About this Research Topic
Global initiatives like the International Year of Planet Earth in 2008 have emphasized the role of geoscientists in building safer, healthier and wealthier societies around the globe. The 2016 International Year of Global Understanding highlighted the importance of culturally differentiated ways to address the needs of society and to promote global sustainability. UNESCO Global Geoparks are among different strategies towards global understanding and sustainability, but Earth Sciences knowledge and practices are of great relevance in achieving all 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals and help to eradicate global poverty, end unsustainable consumption patterns and facilitate sustained and inclusive economic growth, social development and environmental protection. The geosciences community, therefore, should be mobilized to engage in the SDGs, allowing those working on specific aspects of geosciences to consider their work in the context of sustainable development, and to promote the best practices towards the 2030 Agenda goals.
The main goal of this Research Topic is to engage effectively earth scientists around the world, of all nationalities and specialisms, with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) process and to make their contribution to supporting and facilitating sustainable development, namely by addressing the following issues:
• What is the role of Earth Sciences within sustainable development to other relevant disciplines, policy-makers and development practitioners?
• How the geosciences community can adapt their work in the context of SDGs?
• What changes are necessary to our education programmes, ongoing professional development and training, research agendas, industry practice, and engagement with non-governmental, governmental and intergovernmental organizations in order to ensure the Earth Sciences sector contributions are most effective?
Articles types like review, original research, perspective or opinion are welcome to this Research Topic as geoscience interventions to support one SDG (e.g., clean water) or to support efforts to achieve other goals (e.g., gender equality).
Many of the themes within the SDGs are pertinent to geosciences research and practice:
• Key areas of geological science application: agrogeology; climate change; energy; engineering geology; geohazards; geoheritage and geotourism; hydrogeology and contaminant geology; mineral and rock resources.
• Values or behaviors in working practices among geosciences community: geoeducation, geological capacity building and other broad miscellaneous areas of professional values (e.g., women representation in geosciences, trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation).
The main goal of this Research Topic is to engage effectively earth scientists around the world, of all nationalities and specialisms, with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) process and to make their contribution to supporting and facilitating sustainable development, namely by addressing the following issues:
• What is the role of Earth Sciences within sustainable development to other relevant disciplines, policy-makers and development practitioners?
• How the geosciences community can adapt their work in the context of SDGs?
• What changes are necessary to our education programmes, ongoing professional development and training, research agendas, industry practice, and engagement with non-governmental, governmental and intergovernmental organizations in order to ensure the Earth Sciences sector contributions are most effective?
Articles types like review, original research, perspective or opinion are welcome to this Research Topic as geoscience interventions to support one SDG (e.g., clean water) or to support efforts to achieve other goals (e.g., gender equality).
Many of the themes within the SDGs are pertinent to geosciences research and practice:
• Key areas of geological science application: agrogeology; climate change; energy; engineering geology; geohazards; geoheritage and geotourism; hydrogeology and contaminant geology; mineral and rock resources.
• Values or behaviors in working practices among geosciences community: geoeducation, geological capacity building and other broad miscellaneous areas of professional values (e.g., women representation in geosciences, trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation).
Keywords: 2030 Agenda, Sustainable Development Goals, global poverty, unsustainable consumption patterns, sustained and inclusive economic growth, social development
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