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

Giraldo, Omar Felipe / Toro, Ingrid Fernanda, Environmental Affectivity: Aesthetics of Inhabiting. 176 pp. 2024:4 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-76>
ISBN 978-1-350-34510-2 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Following Spinoza's lead and Latin American environmental thought, this book imagines an embodied environmental ethics based on the relations between sentient beings and sustained by affections, sensibility, the senses, and contact. Engaging embodied, cognitive, phenomenological, aesthetic and psychoanalytic aspects of affectivity, Omar Felipe Giraldo and Ingrid Fernanda Toro help us understand how places inhabit us, and therefore, how places transformed lovingly have the immense capacity to modify the body, to redirect desire, to clarify our sensibility - creating an affectivity in direction opposition to the regime imposed by this global ecocidal capitalism. For the authors, the environmental crisis is more than a technological or economic problem. They see it as a threat to survival inscribed in the deepest foundations of our body, in the intimacy of our skin, in the intensity and tone of our affections, in our desires, in our perceptions and in our sensory-motor capacities. Hence, the immense need to dismantle this system of power embedded in the intimacy of our body and to cultivate a perceptual transformation guided by an empathic knowledge that leads to a different understanding of our belonging in that which exceeds us. This book is a vital manifesto on the political role of affects, an invitation to awaken the sensitive perception anesthetized by the ecologies of cruelty, and an urgent call to understand differently our place in the cosmos in the midst of this war that our civilization has declared on life.

Irwin, Brian, The Environmental Uncanny: A Phenomenology of the Loss of the World. 272 pp. 2024:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-78>
ISBN 978-1-350-41737-3 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

The Environmental Uncanny argues that the increasing destitution of our world is the result of a certain forgetfulness: we have forgotten that the basis of our knowledge is not calculative reason, but our participation in the natural world. The modern built environment is exemplary of this forgetfulness, and induces an uncanniness that can help us to understand the nature of our environmental crisis. This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the global environmental crisis. Ranging from traditional phenomenology, including substantial discussion of both Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, to philosophy of biology, to architectural and urban design theory, to landscape photography, it makes illuminating connections to paint a multifaceted picture. Tracing the root causes of dwindling biodiversity, deforestation and suburban sprawl, we can find how might we mark the path back toward a mode of rich inhabitation in a contemporary age. In charting out how it is that we are losing our world, Irwin offers a thought as to how we might regain it.

Singh, Pardeep / Ao, Bendangwapang / Medhavi, Dr (eds.), Environmental Activism and Global Media: Perspective from the Past, Present and Future. (Springer Studies in Media and Political Communication) 343 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <726-806>
ISBN 978-3-031-55407-0 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This scholarly work discusses the historical, contemporary, and prospective dimensions of environmental activism and its intersection with global media. It provides a comprehensive view of the pivotal role played by the media in shaping awareness concerning environmental challenges and catalyzing actions to address them. Drawing upon the insights of an interdisciplinary cohort of scholars, the book systematically examines the diverse aspects of the nexus between media and environmental activism. Chapter contributions establish the foundational framework for comprehending how media as a whole lend support to activism; delineate the historical trajectory of environmental activism; the construction of narratives within the political, economic, and social domains of society; scrutinize the function of mass media within the context of globalization, digitization, and social media; and elucidate how governance structures influence the environmental activism process. By introducing readers to the basic narrative in environmental activism, globalization, and media, this book will be an important source of information for researchers, academicians and students engaged in various interdisciplinary studies linked to media, environment and activism.

Conca, Ken, After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City. 280 pp. 2024:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <726-818>
ISBN 978-0-19-778806-6 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-19-778807-3 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95

One small town, two "thousand-year floods" in the span of two years: how does a community become resilient in the face of the ever-increasing risks of climate change? Small towns across America and around the world face mounting challenges with flood risk, a result of not only climate change but also poorly adapted landscapes, sprawl, overdevelopment and poor planning. After the Floods is about Ellicott City, a small town in central Maryland that experienced two devastating flash floods just 22 months apart. Despite the town's many advantages-wealth, access to expertise, a mobilized community, and a stout identity steeped in 250 years of history-Ellicott City found itself mired in a deeply divisive argument over what to do in the aftermath. As a resident, Ken Conca bore firsthand witness to the conflict that took root when the flood waters receded. While this book is about one residential suburb, the dilemmas that it faces over how to adapt to climate change are coming soon to a small town near you. On one level a story about re-engineering a landscape, After the Floods ultimately grapples with uncertainty over local history, justice, democracy, and identity. What can we know about future risks to our communities? What is the meaning of place and history when preservation goals come into conflict with flood protection? What should we protect? Who gets to speak for the community? In Ellicott City's search for answers, we can find important lessons for other small communities that must begin preparing for future climate risks.

Del Favero, Dennis / Thurow, Susanne et al. (eds.), Climate Disaster Preparedness: Reimagining Extreme Events through Art and Technology. (Arts, Research, Innovation and Society) 219 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <726-819>
ISBN 978-3-031-56113-9 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-56116-0 paper ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

As a result of global warming, extreme events, such as firestorms and flash floods, pose increasingly unpredictable and uncertain existential threats, taking lives, destroying communities, and wreaking havoc on habitats. Current aesthetic, technological and scientific frameworks struggle to imagine, visualise and rehearse human interactions with these events, hampering the development of proactive foresight, readiness and response.This open access book demonstrates how the latest advances in creative arts, intelligent systems and climate science can be integrated and leveraged to transform the visualisation of extreme event scenarios. It reframes current practice from passive perception of pre-scripted illustrations to active immersion in evolving life-like interactive scenarios that are geo-located. Drawing on the multidisciplinary expertise of leaders in the creative arts, climate sciences, environmental engineering, and intelligent systems, this book examines the waysin which climate disaster preparedness can be reformulated through practices that address dynamic and unforeseen interactions between climate and human life worlds. Grouped into four sections (picturing, narrating, rehearsing, and communicating), this book maps this approach by exploring the emerging strengths and current limitations of each discipline in addressing the challenge of envisioning the unpredictable interaction of extreme events with human populations and environments. This book provides a timely intervention into the global discourse on how art, culture and technology can address climate disaster resilience. It appeals to readers from multiple fields, offering academic, industry and community audiences novel insights into a profound gap in the current knowledge, policy and action landscape.

人間の安全保障と気候変動を理解する
Pink, Ross M. / Dhofier, Luthfi, Understanding Human Security and Climate Change. (Understanding) 208 pp. 2024:9 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-888>
ISBN 978-1-03-532281-7 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

In this timely work, Ross Michael Pink and Luthfi Dhofier detail specific case studies across eight countries to provide a crucial overview of the impacts of climate change. They highlight the importance of the human security paradigm, prioritising the rights of citizens rather than those of nations, to accurately assess this existential issue.Understanding Human Security and Climate Change critically analyses the climate challenges faced across North America, Africa and Asia, and their respective efforts to produce workable solutions. The threats to communities, the economy, healthcare, politics and personhood are compared, as well as the major policies and laws that have been introduced to tackle them. Each chapter contains insightful expert interviews, which contribute towards a better understanding of climate change and its consequences for humanity.This informative book is a vital resource for students and scholars of climate change, environmental policy and international relations. It is also of interest to legal practitioners, environmental policymakers and other professionals working in the environmental and human rights fields.

