni.

Percorriamo questa storia della scienza con il Professore di Geologia dell'Università di Roma 3 Massimo Mattei, con il Direttore del Dipartimento di Geoscienze dell'Università di Padova Fabrizio Nestola e la geologa dell'Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Silvia Peppoloni.

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giovedì 27 gennaio 2022

Geosciences, Geoethics, and UN SDGs at the SGI-SIMP Congress 2022


Torino (Italy), 19-21 September 2022


The proposal of the session P7 "Geosciences and geoethics: achieving UN Agenda 2030" was accepted and included in the preliminary session list of the 91th Congress of the Italian Geological Society (SGI) that will be held jointly with the 95th Congress of the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP).

Conveners: 
Francesca Lozar (Università di Torino), Elena Egidio (Università di Torino), Andrea Gerbaudo (Università di Torino), Marco Tonon (Università di Torino), Silvia Peppoloni (INGV).

Session description:
The United Nations 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent the global strategy for building a better world. Yet, the Earth system knowledge and services required to support the SDGs have been largely ignored. This omission is compounded by the lack of geoscience in the SDG debate, even if geoscientists play a crucial role to implement the SDGs and orient society towards a more sustainable future (georisk mitigation, energy transition, prudent georesource management, adaptation to climate change, pollution reduction, enhancement of geoeducation and geoscience communication…). Moreover, the SDGs cannot be achieved without the Earth Science community acknowledging that geoethics is a key for contextualising practices capable to face the challenges of the global anthropogenic changes, including reducing social inequalities and promoting inclusivity. Conveners invite colleagues to submit abstracts focused on ethical and social issues related to geoscience research and practice, on how geosciences can contribute to the 17 SDGs, on best professional practices and strategies for serving society that should be adopted, in order to create conditions for a sustainable and inclusive development of communities. The more significant contributions will be considered for publication in a special issue.

This session is sponsored by IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics (https://www.geoethics.org).

Congress website:


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lunedì 24 gennaio 2022

Geoetica su Geologicamente n. 6



Segnaliamo che è stato pubblicato "Geologicamente" n. 6 - novembre 2021 (magazine di attualità e cultura delle geoscienze della SGI - Società Geologica Italiana). 

A pagina 58 trovate anche lo spazio dedicato alla sezione di "geoetica e cultura geologica" della SGI, in cui vengono presentate alcune iniziative sulla geoetica.

La sezione di "geoetica e cultura geologica" della SGI è anche la sezione italiana della IAPG (IAPG-Italy). 

Potete scarica il n. 6 di Geologicamente al seguente indirizzo:
https://www.socgeol.it/files/download/pubblicazioni/Geologicamente/GEO6%20-%20completo%20ligth.pdf

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martedì 18 gennaio 2022

Geoethics in the journal "Nature"



Di Capua G., Bohle M., Hildebrandt D., Marone E., Peppoloni S. & Schneider S. (2022). Push for ethical practices in geoscience fieldworkNature, 601, 26. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03837-0


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giovedì 23 dicembre 2021



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mercoledì 15 dicembre 2021



The issue n. 3 - 2021 
of the IAPGeoethics Newsletter is out!


The issue n. 3 - 2021 of the Newsletter of the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics was released on 14 December 2021.

Summary:
  • Geoethics at the EGU 2022
  • Geoethics Medal 2021: winners announced
  • New book: Geo-Societal Narratives – Contexualising Geosciences
  • New book: Geoethics and Arts
  • International Geoethics Day 2021 celebrated
  • International Geodiversity Day established by UNESCO
  • MinerLima 2021 took place
  • Special Issue of the journal Sustainability (call for papers) "New Advances on Geoethics and Sustainable Development": one new paper published
  • New articles
  • Geoethics in a Training Course on Oceans
  • 4th Round Table on Geoethics in Peru
  • Past events
  • Donations


We invite you to share this post and/or forward the IAPGeoethics Newsletter n. 3 - 2021 to your colleaguesThank you!

IAPG Newsletter archive: 
https://www.geoethics.org/newsletter

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lunedì 13 dicembre 2021




IAPG at the XXXV General Assembly of the CIPSH

13-14 December 2021


Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) represents the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics at the XXXV General Assembly of the CIPSH - International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (http://www.cipsh.net/).

Even Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG Treasurer) attends the General Assembly as IAPG representative within the CIPSH Executive Committee 2020-2023.

The CIPSH General Assembly takes place in Odense (Denmark) in a mixed mode (presence and virtual).

The IAPG is a member organisation of the CIPSH from 2017.


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venerdì 29 ottobre 2021


Geoethics at the EGU 2022

Vienna (Austria), 3-8 April 2022


For the 11th year we are supporting sessions on geoethics at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, that will be held in Vienna from 3 to 8 April 2022 (EGU2022).

The call for abstracts is open. The deadline for abstract submission is 12 January 2022, 13:00 CET.

Rules about abstract submission at the EGU 2022:

Here the sessions and short course we co-sponsor at the EGU 2022.

