giovedì 31 dicembre 2020


2021


______________________

IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics

lunedì 14 dicembre 2020


The issue n. 3 - 2020 
of the IAPG Newsletter is out!


The issue n. 3 - 2020 of the Newsletter of the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics has been released on 7 December 2020.

Summary:
    • Geoethics at the vEGU21 (19-30 April 2021)
    • Special Issue of the journal Sustainability (Call for papers): "New Advances on Geoethics and Sustainable Development"
    • IAPG endorses the eLearning Course "Practical Geocommunication"
    • Video of the Webinar on Geoethics for the International Geoethics Day 2020
    • New video: Pandemic and Social Inequalities
    • Questionnaire "Geoethics in the Geosciences"
    • IAPG-UK has a new coordinator
    • IAPG-Bangladesh has a new co-coordinator
    • Great news from IAPG-Peru
    • IAPG signed an agreement for cooperation with GSAf
    • IAPG signed an agreement for cooperation with MJD
    • Open letter by IAPG-Peru on Peruvian paleontological heritage
    • IAPG supports the EDIG Conference on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Geoscience
    • Geoethics at the Workshop on Palaeoethics
    • Keynote Lecture on Geoethics
    • Ethics at the Forensic Geophysics & Geology meeting
    • MinerLima 2020
    • New article: Geoethics and New Medias: Sharing Knowledge and Values
    • From the IAPG Blog: Geoaesthetics: the aesthetic intelligence of the Earth
    • From the IAPG Blog: Earth first, Mars later
    • From the IAPG Blog: Responsible management of water: a resource that recalls us to dialogue
    • Donations
    • Emergency Coronavirus disease (SARS-CoV-2) Pandemic
    Download the IAPG Newsletter n. 3 - 2020: 
    https://f420cbad-ec08-4c39-902f-b0e5afecb44a.filesusr.com/ugd/5195a5_66a23d19554a424687c6112b8d9c062e.pdf?index=true

    We invite you to share this post and/or forward the IAPG Newsletter n. 3 - 2020 to your colleaguesThank you!


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


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

    lunedì 7 dicembre 2020


    La Geoestetica: l’intelligenza estetica della terra. La natura in noi anche in un libro di Salgado

    Questo articolo è stato pubblicato nel magazine ReWriters:


    Silvia Peppoloni
    Le Dolomiti sono scogliere coralline di un antichissimo mare tropicale, di centinaia di milioni di anni fa. La collisione continentale tra l’Europa e l’Africa solleva per migliaia di metri il fondale e le isole di quel mare durante il processo dell’orogenesi alpina.
    Oggi, scolpite come opere d’arte dagli agenti meteorici, troneggiano con picchi e creste affilate in mezzo a valli dolci e svasate.

    Dall’altra parte del globo terrestre, l’imponente catena montuosa delle Ande, disseminata di apparati vulcanici, ha un’origine legata alla subduzione della crosta oceanica pacifica al di sotto del continente sudamericano. Lembi di fondale oceanico si immergono ad enormi profondità, fondono per le elevate pressioni e temperature, e una volta trasformati in magma fluido per la minore densità risalgono in superficie, creando la materia su cui gli agenti meteorici scolpiscono e modellano il rilievo, con risultati di straordinaria bellezza.

    La geologia è essenzialmente studio di come la pressione agisce nel tempo, plasmando la materia e configurando lo spazio. .....
    ______________________

    IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics

    martedì 3 novembre 2020


    Geoethics at the EGU 2021

    The call for abstracts is open
    (extended deadline: 20 January 2021, 13:00 CET) 


    We are glad to announce that IAPG co-sponsors two sessions and a short course at the EGU 2021:

    Session EOS4.2: Geoethics: Geosciences serving Society
    Convenership: Silvia Peppoloni and Giuseppe Di Capua

    Session EOS3.2: Climate literacy:  Learning, education, methods and roadmaps
    Convenership: David Crookall, Giuseppe Di Capua, Lydie Lescarmontier, Robin Matthews, Frank Niepold

    Short Course SC4.4: Foundations and Perspectives of Geoethics for Earth, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences - In memoriam of Jan Boon
    Convenership: Eduardo Marone, Giuseppe Di Capua, Silvia Peppoloni

    Details (session and short course descriptions, links for abstract submission): 

    In 2021, the IAPG will celebrate 10 years of its sessions on geoethics at the EGU General Assembly.


