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Bridges to Global Ethics

Geoethics at the Confluence of Humanities and Sciences

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  • Provides a confluence of authors with different disciplinary backgrounds
  • Deals with crucial topics for facing global anthropogenic changes
  • Focuses on new areas of reflection around modernity

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Geoethics (SG)

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This book contributes to the current discussion on geoethics and global ethics within the geoscience and humanities communities. It provides new content and insights into developing convergent human actions in response to global anthropogenic changes, based on perspectives that make it possible to combine geoscience knowledge with humanities and social sciences approaches. Selected authors present their reflections, findings and insights regarding the vision of geoethics (ethics of responsibility towards the Earth) as global ethics from philosophical, humanities and social sciences perspectives. In addition, they discuss ethical frameworks from diverse cultural traditions, searching for points of intersection with geoethics.

The goal: for global environmental problems to be managed via multi-perspective approaches that can more effectively accommodate complexity. Combining the strengths of the geosciences, humanities and social sciences can pave the way for a paradigmshift in how human societies develop adaptive, sustainable responses to environmental changes and societal inequalities.


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Table of contents (8 chapters)

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Capua

  • International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH), Geosciences Centre, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Tomar, Portugal

    Luiz Oosterbeek

About the editors

​Giuseppe Di Capua

He is Geologist at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Rome, Italy), working on theoretical and practical aspects of geoethics and Founding Member and Treasurer of the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG). He is Task Leader, Team Leader and Member of the International Advisory Board of European projects; Webmaster and Member of the Publications Committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS); Member of the Executive Committee of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH); Member of the Editorial Board of the journals Episodes, Journal of Geoethics and Social Geosciences, Geoconservation Research and of the series SpringerBriefs in Geoethics.

Luiz Oosterbeek


He is Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, President of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences and UNESCO-IPT Chair Holder “Humanities and Cultural Integrated Landscape management.” He pursues research in archaeology, heritage and landscape management in Portugal, Africa and Southern America. His prizes and awards include European Commission, Brazilian Lawyers Bar, Portuguese Ministry of Culture, Gulbenkian Foundation, Foundation for Science and Technology, among others. Author of over 300 papers and 70 books, he has been Invited Professor in several universities in Europe, Africa, Brazil and China. He currently is also Vice-President of HERITY and Vice-Director of the Geosciences Centre of Coimbra University.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bridges to Global Ethics

  • Book Subtitle: Geoethics at the Confluence of Humanities and Sciences

  • Editors: Giuseppe Di Capua, Luiz Oosterbeek

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Geoethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22223-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22222-1Published: 21 February 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22223-8Published: 20 February 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2662-6780

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-6799

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 115

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Earth Sciences, general, Philosophy, general, Archaeology

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