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Geoethics at the 35th IGC

Programme of the IAPG scientific events

35th International Geological Congress (IGC)

Cape Town (South Africa), 27 August-4 September 2016

The IAPG call for abstracts at the 35th IGC was successfull, with 37 abstracts accepted: 30 orals and 7 poster presentations scheduled into 6 oral sessions and 1 poster session (subject to finalisation by the Scientific Programme Committee). Moreover, IAPG has organized a panel session to discuss on several key topics of geoethics.

Session T12.1 "Geoethics - General Aspects".
Session T12.2 "Geoethics and Geoscience Organizations".
Session T12.3 "Geoethics - Teaching, Training and Communication". 
Session T12.4 "Geoethics - Case Studies".
Session T12.8 "Geoethics and Resources Needs for Future Generations - 1".
Session T12.9 "Geoethics and Resources Needs for Future Generations - 2".
Panel Session T12.5 "What's the Point of Geoethics?".
Poster Session T12.P2 "Global Geoscience Professionalism and Geoethics".

Sessions take place on 29, 30 and 31 August 2016 (Orals in the Room MR 2.41-2.43, Posters in the Exhibition).

Session T12.3 is a joint initiative IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics and TG-GGP - Task Group on Global Geoscience Professionalism of the IUGS.
Sessions T12.8 and T12.9 are a joint initiative IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics, GSL - Geological Society of London, EFG - European Federation of Geologists and EGS - EuroGeoSurveys.

Title of presentations, speakers, date and time, posters and other information are available at: http://www.geoethics.org/35thigc.html

Cape Town