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Side-Event Winning Video: Before the Last Drop-Viva la Geoethics!
Foreword by Giuseppe Di Capua
References
Foreword by Nabil Khélifi
Preface
References
Preamble by John Cherry
Contents
About the Editors
Fundamentals of Hydrogeoethics: Cultures, Principles and Geoethical Values on Groundwater Science and Engineering
1 Relational Value as an Argument to Protect Geological and Hydrogeologic Goods
Abstract

1 Introduction
2 The Value of Non-living Goods
3 Anthropometric and Relational Values
4 Geosystem Services
5 Relational Values and Cultural Geosystem Services
6 Concluding Remarks
References
2 Ethical and Moral Issues Relative to Groundwater
Abstract
1 Introductory Background
2 Groundwater Characteristics and Ethics
3 Are Groundwater Resources a Univocally Defined Concept?
4 Aquifers as Natural Infrastructures
5 Which Are the Subjects, the Humans or the Environment and Nature?
6 Other Groundwater Related Issues
Acknowledgements
Reference

3 Some Basic Considerations on the Applied Ethics to Water Resources Management
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Methods: Some Basic Considerations on Ethics in Hydrogeology
3 Discussion
3.1 Water for People. Urban Uses: Supply and Sanitation
3.2 Water for Agriculture: Agricultural Uses
3.3 Industrial Uses
3.4 Land Planning Uses
3.5 Water for Natural and Ecological Uses
4 Concluding Remarks
References
4 Groundwater Contamination Science and the Precautionary Principle
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Methods
3 Results

3.1 The Uncertainties Systems Complexity, Time, and Space in Groundwater Science
3.2 The Case of PFAS
3.3 The Case of Hydraulic Fracturing of Natural Gas
4 Discussion
5 Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
References
5 Geoethics for Operating in the Human Niche
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Geoethics: A Tool for Sense-Making
2.1 Complex-Adaptive Social-Ecological Systems
2.2 Sense-Making in the Human Niche
2.3 Geoethical Thinking, Geo-endowments and the Human Niche
3 Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
References

6 Cross-Cutting Role of Groundwater in Achieving the SDGs and an Ethical Approach
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Methods
3 Results
3.1 Cross-Cutting Role of Groundwater in Achieving the SDGs
3.2 Some SDG Indicators Related to Water in Latin America
4 Towards a Groundwater Ethics in the Context of the SDGs
References
7 Inclusion of Indigenous Communities in Water Resources Management in the Middle West of Brazil: A Proposal
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Settings
3 Results
3.1 Surface Water
3.2 Hydrogeological Units
3.3 Indigenous Communities
4 Discussion