Wang, Sidan, Communicating Climate Change in China: A Dynamic Discourse Approach. 382 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-932>
ISBN 978-981-9725-14-4 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores how China's media narrate climate policy and climate change. With the rapid growth of economy and carbon emissions, China has been seen as having a key role in addressingclimate change and receives substantial attention from the media. In theChinese coverage, climate change issues can be interpreted as various concernsand ideas involving the dimensions of the economy, energy and emissions, publicinvolvement, science and ecology, and responsibility. In this sense, a discourseapproach can be used to understand how the newspapers construct the climatechange discourse and discourse networks in the coverage. This study selectsthree different newspapers in China, namely People'sDaily, China Daily and Southern Weekend. This book will interest scholars of Chinese politics, environmentalists, and media studies scholars.

Ergin, Meliz, Ecocriticism and Turkey. (Environmental Cultures) 208 pp. 2024:8 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-950>
ISBN 978-1-350-12577-3 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Situated between Europe and Asia, and surrounded by three seas, Turkey comprises a diverse environmental and cultural tapestry. Ecocriticism and Turkey is the first in-depth study to explore Turkish literary and cultural engagements with the environment. Ergin examines a wide range of ecocritical issues across four thematically organized chapters: "Sea," "Climate," "Routes," and "Animals." Each chapter addresses various dimensions of anthropogenic ecological change and highlights the role of literature in inspiring hope and action. The book takes readers on various journeys from the coasts of the Aegean Sea to the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. Ergin converses with both twentieth-century writers to shed new light on familiar texts and contemporary writers to capture emerging perspectives, including Rum, Laz, Kurdish, and Armenian voices in her discussion. The study is further enriched by an interdisciplinary inquiry that brings literature into dialogue with climate science, political history, underwater photography, folk music, and bio-art.

Benjaminsen, Tor A., Climate Security and Climate Justice: Recognizing Context in the Sahel. 176 pp. 2024:9 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-977>
ISBN 978-1-03-532517-7 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

Bringing climate security and climate justice into dialogue, this topical book uses the Sahel as a case study to discuss the contrast between these two approaches and how they tend to lack an engagement with social, historical and political contexts.Tor A. Benjaminsen introduces the international debate on climate security, with a particular focus on Mali as a 'hub' country of the current security crisis in the Western Sahel. Providing a critique of simplistic narratives, he develops the idea of 'recognition' as a neglected aspect of justice in the literature on the Sahel, as well as in policy and media debates. Chapters cover topics including colonization, desertification, and forest governance; pastoralism, moral economies of resistance, and Jihadism; materialist political ecology; and green transformation, afforestation, land dispossession and context. The book ultimately demonstrates how issues of climate justice across Africa are embedded in the politics of social transformation towards low-carbon societies in rich countries.This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of climate justice and climate change, peace and security studies, environmental and development studies, geography and political ecology. Its practical implications are vital to environmental policymakers, NGO employees and climate activists worldwide.

Inogwabini, Bila-Isia, The Congo's Salonga Park: Interactions between Society, Biodiversity and Water in a Humid Tropical Forest. 2024:9 (Brill, NE) <726-983>
ISBN 978-90-04-70340-7 hard ¥21,879.- (税込) EUR 90.00

This book examines interactions between human communities and the global biodiversity that is sheltered by the Salonga National Park. While not being a review of research that has been on-going in the Salonga National Park over several years now, the book takes a bird-eye perspective to look at how the forests, waters and species that occur in the wider Salonga landscape interact to give birth to what the Salonga National Park is. As such, the book treats of the Salonga's wildlife, its forests and waters, and the Salonga National Park's contemporary human history, within the regional framework.

Antonelli, Giovanni / Qin, Tianbao et al. (eds.), Biodiversity Laws, Policies and Science in Europe, the United States and China. 342 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <726-572>
ISBN 978-3-031-56217-4 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book offers an in-depth analysis of and multidisciplinary insights into the latest trends in biodiversity laws, policies and science in Europe, the United States, and China. The loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystems continues at an alarming rate, harming people, the economy, and the climate. As biodiversity cannot be meaningfully addressed by any single field, a multidisciplinary approach is needed to attain a better understanding of its complexity and to identify prevention and protection systems. Each chapter addresses a specific aspect of biodiversity. Taken together, they provide an innovative exploration of the various facets of biodiversity from the perspectives of law, the social sciences and natural sciences. As such, the book offers an essential theoretical and practical guide for academics, experts, policymakers, and students alike.

McCauley, Darren / Field, Tracy-Lynn et al. (eds.), The Future of Just Transitions: Theory and Implementation. 224 pp. 2024:9 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-578>
ISBN 978-1-80220-874-0 hard ¥27,379.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

This book explores the theory and history behind just transitions, highlighting the social and political influences that have shaped the concept, and investigating the challenges it poses. Bridging theory with practice, it assesses critical transitions and advocates for inclusive approaches that manage employment impacts and engage communities in the move towards renewable energy.With a comprehensive coverage of the topic, the book offers both practical advice and theoretical insights, particularly focusing on navigating methodological challenges and understanding quantitative methodologies in the context of transitioning to a low-carbon economy. The book discusses the implications of energy decentralisation for a just transition and the importance of considering distributional justice and spatial injustices to ensure all benefit from the shift towards sustainable energy. Ultimately, it calls for innovative ways to actively involve communities to make sure that everyone's voices are heard in the move to renewable energy, and to manage the employment consequences of transitioning towards a cleaner economy.The Future of Just Transitions is a must-read for scholars, researchers and students of environmental law, energy law and policy, sustainable development, renewable energy technology and global and transnational law. Policymakers, strategists and stakeholders in renewable energy sectors, international agencies and NGOs will also benefit from the book's valuable policy recommendations.

Kuiper, Gerda / Kioko, Eric / Bollig, Michael (eds.), Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya. (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies 34) 360 pp. 2024:7 (Brill, NE) <726-300>
ISBN 978-90-04-69541-2 paper ¥16,287.- (税込) EUR 67.00

This interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive and rich analysis of the century-long socio-ecological transformation of Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Major globalised processes of agricultural intensification, biodiversity conservation efforts, and natural-resource extraction have simultaneously manifested themselves in this one location. These processes have roots in the colonial period and have intensified in the past decades, after the establishment of the cut-flower industry and the geothermal-energy industry. The chapters in this volume exemplify the multiple, intertwined socio-environmental crises that consequently have played out in Naivasha in the past and the present, and that continue to shape its future.

Castan Broto, Vanesa (ed.), Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions: Experiences from Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique. 285 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-317>
ISBN 978-3-031-57937-0 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book engages with the difficulties of delivering community energy in practice, building on practical experiences in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique. In these countries, where many people lack access to electricity, community energy is an alternative to advance universal energy access. This book argues that, besides providing access, community energy is essential for achieving justice and resilience in sustainable energy transitions. Community energy combines off-grid infrastructures with innovative forms of governance to incorporate the perspectives of beneficiaries in the generation and distribution of electricity. Community energy has multiple benefits for communities, such as facilitating the adoption of renewable technologies, providing energy access where it is lacking, and building resilience. They also offer societal benefits beyond beneficiary communities, such as providing additional capacity to existing grids, delivering off-grid services where the grid is absent, and bridging on-grid and off-grid systems. Despite its promises, however, the adoption of community energy has been slow. This book presents a feminist-informed perspective on community energy to advance energy justice that puts disadvantaged communities at the centre of sustainable energy transitions. It also explores the room for manoeuvre within existing regulatory systems, supply chains, and delivery systems to facilitate its development. By engaging with existing experiences in community energy, the book demonstrates the potential of communities to gain control over their energy needs and resources and argues for the need to develop a wide range of transdisciplinary skills among policymakers, technicians and communities to deliver a just energy transition.

