Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

有賀隆編　持続可能なアーバニズムのための日本の環境デザイン及び管理－里山から学ぶ
Ariga, Takashi (ed.), Japanese Environmental Design and Management for Sustainable Urbanism: Learning from Satoyama. (Planning, Heritage and Sustainability) 242 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-801>
ISBN 978-1-032-79824-0 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book responds to the need to rehabilitate the holistic urban environment by introducing planning approaches which focus on the Japanese idea of "Satoyama.""Sustainable development" has become a prime concern of planning, and society is expending great efforts to achieving this end. Appreciation of cities' environmental assets has become more widely accepted and deeply taken to heart-not only by specialists, but also by citizens and communities. The balance between human settlements and the natural environment has changed. This has posed an environmental issue in that urban settlements engulf the greenbelts and water networks that help sustain the urban natural environment. Given these issues, we must consider a morphology toward creating a more sustainable urban system that regenerates the relationship between human settlements, utilizing the architectural resources within our urban fabric, and its interaction with the surrounding natural environments. This book is a guide to the theory, methodologies and practical applications of environmental design and city and regional planning of regenerative systems towards sustainable urbanism. This book also explores the socio-cultural and economic implications of sustainable urbanism, and examines urban forms, land use patterns and their built-up environments that can result from the applications.This book will appeal to a wide range of readers including researchers and students of architectural design, urban planning, heritage protection and sustainable development, but also professionals who are involved in improving the relationship of human settlements with natural resources.

Ross, Robert, Orchards of Privilege: Water, Oranges, and Race in the Gamtoos Valley of South Africa, 1700-2023. (Series in Ecology and History) 248 pp. 2025:7 (Ohio U. Pr., US) <740-907>
ISBN 978-0-8214-2599-2 hard ¥25,426.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-8214-2620-3 paper ¥8,168.- (税込) US$ 36.95

This study of the Gamtoos River floodplain in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province traces its transformation from an eighteenth-century natural landscape of thick bush into an agricultural zone now threatened by climate change. The first half of the book explains how missionaries from the London Missionary Society and residents of the Hankey Mission Station introduced irrigation, turning the area into a community of small-scale farmers. Despite early failures, by 1849 they had constructed South Africa's first major irrigation tunnel and aqueduct. However, conflicts between the missionaries and residents led to the loss of communal lands to privatization, which ultimately impoverished the local farmers. The second half explores efforts to develop the valley for large-scale agriculture, addressing challenges like drought, flash floods, and saline water. By the mid-twentieth century, Afrikaners dominated the area, benefiting from the construction in 1970 of the Kouga Dam, which provided fresh water for the floodplain. This led to the rise of a wealthy white farming community, sustained by apartheid policies and labor from the "Coloured" and African populations. In the early twenty-first century, however, this prosperity has become threatened by severe droughts linked to global climate change. In view of these historical transformations, the Gamtoos River floodplain exemplifies the complex interplay between human ambition, environmental challenges, and sociopolitical forces.

Huezo, Alexander, Visions of Global Environmental Justice: Comunidades Negras and the War on Drugs in Colombia. 234 pp. 2025:2 (U. California Pr., US) <740-928>
ISBN 978-0-520-38793-5 paper ¥7,726.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Focusing on the lived experiences of Afro-Colombians processing and resisting violence against their ecological communities, Visions of Global Environmental Justice employs accounts of the supernatural narratively and analytically to frame a contemporary struggle for environmental justice. The book applies Achille Mbembe's theorization of necropolitics to the environmental racism of the US War on Drugs in Colombia, specifically the aerial eradication of coca in the comunidades negras of the Pacific Coast. Through critical examination and deconstruction of transnational mythmaking and local oral tradition, Visions of Global Environmental Justice illustrates that non/humans rendered expendable by US-driven drug (necro)politics are indispensable to both the conceptualization and the realization of environmental justice globally. Far from being a study singularly focused on the symptoms of environmental issues, this book creatively guides us toward a broader understanding of environmental racism and justice across geographic scales and non/human agencies.

Aiyadurai, Ambika / Ingole, Prashant (eds.), Beings and Beasts: Human-Animal Relations at the Margins. 235 pp. 2025:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <740-937>
ISBN 978-1-009-52993-8 hard ¥25,542.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Barns, Christopher, Mesa Verde's Secret Garden: A History of Managing the Backcountry and Wilderness of a National Park. 312 pp. 2025:5 (U. New Mexico Pr., US) <740-940>
ISBN 978-0-8263-6766-2 paper ¥6,620.- (税込) US$ 29.95

中世における自然
Bermon, Pascale (ed.), La nature au Moyen Age. (Publications de l'Institut d'etudes medievales de l'Institut catholique de Paris) 272 p. 2024:11 (Vrin, FR) <740-941>
ISBN 978-2-7116-3181-0 paper ¥5,802.- (税込) EUR 25.00

Cons, Jason, Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier. 210 pp. 2025:3 (U. California Pr., US) <740-942>
ISBN 978-0-520-41418-1 paper ¥7,726.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Delta Futures explores the competing visions of the future that are crowding into the Bengal Delta's imperiled present and vying for control of its ecologically vulnerable terrain. In Bangladesh's southwest, development programs that imagine the delta as a security threat unfold on the same ground as initiatives that frame the delta as a conservation zone and as projects that see the delta's rivers and ports as engines for industrial growth. Jason Cons explores how these competing futures are being brought to life: how they are experienced, understood, and contested by those who live and work in the delta, and the often surprising entanglements they engender-between dredgers and embankments, tigers and tiger prawns, fishermen and forest bandits, and more. These future visions produce the delta as a "climate frontier," a zone where opportunity, expropriation, and risk in the present are increasingly framed in relation to disparate visions of the delta's climate-affected future.

