Geoethics for Nudging Human Practices in Times of Pandemics

Marone, Eduardo; Böhle, Martin

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“…The analysis of the complexity of transnational river basin management in the context of climate change and associated water scarcity, brings to the spot light major ethic challenges on water governance (Groenfeldt and Schmidt 2013;Marone and Bohle 2020). These challenges fall within the scope of geoethics, an area of research that deals with "values which underpin appropriate behaviours and practices, wherever human activities interact with the Earth system" (Di Capua et al 2021).…”

Section: Ethical Issues Regarding Joint Management Of Shared River Basins In the Context Of Climate Change And Water Scarcitymentioning

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Ethical issues and legal principles regarding joint management of shared river basins in the context of climate change and water scarcity in the Iberian Peninsula

Aragão

2021

Med. Geosc. Rev.

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Portugal and Spain share five large river basins. The human activities carried out in the rivers or in the river basin area generate mutual interferences and impacts on the quality and quantity of water and on the ecologic conditions of the rivers and surrounding ecosystems. Furthermore, the effects of climate change on river ecosystems in the Mediterranean region—namely drought, water scarcity, desertification, flooding, heat waves, soil salinization, invasive species—are leading to larger water stress periods and an overall reduction of ecosystem services. In this context, the main ethic challenges regarding joint management of shared river basins in the Iberian Peninsula are: territorial equity, geomorphologic equity, demographic equity, interspecies equity, development equity, intergenerational equity and cultural equity. To address these challenges, a set of principles of international environmental law are briefly analysed. These principles govern the relations between States, regulate the access to the rivers, preserve the ecologic equilibrium of the rivers, and influence risk management. The principles also limit State discretionarily towards possible river uses and shape international agreements to be adopted in the future.

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Section: Ethical Issues Regarding Joint Management Of Shared River Basins In the Context Of Climate Change And Water Scarcitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethical issues and legal principles regarding joint management of shared river basins in the context of climate change and water scarcity in the Iberian Peninsula

Aragão

2021

Med. Geosc. Rev.

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Geoethics, a Branding for Sustainable Practices

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Marone

2021

Sustainability

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In struggles for cultural leadership, advocating a paradigm helps to disseminate, for example, a style of life, thinking, or common practices. Promoting a practice, that is, branding it, includes the use of a simple name or symbol (semiotic sign). Within geosciences, the label “geoethics” refers to a school of thought that uses established philosophical concepts to promote responsible professional practices. The outcomes that are available aggregate to a more general paradigm that calls for geocentric human practices. The label geoethics also sounds like a brand for those practices. As analysis shows, the notion of geoethics is not univocal. At first sight, that feature hinders using it as a brand for geocentric practices. However, the successful branding of the concept of sustainability, as a scientific and public paradigm, indicates the opposite. Although the notion of sustainability aggregates various concepts and is not univocal, it illustrates what cultural leadership can be achieved when a concept, paradigm, and brand use the same semiotic sign (name). Therefore, it is suggested that the school of thought, Geoethics, with its dedicated reference to the specific societal use of geosciences, should also be used as a brand: geoethics, the general application of geoethical thinking to promote geocentric human practices.

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Exemplary Ethical Communities. A New Concept for a Livable Anthropocene

Conversi

2021

Sustainability

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This article argues that we need to look at living examples provided by non-state communities in various regions of the world that are, perhaps unwittingly, contributing to the maintenance of the Earth’s optimal thermal balance. These fully sustainable communities have been living outside the mainstream for centuries, even millennia, providing examples in the global struggle against the degradation of social–ecological systems. They have all, to varying degrees, embraced simple forms of living that make them ‘exemplary ethical communities’ (EECs)—human communities with a track record of sustainability related to forms of traditional knowledge and the capacity to survive outside the capitalist market and nation-state system. The article proceeds in three steps: First, it condenses a large body of research on the limits of the existing nation-state system and its accompanying ideology, nationalism, identifying this institutional–ideological complex as the major obstacle to tackling climate change. Second, alternative social formations that could offer viable micro-level and micro-scale alternatives are suggested. These are unlikely to identify with existing nation-states as they often form distinct types of social communities. Taking examples from hunter-gatherer societies and simple-living religious groups, it is shown how the protection and maintenance of these EECs could become the keystone in the struggle for survival of humankind and other forms of life. Finally, further investigation is called for, into how researchers can come forward with more examples of actually existing communities that might provide pathways to sustainability and resistance to the looming global environmental catastrophe.

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Geoethics for Nudging Human Practices in Times of Pandemics

Cited by 3 publications

References 31 publications

Ethical issues and legal principles regarding joint management of shared river basins in the context of climate change and water scarcity in the Iberian Peninsula

Ethical issues and legal principles regarding joint management of shared river basins in the context of climate change and water scarcity in the Iberian Peninsula

Geoethics, a Branding for Sustainable Practices

Exemplary Ethical Communities. A New Concept for a Livable Anthropocene

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