Jatto, Abdul L. Abraham, Oil and Gas Pipeline Infrastructure Insecurity: Vandalism, Threats, and Conflicts in the Niger Delta and the Global South. (New Security Challenges) 409 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-319>
ISBN 978-3-031-56931-9 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of infrastructure insecurity issues in the historic Niger Delta, drawing on empirical fieldwork involving host communities, regulators, and multinational oil and gas operators. It introduces innovative models and theories, such as a pipeline life cycle model focusing on community development, community neglect aggression displacement theory, social aggression theory, stakeholders' policy development model, contemporary poor governance cycle model, and an infrastructure insecurity nexus model, linking governance, socio-economic conditions, and infrastructure insecurity in resource-rich regions of the Global South. The book bridges gaps left by previous publications, providing depth and applicability of data. It employs the Frustration- Aggression Displacement theory to explain underlying triggers of violence and uses real-world case studies, diagrams, and charts to facilitate understanding. Suitable and engaging for individuals, communities, or regulators involved in oil and gas activities alike, this book offers valuable insights into onshore pipeline infrastructure insecurity in Nigeria, West Africa, and the broader Global South, addressing regulation, compliance, environmental concerns, social aspects, and technological innovations.

李秀澈、赤尾健一他編　アジアにおけるエネルギー移行と気候変動の諸問題
Lee, Soocheol / Zhang, Shiqiu / Hong, Jong Ho / Nabangchang-Srisawalak, Orapan / Akao, Ken-Ichi et al. (eds.), Energy Transitions and Climate Change Issues in Asia. 270 pp. 2024:7 (Springer, GW) <726-320>
ISBN 978-981-9717-72-9 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

The rapid pace of economic development and urbanization in Asia have led to several major problems such as greenhouse gas emissions, mass consumption, and depletion of natural resources. These problems pose a major threat to a sustainable future for Asia and are hindering many Asian countries' goal of becoming carbon-neutral by the middle of this century. Solving these problems requires a comprehensive understanding of the nature of energy consumption, exploitation of natural resources, and deterioration of the environment.To accelerate the green energy transition and promote efficient resource use in Asia, a range of policy options and joint efforts among Asian countries will be required, including carbon pricing, resource tax reform, the expansion of transition finance, support for the development of low-carbon, and resource-efficient social infrastructure. However, Asia is home to many countries, each in a different stage of economic development and with its own culture and customs. Practical implementation of these policies will require bringing together researchers, policymakers, and citizens to share their knowledge and engage in discussions to generate policy ideas that are appropriate for each country. The purpose of this book is to share theoretical and empirical knowledge and convey policy implications that can be expected to accelerate energy transition and resource use effectiveness toward a sustainable future in Asia.

エネルギーと持続可能性必携－SDGsへの学際的視点
Spataru, Catalina / Lv, Xiaojing / Carvalho, P. (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Energy and Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Sustainable Development Goals. (Elgar Companions to the Sustainable Development Goals) 384 pp. 2024:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-325>
ISBN 978-1-03-530748-7 hard ¥56,199.- (税込) GB￡ 195.00

This Companion provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary review of the future of energy, sustainability, and societal well-being. It explores energy's connection to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using a variety of perspectives from business sustainability, disruptive technologies, law, health and finance.Illustrating a worldwide perspective on energy challenges and sustainability dynamics, this Companion incorporates diversity, recognizes the complex interaction of factors in energy systems and advocates for a holistic understanding to inform sustainable development. Global experts and practitioners investigate key issues including business practices, disruptive technologies, legal considerations, health impacts and sustainable finance. The Companion further emphasizes the collective responsibility for an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future and aligns with the "leave no one behind" commitment in shaping a cleaner, fairer society. The Elgar Companion to Energy and Sustainability is an excellent resource for those working and studying in energy field, and in the interdisciplinary aspects of energy and business sustainability, energy and disruptive technologies, energy and health, energy and law, energy and finance as they will find the range of perspectives on policies and regulations to be thought-provoking. Researchers, policymakers of the SDGs and those looking to incorporate sustainable practices within organizations will also find this Companion to be a useful guide.

Diaconu, Madalina, Aesthetics of Weather. 288 pp. 2024:10 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-150>
ISBN 978-1-350-41665-9 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

In an age of rife consumption and increasing need for consideration of sustainable social practices, an exploration of the aesthetics of weather from various angles becomes vital in shedding light on its importance to our experience of the changing world. In response, offering the first in-depth and nuanced examination of the aesthetics of weather, this book underlines the relevance the concept has for scientific communication, for fostering sustainable patterns of behaviour and for rejecting the environmentally-damaging "consumption" of landscapes and fine weather. In addition, it provides examples taken from global, contemporary popular culture whilst calling attention to the socioeconomic and political dimensions of individual experience, demonstrating and analysing our fascination with, and cultural interpretations of, weather phenomena in our everyday lives. Within its three sections, the volume reinvents traditional phenomenological methods to create socially, politically and historically embedded 'phenomenographies' and explore the importance of aesthetic practices in shaping our experience of weather and climate. It also provides a deeper engagement with general topics, such as the relationship between perception, emotion, imagination, and cognition in our aesthetic experience of the weather, combining these with aesthetic analyses of the so-called "fine weather". With its broad scope of inquiry ranging from Aristotle to eco-phenomenology, from the pioneers of scientific meteorology to contemporary art, and from everyday aesthetics to geoengineering, this book argues that an aesthetics of weather inflected by greater knowledge and the taking of a critical stance towards aestheticism can become a valuable ally to climate ethics in the Anthropocene.

Jones, David (ed.), A Wandering Dance through the Philosophy of Graham Parkes: Comparative Perspectives on Art and Nature. 280 pp. 2024:8 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-151>
ISBN 978-1-350-29130-0 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Inspired by the philosopher Graham Parkes, this collection provides a distinctive study of aesthetics and the climate crisis. Engaging with continental European and East Asian traditions, it challenges our definition of self in the West and asks us to re-evaluate our conventional perspectives. Expert authors present a timely reflection on contemporary issues, explicating the relationship between the human species and the natural world through its connection to the arts, dance and music. Showcasing Parkes's cross-cultural views on Japanese rock gardens, Buddhism, Daoist dance and musical ecology, while drawing on the philosophies of Nietzsche, Heidegger and the Zhuangzi, they demonstrate a diversity of comparative perspectives ranging from the structure of consciousness to discourses of climate change. Through a valuable and systematic treatment of the thought of Parkes, A Wandering Dance through the Philosophy of Graham Parkes makes the case that a restoration of the intimate relation of self and nature is indispensable in understanding our place in the order of things and achieving balance in the world.

