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The IAPG Secretary General elected in the IUGS Executive Committee

IAPG is proud to announce that its Secretary General, Silvia Peppoloni, was elected as IUGS Councillor 2018-2022 on 1st September 2016, during the 35th International Geological Congress (IGC) in Cape Town (South Africa).

Many congratulations to Silvia for her hard work in the last years and for her new responsabilities in the international geoscience community!

IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics is affiliated to IUGS - International Union of Geological Sciences from 2013.

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Robert Frodeman is the new IAPG Corresponding Citizen Scientist 

on the topic "Geoethics and Philosophy"

Robert Frodeman

Robert Frodeman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. 

His work ranges across environmental philosophy, the philosophy of geology, the philosophy of science and technology policy, and the philosophy of interdisciplinarity. 

He is the author and/or editor of 9 books, including Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground between Philosophy and the Earth Sciences (SUNY, 2003), the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (MacMillan, 2008), and the Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity (OUP, 2010). 

He was the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity at UNT. 

Sustainable Knowledge: a theory of interdisciplinarity (Palgrave McMillan) was published in 2013. Socrates Tenured: the Institutions of 21st Century Philosophy (Roman and Littlefield) will be published in 2016.

The Wikipedia page on Robert Frodeman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frodeman


List of IAPG Corresponding Citizen Scientists:
http://www.geoethics.org/ccs.html

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An Open Letter Regarding Climate Change 

From Concerned Members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Susan Kieffer

Susan Kieffer, IAPG Vice-President, is among the signatories of "An Open Letter Regarding Climate Change From Concerned Members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences".

375 members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 30 Nobel laureates, published this open letter on September 20, 2016, to draw attention to the serious risks of climate change. 

The letter warns that the consequences of opting out of the Paris agreement would be severe and long-lasting for our planet’s climate and for the international credibility of the United States.

Read the letter at: http://responsiblescientists.org/.

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Zero tolerance by IAPG towards Harassment and Discrimination

“… A respectful and fruitful working environment is fundamental for maintaining a high level of professionalism and for assuring an ethical conduct while practicing geosciences. Therefore, any kind of harassment and discrimination cannot be tolerated and must be denounced. Harassment and discrimination offend the dignity of the person, threaten the serenity of the working environment, limit the individual’s freedom of choice, and seriously undermine integrity, quality and credibility of the geoscience community. These kinds of behaviour prevent individuals from taking ethical decisions …” 

(from the keynote on geoethics by Silvia Peppoloni at the 35th IGC, Cape Town).


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IAPGeoethics Newsletter n. 4 - 2016 is out!

The issue #4 - 2016 of the Newsletter of the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics has been released on 20 June 2016.

Summary:

• Congresses/Meetings (Programme of the sessions on geoethics at the 35th International Geological Congress, 88th National Congress of the Italian Geological Society, 35th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission; Roundtable on geoethics at the XVIII Peruvian Congress of Geology; geoethics at the RFG 2018 - Resources for Future Generations Conference; Workshop on geoethics in Nigeria)
• From the IAPG Blog (1 new article on citizen science)

Download the newsletter as pdf file at:
http://www.geoethics.org/newsletter.html

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Geoethics at the RFG 2018 Conference

Resources for Future Generations

The Conference on Energy, Minerals, Water, The Earth
Vancouver (Canada), 16-21 June 2018

Why RFG 2018?
The rapid growth of developing economies and the fundamental needs of many disadvantaged people across the globe are resulting in an increased demand for many resources and changes in the delivery of existing ones.
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IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics is partner of the RFG 2018 Conference, and geoethics has been included among the sub-themes (under the theme "Resources and Society").

Download the brochure (pdf file)

Vancouver (Canada)

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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