The International Year of Planet Earth (2007–2009): Earth Sciences for Society

Mulder, Eduardo F. J. de; Nield, Ted; Derbyshire, Edward

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“…This understanding was, for example, behind the International Year of Planet Earth (2007–2009), promoted jointly by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and UNESCO. This worldwide endeavour had as an ultimate goal to raise public and political awareness for the Earth science potential for improving the quality of life and safeguarding the planet (Mulder et al 2006 ). The initiative, under the moto “Earth Sciences for Society,” was designed with a robust outreach program to generate interest and greater awareness among lay public as well as decision makers and politicians (Mulder et al 2006 ).…”

Section: Society and The “Invisible” Geosciencesmentioning

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How Can Geoscience Communication Foster Public Engagement with Geoconservation?

2023

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Geoscience and geodiversity, two sides of the same coin, deal with very poor social visibility and recognition. Ensuring the protection of geodiversity is not only in the geoscientists’ hands and all of society needs to be involved. Therefore, public engagement with geodiversity demands new solutions and a change of paradigm in geoscience communication. Most of the science communication activities undertaken by geoscientists, even when they use modern approaches and technologies, are mainly designed based on empirical experience, laid on didactical approaches and assuming the public’s knowledge deficit. In order to engage the society with geodiversity, it is not enough to focus on scientific literacy and deficit models in which lack of knowledge is considered to be the main obstacle between science and society. It is fundamental to establish a commitment between society and science based on dialogue where lay public is not seen anymore as a single entity with a knowledge deficit. Non-experts must become also protagonists in scientific decisions with social impact and integrate their knowledge and concerns in public participation and decision-making. Engagement with geoscience and geodiversity would benefit from more effective and targeted communication strategies, with different approaches to engage with communities, local stakeholders, media, students and teachers, scientific community, tourists, politicians or policy-makers, and groups with different concerns and distinct relations with science. In the last 20 years, science communication research has made many relevant contributions in order to promote more participatory processes with which society is asked to engage. Regarding geoscience communication as a discipline, it is a very recent Earth science branch that also incorporates social science, behavioral science, and science communication, but still lacks a clear and formal definition. This study provides a comprehensive review of the literature in order to develop a conceptual framework for geoscience communication research, identifying the main challenges and opportunities.

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Section: Society and The “Invisible” Geosciencesmentioning

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How Can Geoscience Communication Foster Public Engagement with Geoconservation?

2023

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“…On the one hand, publications about the work of international geoscience bodies used the term geoethics for the first time less than twenty years ago [92]. It appears in contexts that describe geosciences as a service to society and implicitly consider ethics [57,93]. Before that time, the term geoethics was used at scientific conferences and in reports [94][95][96].…”

Section: The Term Geoethics In the Scientific Literaturementioning

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Geoethics, a Branding for Sustainable Practices

Böhle

Marone

2021

Sustainability

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In struggles for cultural leadership, advocating a paradigm helps to disseminate, for example, a style of life, thinking, or common practices. Promoting a practice, that is, branding it, includes the use of a simple name or symbol (semiotic sign). Within geosciences, the label “geoethics” refers to a school of thought that uses established philosophical concepts to promote responsible professional practices. The outcomes that are available aggregate to a more general paradigm that calls for geocentric human practices. The label geoethics also sounds like a brand for those practices. As analysis shows, the notion of geoethics is not univocal. At first sight, that feature hinders using it as a brand for geocentric practices. However, the successful branding of the concept of sustainability, as a scientific and public paradigm, indicates the opposite. Although the notion of sustainability aggregates various concepts and is not univocal, it illustrates what cultural leadership can be achieved when a concept, paradigm, and brand use the same semiotic sign (name). Therefore, it is suggested that the school of thought, Geoethics, with its dedicated reference to the specific societal use of geosciences, should also be used as a brand: geoethics, the general application of geoethical thinking to promote geocentric human practices.

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Why Geo-societal Narratives?

Böhle

Marone

2021

Geo-Societal Narratives

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The International Year of Planet Earth (2007–2009): Earth Sciences for Society

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How Can Geoscience Communication Foster Public Engagement with Geoconservation?

How Can Geoscience Communication Foster Public Engagement with Geoconservation?

Geoethics, a Branding for Sustainable Practices

Why Geo-societal Narratives?

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