    ______________________

    IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics

    venerdì 16 ottobre 2020


    Webinar on Geoethics

    19 October 2020

    17:00-18:30 CEST


    The Early Career Scientists Team (ECST) of the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics, in cooperation with AGI - American Geosciences Institute has organized a webinar on geoethics to be held on 19 October 2020 (17:00-18:30 CEST).

    The webinar is open to all and free of charge.

    With this event the IAPG celebrates the International Geoethics Day 2020.

    Speakers:
    Giuseppe Di Capua, Cristina Toma, Silvia Peppoloni, Alexandra Cardoso, Daniel DeMiguel, Sebastian Handl, Cesar Oboni, Linda Gundersen

    Moderators:
    Jonathan Rizzi and Barbara Zambelli

    Teams Live link: http://bit.ly/IAPGWebinar

    ​Download the leaflet of the webinar: 

    Join us on 19 October 2020 (17:00-18:30)!

     
    ______________________

    IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics

    martedì 13 ottobre 2020


    The issue n. 2 - 2020 
    of the IAPG Newsletter is out!


    The issue n. 2 - 2020 of the Newsletter of the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics has been released on 13 October 2020.

    Summary:
      • Geoethics Medal 2020: John W. Geissman awarded
      • International Geoethics Day: 15 October
      • Webinar on Geoethics: 19 October
      • Questionnaire "Geoethics in the Geosciences"
      • The Early Career Scientists Team (ECST) of the IAPG
      • Welcome to IAPG-Chile!
      • IAPG signed an agreement for cooperation with SGCh
      • IAPG signed an agreement for cooperation with APG
      • IAPG is supporting partner of the EDIG project by iCRAG
      • New book: Teaching Geoethics
      • New article: Geoethics for Nudging Human Practices in Times of Pandemics
      • New article: Applying the Values of Geoethics for Sustainable Speleotourism Development
      • New article: Viewing Earth and World through the Geoethical Lens
      • New article: A geoethical approach to the governance of social-ecological systems: the case of Delta del Tordera (Cataluna)
      • From the IAPG Blog: Geosciences for the Territory and its Ecosystems in a New Political Constitution for the Republic of Chile
      • From the IAPG Blog: The “robbery mining”: grab the money and run
      • From the IAPG Blog: Geosciences and Geoethics in times of Covid-19 pandemic. An interview to Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General)
      • From the IAPG Blog: Situating Geoethics in the Pandemocene, an Opinion
      • Donations
      • Emergency Coronavirus disease (SARS-CoV-2) Pandemic

      Download the IAPG Newsletter n. 2 - 2020: 

      https://f420cbad-ec08-4c39-902f-b0e5afecb44a.filesusr.com/ugd/5195a5_c68f5f685c874b97823dadc193be8f9e.pdf?index=true

      We invite you to share this post and/or forward the IAPG Newsletter n. 2 - 2020 to your colleaguesThank you!

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


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

      lunedì 12 ottobre 2020



      International Geoethics Day 2020

      15 October 2020


      4th edition of this event that is celebrated worldwide, during the Earth Science Week and the month of the Global Ethics Day.

      This year the International Geoethics Day is dedicated to the early career and young geoscientists.

      Theme of the International Geoethics Day 2020: make a... Geoethical Promise!

      We invite you to take a picture with one of your favourite sentences from the Geoethical Promise (see below) and to post it on social networks with the Hashtag: #geoethicsday2020. 