Didur, Jill / Mohabir, Nalini (eds.), (Post)Colonial Ports: Place and (Non)Place in the Ecotone. (Routledge Studies in Modern History) 256 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-943>
ISBN 978-1-032-42719-5 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical, material, environmental, socio-political and economic contexts in formerly colonized regions, spanning the Caribbean, Africa, North America, Europe and the Pacific.The essays assess the role that literature, visual culture, architecture, archives, and ethnography can play in enriching our understanding of the complex histories of ports and port cities. They present the relation between ports and colonial infrastructure such as immigration checkpoints, detention centers, mines, plantations, shipping containers, canals, sewers, and rivers, and their impact on human and more-than-human environments. The volume approaches (post)colonial ports through the "ecotone," a concept borrowed from geography and ecology to describe a transition zone where two biological communities meet and mix-such as a forest and a grassland-to bring attention to port (non)spaces as a hinge between their environments, communities, and colonial infrastructure. It foregrounds postcolonial and decolonial approaches to the ecotone to draw attention to the cultural, ecological, and geographical dynamics that inform the social fabric of contemporary ports and port cities in the wake of empire. This volume is aimed at scholars and postgraduates across disciplines such as literature, geography, fine arts, cultural studies, and history.

Dillon, Patrick J., Cultural Ecologies of the Land: A Restless Dynamic of People and Place. 256 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-944>
ISBN 978-1-032-97561-0 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Cultural Ecologies of the Land is a radical and challenging reassessment of the way we relate to the land and to infrastructure. There was a time when the land defined us. Now, with each passing year, we are increasingly detached from it. It was once the centre stage of humanity, now it is the setting for a technological drama. What has happened, and why does it matter?This book is a multi-layered account of people and environment shaping each other through cumulative, moment-to-moment, day-to-day change, and a template for thinking about place, locality, belonging, and identity. Cultural Ecologies of the Land presents the existential crisis that many believe we now face as a systemic problem, arising from social institutions and forms of behaviour that have been marginalised with our dependency on modern infrastructure. It explains the part people have played in contributing to the crisis, and how regenerating relationships with the land offers a route towards alleviating it. This is not only about acknowledging our impact on Earth, but also understanding ourselves in relation to it, how we engage with our surroundings, make sense of them, live and work in them, and create narratives that connect and sustain us.

Griffith, Cary J., Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters. 312 pp. 2024:11 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <740-946>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1557-5 paper ¥3,746.- (税込) US$ 16.95

Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness's epochal weather disaster On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in the region's history. Originating over the Dakotas, the midsummer windstorm developed amid unusually high heat and water-saturated forests and moved steadily east, bearing down on Fargo, North Dakota, and damaging land as it crossed the Minnesota border. Gunflint Falling tells the story of this devastating storm from the perspectives of those who were on the ground before, during, and after the catastrophic event-from first-time visitors to the north woods to returning paddlers to Forest Service Rangers. The pre-dawn forecasts from the National Weather Service in Duluth for that Sunday of the holiday weekend predicted the day would be "warm and humid. Partly sunny with a thirty percent chance of thunderstorms." But as the afternoon and evening settled over the Boundary Waters, the first eyewitness accounts began to tell a dramatic and terrifying story. Five friends camping on Lake Polly watched in wonder as the sky turned green and the winds began to whip. They scrambled to pull canoes on shore and secure tarps when a tree snapped and struck one of them in the head, rendering her unconscious. Three women enjoying their last day of a camping trip near the end of the Gunflint Trail took shelter in their tent as winds increased. Water drenched the nylon walls as trees crashed around them, one flattening the tent and pinning a woman beneath its weight. A family vacationing at their cabin dodged falling trees and strained against straight-line winds as they sprinted from the cabin to the safest place they knew: a crawl space underneath it. They watched in awe as trees snapped and toppled, their twisted root balls torn out of the water-logged earth-as they prayed their cabin would hold. By the time the storm began to subside, falling trees had injured approximately sixty people, and most needed to be medevacked to safety. Amazingly, no one died. The historic storm laid down timber that would later blaze in the Ham Lake fire of 2007, ultimately reshaping the region's forests in ways we have yet to fully understand.

Hajer, Maarten A. / Oomen, Jeroen, Captured Futures: Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics. 336 pp. 2025:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <740-947>
ISBN 978-0-19-894288-7 hard ¥28,096.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00

Environmental politics 'as we know it' cannot deliver. Despite all efforts, politics is unable to bend the ecological trends. Maarten A. Hajer and Jeroen Oomen argue that this is because environmental politics is 'captured'. This capture doesn't just express itself in lobbying or a lack of political will, but in a capture of the imagination: we seem unable to imagine futures that are meaningfully different from the present. Examining environmental politics as drama reveals how all actors play their particular roles in this capture: scientists funnel narrow policy futures through their models; activists adopt politically expedient language; and policymakers look for safe, technologically-sound 'win-win' solutions. All are captured in a regime of ecological modernization that entertains too-narrow a solution space. For Hajer and Oomen, this is cause for concern: we have entered 'a radical age' in which persistent policy failure leads to increased suggestions to engage with speculative geoengineering technologies in a desperate attempt to safeguard the future. On the other hand, they point at the growing societal backlash against environmental policies. Yet in the third part of the book, discourse and dramaturgical analysis appear as a reason for hope, sketching an alternative perspective on environmental politics. It suggests that a new, more cultural approach to environmental politics could have more leverage on the societal imagination. Combining this with the formulation of new discourses and using alternative 'dramaturgies of change', Captured Futures highlights how to find more effective and more inspiring ideas about how to approach the future and, ultimately, liberate environmental politics.

Hattem, Julian, Shelter from the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration. 256 pp. 2025:7 (The New Pr., US) <740-948>
ISBN 978-1-62097-847-4 hard ¥6,187.- (税込) US$ 27.99

An urgent wake-up call about the coming large-scale human displacement caused by climate change, from one of the world's leading experts Mere decades from now, millions of people all over the world will be forced to move because of climate change. Entire islands will disappear into the sea. Once-in-a-century hurricanes will occur on a regular basis, decimating cities and wiping out peoples' homes. Wildfires fed by prolonged drought will rage through communities. No one will be immune: in countries rich and poor, climate change will usher in a new era of migration. In Shelter from the Storm noted journalist and migration researcher Julian Hattem tells the story of the massive human displacement that is already being caused by climate change. With hard-hitting journalism from the front lines of the environmental apocalypse, Hattem takes the reader on a journey from the South Pacific to the Indian subcontinent, the Mediterranean, and beyond, offering a shocking glimpse into the human geography wrecked by a warming planet. Shelter from the Storm also provides rich historical perspective on how climate has impacted migration and a primer on cutting-edge climatological research, creating a multidimensional portrait of this uncertain new age. A work of profound expertise and storytelling, Shelter from the Storm gives a human face to the millions of climate migrants who are leaving their homes-and the millions more who will follow.

