This book contributes to the current discussion on geoethics and global ethics within the
geoscience and humanities communities. It provides new content and insights into developing
convergent human actions in response to global anthropogenic changes based on perspectives
that make it possible to combine geoscience knowledge with humanities and social sciences
approaches. Selected authors present their reflections findings and insights regarding the
vision of geoethics (ethics of responsibility towards the Earth) as global ethics from
philosophical humanities and social sciences perspectives. In addition they discuss ethical
frameworks from diverse cultural traditions searching for points of intersection with
geoethics. The goal: for global environmental problems to be managed via multi-perspective
approaches that can more effectively accommodate complexity. Combining the strengths of the
geosciences humanities and social sciences can pave the way for a paradigm shift in how human
societies develop adaptive sustainable responses to environmental changes and societal
inequalities.
