Geoscientists’s professional duties go beyond scientific and technological knowledge and skills.Ethics is part of their(our)professional responsibility.Geoethics was born in 1991 at the junction of Ethics and Geology...Geoscientists’s professional duties go beyond scientific and technological knowledge and skills.Ethics is part of their(our)professional responsibility.Geoethics was born in 1991 at the junction of Ethics and Geology,and it has unequivocally shown a spectacular advance in the last two decades linking different disciplines,applying different methodological procedures and technologies,and facing new scientific,social and cultural challenges.However,geoethics as a discipline is still not yet very well known.Broadly,deontology is one of the main ethical decision-making approaches which are concerned with doing what is correct.展开更多
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文摘Geoscientists’s professional duties go beyond scientific and technological knowledge and skills.Ethics is part of their(our)professional responsibility.Geoethics was born in 1991 at the junction of Ethics and Geology,and it has unequivocally shown a spectacular advance in the last two decades linking different disciplines,applying different methodological procedures and technologies,and facing new scientific,social and cultural challenges.However,geoethics as a discipline is still not yet very well known.Broadly,deontology is one of the main ethical decision-making approaches which are concerned with doing what is correct.