Global Changes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • Luca Valera, Juan Carlos Castilla

   Pages 1-5

3. What’s New About Global Changes? Rethinking Technology, Environment, and Society. An Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. New Environments: Rethinking Ethics in an Era of Technological Changes

      • Adriano Fabris

      Pages 9-16

   3. New Praxis. Releasement in a Technological World

      • Alfredo Marcos

      Pages 17-27

   4. New Technologies. Rethinking Ethics and the Environment

      • Luca Valera

      Pages 29-43

   5. New Politics: Sovereignty, Representation, and the Nonhuman

      • Alfonso Donoso

      Pages 45-55

   6. New Wastes. Nature Is Not an Unlimited Station

      • Gianluca Cuozzo

      Pages 57-65

4. Contemporary Challenges. Why Do We Need “Interdisciplinary Ethics in Practice”?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Ethics and Geoengineering: An Overview

      • Stephen M. Gardiner

      Pages 69-78

   3. Two Conceptions of Embracing Ecological Change in Ecosystem Management and Species Conservation: Accommodation and Intervention

      • Ronald Sandler

      Pages 79-87

   4. Groundwater as a Common Pool Resource: Modelling, Management and the Complicity Ethic in a Non-collective World

      • Juan Carlos Castilla-Rho, Cameron Holley, Juan Carlos Castilla

      Pages 89-109

   5. Sustainability and the Future of the Commons. An Epistemological Examination

      • Gonzalo Salazar, Nicolás Cerna

      Pages 111-119

   6. Global Social Change: Human Ecology from an Eco-Ethical Perspective

      • Ronaldo Gomes Alvim, Magda Matos de Oliveira, Hernan Gerardo Castellanos

      Pages 121-130

   7. Life and Evolution: Why Theology Matters

      • Lucio Florio

      Pages 131-138

5. Human Praxis in the Anthropocene. Our Current Situation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Dwelling in the Anthropocene

      • Cristián Simonetti

      Pages 141-151

   3. The “3Hs” (Habitats, Habits, Co-in-Habitants) of the Biocultural Ethic: A “Philosophical Lens” to Address Global Changes in the Anthropocene

      • Ricardo Rozzi, Francisca Massardo, Alexandria Poole

      Pages 153-170

   4. Energetic Ethics. Georges Bataille in the Anthropocene

      • Jochem Zwier, Vincent Blok

      Pages 171-180

   5. Ecological Justice in the Anthropocene: A Proposal

      • Vicente Bellver

      Pages 181-189

This book offers an authoritative analysis of the challenges that have arisen as a result of modern technologies. It covers several environmental problems, such as climate change, overexploitation of natural resources, loss of natural habitats, pollution and human population growth, and discusses practical scenarios for sustainable human dwelling of our planet.  Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the first part introduces “global changes”, describing how they are happening in reality, and the challenges arising from them. The second part introduces methodological approaches borrowed from various disciplines, such as engineering, management science, philosophy and theology, which can help deal with the contemporary challenges resulting from global changes.

Lastly, the third part discusses some of the themes presented in the light of novel concepts, such as the Anthropocene, and includes interesting proposals and ideas about how human beings could dwell the Earth in this new age. Offering a comprehensive theoretical reflection on the relation between technology, environment and human beings, it also provides a practice-oriented guide for researchers and decision-makers working on a new ethical paradigm of acting in the Anthropocene.

• Ethics in the Anthropocene
• Releasement
• Ethics of Emerging Technologies
• Energetic Ethics
• Ethics of Relation
• Living in Virtual Environments
• Ecoethical Perspective
• 4.0 e-waste
• Timescale of Trash
• Anthropogenic Climate Changes
• Eco-Theology
• Sustainable forms of Co-inhabitation
• Sustainable Life Habits
• Bioethics and Human Ecology
• Complex Changes in Technological Civilization
• Multiplicity of Environments
• engineering ethics

• Center for Bioethics and Department of Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

  Luca Valera

• Department of Ecology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, and Center for Bioethics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

  Juan Carlos Castilla

Luca Valera is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and Director of the Center for Bioethics at the same University. He has received his Ph.D. in Bioethics from the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy. His areas of interest include: Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, Bioethics, and Applied Ethics.

Juan Carlos Castilla is an Emeritus Professor and Full Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He received his Ph.D. and D. Sc. in Marine Biology from the North Wales University (UK). He has received many awards, such as the Chile National Award on Applied Sciences and Technology (2010). He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. His areas of research cover Experimental Ecology, Socio-ecology, Management and Sustainability of Artisan Marine Resources, Marine Conservation, Common Use Resources, and Socio-Environmental Ethics.

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