Abstract
Abstract This chapter looks at some of the ethical issues associated with international cooperation in the geosciences, which face students, researchers, academics, practitioners and others who work in this sector. It notes that the geosciences are fundamentally trans-national activities and traces the history of international cooperation from ancient times, through the era of European colonialism to the present. The drivers for international cooperation are the desire to find and extract natural resources, ways of avoiding and mitigating natural hazards through to curiosity-driven research. It identifies how altruism co-exists and sometimes competes with politics and enterprise in implementing international cooperation, and the various roles of international bodies and agencies.
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