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

Sinai, Agnes (dir.), Politiques de l'anthropocene. (References) 600 p. 2021:11 (Presses de Sciences Po, FR) <669-869>
ISBN 978-2-7246-3785-4 paper ¥5,591.- (税込) EUR 23.00

Stickle, Ben (ed.), Field Studies in Environmental Criminology. 160 pp. 2022:3 (Routledge, UK) <669-777>
ISBN 978-1-03-214633-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book includes fieldwork from five continents and demonstrates the breadth of techniques used by environmental criminologists to understand crime.Environmental criminologists seek to understand crime within the physical, and even digital, contexts where it occurs - believing that crime occurs when people converge in time and space and that the environment impacts the opportunity for crime. Understanding the environment aids the researcher in answering an essential question: what can be done to alter the place to prevent or reduce crime? However, to understand complex environmental influences, researchers need to engage in fieldwork. Fieldwork involves researchers entering the environment they are studying to observe, listen, and experience the surroundings in a way that influences their understanding of the place and people in the environment. This book highlights the broad array of crime types - from package theft in the suburbs to poaching in the Nile basin - that environmental criminology is well suited to address. Finally, it advances methods and techniques, tests established protocols, and offers reflections on experiences during fieldwork, demonstrating the value of the techniques for environmental criminology and offering solutions to crime problems.The chapters in this book were originally published in special issues of Criminal Justice Studies.

Agacinski, Daniel / Beaucher, Romain / Danion, Celine, L'Etat qu'il nous faut: des relations a renouer dans le nouveau regime climatique. (Au fil du debat. Action publique) 157 p. 2021:11 (Berger-Levrault, FR) <669-851>
ISBN 978-2-7013-2163-9 paper ¥4,618.- (税込) EUR 19.00

Chemhuru, Munamato, Environmental Justice in African Philosophy. (Routledge Studies in African Philosophy) 168 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <669-65>
ISBN 978-1-03-200667-3 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book focuses on environmental justice in African philosophy, highlighting important new perspectives which will be of significance to researchers with an interest in environmental ethics both within Africa and beyond. Drawing on African social and ethical conceptions of existence, the book makes suggestions for how to derive environmental justice from African philosophies such as communitarian ethics, relational ethics, unhu/ubuntu ethics, ecofeminist ethics and intergenerational ethics. Specifically, the book emphasises the ways in which African philosophies of existence seek to involve everyone in environmental policy and planning and to equitably distribute both environmental benefits (such as natural resources) and environmental burdens (such as pollution and the location of mining, industrial or dumping sites). This extends to fair distribution between global South and global North, rich and poor, urban and rural populations, men and women and adults and children. These principles of humaneness, relationships, equality, interconnectedness and teleologically oriented existence among all beings are important not only to African environmental justice but also to the environmental justice movement globally. The book will interest researchers and students working in the fields of environmental ethics, African philosophy and political philosophy in general.

Eggan, Taylor, Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination. (Under the Sign of Nature) 296 pp. 2022:1 (U. Virginia Pr., US) <669-70>
ISBN 978-0-8139-4683-2 hard ¥25,806.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8139-4684-9 paper ¥8,863.- (税込) US$ 39.50 *

The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity's displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis's homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in eco-phenomenology. If only we can reestablish our sense of material enmeshment in nature, so the logic goes, we might reverse the degradation we humans have wrought-and in saving the earth we can once again dwell in the nearness of our own being.Unsettling Nature opens with a meditation on the trouble with such ecological homecoming narratives, which bear a close resemblance to narratives of settler colonial homemaking. Taylor Eggan demonstrates that the Heideggerian strain of eco-phenomenology-along with its well-trod categories of home, dwelling, and world-produces uncanny effects in settler colonial contexts. He reads instances of nature's defamiliarization not merely as psychological phenomena but also as symptoms of the repressed consciousness of coloniality. The book at once critiques Heidegger's phenomenology and brings it forward through chapters on Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Olive Schreiner, Doris Lessing, and J. M. Coetzee. Suggesting that alienation may in fact be "natural" to the human condition and hence something worth embracing instead of repressing, Unsettling Nature concludes with a speculative proposal to transform eco-phenomenology into "exo-phenomenology"-an experiential mode that engages deeply with the alterity of others and with the self as its own Other.

