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

文化的岐路に立つアジアの海洋の歴史とアイデンティティ
Santhosh, Sreedevi / T. H., Samjaila et al. (eds.), Asia's Maritime History and Identity at Cultural Crossroads. 320 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <759-791>
ISBN 978-1-041-20992-8 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-20995-9 paper ¥12,673.- (税込) GB￡ 42.99

Maritime Asia, collectively bordered by the Pacific, Indian and Arctic Ocean, sources Asia's food reserve, goods and ideas yet figures relatively lesser in global cultural production. Asia's 'great highways' and 'wide common' of the sea function as routes for trade and commerce that underpins globalization. Due to unprecedented human trafficking at sea, the ocean has largely become a repository for plastic pollution, waste and effluents. Complex oceanic-ecosystems make it inconceivable for human beings to take stock of the interdependence of seas, earth and atmosphere, 'missing in context' for redressal.

Wang, Pianpian, Voluntary Environmental Programs in the United States and China. (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies) 256 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-822>
ISBN 978-1-041-19543-6 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book explores the effectiveness of voluntary environmental programs (VEPs): initiatives designed and managed by social actors to motivate participants to achieve environmental goals beyond legal requirements.Contrasting the approaches taken in the United States and China, Pianpian Wang explores VEPs and their role in environmental sustainability, addressing gaps in existing research that primarily focus on government-led initiatives. Wang delves into the motivations behind these voluntary commitments and highlights the role of various social actors, including businesses, civil society organizations (CSOs), and government agencies. By examining the interactions between program organizers, participants, and supervisors under existing legal requirements, the research offers insights into effective environmental governance strategies and provides a broader perspective on how different societal settings influence the success of these programs and inform future legislations.Voluntary Environmental Programs in the United States and China offers valuable insights for policymakers, businesses, and researchers interested in environmental management and sustainability.

Zhou, Victoria S., Contemporary Environmental Policy Governance in China: The Transformation of Municipal Solid Waste Management. (Routledge Studies on China in Transition) 174 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-831>
ISBN 978-1-041-19138-4 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book examines environmental governance in China during the Xi Jinping era.Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this book uses the eco-transformation of waste management as a case study to reveal how central authorities exert political pressure to enforce national policy visions, while local governments frequently resort to "minimum compliance"-a strategy that allows local authorities to cope with and sidestep centrally mandated policies while avoiding the consequences of policy failure. The book uncovers persistent structural and deliberate compromises in policy steering, explaining why recentralisation under Xi has not significantly improved the implementation of national policies that have long underperformed, much like under his predecessors. Exploring debates on state capacity, bureaucratic behaviour, and local governance in contemporary China, it provides a deeper understanding of authoritarian environmental governance.Offering fresh insights into China's policy processes, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Chinese politics and environmental policy.

佐藤仁著　反転した持続可能性－いかに環境政策が人々をコントロールするか
Sato, Jin, Sustainability Inverted: How Environmental Policies Control People. (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) 304 pp. 2026:5 (MIT Pr., US) <759-845>
ISBN 978-0-262-05343-3 paper ¥10,890.- (税込) US$ 50.00

Cullet, Philippe / Shree, Ruchi (eds.), River Rejuvenation and River Rights: Evolving Debates in India. 240 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-862>
ISBN 978-1-041-15829-5 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book draws on interdisciplinary research deploying 'river rights' and 'water justice' as conceptual frameworks to engage with laws and politics around waterbodies. It underlines the simultaneity of micro and macro aspects to make sense of the complexities around 'river rejuvenation' in India.This book engages with different ideas of rejuvenation, illuminating what goes under the name of rejuvenation, its impacts on the environment and communities dependent on rivers for their livelihood. At the micro level, several case studies offer a framework for understanding the reasons behind dying/degenerating small rivers across the country. At the macro-level, several chapters engage with the impact of laws, policies and role of community in river conservation. The volume also highlights the ongoing programmes such as Namami Mission for Clean Ganga and riverfront development projects.The book will be useful to students, researchers, and teachers in the field of Water Resources, Water Supply, Management of Climate-Induced Disasters, Development Studies, Law, Politics and Ecology. It will also be an invaluable companion to policy makers, general administrators, civil society organizations, media persons, and bilateral agencies like WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNEP, World Bank and Gates Foundation.

Piekarska-Baronet, Maria, Forest as Commemoration in Jewish-Israeli Memory Culture: A Study in Environmental Memory. (Memory Studies: Global Constellations) 244 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-897>
ISBN 978-1-032-98974-7 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Situated within the broadly understood subfield of environmental memory studies, this book explores Israeli forests as spaces of commemoration. It investigates their significance in the Jewish-Israeli memory culture over the last century, as well as their role as a recurrent form of environmental memorial, understood as a commemoration that uses the organic as both the symbolic and the building substance. In doing so, it reveals the roles that the natural environment plays in memory practices: as a carrier of symbolic meanings, but also as an acting, more-than-human element of memorial spaces.Employing the perspective of environmental hermeneutics, the analysis is grounded in the realities of the Israel/Palestine conflict and reflects on the convoluted intersection of ideological, political, socio-economic, personal, and institutional dimensions of local tree planting. Simultaneously, it draws from instances of arboreal commemorations found in other geographical and cultural contexts, situating the practice of memorial forests within the wider framework of environmental memory and its associated social practices. In this way, it offers instructive insights for other cases of arboreal remembrance, highlighting both the potential benefits and risks linked to environmental memorials.Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, this fascinating and ground-breaking volume will engage scholars and researchers from a wide range of disciplines including Memory Studies, Cultural Geography, Israel Studies, and Environmental Humanities.

初期フランス領カリブ海地域における文化と環境
Harrigan, Michael, Culture and Environment in the Early French Caribbean. 264 pp. 2026:6 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <759-941>
ISBN 978-1-4214-5317-0 hard ¥14,146.- (税込) US$ 64.95

Ideas, practices, and human priorities: culture in the unstable environment of the early Caribbean colonies.Early French colonization in the Caribbean from the 1620s to circa 1730 brought great demographic, economic, and agricultural changes, with settlers introducing crops, animals, and new forms of labor into ecosystems that imposed their own limitations. In these settlements, ideas and practices concerning the environment, ranging from the preparation of food and drink to medical treatments, drew on both European and non-European knowledge. Yet social, gender, and linguistic barriers were among the restrictions to what colonial populations knew about Caribbean ecosystems. Descriptions and illustrations of animals and plants could fascinate Europeans, despite giving only partial insight into the Caribbean environment. Colonial practices such as feasting distinguished culture from wilderness, and people from one another; in an environment in which cultivation signified culture, the plantations were ultimately an unstable model in ecological and social terms. Drawing on a wide range of source material, including manuscript treatises and correspondence, natural histories, engravings, and missionary texts, Michael Harrigan explores how people interacted within their environment during early French colonization in the Caribbean. Examining the ways in which colonial culture and the environment were intertwined, this book explores how relationships between colonial populations were reflected in their environment and in the landscape itself. It shows that distinctly human preoccupations determined cultural forms, which were in turn shaped by the contingencies of early settlement. Knowledge of Caribbean ecosystems, Harrigan contends, could constitute a powerful body of techniques while being fragmented and driven by approaches to the environment focused on human priorities.

