Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues with the Earth Sciences

Cornelia E Nauen heads the international non-profit association Mundus maris – Sciences and Arts for Sustainability and chairs the Board of Trustees of Quantitative Aquatics hosting global biodiversity information systems. She was a tenured official in the European Commission DG RTD.Martin Bohle is a retired EU official, an academic scholar initially researching dynamics of lakes and seas. He worked as manager at the Directorate General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission. Since a decade he is publishing regularly on the relationships between science and society, as perceived from an Earth Sciences baseline.

• Chapter 1: Martin: Bohle. Introduction: Purpose and Authorship.- Chapter 2:Martin Bohle, Dominic Hildebrandt. Earth Sciences in a World of Planetary Change.- Chapter 3:Tony Milligan, Nina Kruglikova. Three Challenges Facing Geosocietal Narratives.- Chapter 4:Christian Wolf. Being a Pragmatist about Planet Earth.- Chapter 5:Nalini Kochupillai, Earth „Observation“ and the Anthropocene: Rethinking the “Observer Effect” from an Eastern Philosophical Lens.- Chapter 6:Jochem Zwier. (In)human Encounters: The Earth as Human or Human as Earth.- Chapter 7:Carsten Herrman-Pillath. Earth as Hybrid Planet of More-than-human Landscapes.- Chapter 8:Simon Schneider. The Dual use Dilemma of Academia - an Extension to Include Sociocultural Aspects.- Chapter 9:Eduardo Marone, Luis Marone. The Heritage of the Enlightenment: Navigating the Anthropocene Through Supradisciplinary Education.- Chapter 10:Cornelia E. Nauen, Dedi S. Ahuri, Kafayat Fakoya. Voices from the Shorelines to Navigate the Anthropocene.- Chapter 11:Nathanael Wallenhorst, Renaud Hétier, Cécile Redondo, François Prouteau. The Anthropocene: Between the Systemic Complexity of Analysing Reality and Simplifying Terminology for Political Purposes.- Chapter 12:Martin Bohle & Cornelia E. Nauen. Rehearsal: Earth Sciences in a World of Planetary Change.- Chapter 13:Thomas Potthast. Epistemological and ethical reflections on the mutual relations between Anthropos, Anthropocene, and Earth Sciences.