Amirante, Domenico / Bagni, Silvia (eds.), Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene: Values, Principles and Actions. (Juris Diversitas) 304 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <669-705>
ISBN 978-1-03-200717-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book examines the relationship between man and nature through different cultural approaches to encourage new environmental legislation as a means of fostering acceptance at a local level. In 2019, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) recognised that we have entered a new era, the Anthropocene, specifically characterised by the impact of one species, mankind, on environmental change. The Anthropocene is penetrating the discourse of both hard sciences and humanities and social sciences, by posing new epistemological as well as practical challenges to many disciplines. Legal sciences have so far been at the margins of this intellectual renewal, with few contributions on the central role that the notion of Anthropocene could play in forging a more effective and just environmental law. By applying a multidisciplinary approach and adopting a Law as Culture paradigm to the study of law, this book explores new paths of investigation and possible solutions to be applied. New perspectives for the constitutional framing of environmental policies, rights, and alternative methods for bottom-up participatory law-making and conflict resolution are investigated, showing that environmental justice is not just an option, but an objective within reach.The book will be essential reading for students, academics, and policymakers in the areas of law, environmental studies and anthropology.

Tamil Selvan, Ramadoss / Ramakrishna, Seeram, Sustainability for Beginners: Introduction and Business Prospects. 200 pp. 2022:9 (World Scientific, SI) <669-566>
ISBN 978-981-12-4193-2 hard ¥21,991.- (税込) US$ 98.00 *
ISBN 978-981-12-4316-5 paper ¥10,771.- (税込) US$ 48.00 *

This book provides a basic introduction to Sustainability & Sustainable Developments, integrated with current business models and future business prospects. In 10 chapters, the authors cover a wide array of topics comprehensively, in an accessible style of language that will appeal to the uninitiated. Many eye-catching self-illustrated artworks, coupled with in-depth analyses of numerous case studies, allow the reader to grasp the theoretical concepts with ease. Multiple-choice exercises at the end of every chapter (with answers provided) further aid readers in verifying their own understanding. Sustainability for Beginners hopes to encourage effective learning, improve abstract thinking, and culminate sustainable entrepreneurship among students and innovators.

Saarinen, Jarkko / Fitchett, J. / Hoogendoorn, G. (eds.), Climate Change and Tourism in Southern Africa. (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research) 192 pp. 2022:3 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <669-637>
ISBN 978-0-367-56750-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-60942-9 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book explores the nature of climate change in southern Africa, its impacts on tourism and the resilience, adaptation and governance needs in various tourism operations and environments. Previous studies on climate change and tourism have mainly focused on the Global North and specific forms of tourism such as snow-based winter activities. Drawing on case studies from a wide range of countries including South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, this book fills this lacuna by describing and analysing the climate change and tourism nexus in the southern African context. The book begins by providing an overview of the current and estimated impacts of climate change to the tourism industry in the region, highlighting the deepening socio-economic inequities, and environmental and social injustices. It focuses on the importance of sustainable tourism in tackling these issues and highlights that resilience and robust governance and policy systems are essential for a tourism destination to successfully adapt to change. By synthesising the key lessons learned through this analysis, Climate Change and Tourism in Southern Africa also draws attention to specific adaptation and policy strategies which have value for other regions in the Global South. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, tourism and environmental policy and justice.

Lang, Yvonne (ed.), Influence of Microplastics on Environmental and Human Health: Key Considerations and Future Perspectives. 112 pp. 2022:2 (CRC Pr., US) <669-458>
ISBN 978-0-367-61217-7 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

Microplastics have received increased attention in the research world over the last ten years. A number of significant publications by the World Health Organisation, European Union, SAPEA, and GESAMP have highlighted this growing environmental and health emergency.This book provides an accessible introduction to the microplastic problem and details its potential impact both on nature and human health. Filled with the latest developments in the field, it attempts to address the gaps in our knowledge of microplastics and also proposes additional areas of research and impact to be considered to resolve this crisis. It will be of interest to researchers and academics working in the areas of microplastic pollution, microplastic detection, and the impact of microplastics on environmental and human health. It will also be of use to undergraduate students of environmental programmes, analytical programmes, and public health programmes.Key Features: Chapters describe the impact of our reliance on plastics in certain sectors and how they relate to microplastic pollution Investigates emerging solutions to the microplastic pollution Presents a multi-disciplinary perspective, covering topics such as analytical techniques, quantitative techniques, environmental monitoring, and human health monitoring

Angeli, Federica / Metz, Ashley / Raab, Joerg, Organizing for Sustainable Development: Addressing the Grand Challenges. 224 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <669-516>
ISBN 978-0-367-19768-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-19769-8 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the increasingly complex, interdependent nature of societal and environmental issues for governments and business. Tackling such "grand challenges" requires the concerted action of a multitude of organizations and multiple stakeholders at different levels in the public, private, and non-profit sector.Organizing for Sustainable Development provides an integrated and comparative overview of the successes and failures of organizational efforts to tackle global societal issues and achieve sustainable development. Summarizing years of study by an interdisciplinary board of authors and contributors, this book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of how existing businesses and new hybrid organizations can achieve sustainable development to bring about an improved society, marking a key contribution to the literature in this field.Combining theoretical views with empirical approaches, the chapters in this book are highly relevant to graduate and undergraduate (multidisciplinary) programs in sustainable development, organization studies, development economics, development studies, international management, and social entrepreneurship.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Falsarone, Alessia, The Impact Challenge: Reframing Sustainability for Businesses. (Impactful Data Science) 184 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <669-534>
ISBN 978-1-03-207950-9 hard ¥31,702.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *

