This book explores how Earth Sciences including Geosciences can be reimagined to serve people in a world increasingly shaped by planetary-scale anthropogenic change (PSAC), commonly referred to as the ‘Anthropocene’. The authors investigate traditional societal aspects of Earth Sciences, offering insights into how to recognize the mechanisms and emerging phase shifts that shape our planet’s dynamics. The chapters explore how literacy in Earth Sciences may shape civic identity, behavioural norms, and societal practices, particularly in contexts of cultural transformation, education, and socio-ecological adaptation. The authors further illuminate the nexus of globalization, dominant cultures, and planetary processes contributing to the contemporary human condition.
Finally, this book highlights disciplinary and sociocultural boundaries that can impede efforts to address planetary-scale anthropogenic change. It suggests avenues for cultivating pathways toward a more cohesive and responsible approach to caretaking of the planetary habitat.
Chapter 1: Martin: Bohle. Introduction: Purpose and Authorship.
Chapter
2:Martin Bohle, Dominic Hildebrandt. Earth Sciences in a World of Planetary
Change.
Chapter 3:Tony Milligan, Nina Kruglikova. Three Challenges Facing
Geosocietal Narratives.
Chapter 4:Christian Wolf. Being a Pragmatist about
Planet Earth.
Chapter 5:Nalini Kochupillai, Earth Observation and the
Anthropocene: Rethinking the Observer Effect from an Eastern Philosophical
Lens.
Chapter 6:Jochem Zwier. (In)human Encounters: The Earth as Human or
Human as Earth.
Chapter 7:Carsten Herrman-Pillath. Earth as Hybrid Planet of
More-than-human Landscapes.
Chapter 8:Simon Schneider. The Dual use Dilemma
of Academia - an Extension to Include Sociocultural Aspects.
Chapter
9:Eduardo Marone, Luis Marone. The Heritage of the Enlightenment: Navigating
the Anthropocene Through Supradisciplinary Education.
Chapter 10:Cornelia E.
Nauen, Dedi S. Ahuri, Kafayat Fakoya. Voices from the Shorelines to Navigate
the Anthropocene.
Chapter 11:Nathanael Wallenhorst, Renaud Hétier, Cécile
Redondo, François Prouteau. The Anthropocene: Between the Systemic Complexity
of Analysing Reality and Simplifying Terminology for Political Purposes.-
Chapter 12:Martin Bohle & Cornelia E. Nauen. Rehearsal: Earth Sciences in a
World of Planetary Change.
Chapter 13:Thomas Potthast. Epistemological and
ethical reflections on the mutual relations between Anthropos, Anthropocene,
and Earth Sciences.
Cornelia E Nauen heads the international non-profit association Mundus maris Sciences and Arts for Sustainability and chairs the Board of Trustees of Quantitative Aquatics hosting global biodiversity information systems. She was a tenured official in the European Commission DG RTD.
Martin Bohle is a retired EU official, an academic scholar initially researching dynamics of lakes and seas. He worked as manager at the Directorate General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission. Since a decade he is publishing regularly on the relationships between science and society, as perceived from an Earth Sciences baseline.