Alnaes, Jorgen / Tollerud Bull, Synne et al. (eds.), Media Seas and the Blue Humanities: Studies of the High North Atlantic. (Routledge Environmental Humanities) 264 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-947>
ISBN 978-1-032-76512-9 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book contributes to the emerging field of the blue humanities by developing a critical media perspective on the technical, social, cultural, and historical mediation of knowledge, perception, and experience of the oceans. With contributions from leading scholars from across a diverse range of fields, this volume focuses on the environmental challenges experienced in the northern reaches of the North Atlantic Ocean. The authors define these areas as the High North Atlantic, characterized by significant temperature fluctuations and considerable geopolitical significance, and noted for experiencing many of the most severe impacts of climate change.Case studies consider the environmental impacts of offshore oil, fish farming, deep-sea mining, and other extractive industries as a result of operations conducted by neighboring countries such as Norway, Denmark, the UK, Iceland, Greenland, the USA, and Canada. A key focus is on technical mediation: the interactions between technologies, humans, and marine ecosystems, and by deploying a critical media perspective throughout, the book explores the construction of aquatic cultures and the ways in which maritime technologies organize ways of seeing, sensing, and comprehending the changing natures of the oceanic world.As an important addition to the blue humanities and environmental humanities in general, this interdisciplinary volume will appeal to scholars and students of media and communication studies, human geography, anthropology, environmental studies, cultural and technological history, visual studies, architecture, art history, and literature.

Anastasi, Chris, Lifetime Carbon Debt. (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies) 230 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-950>
ISBN 978-1-032-36926-6 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-36928-0 paper ¥11,788.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Lifetime Carbon Debt shows how individuals can help global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by addressing their own annual and lifetime emissions.People around the world look to governments to provide leadership and action on climate change, and to industry and the wider business community to reduce emissions associated with their activities. However, individuals also have an important role to play by taking responsibility for their emissions. In this book Chris Anastasi offers guidance on how they can do this depending on their personal circumstances. He explains how individuals can estimate their annual and lifetime carbon debt and then explores the various options available to repay this debt, from changing their behaviour and embracing new technology, to using markets. Finally, the book highlights the significant contribution a community of like-minded individuals can make to our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Lifetime Carbon Debt will be of interest to those individuals who want to be better informed about their contribution to climate change and wish to take responsibility for their emissions. It is also an excellent resource for academics and students with an interest in climate change.

近世の海洋環境－グローバルヒストリー
Arch, Jakobina K. / Bouchard, Jack, Early Modern Marine Environments: A Global History. (Themes in Environmental History) 270 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-952>
ISBN 978-1-032-39961-4 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-39962-1 paper ¥11,788.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Across the early modern world (late-1400s to mid-1900s), oceans provided the key connection between far-flung communities in an age of empire and colonial expansion, while also serving as an increasingly important source of resources, from salted fish to whale oil to luxurious pearls.This story has rarely been told from the perspective of the marine environment itself. This book brings together the newest research to explore an era of newfound importance for the global ocean, focusing on the changing human relationships with maritime environments as cultures around the world found new ways to use and manipulate different aspects of this environment. The book focuses on key themes in early modern maritime history: harvesting marine life, movement through and on water, changing coastal environments, sea-land connections, and the metaphysics of the ocean in an age of change. While making a case for the importance of early modern marine environmental history throughout all the oceans of the world, this book also provides a foundation for more work on the topic.This book is for undergraduate and graduate students beginning work on premodern environmental, maritime, ocean and global history, as well as literary scholars or ocean scientists interested in ocean history.

Berkes, Fikret, Sacred Ecology. 5th ed. 420 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-955>
ISBN 978-1-032-75313-3 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-70370-1 paper ¥15,326.- (税込) GB￡ 51.99

Sacred Ecology examines knowledge held by Indigenous peoples and local communities around the world and asks how we can learn from this body of knowledge and practice. Berkes explores the importance of Indigenous ways of knowing as a complement to ecology and environmental science, and its cultural and political significance for traditional peoples themselves. With updates of relevant web links and over 300 new references, the Fifth Edition provides increased voice for Indigenous authors and contains much new material, including a new chapter.

Curtin, Charles G., Place-Based Solutions: The Power of Regenerative Thinking in the Face of Crisis. 320 pp. 2026:1 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <759-960>
ISBN 978-1-4214-5342-2 paper ¥11,968.- (税込) US$ 54.95

How locally focused, ethically driven action can help communities and ecosystems thrive in the face of crisis.How do we move beyond simply surviving in a world of accelerating environmental and social disruption? Place-Based Solutions offers a bold and practical response, charting a path toward what Charles G. Curtin calls "prosilience"-the capacity not just to endure crises, but to leap forward through them. With over thirty years of collaborative, on-the-ground experience in conservation and climate adaptation, Curtin explores why so many well-intentioned efforts fall short and what distinguishes the ones that succeed. This book distills decades of applied research and institutional leadership ideas into a framework for designing solutions that are adaptive, durable, and rooted in the strengths of local communities. It explains how to transform the ways people think, organize, and act in response to complex challenges, especially when top-down, technocratic approaches fail to deliver. Place-Based Solutions emphasizes the power of small and mid-sized organizations to catalyze meaningful change, using real-world examples to illustrate how lasting impact depends on aligning ethics, equity, institutional design, and the ability to learn over time. Curtin encourages readers to shift their focus from the pre-crisis status quo to preparing for-and thriving in-novel futures. Accessible, honest, and deeply grounded in practical solutions, this book assembles a set of proven principles for turning uncertainty in the face of societal transformation into opportunity. It is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand how humanity can respond to global crises with creativity, integrity, and lasting effect.

