302 research outputs found
Prefazione a: S. Peppoloni, G. Di Capua, Geoetica. Manifesto per un’etica della responsabilità verso la Terra
No full textPresentazione al libro sulla geoetica di Silvia Peppoloni e Giuseppe Di Capua (anche edizione inglese per Springer
Promoting Geoethics in Society: A New Challenge for Geoscientists
No full textThe Geoscience community is called to play an important role in society: helping in the defense against natural risks, orienting on global issues like climate change, looking for new ways to source natural resources from a sustainable perspective, building a knowledgeable society and help to improve the living conditions of human life especially in low income countries. This implies geoscientists are more aware of their social responsibility and capable of working by the principles of integrity, honesty with respect for land, water and air...Published42-443T. Pericolosità sismica e contributo alla definizione del rischio4V. Vulcani e ambiente4A. Clima e Oceani5A. Energia e georisorseN/A or not JCRrestricte
Promoting Geoethics in Society: A New Challenge for Geoscientists
No full textThe Geoscience community is called to play an important role in society: helping in the defense against natural risks, orienting on global issues like climate change, looking for new ways to source natural resources from a sustainable perspective, building a knowledgeable society and help to improve the living conditions of human life especially in low income countries. This implies geoscientists are more aware of their social responsibility and capable of working by the principles of integrity, honesty with respect for land, water and air...Published42-443T. Pericolosità sismica e contributo alla definizione del rischio4V. Vulcani e ambiente4A. Clima e Oceani5A. Energia e georisorseN/A or not JCRrestricte
Geoethics: A framework for the management of the geosphere and geo-risks
No full textIn a world where natural disasters are increasing and there is an urgent demand for an ethics of prevention, management and communication, a framework of ethical principles and standards for orienting geoscientists in conducting their professional activity becomes fundamental.
The defense against geo-risks involves many actors with different roles. Good relationships between them is necessary to assure efficiency while facing potential natural disasters.
Defining a (geo)ethical framework of values means to create a solid base on which a proper management of georisks can operate. By defining roles and responsibilities, Geoethics is a valuable reference to work in this direction and to improve the resilience of human community to disasters.PublishedArequipa (Peru)7IT. Educazione e divulgazione scientifica9IT. Geoeticaope
Geoethics: A framework for the management of the geosphere and geo-risks
No full textIn a world where natural disasters are increasing and there is an urgent demand for an ethics of prevention, management and communication, a framework of ethical principles and standards for orienting geoscientists in conducting their professional activity becomes fundamental.
The defense against geo-risks involves many actors with different roles. Good relationships between them is necessary to assure efficiency while facing potential natural disasters.
Defining a (geo)ethical framework of values means to create a solid base on which a proper management of georisks can operate. By defining roles and responsibilities, Geoethics is a valuable reference to work in this direction and to improve the resilience of human community to disasters.PublishedArequipa (Peru)7IT. Educazione e divulgazione scientifica9IT. Geoeticaope
La prevenzione dai rischi naturali: una questione (geo)etica e culturale
No full textIn Italia non esiste una strategia di riduzione dei rischi naturali, che parta dall’educazione nelle scuole e dall’informazione alla popolazione, che preveda sistematicamente esercitazioni di emergenza, la pianificazione di interventi di rinforzo delle abitazioni, l’applicazione rigorosa delle normative edilizie, la delocalizzazione di edifici strategici e di impianti industriali a rischio. Al momento la prevenzione in Italia viene percepita soprattutto come declamazione di luoghi comuni e slogan, puntualmente rispolverati dopo ogni tragedia. Quali sono le ragioni profonde di una tale irrazionalità fatalistica che ignora la scienza? Il nuovo campo della geoetica può dare alcune risposte.Published7IT. Educazione e divulgazione scientifica9IT. GeoeticaN/A or not JCRope
RECENT UPLIFT AND PLANO-ALTIMETRIC CONFIGURATION IN SOME ITALIAN DRAINAGE BASINS.
No full textnumero speciale: International Workshop “Large-scale vertical movements and related gravitational processes
Geoethics: a new perspective for geosciences
No full textIn recent years, the need to develop an ethical reflection on the values that are at the basis of geoscience research and practice has arisen powerfully. Studying the Earth system, managing the land, geo-engineering the environment, exploiting its geo-resources, and altering natural processes are actions that involve great responsibilities towards oneself, colleagues, society and the environment, of which perhaps we, as geoscientists, are not sufficiently aware.PublishedSibiu (Romania)7IT. Educazione e divulgazione scientifica9IT. Geoeticaope
The problem of the scientific knowledge and the authoritativeness of the Earth Sciences
No full textScience (from the Latin “scio” and “ens”) means literally “I know the being”, where being is any real, any object, any specific phenomenon that occurs to our experience. Doing science means to have the possibility to observe, understand and control all the variables, all the synergistic force points inside the phenomenon. The scientist chooses an operating space and understands its causes, in order to vary them based on their expected functionality.
