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4. Humanistic Geosciences and the Planetary Human Niche

Authors : Martin Bohle, Eduardo Marone

Published in: Exploring Geoethics

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The societal relevance and purpose of geoscience are discussed from a conceptual perspective in this chapter. It explores how people should live ethically in times of anthropogenic global change and describes the history and current state of ‘human niche-building’ (or ‘engineering’, in its broadest sense) at the planetary scale. It outlines how the Earth can be conceived as a single system, ‘people included’, by considering the geosphere, biosphere and ‘noosphere’—a term repurposed here to denote the human agent and its socio-technological means, consisting of physical and mental artefacts. It posits Kohlberg’s hierarchy of moral adequacy as a reference scale for assessing the maturity of human–Earth interactions, and argues for the social value of geoethical thinking in shaping public narratives about these interactions.

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Title: Humanistic Geosciences and the Planetary Human Niche
Authors: Martin Bohle
Eduardo Marone
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Exploring Geoethics
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-12009-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-12010-8

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12010-8_4

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