Overview
- Provides an accessible overview of the societal relevance of contemporary geosciences
- Explores the diverse intellectual homes of the authors offer a rich resource in terms of how they perceive human agency within the Earth system
- Discussion on culture, education, or philosophy of science as aggregating concepts of seemingly disjunct narratives
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Martin Bohle was a manager of EU science programs. He obtained a Docteur ès Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (CH). His interests are societal geosciences and geophysical fluid dynamics. Affiliated with the Ronin Institute (NJ, USA), he cooperates with the International Association for Promoting Geoethics.
Eduardo Marone, Professor at the Federal University of Paraná (Center for Marine Studies), obtained a PhD in Physical Oceanography at the University of São Paulo. He is Director of the Training Centre of the International Ocean Institute for Latin America and the Caribbean and was a leading Author for the Millennium Assessment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geo-societal Narratives
Book Subtitle: Contextualising geosciences
Editors: Martin Bohle, Eduardo Marone
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79028-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79027-1Published: 24 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79030-1Published: 25 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79028-8Published: 23 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 221
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Geography, general, Science, multidisciplinary, Philosophy of Nature