This book explores the role of businesses in delivering positive societal and financial outcomes as they seek to bridge the gap between short-term organizational behaviors and long-range sustainability commitments. By addressing the inevitable data challenges associated with the strategic integration of a sustainability mindset, it enables faster adoption of social, environmental and governance metrics that generate lasting enterprise value. Inspired by the experience of practitioners that have successfully influenced the learning behaviors of complex organizations, this book helps readers drive systemic innovations as they leverage sustainability initiatives in a programmatic and intentional manner.Features: Defines a toolkit to generate sustainable business value by focusing on the organizational design underpinning sustainability-oriented initiatives. Provides a multidisciplinary lens on shaping the impact dialogue through applied frameworks. Discusses the need to analytically identify an organizational learning curve before developing impact targets and framing sustainability commitments around them. Combines theory and practice in a practical style by presenting a variety of real-life applications at a global level.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Valaguzza, Sara / Hughes, Mark Alan (eds.), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change for Sustainable Growth. (Natural Resource Management and Policy 47) 342 pp. 2022 (Springer, GW) <669-395>
ISBN 978-3-030-87563-3 hard ¥41,323.- (税込) EUR 169.99 *

The book is an edited collection of contributions by a distinguished international panel of academics on the main scientific, juridical, and economic aspects involved in the mitigation and adaptation processes imposed by climate change. Explicitly interdisciplinary, the book transversally cuts through different disciplines offering an outline of a phenomenon that is too often left to specific and sectorial insights. The volume is divided into four parts. The first part introduces the main concepts of the book: climate change and sustainability, wellbeing, and mitigation and adaptation. The second part presents the scientific understanding of climate change and explores some of the more pressing issues driving policy development, such as the melting of the glaciers and the impact on coastal areas. The third part discusses significant experiences in the environmental policies both in the European Union and in the United States of America. The last section explains possible approaches to climate change, by exploring the legal and economic aspects of both adversarial and more lenient approaches towards a more sustainable world. It faces four main issues in the economic and juridical context: consumer behaviors, climate litigations, environmental litigations and the alternative forms of dispute resolution on environmental matters, with particular regard to environmental mediation. Offering a new vision of sustainable policies, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of environmental policy, resource economics, environmental law, sustainable development, and public administration, as well as practitioners and policy makers working in related areas.

Lamine, Claire / Magda, D. / Rivera-Ferre, M. et al. (eds.), Agroecological transitions, between determinist and open-ended visions. (EcoPolis 37) 318 pp. 2021:9 (P. Lang, SZ) <669-402>
ISBN 978-2-8076-1852-7 paper ¥10,841.- (税込) SFR 44.00 *

Xiaocheng, Lu, International Comparative Perspectives on the Treatment of "Urban Diseases": Reflections on the Low-Carbon Development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. (China Perspectives) 376 pp. 2022:3 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <669-320>
ISBN 978-1-03-222531-9 hard ¥50,435.- (税込) GB￡ 175.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-222542-5 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

With an integration of theories, comparative and empirical studies, this book aims to find a treatment for Beijing's "urban diseases" and coordinate a low-carbon development plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China. Unprecedented industrialization and unconventional urbanization caused a series of "urban diseases" for developing cities across the globe. By summarizing and exploring the evolution and phased characteristics of "urban diseases", the author implements theories across classical sociology, human ecology, community school, and low-carbon city as the base for policy recommendations. This book also provides in-depth examinations and comparative studies of other metropolises' experiences in controlling "urban diseases". Cities such as New York, London, and Tokyo were modeled to propose the most appropriate low-carbon development plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. With a focus on developing cities in Northern China, this book will be a great read to all scholars and students of environmental studies, development studies, urban studies, and contemporary China studies. It will also be a great addition for those who are interested in social conflicts and economic development.

