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Recent technological developments and new scientific tools regarding socio-ecological systems have created new global settings, which bring to the core new environmental problems, approaches, challenges, and conflicts. The very essence of this new global context invites to a re-evaluation of traditional ethical, political, and socio-ecological categories. The critical challenge is to understand and account for the interdisciplinary dynamics of nature and social changes, and the novel complex processes existing between and within these dynamics. Without this kind of approach, we will be unable to evaluate the best actions (if any) to take in the present for both current and future generations.
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Valera, L., Castilla, J.C. (2020). Introduction. In: Valera, L., Castilla, J. (eds) Global Changes. Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment, vol 46. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29443-4_1
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