      We remind you that the Geoethical Promise is included in the Cape Town Statement on Geoethics and available in 35 languages.

      The Early Career Scientists Team (ECST) of the IAPG has organized a webinar on geoethics, in cooperation with AGI - American Geosciences Institute, that will be held on 19 October 2020 (17:00-18:30 CEST) to celebrate the International Geoethics Day 2020 (more information in the next post of the IAPG Blog).










       
      ______________________

      IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics

      martedì 16 giugno 2020


      Webinar:
      "Nel silenzio, la terra si è spaccata"

      18 giugno 2020, 17:00-20:00


      Silvia Peppoloni, ricercatrice dell'Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Segretario Generale della IAPG e coordinatrice della Sezione di Geoetica e Cultura Geologica della Società Geologica Italiana, è tra i relatori del webinar "Nel silenzio, la terra si è spaccata" che si svolgerà il 18 giugno 2020, dalle 17:00 alle 20:00.

      Il titolo dell'intervento di Silvia è: "Geoetica per la Società: Conoscere, Informare, Agire".

      L'evento sarà diffuso in streaming sulla pagina:
      https://www.facebook.com/agricolturabio.info 

      e nella home page della rivista:
      www.agricolturabio.info




      ______________________

      IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics

      venerdì 12 giugno 2020


      1st International (Virtual) Symposium on Geoethics

      14 June 2020, 02:30-04:30 pm (IST)


      The symposium is organized by IAPG-India and hosted by the School of Earth and Environmental Science, Amity University Haryana (India).

      Among the speakers, Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General), Surya Parkash (IAPG-India Coordinator), Giuseppe Di Capua (IAPG Treasurer).


      The programme is in the picture.


      The symposium registration URL for participants is: https://bit.ly/3hh9409.




      ______________________

      IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics

      giovedì 21 maggio 2020


      Questionnaire
      "Geoethics in the Geosciences"

      An international survey by the IAPG

      Which is the the geoscience community's perception and awareness on the importance of the ethical and social aspects of geoscience research and practice?

      The online questionnarie "Geoethics in the Geosciences" is the tool for investigating this perception and awareness in this international survey conducted by the IAPG.


      Everyone can fill in the questionnaire anonymously, since its structure allows compilers to fill in it as individuals in the performance of their institutional/professional activities, without implying personal data or information related to their private life.


      The questionnaire can fill in at:

      https://form.jotformeu.com/93223788145362

      This questionnaire will be disseminated within the international geoscience community, also through the help of the geoscience partner organizations of the IAPG.


      Everyone is invited to fill in the questionnaire. Help us in this international survey. Share the link to fill in the questionnaire with your colleagues.


      Thank you very much for your cooperation.



      Additional information about the Questionnaire "Geoethics in the Geosciences"


      Authors of the questionnaire

      Silvia Peppoloni and Giuseppe Di Capua

      Objectives
      The goal of this questionnaire is to understand how much the geoscience community is aware of the importance of the ethical and social aspects of geoscience research and practice.
      The feedback received will help IAPG select priorities in its strategy of promoting geoethics.

      Topics
      The questionnaire covers the following topics:

      • Research integrity and professionalism in conducting geoscience activities.
      • Respect towards colleagues and appropriate behaviours in the working environment.
      • Conflicts of interest.
      • Awareness of geoscientists' responsibilities towards society in the dissemination of scientific results, in geoscience communication and geo-education activities.
      • Roles and responsibilities of geoscientists in the decision-making process.
      • Relationship between the geoscience community and stakeholders.
      • Responsibilities of geoscientists towards the Earth system.