Jacobs, Lara A. (ed.), Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge. 464 pp. 2025:3 (Oregon State U. Pr., US) <740-950>
ISBN 978-1-962645-32-4 paper ¥8,831.- (税込) US$ 39.95

Maier, Donald S. / Donhauser, Justin / Weber, M. (eds.), Disruptive Innovations and the Environmental Crisis: Ethical, Practical, and Sociopolitical Concerns. (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies) 230 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <740-951>
ISBN 978-1-032-58256-6 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-57239-0 paper ¥11,348.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's various environmental crises.Packed with keen observations and analyses, the volume brings together research from seasoned scholars and rising stars to cast important new light on urgent issues engendered by humankind's disruption of environments, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. It tackles the question of exactly what has been disrupted in the world - environmentally, economically, socially, and politically. It also examines an assortment of innovative interventions that aim to address disruptions and explores the question of what further disruptions may lurk behind assorted innovative interventions intended to address already existing disruptions. Chapters wrestle with the social, ethical, and ecological implications of disruptions, both pre-existing and those brought about by interventions, connected with deploying artificial gene drives, substituting robotic pollinators for living ones, synthesizing organisms to replace ones lost, installing economic regimes that work well for both citizens and the environment, making science subservient to non-scientific commitments, involving citizens in environmentally consequential decisions, choosing scientific and technological projects that most promise immediate practical payoff, and ensuring that respect for human rights is part and parcel of any technology-infused project. These discussions draw on a rich mix of science, philosophy of science, political theory, economics, sociology, network theory, ethics, and theories of justice and human rights.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental science, environmental decision-making, ecology, climate change, environmental philosophy, and the philosophy of science.

アメリカ環境史における消費と廃棄物
Melosi, Martin V., Consumption and Waste in American Environmental History. (Themes in Environmental History) 344 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-952>
ISBN 978-1-032-39764-1 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-37516-8 paper ¥11,348.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Consumption and Waste in American Environmental History is an accessible introduction to the consumption experience, wasting practices, and disposal history of the United States, spanning precontact to the present.Centered around concise case studies, the book confronts consumption and consumerism and assesses the impact of solid and hazardous wastes from political, economic, social, and especially environmental perspectives. The overarching relationship among consumption, waste, and climate change is woven throughout the book, identifying key questions and themes in United States environmental history. Each chapter explores a specific element of consumption and waste, including the commodification of humans and animals; depletion of resources; the role of immigrants, women, and people of color in sanitation services and as sanitary and environmental activists; salvaging and recycling; environmental justice; e-waste; plastics; space junk; and more.With a broad chronology and a variety of relevant topics, this volume is an engaging resource for undergraduate and graduate students in American history, environmental history, and sustainability studies.

Meredith, Michael / Melbourne-Thomas, Jess et al. (eds.), Antarctica and the Earth System. 352 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <740-953>
ISBN 978-1-032-52081-0 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-50086-7 paper ¥17,024.- (税込) GB￡ 59.99

This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the role that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean play as integral parts of the Earth System.While often characterised as the last great wilderness on Earth, Antarctica is intimately connected to the rest of the planet, exerting key influences on all places and all people. It is also vulnerable to global changes, especially those driven by humans. This book examines how Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are connected to the rest of the planet, and what these connections mean for the future of Planet Earth and all its inhabitants. It transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries to explore this role across physical, ecological, political and social systems. Drawing on the latest research findings and thinking, the volume identifies the current leading-order challenges across each of these spheres, highlighting areas where enhanced focus is needed. With the role of Antarctica in the Earth System being one of the most relevant themes of our times, this book will help audiences to understand Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in a global perspective.Antarctica and the Earth System will be of great interest to a wide range of interdisciplinary students and scholars of Earth sciences, Antarctic studies, polar science and environmental management.

Randle, Sayd, Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles. 240 pp. 2025:5 (U. California Pr., US) <740-955>
ISBN 978-0-520-39404-9 hard ¥21,004.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-39405-6 paper ¥6,620.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Moving between shower drains, aqueducts, rain gardens, and even kitchen sinks, Replumbing the City traces the enormous urban waterscape of Los Angeles in a state of flux. For more than a century, the city of Los Angeles has relied on faraway water for the vast majority of its municipal supply, but climate change is making these distant sources much less dependable. To adapt, Angelenos-including city engineers, advocates at NGOs, and residents-are developing new water supplies within the space of the city. Sayd Randle's ethnography examines the labor of replumbing LA's sprawling water system, detailing how a desire to sustain unlimited and uninterrupted water provision for paying customers is reshaping the urban environment and its management. Tracking how such projects redistribute the work of water management, the book explores thorny questions of how the labor of climate adaptation should be mobilized and valued.

グローバル・ガバナンスにおける多国間環境協定
Spielmann, Linda Maria, Multilateral Environmental Agreements in Global Governance: Organisational Dynamics and Authority Expansion. (Routledge Research in Global Environmental Governance) 192 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-957>
ISBN 978-1-032-98222-9 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book proposes a conceptualisation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements as a form of international organisations, exploring the ways in which they have expanded over time by discussing the nuances of authority in global governance.Multilateral Environmental Agreements are the key type of cooperation between states to address environmental concerns globally. While their activities regularly attract much attention from an academic and non-academic audience, their peculiar hybrid nature in-between treaties and full-fledged international organisations, means they are often underestimated. This book proposes a new and innovative conceptualisation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements as a specific type of international organisation which allows for a more accurate understanding of their dynamic nature, and uncovers expansive tendencies which have so far gone almost completely unnoticed. Based on a modern understanding of authority in global governance, the book shows how Multilateral Environmental Agreements represent a separate entity, and expand beyond the boundaries originally set by their member states. The book draws upon the neo-functionalist concept of spill-over, as well as multiple other theoretical frameworks, to identify the two main drivers of expansion in Multilateral Environmental Agreements. To illustrate these drivers, the empirical chapters conduct six structured case studies, analysing specific cases of authority expansion in ozone and climate protection, including the Green Climate Fund under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Overall, this book offers an invaluable contribution to the theoretical discussion on informal types of organisations, and provides new and extensive empirical insights into unexpected past and recent developments in global environmental governance.As such, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations and international law who focus on informal types of cooperation and legislation, dynamic institutional development, and international environmental politics generally.