文化遺産と気候正義ハンドブック
Dinler, Mesut / Megarry, William (eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Cultural Heritage and Climate Justice. (Routledge International Handbooks) 334 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-961>
ISBN 978-1-032-97726-3 hard ¥67,804.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

This volume contains contributions from over 60 authors from 20 countries exploring the importance of climate justice and equity in climate action. While focused on cultural heritage, its relevance extends into other fields including policy, just transitions, development studies and climate adaptation. Its central message is that climate action and climate justice are inseparable in our response to the climate crisis.Key cross-cutting themes explored in 25 contributions and ten information boxes include economic and non-economic loss and damage with a particular focus on intangible cultural heritage, the importance of plural ways of knowing and bridging different epistemologies, the intersectionality of risk, loss and action with a particular focus on the historical and ongoing impacts of colonialism and other forms of historical injustice and the importance of community-centred approaches to climate action including climate literacy and education.This book is targeted widely to those both within and outside of the heritage sector. It addresses themes of importance to those working in heritage practice and research, policy development and climate adaption and mitigation. It will also be of relevance to those working with communities impacted by climate change.

Dotson, Taylor, Conservation by the People: The Future of Biodiversity in a Divided World. 296 pp. 2026:3 (MIT Pr., US) <759-962>
ISBN 978-0-262-05209-2 paper ¥9,801.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Duester, Benjamin, Sound Knowledge and the Liminal: Oceanic Wellbeing in the Anthropocene. 178 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-963>
ISBN 978-1-032-99715-5 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Sound Knowledge and the Liminal explores liminality as a key feature of life in the Anthropocene. Drawing on 6-month research conducted in Majro, Marshall Islands, it not only contextualises existing continental literature on liminality with a Pacific-centred perspective but also proposes that sound functions as a principal pathway for understanding wellbeing in one of Micronesia's most resilient and vibrant urban centres. Locating everyday life in Majro as constantly shifting between the qualities of continental city and coral atoll, the book traces how the local community uses sound to gain wellbeing in liminal spaces. Synthesising theories on Anthropocene islands, sound knowledge, vibratory labour and the auditory bubble, it highlights ludic appropriation and sonic cocoons as central to the affordances of an urbanised atoll space.Providing a though-provoking discussion of liminality outside of the context of continental cities, this book will be a vital reading for anyone for studying the relationships between Oceanic lives, sound and liminality. Especially relevant for scholars, it is also suitable for students and researchers in fields such as sound studies, cultural studies, political ecology, and Pacific studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

George Lowder, James, Anthropocene Cosmographies: A Human Geography of the Earth and Outer Space. (Routledge Planetary Spaces Series) 258 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-965>
ISBN 978-1-032-96333-4 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book explores relationships between humans and outer space through a geographical lens in the context of the Anthropocene. Presenting a bold and diverse engagement with outer space, the book expands geographical understandings of outer space and reflects upon humankind's place in the cosmos, all the while shedding light on the linkages between human life and cosmic processes.Drawing upon literature from across the social sciences, the book offers an innovative interdisciplinary examination of outer space that is grounded in geographic thinking. By delving into a range of materialities and milieus, it unpacks how outer space is framed, encountered and perceived by a variety of social and cultural actors. A new materialist methodology, combined with a mixed methods approach, is used to investigate meteorites, Dark Sky Parks and science fiction films, an effort that invokes deep pasts, embodied presents and speculative futures. In doing so, the book reveals the interrelatedness of human and cosmos, whilst unsettling the Anthropocene as a bounded and contained planetary condition. The interdisciplinary nature of this book makes it appealing for anyone engaging with outer space and planetary thinking. This book will be of particular use to scholars and students in geography and the social studies of outer space, as well as those with an interest in the Anthropocene, new materialism and more-than-human studies.

草原ハンドブック
Hager, Heather A. / Gibson, David J. / Newman, J. A. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Grasslands. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 648 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-966>
ISBN 978-1-032-49175-2 hard ¥67,804.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

This comprehensive handbook represents a definitive state of the art overview of grasslands from multiple, interdisciplinary and global perspectives.Despite the real and intrinsic values that grasslands offer, they are globally subject to fragmentation, habitat and species loss, and they are increasingly threatened by climate change. From a human societal perspective, grasslands are central to much of our culture and represent areas where agriculture first arose. The Routledge Handbook of Grasslands brings together an interdisciplinary team of global authors to present a much needed and vitally important overview of the new and ongoing debates around the values of and threats to grasslands. Reflecting the broad range of issues, debates and threats, the handbook is divided into five parts:Part I: Deep Roots, Dynamic Futures: Understanding the Science of GrasslandsPart II: Living Complexity: Grassland Function, Biodiversity, and RenewalPart III: Working Landscapes: Innovation and Tradition in Grassland StewardshipPart IV: Social-Ecological Ties: Grassland Services, Justice, and GovernancePart V: Landscapes of Meaning: Cultural and Creative Perspectives on GrasslandsDrawing on the experience of researchers, practitioners and managers, the handbook is the only grassland-oriented text to include social, economic, policy, and cultural value dimensions of grasslands, as well as an up-to-date coverage of the agronomy and ecology of these environments. The handbook concludes with a forward-thinking chapter which discusses the future of grasslands, further directions, threats and innovations.The Routledge Handbook of Grasslands is essential reading for students and scholars of grassland ecology, management and conservation as well as policy and management practitioners involved in grassland management and governance, as well as natural resources more broadly.

Hosseini, S. A. Hamed / Dunlap, A. / Gills, B. K. (eds.), The Prospects of a Pluriversal Transition to a Post-Capitalist, Post-Carbon Future. (Rethinking Globalizations) 215 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-969>
ISBN 978-1-041-21498-4 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book critically engages with a central dilemma facing counter-hegemonic movements as global crises intensify: how to foster systemic change while maintaining the plurality of their struggles. The Prospects of a Pluriversal Transition to a Post-Capitalist, Post-Carbon Future explores the tensions between fragmentation and convergence, autonomy and solidarity, and the risks of compartmentalization in pluriversal politics. Through rigorous analysis and compelling case studies, it interrogates the possibilities and limitations of building transformative synergies across decolonial, post-developmentalist, post-ecomodernist, and post-capitalist struggles. The volume examines movements resisting extractivism, food sovereignty initiatives, feminist and care-based ethics, commons-based governance, and radical pluriversalist networks that challenge dominant power structures. By blending theoretical inquiry with grounded research, this collection offers a vital resource for those reimagining and realizing alternative futures beyond capitalism, carbon modernity, and coloniality. It invites readers to critically reflect on the complexities of systemic transformation, highlighting pathways for co-creating relational, diverse, and interconnected forms of resistance and transformation.This book will be relevant to academic researchers and scholars in political ecology, critical theory, decolonial studies, environmental humanities, and social movement studies; graduate students in sociology, political science, geography, anthropology, and interdisciplinary environmental studies, and policy practitioners working on sustainable development alternatives and participatory governance.The chapters in this book were originally published in Globalizations.