有村俊秀、日引聡著　日本における環境経済学と環境政策入門
Arimura, Toshi H. / Hibiki, Akira, Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy in Japan. 141 pp. 2024:8 (Springer, GW) <726-256>
ISBN 978-981-9721-86-3 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This textbook demonstrates how economic theories can be used for environmental policy evaluations. A notable feature of this book is that, unlike most textbooks in environmental economics written in English, it draws on examples from Japan's policy on energy, resource, pollution, and carbon emissions. Policy measures discussed in this book include controls on motor vehicle emissions, pricing of waste disposal, deposit-refund scheme for recycling, carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes. With topics involving transboundary environmental concerns such as climate change, air pollution, and waste management and recycling, the book also integrates international perspectives and provides comparisons of policies across regions and countries. A major objective of this book is to present a concise and accessible introduction to environmental economics as applied to policy evaluations in and beyond Japan. The knowledge available from this book must be very useful for students, policymakers and practitioners who seek environmental policy solutions from an economic point of view. This is an open access book.

移民とSDGs必携
Piper, Nicola / Datta, Kavita (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals. (Elgar Companions to the Sustainable Development Goals) 432 pp. 2024:4 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-279>
ISBN 978-1-80220-450-6 hard ¥59,081.- (税込) GB￡ 205.00

This dynamic Companion explores the connections - and disconnections - between migration and sustainable development as articulated by the UN's Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Providing a critical appraisal of Agenda 2030, it examines the extent to which the SDGs encompass migration and migrant-related experiences within the context of the pledge to 'leave no-one behind'.Presenting intersectional approaches alongside nuanced understandings of crisis and climate change induced mobility, this Companion interrogates the complex linkages and intersections between sustainable development and contemporary migration. Chapters assess the importance of the policy and governance of migration and the SDGs across local, regional, and global scales, drawing on examples from diverse sectors, geographies, and migration corridors. The Companion provides a comprehensive analysis of the importance of inserting migration into SDG debates on a wide range of issues, including poverty and inequality, climate change and food insecurity, education, labour rights, the migrant right to vote, and diaspora finance.This insightful Companion will prove an essential resource to postgraduate students and scholars of development studies, migration studies, human geography, education, and international relations. Its substantive focus on the core development agenda will also benefit policymakers invested in the implementation of the SDGs.

Bellewes, Emile, Ecolinguistics and Environment in Education: Language, Culture and Textual Analysis. (Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics) 264 pp. 2024:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1019>
ISBN 978-1-350-22934-1 hard ¥27,379.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

In the age of ecological crisis, language and discourse are emerging as a new battleground in the environmental debate. With the rise of new environmentalist movements and their subsequent backlash, we are now exposed to a plethora of different and often opposing discourses on the environmental crisis and our relationship with nature. This book argues for the need to develop classroom practices which aid students in critically reviewing and evaluating different perspectives on discourses of environmentalism and sustainability. Remarking that language and humanities teachers are perfectly positioned to play a key role in the development of eco-critical language awareness at this crucial juncture, this book explores how they can help students utilise a critical perspective to navigate the multitude of cultural messages regarding our relationship with nature. Employing ecolinguistics as a form of eco-critical pedagogy, Emile Bellewes presents key concepts underpinning ecolinguistics, before guiding readers through their application in the classroom. Serving as a bridge between critical perspectives on environmental education and forms of discourse analysis, Ecolinguistics and Environment in Education explains how ecolinguistics can be used to carry out detailed linguistic analyses of environmentally significant messages in the classroom.

Bikkina, Nalini / Turaga, Rama Mohana R. (eds.), Climate Change Adaptation: Traditional Wisdom and Cross-Scale Understanding. 151 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-1021>
ISBN 978-981-9710-75-1 hard ¥8,505.- (税込) EUR 34.99

This book discusses how climate change needs to be anchored in indigenous knowledge with reference to resource management, infrastructure, livelihoods, and social institutions, with a unique focus on risks and provenances of resilience available to the local communities. Beyond the scientific know-how on climate change, this volume highlights traditional wisdom, which through its hands-on learning plays a crucial role in amalgamation with cross-scale understanding. It documents the deliberations of a seminar that brought together traditional wisdom and cross-scale understanding of academicians, researchers, practitioners, and grassroots functionaries directly or indirectly working with communities in the area of climate change adaptation and thereby brings together adaptation and allied practices from across a spectrum of specialties and practitioner contexts. It discusses several insights and novel practices and is purported to provide significant research and policy implications in the spirit of thinking globally but acting locally.

Bruckmeier, Karl, The Anthropocene and its Future: The Challenges of Accelerating Social and Ecological Change. 300 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-1022>
ISBN 978-3-031-56648-6 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book analyses the complex social and ecological processes of the Great Acceleration, the Great Transformation, and sustainable development that shape the future of the global society in the twenty-first century. The first process takes place for a longer time, the second over the past thirty years, with attempts to build a sustainable economy and society in the global policy of sustainable development. The processes and their interaction will be discussed with knowledge from inter- and transdisciplinary transformation research, social and political ecology, and theories of modern society. The guiding theoretical concepts for the social-ecological transformation will be clarified: the concepts of acceleration, transformation, and sustainable development, and the societal and ecological processes they include. To obtain a more detailed picture of the changes in the global social-ecological system, different parts of the global transformation, the digital transformation, the transformation of food systems, and the transformation of modes of living in the social lifeworld are described to show the complex changes in the epoch of the Anthropocene more concretely. The global change processes in society and nature are caused by human forces but are difficult to control through policy and governance. With the interdisciplinary integration of concepts and knowledge, it becomes possible to provide a more detailed picture, of the difficulties to achieve a sustainable future society.

Brulle, Robert J. / Roberts, J. T. / Spencer, M. C. (eds.), Climate Obstruction Across Europe. 400 pp. 2024:6 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <726-1023>
ISBN 978-0-19-776204-2 hard ¥29,620.- (税込) US$ 132.00
ISBN 978-0-19-776205-9 paper ¥7,850.- (税込) US$ 34.99

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Understanding climate obstruction is foundational to advancing effective action on the global climate crisis. Starting in the late 1980s, a broad range of actors--including corporations and trade associations acting in coordination with conservative think tanks, foundations, and public relations firms--mounted a long-term effort to oppose action to mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change. This is the first book to document the development and nature of these activities across Europe. Leading teams of experts examine case studies of eleven nations and the European Union. Each team documents the historic development of climate obstruction in the country, the principal organizations involved in these efforts, the strategies and tactics utilized, and the nature of the arguments made to slow or stop climate action. Noting significant differences between countries, the book concludes with ten lessons on climate obstruction across Europe that emerged from the studies. Future research is suggested to aid in better understanding the development of intentional barriers to action on climate change in Europe.