Steckley, Joshua, The Nightcrawlers: A Story of Worms, Cows, and Cash in the Underground Bait Industry. (Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics) 298 pp. 2025:6 (U. California Pr., US) <740-958>
ISBN 978-0-520-41369-6 hard ¥21,004.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41370-2 paper ¥6,620.- (税込) US$ 29.95

How does a banal earthworm become a valuable commodity? Lumbricus terrestris, otherwise known as the Canadian nightcrawler, is the most popular live bait used by recreational anglers throughout the world. Each year, as many as seven hundred million worms are handpicked from Ontario farmland for the bait market, earning the region the undisputed title of "worm capital of the world." The Nightcrawlers goes deep into the empirical underground to see how capital confronts a diverse cast of human and nonhuman characters: stubborn worms, wealthy dairy farmers and their precious cow manure, immigrant pickers laboring at night, and worm wholesalers who undercut each other through tax fraud and money laundering. This eccentric tale of worms, cows, and cash reveals the inherent contradictions in capitalism's attempts to commodify the living world-including the soil organisms that are inches beneath our feet.

Swetnam, Thomas W., The Jemez Mountains: A Cultural and Natural History. 320 pp. 2025:4 (U. New Mexico Pr., US) <740-959>
ISBN 978-0-8263-6775-4 paper ¥5,515.- (税込) US$ 24.95

気候変動の損失と損害を統治する
Vanhala, Lisa / Calliari, Elisa (eds.), Governing Climate Change Loss and Damage: The National Turn. (The Politics of Climate Change) 200 pp. 2025:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <740-961>
ISBN 978-1-009-56507-3 hard ¥24,123.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00
ISBN 978-1-009-56509-7 paper ¥7,659.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99

Climate-related loss and damage has been dominating international climate change negotiations in recent years. Until now we have had little understanding of how individual states are grappling with climate change destruction. Governing Climate Change Loss and Damage offers among the first book-length explorations of how loss and damage policy works at a national level. It focuses specifically on countries in the Global South on the frontline of climate change to identify new mechanisms through which key factors - climate risks and impacts, international developments, national institutions and the ideational landscape - shape policy engagement, development and adoption. Guided by an original theoretical framework and seven original empirical case studies, this book shows the way to more effective governance of loss and damage now and in the future. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

都市と21世紀の環境問題
Wyman, Katrina M. / Spiegel-Feld, Danielle, Local Greens: Cities and 21st Century Environmental Problems. 280 pp. 2025:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <740-963>
ISBN 978-1-316-51541-9 hard ¥24,123.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00
ISBN 978-1-009-01197-6 paper ¥7,943.- (税込) GB￡ 27.99

国際武力紛争における環境損害のための国家の説明責任
Tamer Chammas, Aida, State Accountability for Environmental Damage in International Armed Conflict. (Routledge Research in International Environmental Law) 260 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-518>
ISBN 978-0-367-41482-5 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The book comprehensively analyses whether a state may be held responsible for environmental damage resulting from its wrongful conduct in international armed conflict.Focusing on elements of state responsibility's main elements, obligations, damage and standard of conduct, under the law of armed conflict (LOAC), the book covers war and occupation, and other relevant applicable laws. This extends to international environmental, water, or human rights law. It presents techniques to resolve conflicts of norms from different law branches, when simultaneously applied, and incorporates latest legal developments and potential impact on the subject. Engaging with detailed analysis of legal rules, the book highlights weaknesses within the law alongside proposing new interpretations of outdated notions. Practical application of the rules is illustrated by two cases of damage to land, Mediterranean Sea and air pollution in the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon (2006) and to the Occupied Palestinian Territory's natural resources, mainly land, water and quarries. It concludes by examining mechanisms to enforce state responsibility.The book will be of interest to graduate law students, researchers and practitioners in the field of international law, the law of armed conflict, environmental, water and human rights law.

Alaimo, Stacy, The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep-Sea Life. (Posthumanities) 256 pp. 2025:5 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <740-35>
ISBN 978-0-8166-3044-8 hard ¥24,763.- (税込) US$ 112.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1873-6 paper ¥6,178.- (税込) US$ 27.95

In an era of accelerating extinctions, what does it mean to discover thousands of new species in the deep sea? As we see the catastrophic effects of the Anthropocene continue to proliferate, advanced technologies have also granted us greater access to the furthest reaches of the world's oceans, facilitating the discovery of countless new species. Sorting through the implications of this strange paradox, Stacy Alaimo explores what bearing this newfound intimacy with the deep sea might have on our broader relationship to the nonhuman world. While many images of these abyssal creatures circulate as shallow clickbait, aesthetic representations can be enticing lures for speculating about their lives, profoundly expanding the scope of our environmental concern. The Abyss Stares Back analyzes a diverse range of scientific, literary, and artistic accounts of deep-sea exploration, including work from the naturalist William Beebe and the artist Else Bostelmann as well as the results of the decade-long Census of Marine Life that began at the turn of the twenty-first century. As she focuses on oft-overlooked creatures of the deep, such as tubeworms, hatchetfish, siphonophores, and cephalopods, which are typically cast as "alien," Alaimo shows how depictions of the deep seas have been enmeshed in long colonial histories and racist constructions of a threatening abyss. Drawing on feminist environmentalism, posthumanism, science and technology studies, and Indigenous and non-Western perspectives, Alaimo details how our understanding of science is fundamentally altered by aesthetic encounters with these otherworldly life forms. She argues that, although the deep sea is often thought of as a lifeless void with little connection to human existence, our increasing devastation of this realm underscores our ethical obligation to protect the biodiverse life in the depths. When the abyss stares back, it demands recognition.