Karapin, Roger / Vogel, David, When Federal Climate Policy Works: Benefits, Business, and Politics. (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) 400 pp. 2026:5 (MIT Pr., US) <759-970>
ISBN 978-0-262-05355-6 paper ¥9,801.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Lodzki, Bartlomiej / Arendarska, Justyna (eds.), Challenges in Environmental Communication: A Global Perspective. (Routledge Focus on Communication Studies) 112 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <759-971>
ISBN 978-1-041-06754-2 hard ¥14,736.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the multifaceted roles of communication in addressing global environmental challenges.The overarching framework connecting all chapters is the belief that environmental communication is at a decisive moment, as effective communication interventions are critical for the success of global efforts to address the ecological crisis. The book emphasises the need for a global perspective in environmental communication, highlighting that dominant narratives must begin incorporating diverse voices, including minorities and marginalised communities. Chapters explore case studies such as the communication strategies of minority communities, the use of branding campaigns as an element of environmental communication and environmental communication during war. Ultimately, the contributors argue that environmental communication can be a powerful tool to raise awareness, foster public engagement and drive meaningful change in pursuit of environmental sustainability and social justice. Environmental justice and environmental communication as a care discipline are central themes, outlining the need for equal access to a healthy environment.Bridging various academic fields to provide a holistic overview of communication as a key element of current environmental issues, this book will be of interest to researchers in the field of media and communication, environmental studies, political science and public diplomacy.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.

Low-Carbon Research Methods Group, Low Carbon Research Methods: Making Equity and Epistemological Gains Through Decarbonising Academic Work. 280 pp. 2026:5 (Goldsmiths, UK) <759-972>
ISBN 978-1-915983-48-0 paper ¥7,612.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Parkinson, Claire / Mills, Brett (eds.), Animals and Landscapes: Multispecies Locations, Space and Place. (Multispecies Encounters) 224 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-976>
ISBN 978-1-032-87223-0 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This volume explores various connections between animals and landscapes, challenging traditional anthropocentric framings and acknowledging the agency of other-than-human species in shaping our surroundings.A critical departure from traditional perspectives, Animals and Landscapes challenges the prevalent anthropocentric and ocularcentric approaches to the scenic landscape. Instead, the contributors adopt a multispecies lens, prioritising the more-than-human and illuminating the intricate relationships between bodies, actions, and place. The chapters navigate a range of environments, exploring visual and aesthetic experiences as well as the entanglements of place, action, bodies, and subjectivities. In doing so the authors discuss historical, geographical, social, economic, and cultural frameworks that shape landscapes, revealing the often-ignored agency of non-human species.Moving beyond human-centric framings of landscapes, it acknowledges the active role that other species play in shaping, using, and producing these environments. Central to this thematic exploration is the idea that animals have their own geographies and act as place-making agents. Underscoring the dynamic role animals play in shaping the spaces they inhabit, this volume encourages a re-evaluation of the narratives that have predominantly marginalised the role of animals in shaping our understanding of place.This interdisciplinary book will appeal to academics and students of sociology, visual culture, geography, and cultural studies, film, and media and television studies with interests in landscape studies and human-animal studies.

Ritchie, Hannah, Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change in 50 Questions and Answers. 296 pp. 2026:3 (MIT Pr., US) <759-978>
ISBN 978-0-262-05274-0 hard ¥6,087.- (税込) US$ 27.95

Sarac-Lesavre, Basak, Nuclear Remains: On Temporalities, Responsibilities, and Values. (Inside Technology) 224 pp. 2026:5 (MIT Pr., US) <759-980>
ISBN 978-0-262-05285-6 paper ¥11,979.- (税込) US$ 55.00

Schauffler, F. Marina, Inescapable: Facing Up to Forever Chemicals. 280 pp. 2026:3 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <759-982>
ISBN 978-1-4214-5399-6 hard ¥7,176.- (税込) US$ 32.95

A portrait of people fighting for truth and accountability as they confront the environmental injustice of "forever chemicals."Invisible and nearly indestructible, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have seeped into the blood of almost every American and permeated the natural world. These insidious chemicals now drift on global air currents, fall in rain, accumulate in soils and food webs, and can persist in ecosystems for generations. Inescapable reveals how ordinary people are tackling the toxic impacts from this sprawling class of industrial compounds-long used in consumer products, building supplies, and firefighting foam and still widely produced.Journalist Marina Schauffler recounts how PFAS contamination in Maine, a state known for its bountiful farms, woods, and waters, has upended lives and livelihoods, endangered public health, and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Stories from homeowners, firefighters, farmers, tribal members, researchers, and elected officials reveal the staggering implications of the federal government's failure to regulate synthetic chemicals that manufacturers have known for decades were toxic. Maine is among states at the forefront of PFAS testing and regulation, but no region is immune from this chemical threat.The poignant accounts in this book illuminate the challenge of reckoning with the far-reaching effects of PFAS and addressing the ongoing burden borne by highly affected individuals. Countless communities across the nation and world could face similar struggles as the ubiquity of PFAS contamination becomes clear. Inescapable offers a roadmap for tackling this chemical Hydra.

Sullivan, Joanna, Women Leading Sustainability: The Feminine Shift. 170 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-984>
ISBN 978-1-041-00859-0 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-97685-3 paper ¥9,725.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99

Women Leading Sustainability: The Feminine Shift spotlights the remarkable contributions of women shaping the future.Through over 50 personal interviews with women leading high-profile organisations, this book reveals emerging trends and highlights innovative strategies uniquely crafted by women. These trailblazing experts and pioneers in EU policymaking are pushing the boundaries of sustainability, offering invaluable insights for a greener, fairer future beyond 2030. Their stories serve as powerful examples to inspire the next generation of young women pursuing careers in sustainability. With a special focus on the women driving impactful decisions within the European Union, this book showcases the effectiveness of female-led sustainability initiatives and the wider movement for change inspired by their actions.It's an empowering resource designed to inspire and uplift future women leaders, as they work toward shaping a more sustainable world, offering powerful lessons to sustainability leaders and young people starting their sustainability careers. The seven strengths that define the feminine shift are now at the centre of future leadership.

Trinder, Clare J., Interpreting Ecological Data: Exercises for Undergraduates. 176 pp. 2026:4 (CRC Pr., US) <759-985>
ISBN 978-1-041-08177-7 hard ¥38,324.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-041-08174-6 paper ¥14,441.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99

With over 70 exercises containing more than 270 questions, Interpreting Ecological Data allows students to apply ecological theory learned in classes to new, 'real' data from the scientific literature. Rather than simply rote learning word-perfect answers, they are empowered to apply their knowledge and develop critical thinking skills: core attributes for science undergraduates.The book covers ecological principles such as predation, competition, mutualism, food-webs and biogeochemical cycling. With numerous examples on each theme, students can gain plenty of practice across a wide range of topics, providing a solid foundation for their ecological knowledge and developing transferable skills in data interpretation. Almost all the exercises use 'real' data from published papers, sometimes messy and not always supporting the hypotheses they were designed to investigate - just like in real life! The answers are all included in the final chapter, with detailed explanations where relevant. The exercises can also be used for assessment, enabling students to demonstrate their understanding, and lecturers can quickly convert them for use in lectures, workshops or assessments. Most importantly, Interpreting Ecological Data aims to stimulate student enthusiasm for ecology and what researchers actually do, starting an unexpected and exciting new journey.

