December 7-8, 2012.
The new session on Geoethics was successfully held within in the 22nd Symposium on Geo-Environments and Geo-Technics (Dec. 7-8, 2012, Tsukuba, Japan) which was organized by Japanese Society of Geo-Pollution Science, Medical Science and Urban Geology (PMUG). Introduction and 7 papers were presented on session “Geoethics”:
Takeshi KOMAI: Introduction to the new session on Geoethics;
Niichi NISHIWAKI: Present and future of Geoethics;
Satoshi MURAO & Ari NAKANO: Government versus governance for mineral development: a case study on the bauxite issue in Vietnam;
Ari NAKANO & Satoshi MURAO: Governance issue for Vietnamese mineral exploitation – Accountability of government and enterprises with regard to bauxite mining;
Erica M. REY-SATURAY and Satoshi MURAO: Culture of informal mining sector and its implications on the applicability of ethical jewelry: key consideration points from the case of Pracale, Camarines Norte, Philippines
Kyoko ONO: Estimation of the amount of cadmium discarded by nonferrous mining in Japan
Satoshi MURAO: Building socially acceptable framework of extractive industry through corporate social responsibility and geoethics
Niichi NISHIWAKI: Verification of geosciences information processing.
The PMUG has accepted that the Geoethics is an important theme of the society, and it was decided to include the session on Geoethics within the symposium in the following years.