Whitson, Joseph, Marketing the Wilderness: Outdoor Recreation, Indigenous Activism, and the Battle over Public Lands. 240 pp. 2025:5 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <740-400>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1510-0 hard ¥20,341.- (税込) US$ 92.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1511-7 paper ¥5,073.- (税込) US$ 22.95

How outdoor industry marketing shapes our understanding of "the wilderness" as an unpeopled havenMarketing the Wilderness analyzes the relationship between the outdoor recreation industry, public lands in the United States, and Indigenous sovereignty and representation in recreational spaces. Combining social media analysis, digital ethnography, and historical research, Joseph Whitson offers nuanced insights into more than a century of the outdoor recreation industry's marketing strategies, unraveling its complicity in settler colonialism. Complicating the narrative of outdoor recreation as a universal good, Whitson introduces the concept of "wildernessing" to describe the physical, legal, and rhetorical production of pristine, empty lands that undergirds the outdoor recreation industry, a process that further disenfranchises Indigenous people from whom these lands were stolen. He demonstrates how companies such as Patagonia and REI align with the mining and drilling industries in their need to remove Indigenous peoples and histories from valuable lands. At the same time, he describes the ways Indigenous and decolonial activists are subverting and resisting corporate marketing strategies to introduce new narratives of place. Through the lens of environmental justice activism, Marketing the Wilderness reconsiders the ethics of recreational land use, advocating for engagement with issues of cultural representation and appropriation informed by Indigenous perspectives. As he discusses contemporary public land advocacy around places such as Bears Ears National Monument, Whitson focuses on the deeply fraught relationship between the outdoor recreation industry and Indigenous communities. Emphasizing the power of the corporate system and its treatment of land as a commodity under capitalism, he shows how these tensions have shaped the American idea of "wilderness" and what it means to fight for its preservation. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

中野裕治、守田著　気候研究のための因果分析－理論と応用
Nakano, Yuji / Morita, Osamu, Causal Analysis for Climate Study: Theory and Applications. 96 pp. 2025:6 (Chapman & Hall / CRC, US) <740-197>
ISBN 978-1-032-99304-1 hard ¥13,902.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99

This book offers the theory of causal analysis and its applications. The authors have developed this book in relation to its applications to four climatological phenomena to prove the theory of causal analysis in time sequential data analysis.Local Causal Test and the Partial Causal Test are used to study the theory of causal analysis. These are then applied to understand the climate effects of the eruption at Mt. Pinatubo, the effect of the El Nino and Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). The reader learns about Test(S), a statistical test used to determine if the statistical properties of the data, such as mean and variance, remain constant over time within a local window. The authors also use the Stationary Test and Causality Test in time series to explore relationships within a localized subset of data as witnessed from the climate phenomenon. The book looks at the eruption at Mt. Pinatubo, ENSO, and NAO and applies causal theory to study the resultant air temperature at the 1000 hPa pressure level, geopotential height of 1000 hPa pressure surface, and surface precipitation. The program code of the causal analysis is offered for readers to be able to reconfirm the results and apply it to other time-sequential data.This book is useful for researchers and graduate students of applied mathematics, physics, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, engineering technology, and economics.

Field, Sean, Carbon Capital: Climate Change and the Ethics of Oil Investing. 224 pp. 2025:8 (New York U. Pr., US) <740-236>
ISBN 978-1-4798-3169-2 hard ¥19,677.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-3170-8 paper ¥6,633.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Surprising insights into the worldviews of oil and gas financiers It is no secret that the fossil fuel industry, whose products power modern America both physically and financially, inflicts immense destruction to our environment. The past, present, and future of US energy have been determined not just by engineers, but by financiers, an under-studied group of energy investors. Drawing on four years of ethnographic work in Houston, Texas, the financial center of the oil industry, Carbon Capital explores how oil financiers decide what a good investment is, and how they incorporate ethics into their decision making. While many who are concerned about climate change see those involved in the gas and oil industries as immoral profit chasers who do not care about the environment, the author finds that this is not the case. His interviews and observations demonstrate that the people who finance the energy industries are actually deeply concerned with ethics. They grapple with questions about climate change and what it means to do the right thing, but the choices they make are ultimately guided by a combination of how they perceive the historical context in which they operate, their faith, which is largely religious Christian; their financial interests; plus the capitalist system in which they are running, all of which come together to shape their moral understandings about what a good energy future looks like. While the worldview of oil financiers may not align with our own, the author argues that given their importance in shaping environmental approaches, it is crucial that we understand what drives their ethical sensibilities.

Barandiaran, Javiera / Partridge, Tristan (eds.), Demanding a Radical Constitution: Environmentalism, Resilience, and Participation in Chile's 2022 Reform Efforts. 118 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <739-574>
ISBN 978-3-031-75689-4 hard ¥9,280.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book documents the critical thinking and political actions that generated one of the world's most progressive national constitutions, presented to the Chilean public in 2022. Although that text was ultimately rejected in a national referendum, it drew on decades of diverse environmental, political, Indigenous, and community organizing and contained concepts and goals at the forefront of global efforts to create more just and equitable political systems, healthier living environments, and more resilient ecosystems. Drawing on research by faculty and students from the USA and Chile, chapters within this book address political memory, Indigenous representation, public participation, the Rights of Nature, environmental law, mining conflicts, natural commons, knowledge systems, and rural education. This book highlights important contributions from Chile's 2022 reform efforts for diverse global responses to the erosion of democracy, environmental degradation, and climate change.

Herrera Lima, Susana / Gutierrez, Ricardo et al. (eds.), Water: Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America IV. (The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America) 300 S. 2024:10 (Bielefedl U. Pr., GW) <739-585>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7014-1 paper ¥10,212.- (税込) EUR 44.00

Conflicts and struggles like urbanization processes and the productive use of water have impacted the relationship of Latin American and Caribbean societies with water for centuries. This volume of the Handbook ≫The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis≪ focuses on water in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions enrich contemporary debates surrounding the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.

