Geoethics for the Future: Facing Global Challenges offers the latest points of view on highly topical issues in geosciences, including climate change, sustainable development, and energy transition, enabling readers to acquire multifaceted knowledge of topics of global relevance and highlighting the importance of the issues affecting geosciences in the 21st Century. The book outlines how geoethical considerations are integral in providing new insights and analyses for improving the theoretical structure of geoethics and its practical applications, with an aim to create conditions for sharing perspectives on the best ways for implementing scientific action to face global anthropogenic changes.
- Covers upcoming and current key topics, and emphasizes the urgency to find reference frameworks and effective solutions to the issues associated with them.
- Includes multifaceted analyses on relevant topics, by leveraging the cross-cutting contributions of experts to address urgent, global, and complex issues related to human-Earth system interaction.
- Provides an indispensable basis for discussion to guide scientists in considering their own responsibilities and to highlight the societal relevance of the geosciences.
- Discusses philosophical, ethical, social, political, economic, legal, and theological aspects of geoscience, technological applications, and anthropogenic impacts on physical environment through the lens of geoethics, in time of profound planetary changes.
- Bridges the geosciences, social sciences, and humanities, aiming to address the socio-ecological crisis from multiple perspectives and with greater effectiveness.

About the editors Acknowledgments Introduction Ouverture: Grounding Geoethics through Philosophical Analyses 1. The divergent philosophical and scientific accounts of the root of human ethics 2. Order and Place in Environmental Ethics and Aesthetics 3. The Relationship Between Human and Nature in Modern Culture Geoethics and the Anthropocene: Defining an Ethical Framework for Earth System Governance 4. Making Sense of the Anthropocene: Facts, Meanings, Implications 5. Etiology of the Ecological Crisis: Building New Perspectives for Human Progress Through Geoethics 6. Geoethics and the Anthropocene: Five Perspectives 7. Challenging Buzzideas: Global Challenge Phrases Undermining Ethical Action 8. From Biophilia to Geophilia: A Challenging but Necessary Expansion 9. Geoethics in the Anthropocene: Law as a game changer 10. Matters of Environmental Politics to Inform Geoethics 11. Geoethical Thinking as Geogovernance: A Geopolitical Theology Perspective 12. Historic Perspectives for Responsible Earth System Governance 13. Earth system governance: A governance perspective on geoethics Empowering the Geoscience-Society Interface with Geoethical Perspectives 14. Geoscience for Earth Stewardship, Sustainability and Human Well-being: A conceptual framework for integrating planet, prosperity and people 15. Geoscience-society interface: How to improve dialogue and build actions for the benefit of human communities 16. The Key Groups of Interest in Geoscience for Sustainability 17. Significance and Insights from Indigenous Communities in Latin America: Cultural and Societal Factors and Challenges in UNESCO Global Geoparks 18. Delivering Critical Raw Materials: Ecological, Ethical and Societal Issues 19. Critical Minerals and Rare Earths Elements: Ethical and Societal Considerations 20. The Future of Mining: Technical Progress and Its Implications 21. Strategic planning towards sustainable urban planning models? The case of municipal directors in Denmark 22. Multi-hazard analyses and their implications for the defense of society against natural phenomena 23. Responsible volcano risk management 24. Risk Communication in a Rapidly Evolving Environment: The Ethical and Societal Challenges Geoethics to Shape New Educational Models for Future Planetary Citizens 25. Geoscience Education: Changing Paradigms 26. A global geoscientific skills gap is threatening a sustainable future 27. Educating on Sustainable Development in Latin America: Lights and Shadows 28. Effective Strategies, Data, and Tools for Teaching Geoethics 29. Engaging the climate crisis with art