Kallhoff, Angela / Liedauer, Eva (eds.), Greentopia: Utopian Thought in the Anthropocene. (The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics) X, 240 pp. 2024:8 (Springer, GW) <726-1034>
ISBN 978-3-031-56801-5 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Kashwan, Prakash / Hasnain, Aseem, Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action. 224 pp. 2025:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1035>
ISBN 978-1-350-33547-9 hard ¥15,851.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-350-33546-2 paper ¥5,184.- (税込) GB￡ 17.99

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering technologies, and hopefulness of youth climate activism. Decolonizing Environmentalism helps us navigate these emotions and reimagine our approach to environmental stewardship. The authors cast a critical eye on wealthy and influential environmental groups that committed to anti-racist strategies in the wake of the racial awakening of 2020. Yet, they continue to embrace false solutions like carbon markets and biodiversity offsets, which carry deeply racialized consequences. By tracing the roots of these misplaced priorities to detrimental modernity steeped in colonialism and capitalism, the authors call for transformational changes in human-nature relationships. They distil lessons from the divestment movement, which has questioned the fossil fuel industry's moral standing, and food sovereignty activists, who have mobilized global civil society to hold agribusiness corporations accountable. Amidst calls for "apocalyptic optimism," Kashwan and Hasnain offer a radical vision grounded in intersectional ecofeminism, Indigenous sovereignty, and strategies honed in the trenches of transnational environmentalism. In these extraordinary times, Decolonizing Environmentalism invites readers to embark on a transformative journey to embrace anti-racist, emancipatory, and regenerative approaches to environmentalism.

Moore, Rhonda J. (eds.), Climate Change and Mental Health Equity. 600 pp. 2024:8 (Springer, GW) <726-1039>
ISBN 978-3-031-56735-3 hard ¥41,323.- (税込) EUR 169.99

Li, Cheng, Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China. 272 pp. 2025:1 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-639>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4030-6 hard ¥15,708.- (税込) US$ 70.00

The Chinese revolution was a forestry revolution. For decades, tree planting has been at the heart of Chinese environmental endeavors, and forestry is pivotal to its environmentalism and green image more generally. During the Mao era, while forests were razed to fuel rapid increases in industrial production, the "Greening the Motherland" campaign also promoted conservationist tree-planting nationwide. Contested Environmentalisms explores the seemingly contradictory rhetoric and desires of Chinese conservation from the early twentieth century through to the present day. Examining ethnic borderlands, the Beijing political center, and China's growth on the world stage, this book demonstrates the strength of Chinese environmentalism to adapt and survive through tumultuous change lies in what seems to be a weakness: its inconsistency and contestation. Drawing on literary, cinematic, scientific, archival, and digital media sources, Cheng Li investigates the emergence, evolution, and devolution of Chinese conservationist ideas, showing that they acquired their value and assumed their power precisely because of their malleability and adaptability. Li situates Chinese environmental science within the context of global scientific knowledge transfer, probing the dynamics underlying conservationist ideas that energize environmental impulses in China, and shedding light on authoritarian environmentalism from cultural and historical perspectives.

Pia, Andrea E., Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China. (Water and Society) 344 pp. 2024:7 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <725-642>
ISBN 978-1-4214-4884-8 paper ¥11,207.- (税込) US$ 49.95

Explores the growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural minority community in China threatened by climate change.China is experiencing climate whiplash-extreme fluctuations between drought and flooding-that threatens the health and autonomy of millions of people. Set against mounting anxiety over the future of global water supplies, Cutting the Mass Line explores the enduring political, technical, and ethical project of making water available to human communities and ecosystems in a time of drought, infrastructural disrepair, and environmental breakdown. Anthropologist Andrea E. Pia explores essential questions of how to manage water resources from the vantage point of Huize County, a water-challenged, ecologically damaged, multi-ethnic area in rural Yunnan Province. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, archival materials, and statistical data, Pia brings readers inside the inner workings of China's complex water supply ecosystem by exploring the intricate relationships among Chinese water services agencies; water user associations; dam construction sites; party cadres and rural entrepreneurs, mediators, and farmers; and foreign development planners. The climate crisis and the global politics of sustainability and mitigation offer unanticipated leeway for experimental grassroots intrusions in what has traditionally been the sphere of elite regulatory action: water allocation and distribution. Rural residents' efforts to keep access to local water sources and flourish in their own communities are moving the political possibilities of climate and environmental collective action in exciting and unforeseen directions. As the world grapples with challenges to water quality, supply, and control, the impacts of China's resource management strategies will be a provocative and useful study for the future.

Bhar Paul, Kalpita, Ecophenomenology and the Environmental Crisis in the Sundarbans: Towards a Community-Based Ethic. (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies) 214 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-669>
ISBN 978-1-03-256055-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book offers a philosophical analysis of the environmental crisis in the Sundarbans, drawing upon phenomenological narratives and dominant place-making narratives to consider the root cause of the crisis.Contemporary research on the Sundarbans mainly focuses on the impending threat of climate change, natural disasters, as well as increasing human-animal conflict, conservation, and forest access debates, while scholarly works have mostly used environmental impact assessments to offer technocratic, symptom-driven solutions to address the crisis. Instead, this book argues for developing a nuanced understanding of the cause of the crisis by studying islanders' narratives, rather than offering simplistic, symptom-driven measures that do not resolve the underlying issues. By employing a phenomenological research methodology and engaged philosophy framework the book captures the place-based narrative of the environmental changes in the region. This approach impels us to rethink what the Sundarbans is, how the crisis gets manifested in the everyday lives of the islanders, what differences there are in the narratives of the crisis between insiders and outsiders, and what kind of procedural changes are required to protect the Sundarbans as a living ecosystem instead of a natural museum.The book's phenomenological depth and theoretical clarity will elicit deep interest from within academia and among practitioners working in environmental studies, philosophy, human ecology, and island studies. The convergence of conceptual understandings and field narratives will also draw the interest of research students working in correlated fields.

Morris, Christopher, Biotraffic: Medicines and Environmental Governance in the Afterlives of Apartheid. 302 pp. 2024:10 (U. California Pr., US) <725-68>
ISBN 978-0-520-40401-4 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40402-1 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Biotraffic explores the complex world of biological resource trade. It takes readers inside the contemporary Ciskei region of South Africa, a once-notorious apartheid "homeland" turned extractive hub for wild medicinal plants. Drawing from in-depth ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, Christopher Morris examines the region's trade in Pelargonium sidoides, a plant once contested as a tuberculosis treatment in early twentieth-century Europe and now an internationally marketed remedy for the common cold. The story of this trade links past and present, encapsulating a larger tale about colonial legacies and their intersection with global environmental governance ambitions. It also teems with a diverse cast of actors, from plant harvesters and pharmaceutical companies to activist NGOs and the chiefs who have become business partners with multinational drug firms. The book's analysis extends beyond considering merely the extraction and commercialization of plant resources and offers a critical examination of how demand for therapeutics intertwines with broader struggles over land and political power in South Africa. Biotraffic illuminates how a distance-defying trade is reshaping the sociopolitical landscape of a region-a region grappling with apartheid's afterlives and the challenges of environmental and economic justice.

Barak, On, Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet. 322 pp. 2024:8 (U. California Pr., US) <725-706>
ISBN 978-0-520-39869-6 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40392-5 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Shifts the conversation from abstract "global warming" to the deeply human impacts of heat-and how our efforts to keep cool have made the problem worse. Despite the flames of record-breaking temperatures licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of environmental overheating. What acquired habits and conveniences allow us to turn a blind eye with an air of detachment? Using examples from the hottest places on earth, Heat, a History shows how scientific methods of accounting for heat and modern forms of acclimatization have desensitized us to climate change. Ubiquitous air conditioning, shifts in urban planning, and changes in mobility have served as temporary remedies for escaping the heat in hotspots such as the twentieth-century Middle East. However, all of these measures have ultimately fueled not only greenhouse gas emissions but also a collective myopia regarding the impact of rising temperatures. Identifying the scientific, economic, and cultural forces that have numbed our responses, this book charts a way out of short-term thinking and towards meaningful action.

