The issue #3 - 2018 
of the IAPG Newsletter is out!

The issue #3 - 2018 of the Newsletter of the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics has been released on 26 July 2018.

Summary:

- Spreading Geoethics through the languages of the world: translations of the Cape Town Statement on Geoethics
- The Geoethical Promise: a memorable event
- Call for abstracts: geoethics at the AGU Fall Meeting 2018 (deadline is approaching!)
- 1st Workshop of The European Project GOAL (Geoethics Outcomes and Awareness Learning
- MINERLIMA 2018: new dates and venue
- Session on History of Geology and Geoethics in Italy
- Session on “Seismology and Society” in Malta
- The logo of the IAPG-IAH Congress in Portugal is ready
- IAPG at the “II Simposio Internacional Paleontologia del Perù”
- Geoscience and Society Summit: new dates and venue
- An IAPG report from the FORAM 18 pilot event
- Publications
- New national section: IAPG-Lebanon
- International Geoethics Day 2018
- New agreement for cooperation
- Articles from the IAPG Blog
- IAPG photo gallery
- Donations

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http://www.geoethics.org/newsletter


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Consumo di suolo, dinamiche territoriali e servizi ecosistemici

Edizione 2018

a cura di
ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale

Dal sito web dell'ISPRA:
"L’edizione 2018 del Rapporto sul consumo di suolo in Italia, la quinta dedicata a questo tema, fornisce il quadro aggiornato dei processi di trasformazione del nostro territorio, grazie alla cartografia aggiornata del Sistema Nazionale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente (SNPA), che vede ISPRA insieme alle Agenzie per la protezione dell’ambiente delle Regioni e delle Province Autonome, in un lavoro congiunto di monitoraggio svolto anche utilizzando le migliori informazioni che le nuove tecnologie sono in grado di offrire.
Il Rapporto analizza l’evoluzione del consumo di suolo all'interno di un più ampio quadro delle trasformazioni territoriali ai diversi livelli, attraverso indicatori utili a valutare le caratteristiche e le tendenze del consumo e fornisce nuove valutazioni sull'impatto della crescita della copertura artificiale, con particolare attenzione alla mappatura e alla valutazione dei servizi ecosistemici del suolo".

Scarica il rapporto (pdf 46 Mb):
http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/public_files/ConsumoSuolo2018/Rapporto_Consumo_Suolo_2018.pdf

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

Programme of the session S38
History of geosciences and Geoethics: the right way for social responsibility

Conveners: Marco Pantaloni (ISPRA-Roma), Silvia Peppoloni (INGV, Roma), Fabiana Console (ISPRA, Roma), Giuseppe Di Capua (INGV, Roma)

This session is supported by IAPG and INHIGEO

89th Congress of the Geological Society of Italy, jointly with the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrography

Catania, 12-14 September 2018

Orals

13 Septmber 2018 [18.00-20.00]

Aula A13

38-1    18.00 - 18.15
Romano M.*: Inventor, Engineer and Earth Scientist in a single brushstroke: Leonardo da Vinci and the earliest conception of sustainable land management on a constantly changing Planet

38-2    18.15 - 18.30
Macini P.*: Well construction and underground fluids in pre-industrial ages: Scientific observations, ethical speculation and medical contributions of Bernardino Ramazzini on the health and safety of Putearii (water well diggers)

38-3    18.30 - 18.45
Hamilton M.*: The research of the western Tauern window between 1894 and 1898 in the documents of the mineralogist and petrographer Friedrich Becke. A project of the “Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften“

38-4    18.45 - 19.00
Foresta Martin F.*: Marcello Carapezza (1925-1987), Scientist and Humanist

38-5    19.00 - 19.15
Branca S.* & Abate T.: The hypotheses of Jean Hoüel (1735-1813) on the formation of Etna. The evolutionary model of the volcano in the representation of the CXIX planche

38-6    19.15 - 19.30
Vaccari E.*: The role of the institutions for the birth of the professional geologist between the 18th and the 20th century

38-7    19.30 - 19.45
Barale L., Fioraso G. & Mosca P.*: The role of geological studies in large infrastructural projects in the 19th century - some examples from NW Italy

38-8    19.45 - 20.00
Boscaino G.* & Boscaino M.: The geology between past and present: cultural heritage and the current social value of geosciences. The tragedy of the Rigopiano Hotel

Posters

13 September 2018

38-9    Panel 109
Alimenti S. & Lupi R.*: Policy, economy and geosciences in the debate about Fucino and Trasimeno lakes (1780-1870 ca.)

38-10    Panel 110
Cubellis E.*, Luongo G. & Obrizzo F.: Sciences of Laws and Sciences of Processes for  Earth Science

38-11    Panel 111
De Caterini G.* & Radogna P.V.: Critique of Practical Geology

38-12    Panel 112
Di Cencio A.*, Mori G., Casati S. & Nardi M.: Paleontherapy - the new method in field of medical geology for the therapy of young disturbances

38-13    Panel 113
Pantaloni M.*, Console F. & Motti A.: The “rebirth” of the Torbidone River (Norcia Plain, Umbria): a historic and geoethic approach

38-14    Panel 114
Pinarelli L., Piccardi L. & Montanari D.*: The social value of geological knowledge in the supernatural narratives of the ancient world: some case studies

38-15    Panel 115
Sudiro P.*: The Expanding Earth: a disproved scientific hypothesis surviving its falsification


Programme in the website of the congress:
http://www.sgicatania2018.it/BECong/sessione_programma.php?sessione2=50

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

An article just published in Episodes (open-access)

"The ethical duty to divulge geosciences and the improvement of communication skills to fulfil it"

(by Massimo Arattano, Silvia Peppoloni, Albertina Gatti)

Abstract:
In recent years the commitment to disseminate the geological knowledge, making it available for citizens and decisionmakers, has been recognized as a precise ethical duty of the geologist. However the fulfilment of the duty to disseminate the geoscience knowledge requires good communication skills that should be adequately trained, since often the university studies don’t include such training. A specific research has been carried out to explore the possibility to develop a short training course capable of improving the expressive and communication abilities of professionals. A set of exercises has been also expressly developed to improve the metacognitive skills of the participants (metacognition is the knowledge and regulation of one’s cognitive activities in learning processes). The course has been delivered to professionals belonging to the Professional Association of Engineers (FOIT) in Turin, Italy, and has been able to significantly improve their expressive and communication abilities, increasing their interest and willingness to divulge their knowledge, recovering their confidence to succeed in this task and helping them to become more effective communicators. The contents of the course are now available, upon request, for anyone interested in teaching it elsewhere and/or improving its contents. Providing both professional and research geologists with means to renew their interest and ability to communicate can be a useful contribution to raise their (geo)ethical conscience and to help them to more easily carry out their ethical commitment.

Citation:
Arattano M., Peppoloni S., Gatti A. (2018). The ethical duty to divulge geosciences and the improvement of communication skills to fulfil it. Episodes, Vol. 41, No. 2,
http://dx.doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2018/018007

Free Download:
http://dx.doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2018/018007


Other publications on geoethics in the IAPG website: 
http://www.geoethics.org/publications

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