Rohland, Eleonora / Garcia Acosta, Virginia et al. (eds.), Climate Change: Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America III. (The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America) 300 S. 2024:12 (Bielefedl U. Pr., GW) <739-597>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7015-8 paper ¥10,212.- (税込) EUR 44.00

Societies have culturally framed and interacted with historical climate variability or anthropogenic climate change and climatic extremes, thereby becoming more or less vulnerable to the impacts of these events. This volume of the Handbook ≫The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis≪ focuses on climate change and its socio-climatic and socio-environmental entanglements in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions enrich contemporary debates surrounding the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.

Camargo, Alejandro / Cortesi, Luisa / Krause, Franz (eds.), Amphibious Anthropologies: Living in Wet Environments. (Culture, Place, and Nature / A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) 272 pp. 2025:4 (U. Washington Pr., US) <739-600>
ISBN 978-0-295-75388-1 hard ¥24,321.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-295-75389-8 paper ¥7,738.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Crnic, Meghan, The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores. (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) 224 pp. 2025:7 (U. Washington Pr., US) <739-601>
ISBN 978-0-295-75394-2 hard ¥24,321.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-295-75395-9 paper ¥6,633.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Fishel, Stefanie / Rose, Andrew (eds.), Environmentalism After Humanism. (Environmental Politics and Theory) 308 pp. 2025:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <739-603>
ISBN 978-3-031-75890-4 hard ¥23,206.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book explores the ways in which one might come to recognize and better theorize the political actor, and the political 'act,' or 'event,' in a post-anthropocentric context. The challenge to contemporary ideas of citizenship, activism, and the state stems not only from the realization that the natural world is inseparable from the social, but that both are the product of hybridized human and nonhuman agencies. As a result, one must be skeptical of any notion of an environmental fix that bases itself upon an exclusively human agency. What new types of citizenship might emerge from posthuman cultures and artforms? What do effective post-anthropocentric organizing strategies look like? As the relevance of the liberal humanist political subject and the conceptual posthuman of political realism recede, theories of national and international politics are now tasked with rethinking a contemporary environmental politics beyond humanism. To better theorize these destabilizations, this collection puts forth the value of thinking across disciplines, wherein a conversation unfolds between political theory and literary theory that meets at the crossroads of environmental humanities and ecopolitical theory.

Ghosh, Shovan / Majumdar, S. / Cheshmehzangi, A. (eds.), Cities of Tomorrow: Urban Resilience and Climate Change Preparedness. (Urban Sustainability) 315 pp. 2024:12 (Springer, GW) <739-604>
ISBN 978-981-9796-57-1 hard ¥37,132.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book takes a comprehensive and forward-looking approach to urban resilience and climate change preparedness. It combines theoretical insights, practical case studies and innovative strategies to address the complex challenges cities face in an era of rapid urbanisation and changing climate patterns. It presents a fresh and innovative approach to addressing the intertwined challenges of urban resilience and climate change preparedness. What sets this book apart is its emphasis on forward-looking strategies, multidisciplinary insights and a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge technologies and collaborative approaches. This book is likely to be diverse, encompassing professionals, academics, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, students and individuals interested in the fields of urban planning, environmental science, sustainability, climate change adaptation and related disciplines. The book aims to appeal to both experts in the field and those new to the subject, providing a valuable resource for different audiences.

Hopman, David Dumez, Creative Regionalism: Renewing the Aesthetic Experience of Landscape in Environmental Design and Planning. 304 pp. 2025:6 (George F. Thompson Pub., US) <739-606>
ISBN 978-1-938086-54-0 paper ¥9,949.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Hu, Ming, Embodied Carbon: Carbon Justice in the Built Environment. 256 pp. 2025:7 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <739-607>
ISBN 978-0-19-894445-4 hard ¥25,258.- (税込) GB￡ 89.00

The global implications surrounding embodied carbon - the total greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production, transportation, assembly, and deconstruction of building materials - are often overlooked. Embodied Carbon challenges the conventional focus on operational carbon, focusing on the inequalities between the Global North and South. Part I traces the historical evolution of embodied carbon, clarifying its definitions, components, measurement and counting methods, and the critical connection between embodied carbon and climate change. Part II delves into the complexities and hidden biases that distort our understanding and approaches to sustainability, particularly the global North bias and the overreliance on high-tech solutions. It highlights how these biases perpetuate environmental disparities and marginalise low-tech, accessible solutions that could benefit broader segments of society. In Part III, we shift to current global efforts and potential pathways forward. Hu offers a comprehensive analysis of existing regulations and policies related to embodied carbon and proposes a low-tech, low-process approach that draws from traditional and indigenous knowledge. The final chapter synthesizes multidisciplinary expert perspectives, offering a new framework for creating equitable and effective solutions to reduce embodied carbon emissions.

Kalaidjian, Andrew, Spectacle Earth: Media for Planetary Change. 208 pp. 2025:4 (U. Virginia Pr., US) <739-609>
ISBN 978-0-8139-5271-0 hard ¥25,426.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-8139-5272-7 paper ¥7,738.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Artistic, literary, and technological depictions of the climate crisis and how they influence humanity's response What does it mean to watch a disaster unfold? Does exposure to a source of dread spur people to action or lull them into fatalism and complacency? Andrew Kalaidjian takes up these and other vital questions in Spectacle Earth, a lively and wide-ranging consideration of media engagement, passivity, and virtual environments in relation to ecological crises and climate change. Kalaidjian begins by tracing the long trajectory of environmental aesthetics and natural sciences that have led up to the Anthropocene. He then looks at the lessons learned from artist and activist movements of the 1960s and 1970s before laying out the new challenges in the digital age of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and virtual reality. The result is groundbreaking, offering readers a new media literacy that goes beyond individual therapeutic experience to provide forms of expression that can lead to the sorts of solidarity and connection needed to change the planet for the better.

Mavrommati, Kalliope, The Natural Environment in Late Byzantine Correspondence. (New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture) 438 pp. 2025:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <739-610>
ISBN 978-3-031-66177-8 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book investigates environmental issues traced through the epistolography of the late Byzantine period, which spans roughly the end of the twelfth century to the mid-fifteenth century. The book's overarching goal is to shed light on the complex ways in which the Byzantines conceptualised their connection to the natural world, both in broad strokes and in finer granularity, and to provide a general understanding of societal dependence on the environment. It offers further details of this relationship by drawing on a wide variety of literary sources, as well as archaeological and environmental data.