The object of investigation of the Earth Sciences is the planet Earth, its relationships with the other bodies of the universe, its composition and structure, its physical and biological phenomena in relation to time, its continuous transformation and evolution processes and the existing connections among all these characteristics and the human activities.
A large number of disciplines are included in the Earth Sciences: what joins them is not only their object or the similarity of their methods of analysis, but above all the substantial univocity in the vision of the Nature, considered as observation of the real in all its variables, and the consciousness that in the process of the scientific knowledge there must be the constant reversibility with reality. This is the carrying structure of the Earth Sciences, their force point.
Once a natural phenomenon has been observed, the Earth Sciences frame it, verify it, demonstrate it with the use of appropriate rational instruments, often supplied by disciplines like physics, chemistry, mathematics. These disciplines guarantee rational rigor to the scientific knowledge procedure of the phenomena and turn out effective if applied in a functional way to man’s life and to the management of the Nature for man’s advantage.
Therefore, it does not make sense to attribute superiority to a discipline rather than to another one. Every classification among Sciences sets meaningless separations if we look at the question from a viewpoint of complementarity and interdisciplinary character, with the aim of the knowledge and the resolution of the man’s problems.
The authoritativeness of the Earth Sciences resides in their starting simply from the real data, from the observation of the natural phenomena, taking into account that the adaptation of each phenomenon inside a physical-mathematical model is only an abstract operation that makes possible scientific and technical applications.
It is fundamental to avoid the infiltration of dogmatic assumptions that depart from the understanding of the phenomena and to be aware that we are using these assumptions as conventions based on economic and functional criteria.
The Earth Sciences scientist has a privileged position compared with other scientists, because he/she is dipped in the real data, he/she starts from the natural phenomenon and for this reason he/she is much more conscious that the theoretical adaptation has only a functional aim. If the scientist retains this consciousness throughout the study, at the same time he/she will be capable to abstract the observation in order to theorize, make speculations and models.
Therefore, the research must proceed starting from the data and pass through repeated hypotheses with identical result. This is the process of scientific knowledge, that allows us to enter an epistemic experience, that means “to be in the root” of the experiment. A criterion is epistemic if it is able to identify the real and to construct the formula of behaviour of this real while it moves. A science is verified if there is correspondence with Nature.
The demonstration and the reliability of the Earth Sciences are given by the evidence of their results and the reversibility between the theoretical symbol and the real phenomenon. We have to start from the real, not from its theorization. If the exactness of the knowledge process is not recovered, doing science becomes impossible.PublishedRimini, Italia5.8. TTC - Formazione e informazioneope
Geoethics: ethical challenges and case studies in Earth Science
No full textKey Features.
Written by a global group of contributors with backgrounds ranging from philosopher to geo-practitioner, providing a balance of voices.
Includes case studies, showing where experts have gone wrong and where key organizations have ignored facts, wanting assessments favorable to their agendas.
Provides a much needed basis for discussion to guide scientists to consider their responsibilities and to improve communication with the public.
Description.
Edited by two experts in the area, Geoethics: Ethical Challenges and Case Studies in Earth Sciences addresses a range of topics surrounding the concept of ethics in geoscience, making it an important reference for any Earth scientist with a growing concern for sustainable development and social responsibility.
This book will provide the reader with some obvious and some hidden information you need for understanding where experts have not served the public, what more could have been done to reach and serve the public and the ethical issues surrounding the Earth Sciences, from a global perspective.
Table of contents.
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Philosophical reflections
Section 3: The ethics of practice
Section 4: Man made hazards
Section 5: Natural hazards
Section 6: Exploitation of resources
Section 7: Low income and indigenous communities
Section 8: Geoscience communityPublished3T. Pericolosità sismica e contributo alla definizione del rischio5T. Sorveglianza sismica e operatività post-terremoto4V. Vulcani e ambiente5V. Sorveglianza vulcanica ed emergenze4A. Clima e Oceani6A. Monitoraggio ambientale, sicurezza e territorioope
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