McKittrick, Meredith, Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid. (science.culture) 328 pp. 2024:10 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-744>
ISBN 978-0-226-83180-0 hard ¥25,806.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-83469-6 paper ¥7,293.- (税込) US$ 32.50

How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers' visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa's climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, while nineteenth-century missionaries and explorers had found riverbeds, seashells, and other evidence of a verdant past deep in the Kalahari Desert. Government experts insisted, however, that the rains weren't disappearing; the land, long susceptible to periodic drought, had been further degraded by settler farmers' agricultural practices-an explanation that white South Africans rejected. So when the geologist Ernest Schwarz blamed the land itself, the farmers listened. Schwarz held that erosion and topography had created arid conditions, that rainfall was declining, and that agriculture was not to blame. As a solution, he proposed diverting two rivers to the Kalahari's basins, creating a lush country where white South Africans could thrive. This plan, which became known as the Kalahari Thirstland Redemption Scheme, was rejected by most scientists. But it found support among white South Africans who worried that struggling farmers undermined an image of racial superiority. Green Lands for White Men explores how white agriculturalists in southern Africa grappled with a parched and changing terrain as they sought to consolidate control over a Black population. Meredith McKittrick's timely history of the Redemption Scheme reveals the environment to have been central to South African understandings of race. While Schwarz's plan was never implemented, it enjoyed sufficient support to prompt government research into its feasibility, and years of debate. McKittrick shows how white farmers rallied around a plan that represented their interests over those of the South African state and delves into the reasons behind this schism between expert opinion and public perception. This backlash against the predominant scientific view, McKittrick argues, displayed the depth of popular mistrust in an expanding scientific elite. A detailed look at the intersection of a settler society, climate change, white nationalism, and expert credibility, Green Lands for White Men examines the reverberations of a scheme that ultimately failed but influenced ideas about race and the environment in South Africa for decades to come.

Greenleaf, Maron E., Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon. 288 pp. 2024:11 (Duke U. Pr., US) <725-772>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2685-3 hard ¥23,549.- (税込) US$ 104.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3108-6 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95

Forest Lost is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest commodities, forest carbon offsets do not involve resource extraction; instead, they require keeping carbon in place through forest protection. Maron Greenleaf explores forest carbon offsets to understand green capitalism-the use of capitalist logics and practices to mitigate environmental damage. She traces cultural, environmental, governmental, material, and multispecies relations involved in making forest carbon valuable and how forest carbon's commodification in the Amazon turned it into a source of redistributable public environmental wealth. At the same time, Greenleaf shows how making forest carbon monetarily valuable created an unexpected set of uneven, contingent, and contested social and political relations. While forest carbon in the Amazon demonstrates that green capitalism can be socially inclusive, it also shows that green capitalism can reinforce the marginalization it purportedly seeks to combat. By outlining these complex relations and tensions, Greenleaf elucidates broader efforts to create a capitalism suited to the Anthropocene and those efforts' alluring promises and vexing failures.

High, Casey, Translating Worlds, Defending Land: Collaborations for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Politics in Amazonia. 224 pp. 2025:2 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-775>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4048-1 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4146-4 paper ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00

In 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists, lawyers, and other Indigenous groups, they successfully sued the government for selling oil concessions without prior consent. Placing their struggle for territorial autonomy in the global spotlight, this unprecedented legal victory for environmental rights by an Indigenous people reflected the new forms of collaboration emerging in contemporary Amazonia. Translating Worlds, Defending Land explores how Waorani collaborations, whether with environmentalists or academic researchers, bring about new possibilities, challenges, and imaginative horizons. Based on fieldwork over a period of twenty-five years, Casey High interrogates what these engagements mean for Indigenous communities and how they offer critical reflection on collaboration as a concept, method, and practice. The alliances, misunderstandings, and conflicts that emerge in these contexts challenge the assumption that productive collaborations reflect-or require-shared purposes, generating important implications for an engaged anthropology open to reconsidering what constitutes ethnographic knowledge and who it is for. As some young Waorani adults become not just community leaders or environmental citizens, but also skilled researchers and ethnographers, translating between Indigenous understandings of land and the Western language conservation, they create a powerful new voice in international environmental politics.

Sohngen, Brent / Southgate, Douglas, Reversing Deforestation: How Market Forces and Local Ownership Are Saving Forests in Latin America. 256 pp. 2024:12 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-789>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3025-3 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4139-6 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00

Dire reports of surging deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon appear often in international headlines, with commentators decrying the destruction of tree-covered habitats as an act of environmental vandalism. Although forest losses are alarming, broader trends are bending in the direction of forest recovery. In this book, Brent Sohngen and Douglas Southgate address the long-term recovery of forests in Latin America. The authors synthesize trends in demography, agricultural development, and technological change, and argue that slower population growth and increasing crop and tree yields-in conjunction with protecting local ownership of natural resources-have encouraged forest transition. This book explores how market forces, ownership arrangements, and the enforcement of property rights have influenced this shift from net deforestation to net afforestation. Forest transitions have happened before, such as the recovery of tree-covered habitats in Europe and the United States. Signs of a similar transformation in land use are now present in Latin America. Ending deforestation requires a strengthening of forest dwellers' property rights while ensuring that biodiversity conservation is no longer treated as a value-less externality. The resulting forest landscape, actively managed for ecosystem services, will be more resilient, as is needed to overcome climate change.

Baker, Zeke, Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future. 367 pp. 2024:10 (U. California Pr., US) <725-792>
ISBN 978-0-520-40129-7 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40130-3 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

After decades of debate about global warming, the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted. People at all scales-from the household to the global market-are attempting to govern climate to deal with its causes and impacts. Although the stakes are different now, governing climate is centuries old. In this book, Zeke Baker develops a genealogy of climate science that traces the relationship between those who have created knowledge of the climate and those who have attempted to gain power and govern society, right up to the present, historic moment. Baker draws together over two centuries of science, politics, and environmental change to demonstrate the "co-production" of climate knowledge and power-seeking activity, with a focus on the United States. This book provides a fresh account of contemporary issues transecting science and climate politics, specifically the rise of "climate security," and examines how climate science can either facilitate or reconcile the unequal distribution of power and resources.

Bhat, Sartaj Ahmad / Kumar, Vineet et al. (eds.), Environmental Nexus Approach: Management of Water, Waste, and Soil. (Environmental Nexus in Waste Management) 456 pp. 2024:8 (CRC Pr., US) <725-796>
ISBN 978-1-03-245029-2 hard ¥40,348.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

Environmental Nexus Approach: Management of Water, Waste, and Soil provides the linkages between environmental resources, such as water, waste, and soil, to deal with the sustainable management of resources. It shows the nexus approach as a policy-relevant means of environmental management by focusing on integrated management of water, waste, and soil resources. It synthesizes interdisciplinary theory, concepts, definitions, models, and findings involved in complex global sustainability problem-solving, making it an essential guide and reference. It includes real-world examples and applications making the book accessible to a broader interdisciplinary readership. Features: Explores cutting-edge developments in the environmental nexus approach of water, waste, and soil. Introduces the key mechanisms regarding antibiotic resistance genes, microplastics, and other emerging contaminants in the water, waste, and soil nexus. Investigates the fate and behavior of heavy metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, plastics, and pesticides in soil systems and their risk assessment. Provides insights into the latest developments, current research perspectives, technology development, critical thinking and societal requirements of the environmental nexus between water, waste, and soil.This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in environmental science and engineering, environmental engineering, and waste management.