Armiero, Marco, Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster. (History for a Sustainable Future) 160 pp. 2026:4 (MIT Pr., US) <759-667>
ISBN 978-0-262-05301-3 paper ¥8,712.- (税込) US$ 40.00

Anthony, Patrick, Unearthed: Science and Environment Across Mineral Frontiers. 304 pp. 2026:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <759-73>
ISBN 978-0-226-84749-8 hard ¥25,047.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84751-1 paper ¥7,623.- (税込) US$ 35.00

How nineteenth-century environmental sciences laid the groundwork for global mineral extraction. Unearthed depicts a pivotal moment during the nineteenth century: As European and settler schemes to govern ever larger territories intensified, the earth and atmospheric sciences were also becoming more global in scope, assembling models of the planet while making use of militarized or highly industrialized systems. These efforts were informed by the physique du monde, or global physics, of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), a program of vast data collection that spanned four hemispheres that aimed to determine general, scientific laws about the planet and its environments. Using Humboldt's itineraries as a frame, Unearthed traces an information order that linked far-flung industrial sites and frontier stations, from Prussian provinces to the Spanish and Russian empires. Humboldt intersected with Saxon miners, Mexican cartographers, and Siberian surveyors, among other itinerant Germans who mobilized the labor and resources of widespread mining operations for international surveys of earth and air. Interweaving the histories of capital and climate, Patrick Anthony takes readers from mines to mountains to show how the sciences of Humboldt's circuits both measured and made modern natures. These sciences of the mineral frontier, he argues, ultimately laid the groundwork for carbon-intensive economics and a logic of unending extraction. Wide-ranging and ambitious, Unearthed will interest scholars working in the history of science, global history, and the environmental humanities.

N.シュテール著　我々が作り上げた世界－気候、民主主義、知識
Stehr, Nico, The World We Have Created: Climate, Democracy and Knowledge. (A New Order of Social Things) 288 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-736>
ISBN 978-1-041-15961-2 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-15958-2 paper ¥11,788.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Addressing the complex interplay between climate change, democratic governance, and scientific knowledge in the Anthropocene era, this book focuses on how political systems respond to the global ecological crisis and to what extent they are structurally capable of doing so.The World We Have Created: Climate, Democracy, and Knowledge details how the de-democratization of ecological decision-making favors models of authoritarian governance, as democratic values such as transparency, participation, and accountability are continually undermined. Offering a robust account of the responses to the climate crisis and the necessary social and political changes posed by the scientific consensus, this book analyses the growing discrepancy between scientific knowledge about the causes and consequences of climate change and the lack of political and social willingness to implement necessary measures. Comprehensive social change is needed that focuses on social justice, intergenerational responsibility, and political participation, and it is only by strengthening democratic structures and integrating knowledge into responsible governance can we open paths to a resilient, just, and liveable future.This sharp, interdisciplinary intervention bridges sociological, political, and philosophical thinking to underline the necessity of hope and utopian social imagination together with concrete changes to the constitution that guarantees a safe environment for future generations.

Breiby, Monica A. / Elvekrok, Ingunn / Slatten, T. (eds.), Services, Experiences and Sustainability. 288 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-384>
ISBN 978-1-032-76274-6 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-76278-4 paper ¥11,788.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book explores the relationship between management, marketing, innovation and sustainability within the service industries. Based on conceptual and empirical research, it examines how these elements can be integrated to enhance experiences.Contributions from leading researchers explore both the environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability as well as social sustainability and the co-creation of services with residents and societies in a variety of contexts and regions. The book provides multidisciplinary insights from marketing, management, economics, geography, strategy, and social anthropology, adopting a system approach of sustainability. This approach is reflected upon in the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene, providing insights on research initiatives associated with the responsible planning and management of services and experiences that promote sustainable behaviour.Services, Experiences, and Sustainability will inspire and encourage its readers to make a difference for the people, planet, and profit. The book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in the fields of service management, service marketing, innovation in services, tourism and event experiences, and sustainable management. The book will also prove helpful for policymakers, industry practitioners, government agencies (local, regional, national, and international), NGOs and volunteers.

Luo, Le / Tang, Qingliang, National Culture and Corporate Responses to Climate Change. 222 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-402>
ISBN 978-1-032-34426-3 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book analyzes the impact of national culture on a range of corporate carbon practices in major economies since the Paris Agreement. It does so by exploring the interaction between hard institutions such as carbon policies and regulation and soft institutions such as national culture.The book focuses on national culture as a key factor in corporate decarbonization practices, one traditionally overlooked by analytical frameworks rooted in economic development, laws and regulation. It argues that fighting climate change requires collaboration from organisations in countries with diverse cultures. Managers and various stakeholders who exert significant influence over climate actions are likely to respond to a climate threat in accordance with their cultural prescriptions towards risk, regulation, environmental stewardship and stakeholder engagement. Analysing a large, cross-country dataset covering firms from both developing and emerging companies, the book analyses firm-level decisions, behaviours, strategies and outcomes related to decarbonization. It finds that corporate decisions to decarbonize are influenced not just by formal institutions such as macrolevel regulations, climate standards and policies, but softer institutions such as national culture which either facilitate or constrain a firm's ability to adopt effective climate strategies. The book highlights the importance of context-sensitive climate governance and closes by outlining areas of future research.Sitting at the intersection of cultural studies and corporate environmental governance, this book will interest researchers and policy makers working on sustainability, accounting and environmental management.

