Bridges to Global Ethics

​Giuseppe Di CapuaHe 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 OosterbeekHe 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.

• Chapter 1. Introduction to the Book “Bridges to global ethics” (Giuseppe Di Capua).- Chapter 2. Geoethics for Redefining Human-Earth System Nexus (Silvia Peppoloni).- Chapter 3. The Sustainable and the Unsustainable: What Is a Habitable Planet? (Tanella Boni).- Chapter 4. Geology and Knowledge Culture (Robert Frodeman).- Chapter 5. The Ethics of Gaia: Geoethics From an Evolutionary Perspective (Sofia Belardinelli).- Chapter 6. Materialities, Perceptions and Ethics (Harold P. Sjursen).- Chapter 7. Affirmative Ethics, New Materialism and the Posthuman Convergence (Rosi Braidotti).- Chapter 8. Epilogue (Torbjörn Lodén).