Agu, Helen U. / Gore, Meredith L. (eds.), Women and Wildlife Trafficking: Participants, Perpetrators and Victims. (Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment) 184 pp. 2022:3 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <669-1270>
ISBN 978-0-367-64026-2 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-64028-6 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This volume examines women and wildlife trafficking via a collection of narratives, case studies and theoretical syntheses from diverse voices and disciplines. Wildlife trafficking has been documented in over 120 countries around the world. While species extinction and animal abuse are major problems, wildlife trafficking is also associated with corruption, national insecurity, spread of zoonotic disease, undercutting sustainable development investments and erosion of cultural resources, among others. The role of women in wildlife trafficking has remained woefully under-addressed, with scientists and policymakers failing to consider the important causes and consequences of the gendered dimensions of wildlife trafficking. Although the roles of women in wildlife trafficking are mostly unknown, they are not unknowable. This volume helps fill a lacuna by examining the roles and experiences of women with case studies drawn from across the world, including Mexico, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, South Africa and Norway. Women can be wildlife trafficking preventors, perpetrators, and pawns; their roles in facilitating wildlife trafficking are considered from both a supply and a demand viewpoint. The first half of the book assesses the range of science, offering four different perspectives on how women and wildlife trafficking can be studied or evaluated. The second half of the book profiles diverse case studies from around the world, offering context-specific insight about on-the-ground activities associated with women and wildlife trafficking. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of wildlife crime, environmental law, human geography, conservation, gender studies and green criminology. It will also be of interest to NGOs and policymakers working to improve efficacy of efforts targeting wildlife crime, the illegal wildlife trade and conservation more broadly.

Ahuja, Neel, Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century. 224 pp. 2021:11 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <669-1271>
ISBN 978-1-4696-6446-0 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4696-6447-7 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the processes that drive mass migration. To understand the systemic reasons for displacement, Ahuja argues, it is necessary to reframe climate disaster as interlinked with the history of capitalism and the global politics of race, wherein racist presumptions about agrarian underdevelopment and Indigenous knowledge mask how financial, development, migration, and climate adaptation policies reproduce growing inequalities. Drawing on the work of Cedric Robinson and theories of racial capitalism, Ahuja considers how the oil industry transformed the economic and geopolitical processes that lead to displacement. From South Asia to the Persian Gulf, Europe, and North America, Ahuja studies how Asian trade, finance, and labor connections have changed the nature of race, borders, warfare, and capitalism since the 1970s. Ultimately, Ahuja argues that only by reckoning with how climate change emerges out of longer histories of race, colonialism, and capitalism can we begin to build a sustainable and just future for those most affected by environmental change.

Brereton, Pat, Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication: An A-Z Guide. (Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media) 304 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <669-1274>
ISBN 978-0-367-64201-3 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-64202-0 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This book draws on a broad spectrum of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature to help students and scholars grasp the interconnecting key concepts within this ever-expanding field of study. Aligning climate change and environmental learning through media and communications, particularly taking into account the post-COVID challenge of sustainability, remains one of the most important concerns within environmental communications. Addressing this challenge, Essential Concepts for Environmental Communication synthesises summary writings from a broad range of environmental theorists, while teasing out provocative concepts and key ideas that frame this evolving, multi-disciplinary field. Each entry maps out an important concept or environmental idea and illustrates how it relates more broadly across the growing field of environmental communication debates. Included in this volume is a full section dedicated to exploring what environmental communication might look like in a post-COVID setting: * Offers cutting-edge analysis of the current state of environmental communications. * Presents an up-to-date exploration of environmental and sustainable development models at a local and global level. * Provides an in-depth exploration of key concepts across the ever-expanding environmental communications field. * Examines the interaction between environmental and media communications at all levels. * Provides a critical review of contemporary environmental communications literature and scholarship. With key bibliographical references and further reading included alongside the entries, this innovative and accessible volume will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners alike.

Brighenti, Andrea Mubi / Kaerrholm, Mattias (eds.), Territories, Environments, Politics: Explorations in Territoriology. 272 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <669-1275>
ISBN 978-1-03-205166-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This collection seeks to illustrate the state of the art in territoriological research, both empirical and theoretical. The volume gathers together a series of original, previously unpublished essays exploring the newly emerging territorial formations in culture, politics and society. While the globalisation debate of the 1990s largely pivoted around a 'general deterritorialisation' hypothesis, since the 2000s it has become apparent that, rather than effacing territories, global connections are added to them, and represent a further factor in the increase of territorial complexity. Key questions follow, such as: How can we further the knowledge around territorial complexities and the ways in which different processes of territorialisation co-exist and interact, integrating scientific advances from a plurality of disciplines? Where and what forms does territorial complexity assume, and how do complex territories operate in specific instances? Which technological, political and cultural facets of territories should be tackled to make sense of the life of territories? How and by what different or combined methods can we describe territories, and do justice to their articulations and meanings? How can the territoriological vocabulary relate to contemporary social theory advancements such as ANT, the ontological turn, the mobilities paradigm, sensory urbanism, and atmospheres research? How can territorial phenomena be studied across disciplinary boundaries? Territories, Environments, Politics casts a fresh perspective onto a number of key contemporary socio-spatial phenomena. Refraining from the attempt to ossify territoriology into some disciplinary straightjacket, the collection aims to illustrate the scope of current territoriological research, its domain, its promises, its theoretical advancements, and its methodological reflection in the making. Scholars interested in social research will find in this collection a rich and imaginative theoretical-methodological toolkit. Students in human geography, anthropology and sociology, socio-legal studies, architecture and urban planning will find Territories, Environments, Politics of interest.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti, Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. (Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and its Alternatives) 224 pp. 2021:11 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <669-1276>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4260-4 hard ¥13,464.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

