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Origins of Geoethical Thought

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Reflection on the relationship between humans and nature permeates the whole of human cultural experience. Understanding the reality in which individuals live and with which they must enter into a functional relationship is the foundation of the activity of knowledge.

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  1. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy

    Silvia Peppoloni

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Capua

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Peppoloni, S., Di Capua, G. (2022). Origins of Geoethical Thought. In: Geoethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98044-3_2

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