On 3 January 2024, the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) has officially established the Chair on Geoethics (CG) at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV, National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology), in Rome, Italy.
Silvia Peppoloni (INGV Researcher, IAPG Secretary General, Chair of the IUGS Commission on Geoethics) is the Chairholder.
The CIPSH Chair on Geoethics will expand and reinforce an international research network of institutions, non-governmental organizations, and scholars to foster interdisciplinary initiatives for bridging geosciences, humanities, and social sciences through geoethics, with the goal of continuing to create a geoethical framework for addressing the complexity of ecological crises and contributing to pursue the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
The long-term objective is to strengthen an already existing international community of scholars with different disciplinary background dealing with geoethics and to involve other individuals and institutions/organizations in this international network in order to deepen discussions about geoethics and to improve its theoretical structure and practical applications in a wide range of disciplines, favouring a cross disciplinary fertilization.
The CIPSH Chair on Geoethics is funded by the INGV and is supported by:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG)
AGU Ethics and Equity Center – American Geophysical Union
World Philology Union (WPU)
Stockholm China Center - Institute for Security and Development Policy
Geosciences Centre and Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (CGeo)
Faculté Polydisciplinaire de Safi - Université Cadi Ayyad, Morocco (UCA)
The CIPSH Chair on Geoethics has dedicated web pages that are hosted on the IAPG website: https://www.geoethics.org/cipsh-cg.
CIPSH Chair on Geoethics:
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