Chatterjee, Uday / Biswas, Arindam et al. (eds.), Advances in Urbanism, Smart Cities, and Sustainability. 448 pp. 2022:4 (CRC Pr., US) <669-1278>
ISBN 978-0-367-64176-4 hard ¥43,230.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00 *

While technology is developing at a fast pace, urban planners and cities are still behind in finding effective ways to use technology to address citizen's needs. Multiple aspects of sustainable urbanism are brought together in this book, along with advanced technologies and their connections to urban planning and management. It integrates urban studies, smart cities, AI, IoT, remote sensing, and GIS. Highlights include land use planning, spatial planning, and ecosystem-based information to improve economic opportunities. Urban planners and engineers will understand the use of AI in disaster management and the use of GIS in finding suitable landfill sites for sustainable waste management. Features Explains the process of urban heritage conservation, including the process of urban renewal and its regeneration and the role of citizens in urban renewal, planning, and management. Includes several case studies highlighting urban environmental problems and challenges in developed and developing countries and the ways for converting urban areas into smart cities. Focuses on urban resources, the supply of energy in smart cities, and their proper management practices. Introduces the role of remote sensing, GIS, and IoT in making a smart city and meeting sustainable goals. Analyzes unique case studies, their challenges and obstacles, and proposes a set of factors to understanding smart city initiatives and projects.

Colten, Craig E., State of Disaster: A Historical Geography of Louisiana's Land Loss Crisis. 216 pp. 2021:10 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <669-1281>
ISBN 978-0-8071-7570-5 hard ¥8,976.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

State of Disaster: A Historical Geography of Louisiana's Land Loss Crisis explores Louisiana's protracted efforts to restore and protect its coastal marshes, nearly always with minimal regard for the people displaced by those efforts. As Craig E. Colten shows, the state's coastal restoration plan seeks to protect cities and industry but sacrifices the coastal dwellers who have maintained their presence in this perilous place for centuries.This historical geography examines in turn the adaptive capacity of those living through repeated waves of calamity; the numerous disjointed environmental management regimes that contributed to the current crisis; the cartographic visualizations of land loss used to activate public coastal policy; and the phases of public input that nevertheless failed to give voice to the citizens most impacted by various environmental management strategies. In closing, Colten situates Louisiana's experience within broader discussions of climate change and recovery from repeated crises.

Coodley, Gregg / Sarasohn, David, The Green Years, 1964-1976: When Democrats and Republicans United to Repair the Earth. 375 pp. 2021:9 (U. Pr. Kansas, US) <669-1283>
ISBN 978-0-7006-3234-3 hard ¥8,972.- (税込) US$ 39.99 *

In The Green Years, 1964-1976, Gregg Coodley and David Sarasohn offer the first comprehensive history of the period when the US created the legislative, legal, and administrative structures for environmental protection that are still in place over fifty years later. Coodley and Sarasohn tell a dramatic story of cultural change, grassroots activism, and political leadership that led to the passage of a host of laws attacking pollution under President Johnson. At the same time, with Stewart Udall as secretary of the interior, the Wilderness Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, and other land-protection measures were passed and the department shifted its focus from western resource development to broader national conservation issues. The magnitude of what was accomplished was without precedent, even under conservation-minded presidents like the two Roosevelts. The fast-paced story the authors tell is not only about the Democratic Party; in this era there was still a vital Republican conservation tradition. In the 1960s, Republicans were chronologically as close to Teddy Roosevelt as to Donald Trump. In both the House and Senate and in the Nixon and Ford administrations, Republicans played vital roles. It was President Nixon who established the Environmental Protection Agency and signed into law the 1970 Clean Air Act, revisions in 1972 to the Clean Water Act, and the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Under Nixon, actions were taken to protect the oceans, forests, coastal zones, and grasslands while regulating chemicals, pesticides, and garbage.The authors analyze the full range of transformations during the "Green Years," from the creation of entirely new pollution-control industries to backpacking becoming mass recreation to how revelations about chemical exposure spurred the natural food movement. And not least, the tectonic shift in the political landscape of the United States with the western states becoming Republican bastions and centers of ongoing backlash against the federal government. The Green Years, 1964-1976, is the story of environmental progress in the midst of war and civil unrest, and of the lessons we can learn for our future.