Prasad, Ravinesh Rohit, The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: A Case Study of Fiji and Indonesia. (Springer Climate) 246 pp. 2025:2 (Springer, GW) <739-612>
ISBN 978-3-031-76435-6 hard ¥37,132.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book provides the readers with a description of climate change and the role of the University in promoting climate change education. It explores the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) curriculum at various universities worldwide and how they have incorporated climate change into the university-wide programs. The book also looks at the causes and impacts of climate change and the countries most affected by this phenomenon, particularly Fiji and Indonesia. It describes how the various sectors, such as health, agriculture, and tourism, have been impacted by climate change. This book also summarizes the roles of United Nations Organizations in implementing climate change education at universities. The importance of climate change education is expressed in terms of adaptation and mitigation and to foster resilience, adaptability, and adaptation to climate change. The role of university student organizations aimed at environmental protection for climate change adaptation and mitigation is also discussed in this book.

マルクス主義と地球の居住可能性の危機
Soriano Clemente, Carles, Marxism and Earth's Habitability Crisis: From the Metabolic Rift to the Anthropocene. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 163 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <739-66>
ISBN 978-3-031-72536-4 hard ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book argues that as long as capitalism is globally dominant, there must be a crisis of habitability on Earth. Overcoming this crisis is not a matter of technology. Technological strategies need to be adopted to mitigate human impact on Earth, but as long as they are implemented on a capitalist basis the crisis will not be overcome. Unfortunately, this is not fully understood today, and initiatives to confront the crisis based on idealism and positivism flourish everywhere. This makes research into the main epistemological reasons for the misunderstanding of the relationship between the reproduction of capital and the crisis of habitability an urgent task, which is undertaken throughout the book. Such misunderstanding is ultimately related to the old problem of philosophy, the relationship between thought and being. A problem that the crisis of habitability expresses as the insurmountable contradiction between capitalist humans and nature.

Hoefer, Wolfram / Schlecht, Sebastian et al. (eds.), Climate Bridge: An International Perspective on How to Enact Climate Action at the Government Public Interface. 242 pp. 2025:6 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <739-384>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3763-8 hard ¥26,532.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-9788-3762-1 paper ¥8,177.- (税込) US$ 36.99

Climate change is creating new challenges for spatial and environmental planning on both sides of the Atlantic. Planning and policy must balance moderating climate change impact from rising temperatures, extreme precipitation, and sea level rise with social equity and environmental justice. Climate Bridge compares New Jersey and the German Ruhr Region to build an international perspective on how to enact climate action at the government-public interface. The book grew from fifteen years of collaboration between scholars in New Jersey and Germany through summer programs, a landscape architecture design studio, internships for Rutgers students, and joint publications. Notably, settlement patterns and brownfield issues reveal similarities between the underserved in both regions. The first section, "Tools and Process," compares international environmental planning approaches and outlines different approaches to common problems. "Uncertainty and Space" presents case studies that highlight adaptation strategies for uncertainties caused by climate change. Finally, "Place and Connectedness" reminds us of our dependence on ecological systems for physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Contributors to this landmark volume include planners, designers, scholars, public administrators, and decision makers on both sides of the Atlantic. Together, the chapters bring interdisciplinary approaches and diverse perspectives to the environmental, economic, political, and social dimensions of planning and design in the context of climate change.

Cronjaeger, Lisa, Umtriebszeiten: Forsteinrichtungskarten und die Umwandlung von Waeldern im 19. Jahrhundert. (Historische Wissensforschung 26) 336 S. 2025:5 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <739-50>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5835-5 hard ¥7,891.- (税込) EUR 34.00

Monokulturen praegen die Waelder von heute. Welcher Zusammenhang besteht dabei zur?Forstwissenschaft und ihren Kartierungsverfahren? Wie reagierte die Bevoelkerung auf?die Umwandlung von Waeldern? Warum sind so viele Waelder heute Monokulturen? Im 19. Jahrhundert gruendeten sich europaweit Forstakademien, an denen die nachhaltige Verwaltung von Waeldern gelehrt und standardisiert wurde. In diesem Buch verfolgt Lisa Cronjaeger die Technik der Forsttaxation?? sowohl in ihren Entstehungskontexten seit dem 18. Jahrhundert als auch in der Lehre und Anwendung bis in die internationale Zirkulation der Karten und Konfliktkonstellationen hinein. Die Autorin kombiniert Perspektiven der Medienkulturwissenschaft sowie der Umwelt- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, um zu untersuchen, inwiefern Forsttaxationskarten Monokulturen als etwas Erstrebenswertes etablierten. Ein Schwerpunkt ihrer Studie liegt auf den Bildgebungsverfahren, mit denen die Taxatoren umweltbezogene Daten verarbeiteten, sowie auf den Rechtsreformen, Privatisierungen und Protestpraktiken, welche die Landschaftstransformationen in Preussen, Sachsen, in der Schweiz, in Portugal und anderen Regionen begleiteten. Letztendlich steht das auf den Karten visualisierte Kreislaufprinzip von Abholzung und Neuanpflanzung in einer Kontinuitaet zur heutigen Nutzung von Waeldern als Ausgleichsflaechen und CO2-Senken. Diese wissensgeschichtliche Studie bietet somit Anknuepfungspunkte zur Umwelt- und Klimakrise der Gegenwart.