Caison, Gina, Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance. 280 pp. 2024:11 (Duke U. Pr., US) <725-797>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2691-4 hard ¥23,549.- (税込) US$ 104.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3116-1 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95

In Erosion, Gina Caison traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a material reality that shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and environment. Examining canonical American texts and photography including The Grapes of Wrath, Octavia Butler's Parable series, John Audubon's Louisiana writings, and Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, Caison shows how concerns over erosion reveal anxieties of disappearance that are based in the legacies of settler colonialism. Soil loss not only occupies a complex metaphorical place in the narrative of American identity; it becomes central to preserving the white settler-colonial state through Indigenous dispossession and erasure. At the same time, Caison examines how Indigenous texts and art, such as Lynn Riggs's play Green Grow the Lilacs, Karenne Wood's poetry, and the photography of Monique Verdin, challenge colonial narratives of the continent by outlining the material stakes of soil loss for their own communities. From California to Oklahoma to North Carolina's Outer Banks, Caison ultimately demonstrates that concerns over erosion reverberate out into issues of climate change, land ownership, Indigenous sovereignty, race, and cultural and national identity.

気候変動を感じる－いかに感情が気候の緊急事態への対応を支配しているか
Davidson, Debra J., Feeling Climate Change: How Emotions Govern Our Responses to the Climate Emergency. 290 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-798>
ISBN 978-1-03-246281-3 hard ¥34,584.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-03-246276-9 paper ¥9,507.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99

Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change illuminates what the pathways from emotions to social change look like - and how they work - so we can recognize and inform our collective attempts to avert further climate catastrophe.Debra J. Davidson engages with how our actions are governed by a complex of rules, norms and predispositions, central among which operates our emotionality, to assess individual and collective responses to the climate crisis, applying a critical and constructive analysis of human social prospects for confronting the climate emergency in manners that minimize the damage and perhaps even enhance the prospects for meaningful collective living.Providing a crucial understanding of our emotionality and its role in individual behavior, collective action, and ultimately in social change, this book offers researchers, policymakers and citizens essential insights to our personal and collective responses to the climate emergency.

Dunlop, Catherine Tatiana, The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France. 192 pp. 2024:10 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-800>
ISBN 978-0-226-82754-4 hard ¥7,293.- (税込) US$ 32.50

An in-depth look at the hidden power of the mistral wind and its effect on modern French history. Every year, the chilly mistral wind blows through the Rhone valley of southern France, across the Camargue wetlands, and into the Mediterranean Sea. Most forceful when winter turns to spring, the wind knocks over trees, sweeps trains off their tracks, and destroys crops. Yet the mistral turns the sky clear and blue, as it often appears in depictions of Provence. The legendary wind is central to the area's regional identity and has inspired artists and writers near and far for centuries. This force of nature is the focus of Catherine Dunlop's The Mistral, a wonderfully written examination of the power of the mistral wind, and in particular, the ways it challenged central tenets of nineteenth-century European society: order, mastery, and predictability. As Dunlop shows, while the modernizing state sought liberation from environmental realities through scientific advances, land modification, and other technological solutions, the wind blew on, literally crushing attempts at control, and becoming increasingly integral to regional feelings of place and community.

Ensor, Sarah, Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World. (Sexual Cultures) 280 pp. 2025:2 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-802>
ISBN 978-1-4798-2944-6 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-2947-7 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

What queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapse What does it mean to be at the end of life, the end of a family line, the end of a species, or the end of the future itself? To be "at the last" is often a terrifying prospect, but what would it mean if only the lasting remained? When faced with the abrupt end to the continuities of ecology and nature, environmentalists often limit the conversation by focusing on the 'future.' Activists work for the welfare of future generations, while scientists labor over projections of future outcomes. In Queer Lasting, Sarah Ensor asks what this emphasis on the future makes unthinkable. She turns to queer scenes of futurelessness to consider what ecocriticism can learn from queer theory, which imagines and inhabits the immanent ethical possibilities of the present. Defining queerness as a mode of collective life in which these paradigms of lasting-persisting and ending-are constitutively intertwined, Sarah Ensor turns to two periods of queer extinction for models of care, continuance, and collective action predicated on futurelessness: the 1890s, in which existing forms of erotic affiliation were extinguished through the binary of homo/heterosexuality, and the 1980s spread of the AIDS epidemic, which threatened the total loss of gay lives and specific erotic ways of life. Through readings that trace unexpected formal resonances across the works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, Allen Barnett, and Samuel Delany, Queer Lasting maintains that queer writing, in its many-shaded intimacy with death, offers us a rich archive to produce new ways of thinking through our environmental cataclysm. Whether confronting the epidemic contours of the AIDS crisis, theorizing the temporary encounters of cruising, or reckoning with the lives of non-reproductive subjects, this book about futurelessness is also a book about persistence. It demonstrates how, far from giving up in the face of the paradigms that environmentalism avoids, queer culture has instead predicated its living-and its lasting-upon them.

Ervin, Alexander M., Exploring Political Ecology: Issues, Problems, and Solutions to the Climate Change Crisis. 248 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-803>
ISBN 978-1-03-280146-9 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-279907-0 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This book explores some of the conditions and underlying causes of the multiple environmental crises facing humanity. Rooted in anthropology, but multidisciplinary in scope, it surveys the many socio-cultural and socio-economic errors, foibles, and follies that brought us to these circumstances. Crucially and uniquely, it outlines an array of viable and practical solutions, some of which are radically different from the current status quo and cultural expectations. The first chapter canvasses the emerging, interdisciplinary field of political ecology, then Part I examines details and trends in agriculture. Part II portrays the threats posed by carbon dependent and combustive technologies as well as the hydro and nuclear energy systems now powering the majority of human actions in developed parts of the world and expanding beyond. The third part turns to consider solutions, including green new deals, de-growth policies, localization, agroecology, alternative energy systems, and many more possibilities. The conclusions engage with urgent moral and legal issues and outline social movement strategies-all related to our collective neglect of climate change-and then finally speculate upon possible futures. This book is key reading for researchers and students interested in climate change across the social and physical sciences and humanities.

考古学とプラスチック・ハンドブック
Godin, Genevieve et al. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics. 720 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-805>
ISBN 978-1-03-222372-8 hard ¥59,081.- (税込) GB￡ 205.00

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics investigates the archaeology of the contemporary world through the lens of its most distinguishing and problematic material.Plastics are ubiquitous and have been so for nearly three generations since they became widely used in the early 1950s. Plastics will persist for millennia, their legacies as toxic heritage being felt deep into the future. In this book - comprising 32 original, at times disturbing, and critically engaged contributions - scholars from archaeology and other cognate disciplines explore plastics from a number of different angles and perspectives. Together these contributions highlight the dilemma that plastics present: their usefulness on the one hand, and the threats they present to environmental health on the other. The volume also explores the lessons that archaeologists can learn from plastics, about episodes of mass production, consumption and toxicity in the past, and also - importantly - about the future.This important and timely collection will therefore be of interest to all archaeologists irrespective of their period of study, or their geographical focus, and to students of archaeology and cultural heritage. It will also be relevant for researchers and students in other fields of study that focus on plastics and their environmental and social impacts. Ultimately, this book concerns the contemporary world and the impact of people upon it, through the archaeological lens.