Crate, Susan Alexandra, Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia. (Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and its Alternatives) 352 pp. 2021:11 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <669-1284>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4155-3 hard ¥22,440.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8165-4154-6 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

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Hanna, Kevin (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 416 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <669-1287>
ISBN 978-0-367-24447-7 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

Globally, environmental impact assessment (EIA) is one of the most enduring and influential environmental management tools. This handbook provides readers with a strong foundation for understanding the practice of EIA, by outlining the different types of assessment while also providing a guide to best practice.This collection deploys a research and practice-based approach to the subject, delivering an overview of EIA as an essential and practical tool of environmental protection, planning, and policy. To best understand the most pertinent issues and challenges surrounding EIA today, this volume draws together prominent researchers, practitioners, and young scholars who share their work and knowledge to cover two key parts. The first part introduces EIA processes and best practices through analytical and critical chapters on the stages/elements of the EIA process and different components and forms of assessment. These provide examples that cover a wide range of assessment methods and cross-cutting issues, including cumulative effects assessment, social impact assessment, Indigenous-led assessment, risk assessment, climate change, and gender-based assessment. The second part provides jurisdictional reviews of the European Union, the US National Environmental Policy Act, recent assessment reforms in Canada, EIA in developing economies, and the EIA context in England.By providing a concise outline of the process followed by in-depth illustrations of approaches, methods and tools, and case studies, this book will be essential for students, scholars, and practitioners of environmental impact assessment.

Hansen, Gail / Macedo, Joseli, Urban Ecology for Citizens and Planners. 368 pp. 2021:11 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <669-1288>
ISBN 978-1-68340-252-7 hard ¥10,098.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

Ideal for city residents, developers, designers, and officials looking for ways to bring urban environments into harmony with the natural world and make cities more sustainable, Urban Ecology for Citizens and Planners offers a wealth of information and examples that will answer fundamental scientific questions, guide green initiatives, and inform environmental policies and decision-making processes.This book provides an overview of the synergistic relationships between humans and nature that shape the ecology of urban green spaces. It also emphasizes the social and cultural value of nature in cities for human health and well-being. Chapters describe the basic science of natural components and ecosystems in urban areas and explore the idea of biophilic urbanism, the philosophy of building nature into the framework of cities. To illustrate these topics, chapters include projects, case studies, expert insights, and successful citizen science programs from urban areas around the world.Authors Gail Hansen and Joseli Macedo argue that citizens have increasingly important roles to play in the environmental future of the cities they live in. A valuable resource for real-world solutions, this volume encourages citizens and planners to actively engage and collaborate in improving their communities and quality of life.

Hay, Amy Marie / Hersey, Mark D., The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests. (NEXUS) 328 pp. 2021:12 (U. Alabama Pr., US) <669-1289>
ISBN 978-0-8173-2108-6 hard ¥11,207.- (税込) US$ 49.95 *

Examines the domestic and international use of phenoxy herbicides by the United States in the mid-twentieth century.In The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests, Amy M. Hay profiles the attitudes, understandings, and motivations of grassroots activists who rose to fight the use of phenoxy herbicides, or Agent Orange chemicals as they are commonly known, in various aspects of American life during the post-WWII era. Hay focuses her analysis on citizen responses to illuminate how regulatory policies were understood, challenged, and negotiated, contributing to a growing body of research on chemical regulatory policies, risk society, and hazardous chemicals. This volume uncovers new understandings about the authority of the state and its obligation to society, the role of scientific authority and expertise, and the protests made by various groups of citizens.First introduced in 1946, phenoxy herbicides mimic hormones in broadleaf plants, causing them to "grow to death" while grass, grains, and other monocots remain unaffected. By the 1950s, millions of pounds of these chemicals were produced annually for use in brush control, weed eradication, forest management, and other agricultural applications. Pockets of skepticism and resistance began to appear by the late 1950s, and the trend intensified after 1962 when Rachel Carson's Silent Spring directed mainstream attention to the harm modern chemicals were causing in the natural world. It wasn't until the Vietnam War, however, when nearly 19 million gallons of Agent Orange and related herbicides were sprayed to clear the canopy and destroy crops in Southeast Asia, that the long-term damage associated with this group of chemicals began to attract widespread attention and alarm.Using a wide array of sources and an interdisciplinary approach, Hay contributes to the robust fields of chemical toxicity, regulation, environmental management, and public health. This study of the scientists, health and environmental activists, and veterans who fought US chemical regulatory policies and practices reveals the mechanisms, obligations, and constraints of state and scientific authority in mid-twentieth-century America. Hay also shows how these disparate and mostly forgotten citizen groups challenged the political consensus and contested government and industry narratives of chemical safety.

