Editorial: Man's Dominion over the Earth and His Responsibility

No dominion over nature

Global trends including population growth, changing diets and consumption patterns, urbanisation and climate change will exert increasing pressure on supplies of food and other products of ecosystems. Many experts predict that food production will need to increase by up to 100 per cent over the next forty years and some suggest that this can only be achieved through intensification of current i...

Tasting Earth: Healing, Resistance Knowledge, and the Challenge to Dominion

This article explores an indigenous Hawaiian perspective on health that accords nature the status of healing agent. It reemerged in the Native Hawaiian decolonization struggle of the 1990s where it provided an explicit critique of Western sociocultural and political–economic forces, particularly of the effects these had on the bodies and souls of the colonized and neocolonized Hawaiians. This u...

Editorial: Collective responsibility and the other

This issue of CSSE brings together four articles all of which deal with themes that are central to the enterprise of science education. Sonya Martin articulates how she, as a practicing teacher, implemented cogenerative dialogues in her classes, that is, how she implemented a new form of praxis in which teacher and students are provided with opportunities to talk about science curriculum and cl...

Moral dominion over dying: the case for mercy death.

The Digital Earth as Knowledge Engine Editorial

The Digital Earth [13] aims at developing a digital representation of the planet. It is motivated by the need for integrating and interlinking vast geo-referenced, multi-thematic, and multi-perspective knowledge archives that cut through domain boundaries. Complex scientific questions cannot be answered from within one domain alone but span over multiple scientific disciplines. For instance, st...