      Comments
      We address this questionnaire to all members of the geoscience community, and are promoting it through the web channels of the IAPG and partner organisations, to assure wide international participation. 
      You can fill in the questionnaire anonymously. We aimed it at people in the performance of their institutional/professional activities, without implying personal data or information related to their private life.
      People filling in the questionnaire act on a voluntary basis. This questionnaire does not contain any reference to political, religious or racial topics. Before filling in the questionnaire, we ask the interviewee to provide her/his own acceptance of statements related to having read the above information, the freedom to withdraw from the survey at any time, and to remain anonymous.

      Time needed for filling in the questionnaire
      You shuould be able to complete the survey in 30 minutes.

      Link to the questionnaire 

      https://form.jotformeu.com/93223788145362

      Procedures for data management

      IAPG's procedures for data collection, storage, protection, retention and destruction comply with the "EU GDPR" policy (European Union - General Data Protection Regulation):
      https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-protection-eu_en.

      Acknowledgements
      This questionnaire is an initiative of the IAPG – International Association for Promoting Geoethics, partially funded by the IUGS – International Union of Geological Sciences.
      The questionnaire has been realized with the great contribution of Jan Boon (IAPG-Canada co-coordinator) and Ruth Allington (IAPG Board of Experts). 
      We are also grateful to Susan Kieffer and Shrikant Limaye (IAPG Vice-Presidents), Margaret Brocx, Nic Bilham, and Roberto Greco (IAPG Continental Coordinators), Martin Bohle (IAPG Board of Experts), for their help to improve further this questionnaire.
      We also thank Peter Bobrowsky (IAPG Continental Coordinators), Christine McEntee, and Luis González de Vallejo (IAPG Board of Experts) for taking part in the test phase of the questionnaire.

      More information
      For more information, please, send an email to iapgeoethics@aol.com

      How to cite
      Peppoloni S. and Di Capua G. (2020). Questionnaire "Geoethics in the Geosciences". IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics, http://www.geoethics.org/questionnaire


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

      venerdì 8 maggio 2020


      EGU released the video of the 
      Union Simposium 1 at the EGU 2020

      containing the talk 
      "Geoscientists as social and political actors"
      by Silvia Peppoloni



      EGU released the video of the Union Symposium 1 (US1), held online on 4 May at the 'EGU 2020:Sharing Geoscience Online.'

      US1 was entitled "Best practices for scientific integrity & freedom in an age of pandemics...& beyond".


      The President of the EGU, Alberto Montanari, invited Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) to be one of the panelists of the US1.


      Silvia gave the talk entitled "GEOSCIENTISTS AS SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ACTORS" (from minute 37:23).


      After a short introduction to Silvia's talk by the President of the Japanese Geoscience Union, Hodaka Kawahata (from minute 34:40), you can see and hear Silvia speaking from minute 37:23 (from the YouTube channel of the EGU):

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYH9MNMQs3c





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

      mercoledì 29 aprile 2020


      Geoscientists as social and political actors

      by Silvia Peppoloni
      (IAPG Secretary General)

      Keynote at the Union Symposium 1 (US1)
      EGU 2020: Sharing Geoscience Online

      4 May 2020 (16:15-17:45 CEST)

      Open to anyone and free of charge

      Co-sponsored by
      EGU, AGI, AGU, AOGS, GSA, GSL, JpGU




      Silvia Peppoloni (IAPG Secretary General) has been invited by Alberto Montanari (EGU President) to give a keynote speech at the Union Simposium 1 “Best practices for scientific integrity and scientific freedom in an age of pandemics - and beyond”, that will be held at the EGU 2020: Sharing Geoscience Online on 4 May, from 16:15 to 17:45 (CEST).
      Convenership: Alberto Montanari, Robin Bell, Hodaka Kawahata, J. Douglas Walker. The other confirmed speakers are: Jonathan Bamber, Chris McEntee, Claudia Jesus-Rydin, Jorge A. Huete-Perez.

      The title of Silvia’s talk is “Geoscientists as social and political actors”.