アメリカにおける再生可能エネルギー政策設計の政治経済
Basseches, Joshua, Owning the Green Grid: The Political Economy of Renewable Energy Policy Design in the United States. (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) 256 pp. 2026:6 (MIT Pr., US) <759-262>
ISBN 978-0-262-05358-7 paper ¥13,068.- (税込) US$ 60.00

Geering, Corinne / Meyer, Torsten (eds.), Cultural Landscapes of Energy: Constructing Histories of Power, Prosperity, and Decline in Europe. (Critical Heritages of Europe) 320 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-265>
ISBN 978-1-032-75336-2 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This volume explores the contested heritage of landscapes impacted by energy production. It offers a comparative perspective across Europe on different energy resources and reveals the hidden histories behind current efforts to revalorise the industrial heritage of energy production.Including case studies from across the European continent, this volume adds a crucial historical perspective to current debates on energy transition and the future of Europe's landscapes, which have been deeply impacted by energy production. Coal mining, oil drilling, peat extraction, and the construction of large-scale infrastructure, such as dams, have shaped 'cultural landscapes of energy' in present-day Europe. The exploitation of natural resources served economic development and established new industrial work cultures, but it also destroyed settlements through excavation and flooding. This volume brings together conflicting histories around work, habitation, and leisure in contemporary landscapes across Europe. Drawing on archival records, interviews, and fieldwork, the chapters in this volume combine perspectives on the productive and destructive sides of energy. They address the tensions emerging from heritage-making processes, which focus on the end of energy production despite ongoing and future commissioning projects.The volume contributes new insights to the fields of energy and environmental history, heritage studies, memory studies, landscape architecture, and sustainability science. It provides rich materials on energy landscapes across Europe for researchers as well as policymakers and practitioners interested in energy transition, (post-)industrial heritage, and cultural tourism.

Metlay, Daniel, High-Activity Nuclear Waste Management: Becoming a Responsible Ancestor. 288 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-267>
ISBN 978-1-032-86609-3 hard ¥38,324.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-032-86608-6 paper ¥14,736.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99

High-Activity Nuclear Waste Management Policy: Becoming a Responsible Ancestor describes the technical, social, and political challenges of developing a deep-mined, geologic repository for high-activity nuclear waste. It emphasizes how the technical estimates of repository performance affect non-technical considerations, such as trust and risk perceptions, and how those considerations in turn affect the technical determinations.Unlike other democracies with mature nuclear power programs, the United States lacks a permanent management plan for its high-activity radioactive waste. This book analyzes how the US reached this negligent position and examines how eight other countries have addressed five critical waste management activities: establishing management organizations, selecting a repository site, implementing phased repository development, licensing a repository, and addressing technical controversies. It concludes with recommendations for reconstituting an effective waste management program in the United States.The book will interest nuclear waste and nuclear energy and safety researchers, policy makers, and administrators. It will also benefit graduate students taking specialized courses in nuclear waste management, technology ethics, and public/energy policy.

Amilien, Virginie / Saidi, Monia et al. (eds.), Sustainable Consumption and Everyday Food Practices in Europe. (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment) 266 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-273>
ISBN 978-1-032-72599-4 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Presenting contemporary case studies of everyday food practices, this book examines food habits and the ways they are evolving or resisting change.The book draws on primary research with families, examining consumer practices and perceptions of food sustainability. It amplifies the voices of ordinary people, exploring how they experience and navigate everyday food practices. The concept of narrative provides a robust foundation for a dynamic and coherent conceptual approach while combining a social practice perspective which examines the interplay between routines, norms, ethics, and reflexivity with pragmatic sociology. This allows the analysis to follow food practices through adjustments and justifications. Focusing on food quality schemes as institutional tools for improving sustainable food systems, it includes diverse case studies from France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Serbia, the UK, as well as Sweden and Australia. Authors employ multi-method qualitative approaches to capture the interplay of discourses, practices, and materialities. The volume proposes research tools and methods for sustainable food, offering insights into how everyday food practices can contribute to socio-ecological food transitions.This book will appeal to students, researchers, and policymakers interested in sustainable food systems and consumption, and their intersections with sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and sustainable development.

Ampleman, Luc / Timo de Vries, Walter (eds.), Rural Development: Assessing Vitality, Vulnerability, and Versatility of Communities with Remote Sensing. 240 pp. 2026:3 (CRC Pr., US) <759-274>
ISBN 978-1-041-02593-1 hard ¥29,476.- (税込) GB￡ 99.99

This book aims to foster a dialogue within and across rural communities, practitioners, academics, and decision-makers for interdisciplinary collaborations and informed actions. It offers knowledge about challenges faced by rural communities around the world to assess their vulnerabilities, vitality assets, and versatility to react in a time of global threats and discusses the opportunities and the limits of new technologies, such as remote sensing, to assess these rural conditions. The case studies and examples included discuss how rural communities cope with emergencies and unexpected changes from outside and how to collaborate for achieving better preparedness. FeaturesProvides a practical guide with resources and applications for researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers exploring rural development challenges worldwide.Introduces the emergent concept of "vitality, vulnerability and versatility" to better grasp the challenges of rural communities.Offers a valuable set of tools to assess rural vulnerability and vitality and focuses on long-term rural transformations that are meaningful for various communities.Integrates remote sensing technology and explores its opportunities and limits when used in different environments.Includes real life case studies from different countries to illustrate how rural conditions assessment can be performedIntroduces a visual roadmap to facilitate and compare rural assessment between and within rural communities.This book is an insightful resource for practitioners, researchers, graduate, and senior undergraduate students in the fields of urban/regional planning, land management, geography, environment studies, and remote sensing, as well as agencies and NGO institutions working with rural communities.

ノルウェーにおける海洋プラスチック汚染の管理－漁業及び水産養殖のための持続可能な循環経済の解決策－
Walnum, Hans Jakob / Palmer-Abbs, Megan et al. (eds.), Managing Marine Plastic Pollution in Norway: Sustainable Circular Economy Solutions for Fisheries and Aquaculture. (Routledge Studies in Sustainability) 228 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-283>
ISBN 978-1-041-01881-0 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Based on collaborative, interdisciplinary research as part of the Norwegian Shift-Plastics project, this book establishes sustainable circular value chains for managing plastics in the fisheries and aquaculture industries, which are significant causes of ocean plastic pollution.Focused on reducing plastic production and consumption by examining the entire life cycle and taking upstream measures, the Norwegian case presented in the book highlights globally relevant insights into how to manage the complexity of plastic pollution and the systemic changes needed for a sustainable circular economy.The book takes a transdisciplinary approach, incorporating academic perspectives and collaborating with industry and public bodies to improve plastic handling in the fisheries and aquaculture industries. It integrates multiple scientific disciplines, including technological science, policy science, economics, environmental science, design thinking, and systems thinking. It also investigates the value chain of plastic use in the fisheries and aquaculture industries to map their management practices and pinpoint issues that can be improved throughout the process. In doing so, it provides practical advice on how to create effective policies in line with a Sustainable Circular Economy (SCE) for both businesses and policymakers. Further, it highlights how plastic production can be reduced through extended usability, ways to apply eco-design principles to create products that can easily be disassembled, repaired, and recycled, and options for using bioplastics and recycled materials. Finally, it presents a roadmap that connects changes in industrial practices, infrastructure needs and policy design in the short, medium and long term to achieve reduced plastic use and plastic pollution in the fisheries and aquaculture industries.Managing Marine Plastic Pollution in Norway will be an important research reference and tool for academics, students, policymakers, industry and business professionals in pollution and waste management, sustainability, circular economy, and marine, fishery, and environmental management.