Heasley, Lynne, The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes. Foreword by J. Dennis. 264 pp. 2021:8 (Michigan State U. Pr., US) <669-1290>
ISBN 978-1-61186-407-6 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

In The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes, Lynne Heasley illuminates an underwater world that, despite a ferocious industrial history, remains wondrous and worthy of care. From its first scene in a benighted Great Lakes river, where lake sturgeon thrash and spawn, this powerful book takes readers on journeys through the Great Lakes, alongside fish and fishers, scuba divers and scientists, toxic pollutants and threatened communities, oil pipelines and invasive species, Indigenous peoples and federal agencies. With dazzling illustrations from Glenn Wolff, the book helps us know the Great Lakes in new ways and grapple with the legacies and alternative futures that come from their abundance of natural wealth. Suffused with curiosity, empathy, and wit, The Accidental Reef will not fail to astonish and inspire.

Kirton, John / Kokotsis, Ella / Warren, Brittaney, Reconfiguring The Global Governance of Climate Change. (Global Governance) 288 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <669-1293>
ISBN 978-0-367-15176-8 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book charts the course and causes of UN, G7 and G20 governance of climate change through the crucial period of 2015-2021. It provides a careful, comprehensive and reliable description of the individual and interactive contributions of the G7, G20 and UN summits and analyses their results. The authors explain these contributions and results by considering the impacts of causal candidates, such as a changing physical ecosystem and international political system and the actions of individual leaders of the world's most systemically significant countries. They apply and improve an established, compact causal model, grounded in international relations theory, to guide these tasks.By developing, prescribing and implementing immediate, realistic actionable policy solutions to cope with the urgent, existential challenge of controlling climate change, this volume will appeal to scholars of international relations, global governance and global environmental governance.

Ogden, Laura A., Loss and Wonder at the World's End. 200 pp. 2021:12 (Duke U. Pr., US) <669-1296>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1363-1 hard ¥22,427.- (税込) US$ 99.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1456-0 paper ¥5,822.- (税込) US$ 25.95 *

In Loss and Wonder at the World's End, Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people, and things-from beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, American explorers, and birdsong-to catalog the ways environmental change and colonial history are entangled in the Fuegian Archipelago of southernmost Chile and Argentina. Repeated algal blooms have closed fisheries in the archipelago. Glaciers are in retreat. Extractive industries such as commercial forestry, natural gas production, and salmon farming along with the introduction of nonnative species are rapidly transforming assemblages of life. Ogden archives forms of loss-including territory, language, sovereignty, and life itself-as well as forms of wonder, or moments when life continues to flourish even in the ruins of these devastations. Her account draws on long-term ethnographic research with settler and Indigenous communities; archival photographs; explorer journals; and experiments in natural history and performance studies. Loss and Wonder at the World's End frames environmental change as imperialism's shadow, a darkness cast over the earth in the wake of other losses.

Rinfret, Sara R. (ed.), Who Really Makes Environmental Policy?: Creating and Implementing Environmental Rules and Regulations. 226 pp. 2021:9 (Temple U. Pr., US) <669-1297>
ISBN 978-1-4399-2018-3 hard ¥23,449.- (税込) US$ 104.50 *
ISBN 978-1-4399-2019-0 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

The United States Congress appears to be in perpetual gridlock on environmental policy, notes Sara Rinfret, editor of the significant collection, Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? As she and her contributors explain, however, most environmental policy is not made in the halls of Congress. Instead, it is created by agency experts in federal environmental agencies and it is implemented at the state level. These individuals have been delegated the authority to interpret vague congressional legislation and write rules-and these rules carry the same weight as congressional law.Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? brings together top scholars to provide an explanation of rulemaking processes and regulatory policy, and to show why this context is important for U.S. environmental policy. Illustrative case studies about oil and gas regulations in Colorado and the regulation of coal ash disposal in southeastern states apply theory to practice. Ultimately, the essays in this volume advance our understanding of how U.S. environmental policy is made and why understanding regulatory policy matters for its future.