Muscolino, Micah S., Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China. (A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) 280 pp. 2025:7 (U. Washington Pr., US) <739-506>
ISBN 978-0-295-75397-3 hard ¥24,321.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-295-75398-0 paper ¥7,738.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Urwin, Jessica, Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia. (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) 296 pp. 2025:6 (U. Washington Pr., US) <739-523>
ISBN 978-0-295-75378-2 hard ¥24,321.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-295-75379-9 paper ¥6,633.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Singh, Rubee / Shafik, Wasswa / Crowther, D. et al. (eds.), Transforming Healthcare Sector Through Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Sustainability. (Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance) 280 pp. 2025:2 (Springer, GW) <739-202>
ISBN 978-981-9795-54-3 hard ¥41,774.- (税込) EUR 179.99

This book explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and sustainability in healthcare, focusing on how AI technologies are transforming medical practices while promoting environmentally responsible operations. It examines how AI-driven tools like machine learning and data analysis enhance diagnostic accuracy, streamline treatment planning, and personalize patient care by analysing large datasets, including genetic information. Additionally, the book addresses how AI can support sustainable healthcare practices by optimizing resource usage, such as energy consumption in hospitals, and improving supply chain management to reduce environmental impact. Practical case studies demonstrate how these technologies are being implemented to improve patient outcomes and achieve sustainability goals. The book considers the integration of AI into human resource management within healthcare, discussing AI's role in recruitment, performance management, and employee retention aligned with sustainability objectives. Ethical and regulatory issues surrounding AI adoption, such as data privacy and algorithmic transparency, are thoroughly examined, with an emphasis on creating responsible and equitable AI systems. Designed for healthcare professionals and administrators, this book provides practical strategies and real-world examples of AI implementation in sustainable healthcare, offering a balanced view of the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Radovich, Violeta S., Marine Exploration and Exploitation of Hydrocarbons: An Environmental and Legal Perspective. (Palgrave Studies in Maritime Politics and Security) 282 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <739-323>
ISBN 978-3-031-75176-9 hard ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99

The book analyzes the environmental regulation of upstream marine exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons, at the international, regional MERCOSUR and Argentine national level. It uses the concept of normative integration as a methodological approach, critically assessing the interaction between the law of the sea, maritime law, environmental law and human rights law in the field of study. The book analyses the legal framework in a timeline, giving context to the evolution of the different branches of international law with sparkles of history. In this sense, the book also analyses international conventions' bills on the subject that have not entered into force. The manuscript focuses on the reports from two marine pollution events (Deepwater Horizon and Montara oil spills) to analyse the lessons learnt and the normative and institutional framework needed to ensure environmental safety in the marine exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons. The book critically analyses marine platform accidents' official reports comprehensively in order to assess existing normative and institutional frameworks and to give a way forward regarding policies. The manuscript contributes to rethinking the governance of the ocean at the time of environmental challenges. In that context, it refers to the concept of normative integration and effectiveness. It takes the existing scholarship further by introducing the notion of "marine platforms" instead of "offshore platforms" to rethink the relationship between land and sea and to develop a functional approach to enhance existing regulations. This is an open access book.

Chou, Kuei Tien, Taiwan in Net-Zero Transition: An East Asian Perspective of Developmental Environmentalism. (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series) 312 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-868>
ISBN 978-1-032-73052-3 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Chou explores the structural dilemmas, mindsets, challenges, and solutions of the net-zero transition in Taiwan. Using Taiwan as a representative example of the structural challenges faced by East Asian countries in achieving the global net-zero carbon emission goal, the book examines the proposition of developmental environmentalism in the context of East Asia.Taiwan faces diverse challenges, such as internal and external net-zero carbon emission pressures, geopolitical socioeconomic competition, an internal carbon-intensive industrial structure, and the path dependence of the brown economy. Within this framework, the developmental net-zeroism perspective from the vantage point of developmental environmentalism and the distinctive characteristics of Taiwan, offers insights into the climate governance particularities of East Asian countries as high-carbon manufacturing systems and as part of the global supply chain.A valuable read for researchers and policymakers concerned about the political, economic, and social situations in Asia and Taiwan affecting the net-zero transition.

Environnement et societes au Moyen Age: LIVe congres de la SHMESP (Poitiers, 11-14 mai 2023). (Publications de la Sorbonne. Histoire ancienne et medievale) 411 p. 2024:10 (Ed. de la Sorbonne, FR) <738-982>
ISBN 979-10-351-0992-9 paper ¥6,963.- (税込) EUR 30.00

Chatterjee, Uday / Bhunia, A. / Gupta, J. et al. (eds.), Sustainability and Urban Quality of Life: Research, Policy and Practice. 520 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <738-984>
ISBN 978-1-032-55475-4 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book conceptualizes and synthesizes worldwide research on the quality of urban life. It looks at quality of life within urban cities analysing amenities, infrastructure and assets while also bringing in the discourse around scarcity, disparity, accessibility, sustainability, equity, and well-being.Organized into four major parts, the book reflects on the interconnections between theories and practice and through a multi-disciplinary approach focuses on the aspects of urban environment and planning that makes cities inclusive, safe, resilient, smart, and sustainable. This book highlights the enormous strain on urban areas due to severe scarcity of civic systems and provides an in-depth look into urban concerns and pressing challenges from a global perspective, as well as many planning approaches to solving these problems.This book will be useful to students, researchers and teachers working in the field of urban studies, remote sensing and GIS, planning and sustainability, sustainable development, urban geography, development geography and population geography. This book would also be an invaluable companion to thought leaders, policy makers and industry and other professionals working in the field of urban planning and human development.

Dalsgaard, Steffen / Lautrup, Andy et al. (eds.), The Cultural Complexity of Carbon: Green Transformations in Contemporary Society. (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research) 240 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-987>
ISBN 978-1-032-76485-6 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This volume discusses the transformational role that carbon - both as a concept and as a distinct set of material forms and effects - has come to play in social and cultural life.As a proxy for greenhouse gas emission data, carbon has grown to become a phenomenon that can no longer be accounted for solely within the technoscientific vocabulary of climate scientists. The Cultural Complexity of Carbon examines the extent to which our knowledge of carbon affects the way that human beings relate to each other and to the climate and/or the environment. It draws on case studies from a diverse range of topics including peatland restoration, religion and energy systems to explore questions that have so far been under-explored in the current literature. These questions include whether the recognition of carbon's role in climate change leads to an incremental adaptation of lifestyles or to cultural or existential transformations, but also more concretely how carbon is made meaningful, and how these meanings are attached to ideals of cultural change or continuity. Spanning multiple perspectives and disciplinary positions, this volume provides a go-to point for the next generation of ethnographic studies of carbon and climate change. It cuts across what has hitherto been largely separate literatures in anthropology, geography and sociology to provide a meta-level orientation to how contemporary narratives of the role of carbon are being told.By addressing the intimate social and cultural changes that stem from humanity's involvement with its natural and climatic resources, this volume is of interest to students and scholars of climate change within the social sciences and environmental humanities.