Conterio, Johanna, Therapeutic Natures: Environment and Health in the Soviet Sanatorium. 366 pp. 2026:8 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <759-323>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8825-3 hard ¥31,581.- (税込) US$ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-8826-0 paper ¥8,701.- (税込) US$ 39.95

In Therapeutic Natures, Johanna Conterio analyzes the development of the institution of the Soviet sanatorium as a project of building socialism, a "Magnitstroi of health." The sanatorium not only served as a curative space in nature to counterbalance the intense and often hazardous environmental conditions of Soviet labor, but also monumentalized the achievements and the anxieties of Soviet socialism. Conterio reveals how health resort towns, and the individual sanatoria within them, served a central role in a distinct socialist model of public health and welfare that emerged in the late nineteenth century, developed in the Soviet Union in response to domestic, transnational, and international events-the Second International, the October Revolution, Stalinism, World War II, and the Cold War. This model foregrounded the study of climate, geography and landscape in medical research and understandings of the human body as ecologically embedded in the physical environment, producing environmental knowledge that informed medical practice and the design of the built and natural environments of what became therapeutic landscapes. Ultimately, a distinct form of environmental governance developed in Soviet health resorts, linked to the authority of medical officials within the planned economy, and offering historians a counterpart to the model of ecocide. Therapeutic Natures outlines an experimental attempt to create healthy environments for optimal human development, rooted in socialist conceptual approaches to human life in the environment

Weil Latshaw, Megan / Bressler, Joseph P. (eds.), The Environment and Your Health. 480 pp. 2026:6 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <759-351>
ISBN 978-1-4214-5396-5 paper ¥19,591.- (税込) US$ 89.95

An essential textbook on how the environment influences our health and well-being.The Environment and Your HealthEverything around us-air, water, food, buildings, neighborhoods-shapes our health in profound ways. Edited by Megan Weil Latshaw and Joseph P. Bressler, this essential textbook offers a comprehensive foundation in environmental health to help students understand how physical, chemical, biological, and social environments influence well-being. This textbook provides clear, accessible coverage of the key topics required by instructors, including legacy content from traditional environmental health syllabi and new competency-based standards. Students will explore environmental exposure assessment, toxicology, epidemiology, air and water pollution, food safety, occupational health, and risk assessment. They'll also examine broader systemic issues, such as climate change, food systems, environmental justice, and the intersection of human, animal, and ecosystem health. Emerging concerns like "forever chemicals," global waste, and the health impacts of the built environment are addressed alongside traditional core topics. Through a systems-thinking lens, the book encourages readers to analyze complex, real-world challenges and consider policy and intervention strategies that can improve health outcomes at individual, community, and global scales. Engaging case studies and clear learning objectives reinforce each chapter's key concepts. The Environment and Your Health equips students with the knowledge and perspective to understand how their environment shapes their health-and how they can help shape healthier environments.

D.バニスター他著　持続可能な開発の責務　第2版
Holden, Erling / Linnerud, Kristin / Banister, David, The Imperatives of Sustainable Development: Needs, Justice, Limits. 2nd ed. 330 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-201>
ISBN 978-1-032-99337-9 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-99336-2 paper ¥11,788.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Taking the ethical foundations from the seminal UN Report (1987) Our Common Future, this revised and updated second edition builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives - satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits.The model presented identifies sustainability themes and assigns thresholds to them, defining the space within which sustainable development can be achieved wherein it recognises that different countries face different challenges and must follow different pathways. This revised edition has been brought up to date throughout and contains three new chapters exploring the history of the concept, including the status of the UN SDGs, competing indicators and models of sustainable development, and an overview of global and local changes in the six sustainability themes. It is divided into four parts, each contributing to a deeper understanding of what sustainable development is and what is required to achieve it, including an introduction to key arguments, theoretical foundations and competing models, new empirical knowledge discussing how different countries position themselves in relation to sustainable development, and future directions, offering perspectives on how it can be achieved locally and globally.Building on the extensive literature exploring needs, equity, justice, environmental science, ecology, and economics, this book will be essential reading for everyone interested in the future of sustainable development and in the complex environmental and social issues involved.

Mahosi, Brian Ngwako Mokgatetswa / Netswera, F. et al., The Informal Business Sector in BRICS+ Countries: Sustainable Economic Development in the Global South. (Routledge Research in Sustainability and Business) 256 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-215>
ISBN 978-1-032-94997-0 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book presents a critical analysis of the informal business sector and explores how it can be effectively leveraged to contribute to inclusive and sustainable economic development within BRICS+ nations and the Global South.Drawing on insights from dualistic economic theory, the dynamics of informal markets, and institutional roles in economic growth, the authors emphasize the need for nuanced and evidence-based policy approaches. Through the application of key theoretical frameworks-including the Lewis Model, segmented labour market theory, and new institutional economics-the book evaluates the sector's role in shaping economic development indicators across BRICS+ nations and the Global South. In particular, the volume provides policy frameworks to support the formalization and empowerment of informal enterprises, contributing to inclusive growth and resilient economic systems. It also analyses and offers solutions on how the informal sector can best be engaged and explains that in order to create policies that effectively harness the informal business sector's potential for economic development, a deeper understanding of it is imperative. Over the course of the book, ideas from the fields of dualistic economies, the dynamics of the informal sector, and the function of institutions in economic growth are incorporated.Targeted at scholars, policymakers, and practitioners in the fields of entrepreneurship, development economics, and informal enterprise, the book offers both academic insights and practical policy recommendations. It serves as a valuable resource for understanding the structural, cultural, and institutional forces influencing the informal sector in emerging economies.

Crockford, Susannah, A Perturbed System: Religion and Climate Change from the End of a World. (Class 200: New Studies in Religion) 368 pp. 2026:7 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <759-117>
ISBN 978-0-226-84978-2 hard ¥25,047.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84980-5 paper ¥7,078.- (税込) US$ 32.50

A moving study of how religion shapes Western climate discourse. Our ecological system is disturbed, and with it, every other system we've built to inhabit it. We do not face inevitable destruction, yet many of us cannot conceive of climate change as anything but the end of the world, an apocalypse with all its biblical trappings. Why? In A Perturbed System, anthropologist Susannah Crockford argues that we must understand the climate emergency as a spiritual crisis, a result of Christian colonialism that we (religious or not) still struggle to describe without religious language. Climate discourse in the United States and northern Europe, Crockford shows, is framed by the same theological motifs that drove extraction, including ideas about prophecy, mediation, sacrifice, original sin, cult, messiah, and apocalypse. By listening to people on the edge of the crisis, A Perturbed System reveals a world in transition, what happens when worlds end-ecologically, socially, politically, and personally-and how we might live through these endings together.