Session EOS4.1: Geoethics in the face of global anthropogenic changes: how do we intersect different knowledge domains?
(Conveners: Silvia Peppoloni, John Ludden, Luiz Oosterbeek, Pimnutcha Promduangsri, Billy Williams). This session is co-sponsored by the IAPG, AGU, CIPSH, IUGS.
Description and abstract submission:

Session EOS1.8: Climate & ocean literacy: Helping people to care ethically within planetary boundaries
(Conveners: David Crookall, Giuseppe Di Capua, Bärbel Winkler, Francesca Santoro, Mario Mascagni). This session is sponsored by the IAPG.
Description and abstract submission:
 
Short Course SC4.1: Geoethics for Earth, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
(Convenership: Eduardo Marone, Silvia Peppoloni). This short course is co-organized by EOS4/BG8/GM14/SSP5 and co-sponsored by the IAPG and IOI-TC-LAC.
Description:

More about these sessions and the short course:

Read more about EGU 2022:



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lunedì 27 settembre 2021


Geoetica su Geologicamente n. 5


Segnaliamo che è stato pubblicato "Geologicamente" n. 5 - settembre 2021 (magazine di attualità e cultura delle geoscienze della SGI - Società Geologica Italiana). 

A pagina 54 e 55 trovate anche lo spazio dedicato alla sezione di "geoetica e cultura geologica" della SGI, con un articolo dal titolo "La rivista che mancava: nasce il nuovo “Journal of Geoethics and Social Geosciences” dell'Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia".

La sezione di "geoetica e cultura geologica" della SGI è anche la sezione italiana della IAPG (IAPG-Italy). 

Potete scarica il n. 5 di Geologicamente al seguente indirizzo:
https://www.socgeol.it/files/download/pubblicazioni/Geologicamente/GEOLOGICAMENTE%205%20intero%20WEB.pdf

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venerdì 2 luglio 2021


New book on geoethics just printed!


We are proud to inform that a
 new great book on geoethics (20 chapters, 34 authors) has been just printed:

Di Capua G., Bobrowsky P.T., Kieffer S.W. and Palinkas C. (2021). Geoethics: Status and Future Perspectives. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 508, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP508.

This is the second volume focused on geoethics published by the Geological Society of London. This is a significant step forward in which authors address the maturation of geoethics. The field of geoethics is now ready to be introduced outside the geoscience community as a logical platform for global ethics that addresses anthropogenic changes. Geoethics has a distinction in the geoscientific community for discussing ethical, social and cultural implications of geoscience knowledge, research, practice, education and communication. This provides a common ground for confronting ideas, experiences and proposals on how geosciences can supply additional service to society in order to improve the way humans interact responsibly with the Earth system. This book provides new messages to geoscientists, social scientists, intellectuals, law- and decision-makers, and laypeople. Motivations and actions for facing global anthropogenic changes and their intense impacts on the planet need to be governed by an ethical framework capable of merging a solid conceptual structure with pragmatic approaches based on geoscientific knowledge. This philosophy defines geoethics.

This book is dedicated to Jan Boon.

Chapters:

DI CAPUA G., BOBROWSKY P.T., KIEFFER S.W. AND PALINKAS C.
Introduction: geoethics goes beyond the geoscience profession
(open access)

PEPPOLONI, S. AND DI CAPUA, G.
Geoethics as global ethics to face grand challenges for humanity

BOHLE, M. 
Geo-societal sense-making

KEANE, C.M. AND ASHER, P.
Addressing the geoethics skills gap through co-curricular approaches

CRONIN, V.S.
Geoethics as a common thread that can bind a geoscience department together

MOGK, D.W. 
The intersection of geoethics and diversity in the geosciences

BONHAM, O. AND WALDIE, A. 
Geoscience, ethics and enforcement

DAWSON, L.A., DI MAGGIO, R.M., MCKINLEY, J., DI CAPUA, G., PEPPOLONI, S. AND PRINGLE, J. 
A proposal for a white paper on geoethics in forensic geology

FERNÁNDEZ-FUENTES, I., CORREIA, V. AND NEUMANN, M. 
The importance of professional regulation of geoscientists and their role in a fast-changing world

OVADIA, D.C. AND O’CONNOR, E.A. 
International geoscience cooperation – fair and equitable?

BOON, J. 
Sociology for mineral exploration

BILHAM, N. 
Responsible mining and responsible sourcing of minerals: opportunities and challenges for cooperation across value chains

MUDD, G.M. 
Sustainable/responsible mining and ethical issues related to the sustainable development goals

GROENFELDT, D. 
Ethical considerations in managing the hydrosphere: an overview of water ethics

BELLAUBI, F. AND ARASA, A. 
Geoethics in groundwater management: the geoethical dilemma in la galera aquifer

OBONI, F. AND OBONI, C.H. 
Holistic geoethical slopes’ portfolio risk assessment

CERASE, A. 
From ‘good’ intuitions to principled practices and beyond: ethical issues in risk communication

STEWART, I.S. AND HURTH, V. 
Selling Planet Earth: re-purposing geoscience communications

WUEBBLES, D.J. 
Ethics in Climate Change: A Climate Scientist’s Perspective

MCLEAN, M.R. 
Reaching out from Earth to the stars


A great thank to all the reviewers of the book chapters:

Ruth Allington, Beth Bartel, Martin Bohle, Jan Boon, Edoardo Borgomeo, Daniela Di Bucci, Vincent S. Cronin, Erle Ellis, Robert Frodeman, Armin Grunwald, Linda Gundersen, Fausto Guzzetti, Jill L. Karsten, Christopher Keane, Helio A. Lazarim, Eduardo Marone, Ellen Pletcher Metzger, David W. Mogk, David Craig Ovadia, Roberto Lencina, Silvia Peppoloni, Rika Preiser, Ortwin Renn and Mike Stephenson.

This book on the GSL (Lyell Collection) website:


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