海水面－歴史
Hardenberg, Wilko Graf von, Sea Level: A History. (Oceans in Depth) 200 pp. 2024:8 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-807>
ISBN 978-0-226-83183-1 hard ¥6,171.- (税込) US$ 27.50

Traces a commonplace average-sea level-from its origins in charting land to its emergence as a symbol of global warming. News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and coastal communities. The baseline for these measurements-sea level-may seem unremarkable, a long-familiar zero point for altitude. But as Wilko Graf von Hardenberg reveals, the history of defining and measuring sea level is intertwined with national ambitions, commercial concerns, and shifting relationships between people and the ocean. Sea Level provides a detailed and innovative account of how mean sea level was first defined, how it became the prime reference point for surveying and cartography, and how it emerged as a powerful mark of humanity's impact on the earth. With Hardenberg as our guide, we traverse the muddy spaces of Venice and Amsterdam, the coasts of the Baltic Sea, the Panama and Suez canals, and the Himalayan foothills. Born out of Enlightenment studies of physics and quantification, sea level became key to state-sponsored public works, colonial expansion, Cold War development of satellite technologies, and recognizing the climate crisis. Mean sea level, Hardenberg reveals, is not a natural occurrence-it has always been contingent, the product of people, places, politics, and evolving technologies. As global warming transforms the globe, Hardenberg reminds us that a holistic understanding of the ocean and its changes requires a multiplicity of reference points. A fascinating story that revises our assumptions about land and ocean alike, Sea Level calls for a more nuanced understanding of this baseline, one that allows for new methods and interpretations as we navigate an era of unstable seas.

Jose Sousa, Maria / Chekole Workneh, Tewabe et al. (eds.), Blockchain as a Technology for Environmental Sustainability. 250 pp. 2024:8 (CRC Pr., US) <725-810>
ISBN 978-1-03-219797-5 hard ¥40,348.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

At a time of growing environmental concerns and an urgent need for sustainable solutions, the intersection of blockchain technology and environmental sustainability is emerging as a powerful force for positive change. The environmental challenges of our time, including climate change, resource scarcity and the destruction of ecosystems, require innovative solutions that transcend geographical and political boundaries. Blockchain technology, with its decentralized and transparent nature, can not only track and verify environmental efforts, but also incentivize them.

Low, Setha (ed.), Beach Politics: Social, Racial, and Environmental Injustice on the Shoreline. 336 pp. 2025:1 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-814>
ISBN 978-1-4798-2194-5 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-2195-2 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globe Beaches are a beloved form of public space. Yet there has been an alarming global trend of restricting access to public sections of beaches to ensure that waterfront property owners can enjoy the shoreline exclusively or develop the land for commercial use. Beach Politics examines how over the past forty years, privatization of public space has accelerated with the help of both local governments and national corporations. On a local level, this can entail a group of wealthy neighbors purposely blocking off public beach access in their neighborhood: hiring security guards, building fences, or putting up "No Trespassing" signs to turn away members of the public who have every right to be there. On a state or national level, it can manifest as gated communities owned by private corporations sectioning off huge swaths of land, limiting access, or governments promoting private, rather than public, development along the shoreline. Whenever disputes about land use arise, the powers that be often side with private interests and the wealthy over those with fewer resources and, frequently, people of color. Focused on beaches, access to public space, and social justice, this book brings together powerful contributions illustrating how these issues are inextricably bound with socioeconomic status, racial segregation, and climate justice. Together they highlight how, through illegal actions and exclusionary legislation, the beach can be transformed from "a strip of nature" into a palimpsest of greed, racism, ecological disregard, and socioeconomic discrimination.

R.カーソンとクイアの愛の力
Maxwell, Lida, Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love. 168 pp. 2025:1 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-815>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4053-5 hard ¥5,610.- (税込) US$ 25.00

Reading Silent Spring as an outgrowth of Rachel Carson's love with Dorothy Freeman, Maxwell argues for the power of queer love now in the fight against climate change. There is something major missing from most accounts of Silent Spring and its impact: namely, Dorothy Freeman, with whom Rachel Carson had a love relationship for over a decade. Freeman had a summer house with her husband, Stan, on the island of Southport, Maine, where Carson settled after the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us. Correspondence shows the women developing strong feelings as they connect over their shared pleasure in the rocky coast. In this moving new book, political theorist Lida Maxwell offers close readings that suggest Carson's relationship with Freeman was central to her writing of Silent Spring-a work whose defense of vibrant nonhuman nature allowed Carson and Freeman's love to flourish and for the pair to become their most authentic selves. What Maxwell calls Carson and Freeman's "queer love" unsettled their heteronormative ideas of the good life as based in bourgeois private life, and led Carson to an increasingly critical view of capitalism and its effects on nonhuman nature and human lives alike. From these women's experience Maxwell compellingly makes the case for an alternative democratic climate politics based on learning how to tune into authentic desire. Read through this lens, Carson's work begins to look different and shows us not that the human incursion into nature is dangerous, but that a particular relationship is: the loveless using up of nature for capitalism. When Carson and Freeman correspond in excited detail about the algae, anemones, and veery thrushes of the Maine coast, they give us a glimpse of a different, more loving use of nature. Inspired by Carson and Freeman's deep care for one another, Maxwell reveals how a form of loving available to all of us can help reshape political desire amidst contemporary environmental crises.

Middleton, Nick, The Global Casino: An Introduction to Environmental Issues. 7th ed. 728 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-819>
ISBN 978-1-03-249702-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-249703-7 paper ¥13,830.- (税込) GB￡ 47.99

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur. Using examples from all over the world, the book highlights the underlying causes behind environmental problems, the human actions which have made them issues and the hopes for solutions. It is a book about the human impact on the environment and the ways in which the natural environment impacts human society.The seventh edition has been fully revised and updated throughout, with new case studies, figures and online resources comprising a complete lecture course for tutors and multiple-choice questions for students. New concepts and topics covered for the first time in this edition include the blue economy, marine heatwaves, Africa's Great Green Wall, rewilding, net-zero commitments, nature-based solutions, emerging contaminants in global rivers, green infrastructure in sustainable cities, initiatives promoting zero-emission vehicles, and zoonotic diseases (including the COVID-19 pandemic). New case studies include gender impact assessment of big dams in Laos and Vietnam, reducing food loss and waste, liming sugar maple trees in North America to counteract soil acidification and soil erosion and poverty in Rwanda. Eighteen chapters on key issues follow three initial chapters which outline the background contexts of the physical and human environments and the concept of sustainable development. Each chapter provides historical context for key issues, outlines why they have arisen and highlights areas of controversy and uncertainty to appraise how issues can be resolved both technically and in political and economic frameworks. Each chapter also contains an updated critical guide to further reading-most of them open access-and websites, talks and podcasts, as well as discussion points and essay questions. The text can be read in its entirety or individual chapters adopted as standalone reading.This book is an essential resource for students of the environment, geography, development studies and earth sciences. It provides comprehensive and inspirational coverage of all the major global environmental issues of the day in a style that is clear, concise and critical.