Wu, Yani, Possibilities and Limitations of Chinese Eco-City Development. (New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society) 292 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-682>
ISBN 978-981-9519-57-6 hard ¥35,570.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores the role of public spaces in Chinese people-oriented eco-city development, focusing on its contribution to creating sustainable and liveable urban environment. As green urbanization gradually progresses in China, the public space has become essential in enhancing quality of life, fostering community connections as well as facilitating people's interactions with nature. Through typical qualitative analysis, this book examines how public spaces promote community engagement and provide essential public services in the eco-city. Key themes include humanistic planning and social sustainability. This work will be of particular interest to scholars, policy makers, urban planners, offering valuable insights into both humanistic and ecological considerations in the eco-city development.

Ghosh, Sandipan (ed.), Reimagining Indian Rivers for Sustainability. (Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sustainability) 854 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-715>
ISBN 978-3-032-04753-3 hard ¥10,160.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book offers the reader a comprehensive overview of the intricate issues facing India's river systems in the Anthropocene. The book opens with an assessment of the current and emerging impacts of climate and human-induced changes on the rivers of India, with a subsequent discussion that identifies pathways toward mitigation, adaptation, and long-term sustainability. The book successfully brings together interdisciplinary perspectives and evidence-based research from diverse academic backgrounds and will be an invaluable resource for researchers working in this field.

Bernard, Oluwabunmi Tope, The Gods Are Wise: Yoruba Sacred Orature and Environmental Sustainability. (AAR Religion, Culture, and History) 232 pp. 2026:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <758-752>
ISBN 978-0-19-783885-3 hard ¥22,869.- (税込) US$ 105.00

Matose, Frank, Forests and the Power of Marginalised People in Southern Africa: Politics of Chronic Liminality. (Future Rural Africa) 184 pp. 2025:11 (J. Currey, UK) <758-767>
ISBN 978-1-84701-431-3 hard ¥25,058.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Decades after independence and the end of apartheid, why have forest communities in Zimbabwe and South Africa not been able to recover the land and resource rights they lost under colonialism? This book explores the politics of conservation in southern Africa through the lens of chronic liminality, a 'state of in-betweenness' or 'waiting', to explain the status quo in local people-state forest relationships and why progress has been so slow. Using the Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve, the Gwayi Forest and Mafungabusi Forest as cases studies, it examines the consequences on people living in and around protected areas of neoliberal approaches to conservation and of the legacy of colonial property relations. The book asks why local communities have not engaged in collective or rebellious action against the government and how they have instead found themselves in a liminal position, caught between waiting for conditions to change and advancing their rights through collective action. It also asks why states have likewise pursued a politics of liminality and continue to prevaricate about whether to restore local rights or maintain the status quo around forest reserves. Overall, the book advances scholarship around conservation in Africa and other postcolonial regions by providing a different perspective on the continued marginalisation of local people and arguing for a need to rethink forest ownership and management. Published in association with the Collaborative Research Centre FUTURE RURAL AFRICA, funded by the German Research Council (DFG).

Smart, Sebastian, Socio-Environmental Movements Against Extractivism: Legal Mobilisation and Resistance in Chile. 292 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-795>
ISBN 978-3-032-06222-2 hard ¥35,570.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book offers an unprecedented exploration into the heart of socio-environmental conflicts and mobilisations sparked by extractive projects in Latin America, with a keen focus on Chile's unique position. It provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the intricate power dynamics between communities, corporations, and the state over environmental and territorial disputes. Delving into the contentious politics perspective, this book examines how political opportunities, organisational resources, and discursive frames developed by communities-and the strategic mobilisation of law-play a crucial role in shaping resistance against extractive projects. These conflicts are not just local disputes but are emblematic of broader environmental and political-economic transformations that challenge our understanding of sustainability, governance, and community rights. The relevance of this topic cannot be overstated in today's global context, where environmental issues and Indigenous rights are increasingly at the forefront of political debates. By analysing the micro-foundations of contentious politics through the lens of Chile's socio-environmental movements, this book sheds light on the mechanisms that underpin socio-legal mobilisation and protest. It offers a detailed comparison of three significant social contestation processes in Chile, providing insights into the varying strategies, aims, and resources of communities that stand against the environmental impacts of extractive industries. Furthermore, this book critically engages with classical theories of social mobilisation, adding empirical evidence and theoretical advancements to the discussion. It also considers the impact of geographical location, the phase of extractive projects, and the composition of social movements on the effectiveness of mobilisation efforts-both in the courtroom and on the streets.

Almeida, Paul, Climate Change and Civic Engagement: The Origins and Future of the Climate Justice Movement. 275 pp. 2026:7 (U. California Pr., US) <758-801>
ISBN 978-0-520-38259-6 hard ¥20,691.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-38260-2 paper ¥6,523.- (税込) US$ 29.95

The most recent scientific reporting suggests that the outlook for continued global warming is dire. Collective action and civic engagement by ordinary people around the world will prove decisive in slowing down global warming and supporting planetary survival. Climate Change and Civic Engagement demonstrates the origins, gains, and future trajectory of the climate movement. In analyzing collective action events around the world and exploring how the movement navigates the competing paradigms of climate denialism, decarbonization, and just transitions, this book includes: Data collected from thousands of climate engagements and events. The most recent tools from social movement scholarship, such as GIS mapping, representative surveys from frontline communities, and theories of expanding climate civic engagement along just transition pathways. An exploration of the links between climate justice and environmental justice. Creative tactics for sustaining collective climate action in the face of climate denialism and technocratic solutions. This book shows readers the indispensability of social movement knowledge in forging effective climate justice movements.

Carlson, Ann, Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air. 324 pp. 2026:4 (U. California Pr., US) <758-804>
ISBN 978-0-520-38739-3 hard ¥5,869.- (税込) US$ 26.95

A stirring account of one of our greatest environmental success stories: cleaning up Southern California's air. Los Angeles and smog have been synonymous for decades. From the 1940s through the 1980s, children breathed air so heavy with lead that their blood was poisoned with it. In 1970 officials declared smog alerts on 235 days. But the last smog alert happened in 2003, and lead has virtually disappeared from the air. This is the story of how Los Angeles cleaned up its air. In Smog and Sunshine, environmental law expert and LA native Ann Carlson recounts the dramatic policy fights and the determined scientists, lawyers, and community members who worked alongside public officials to face off against major polluters and save their city. In a time of unprecedented climate change and skepticism about government and science, this book is an inspiring reminder of what concerned residents and all levels of government can achieve by working together.