      Here her abstract: 

      Geoscientists are at the fare front of informing on and supporting society to face global anthropogenic changes, at all levels. This requires making excellent science, in the full awareness of one's role towards society. Research integrity and professionalism are the bedrock on which the individual geoscientist can develop a deep sense of responsibility and build a functional science-society relationship, being conscious of the ethical obligations that this implies. It is precisely within the dyad individual-society that the utmost ethical and social value of the activity of geoscientists is achieved, as in this context they assume at the same time the dual role of moral subjects and social actors, and consequently can realize the meaning of being active and responsible subjects in the service of the human beings. In order to achieve this goal, each geoscientist should individually strengthen the perception of being: (a) a moral subject, therefore an agent consciously responsible for the own conduct and the ethical and social implications of own actions; (b) a social and political subject, who actively contributes to the construction of the idea of society, to the vision of its future, to its cultural and economic development, including the creation of a knowledge society based on the democratic value of shared responsibility. Within the ethical framework of reference in which geoscientists are called to act, there is an indispensable prerequisite, that makes possible the responsible action and allows behaving ethically: individual freedom. A cohesive, motivated, and responsible international geoscience community can assure a safe operating space to geoscientists and encourage them to follow best practices and ethical behaviours while conducting their activities, to qualify their work and recognize the value of a responsible action to counter abuses, intimidations and political pressures. This cannot simply be entrusted to codes of ethics and/or conduct, but demands an intense ethical training for the geoscientists, that shows them the numerous circumstances and difficulties that each one might be called upon to face during the scientific and professional career.

      Download the Union Symposium 1 summary:

      https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/sessionAssets/34690/summary.pdf

      Join the online session Mon, 04 May, 16:15–17:45 (free of charge):
      https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zZAXqDlGTkCuA05zwps2Eg

      Read the list of keynote speeches and abstracts:

      https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/orals/34690





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

      venerdì 17 aprile 2020


      The issue n. 1 - 2020 
      of the IAPG Newsletter is out!


      The issue n. 1 - 2020 of the Newsletter of the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics has been released on 17 April 2020.

      Summary:

      • Geoethics at the EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online
      • Geoscientists as social and political actors
      • Geoethics & Groundwater Management
      • 36th IGC rescheduled
      • The first book of the SpringerBriefs in Geoethics has been published!
      • Geoethics Medal 2020: Call for Nominations
      • Video: Geoethics and Geological Risks
      • The IAPG section of Turkey
      • IAPG-Cameroon has a new co-coordinator
      • Selection of articles on geoethics
      • 70th Anniversary of the CIPSH
      • Donations
      • WHO: Emergency Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic

      Download the IAPG Newsletter n. 1 - 2020: 
      https://f420cbad-ec08-4c39-902f-b0e5afecb44a.filesusr.com/ugd/5195a5_0a525208d85440a483e67e5c4041003c.pdf?index=true

      Kindly, share this post and/or forward the IAPG Newsletter n. 1 - 2020 to your colleaguesThank you!


      IAPG Newsletter archive: 

      http://www.geoethics.org/newsletter


      IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: 

      http://www.geoethics.org

      martedì 7 aprile 2020


      Geoetica su Geologicamente



      Segnaliamo che è stato pubblicato il primo numero di "Geologicamente", il nuovo magazine di attualità e cultura delle geoscienze della SGI - Società Geologica Italiana. 

      A pagina 64 trovate anche lo spazio dedicato alla sezione di "geoetica e cultura geologica" della SGI, con un articolo dal titolo "Geoetica: Definizione, Valori e Obiettivi" a firma di Silvia Peppoloni (coordinatrice della sezione di geoetica della SGI e Secretary General della IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics).

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

      Potete scarica il n. 1 di Geologicamente al seguente indirizzo:
      https://www.socgeol.it/files/download/pubblicazioni/Geologicamente/GEOLOGICAMENTE%20_n_1.pdf

      ___________________________________________________

      IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics