Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View of Earth Observation

Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View of Earth Observation

Eyres, Harry

Springer International Publishing AG

06/2018

136

Mole

Inglês

9783319821351

15 a 20 dias

454

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Introduction.- Cosmology and astronomy from pre-history to the Roman Empire.- Aquinas to Newton.- The Enlightenment, the Romantic Rebellion, the Industrial Age, the nature conservation movement and total war.- The post-war period and the rise of ecological consciousness.- Non-western cultures' attitudes to environment.- The ethical dimension: the slow evolution of environmental ethics.- A short history of earth observation.- The resistances.- The aesthetic dimension.- Earth observation for whom? Towards an environmental democracy.- Conclusion.- Epilogue.
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satellite climate change;earth observation climate change;space environmental monitoring;earthrise environmental movement;anthropocene earth observation;climate change impacts