Rybski, Robert, German Radioactive Waste: Changes in Policy and Law. (Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability) 152 pp. 2022:1 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <669-1298>
ISBN 978-1-03-205506-0 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-03-206504-5 paper ¥5,760.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99 *

This book presents the universal issue of radioactive waste management from the perspective of the German legal system, analysing how lawmakers have responded to the problem of nuclear waste over the course of the last seventy years. In this book, Robert Rybski unwraps and explains the perplexing legal and social issues related to radioactive waste. He takes readers through the entire 'life-cycle': from the moment that radioactive material is classified as radioactive waste, through to the period of interim storage, and right up to its final disposal. However, this last step in radioactive waste management (that of final disposal) has not yet been achieved in Germany, or anywhere in the world, and has been the subject of hefty public debate for dozens of years. As a result, the book analyses the most recent regulations in place to enable final disposal. This book will be of interest to energy policy experts, academics and professionals who work in the area of nuclear energy.

Skoglund, Annika / Boehm, Steffen, Climate Activism: How Communities Take Renewable Energy Actions Across Business and Society. (Business, Value Creation, and Society) 2022:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <669-1302>
ISBN 978-1-108-48264-6 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

What is activism? The answer is, typically, that it is a form of opposition, often expressed on the streets. Skoglund and Boehm argue differently. They identify forms of 'insider activism' within corporations, state agencies and villages, showing how people seek to transform society by working within the system, rather than outright opposing it. Using extensive empirical data, Skoglund and Boehm analyze the transformation of climate activism in a rapidly changing political landscape, arguing that it is time to think beyond the tensions between activism and enterprise. They trace the everyday renewable energy actions of a growing 'epistemic community' of climate activists who are dispersed across organizational boundaries and domains. This book is testament to a new way of understanding activism as an organizational force that brings about the transition towards sustainability across business and society and is of interest to social science scholars of business, renewable energy and sustainable development.

Teebken, Julia, The Politics of Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Exploring Adaptation Lock-ins in China and the United States. (Routledge Studies in Climate Justice) 288 pp. 2022:3 (Routledge, UK) <669-1305>
ISBN 978-1-03-202403-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book compares how the social consequences of climate change are similarly unevenly distributed within China and the United States, despite different political systems.Focusing on the cases of Atlanta, USA, and Jinhua, China, Julia Teebken explores a set of path-dependent factors (lock-ins), which hamper the pursuit of climate adaptation by local governments to adequately address the root causes of vulnerability. Lock-ins help to explain why adaptation efforts in both locations are incremental and commonly focus on greening the environment. In both these political systems, vulnerability appears as a core component along with the reconstitution of a class-based society. This manifests in the way knowledge and political institutions operate. For this reason, Teebken challenges the argument that China's environmental authoritarian structures are better equipped in dealing with matters related to climate change. She also interrogates the proposition that certain aspects of the liberal democratic tradition of the United States are better suited in dealing with social justice issues in the context of adaptation. Overall, the book's findings contradict the widespread assumption that developed countries necessarily have higher adaptive capacity than developing or emerging economies.This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate justice and vulnerability, climate adaptation and environmental policy and governance.

Thomas, Julia Adeney (ed.), Altered Earth: Getting the Anthropocene Right. 2022:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <669-1306>
ISBN 978-1-316-51747-5 hard ¥21,615.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-904553-7 paper ¥6,913.- (税込) GB￡ 23.99 *

Altered Earth aims to get the Anthropocene right in three senses. With essays by leading scientists, it highlights the growing consensus that our planet entered a dangerous new state in the mid-twentieth century. Second, it gets the Anthropocene right in human terms, bringing together a range of leading authors to explore, in fiction and non-fiction, our deep past, global conquest, inequality, nuclear disasters, and space travel. Finally, this landmark collection presents what hope might look like in this seemingly hopeless situation, proposing new political forms and mutualistic cities. 'Right' in this book means being as accurate as possible in describing the physical phenomenon of the Anthropocene; as balanced as possible in weighing the complex human developments, some willed and some unintended, that led to this predicament; and as just as possible in envisioning potential futures.

Vienni Baptista, Bianca / Thompson Klein, Julie (eds.), Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity: Collaboration across Cultures and Communities. (Research and Teaching in Environmental Studies) 264 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <669-1309>
ISBN 978-0-367-65435-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-65434-4 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity fills a gap in the current literature by systematizing and comparing a wide international scope of case studies illustrating varied ways of institutionalizing theory and practice. This collection comprises three parts. After an introduction of overall themes, Part I presents case studies on institutionalizing. Part II focuses on transdisciplinary examples, while Part III includes cross-cutting themes, such as funding, evaluation, and intersections between epistemic cultures. With expert contributions from authors representing projects and programs in Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, Russia and South Caucuses, Latin and North America, this book brings together comparative perspectives on theory and practice, while also describing strategies and models of change. Each chapter identifies dimensions inherent in fostering effective and sustainable practices. Together they advance both analysis and action-related challenges. The proposed conceptual framework that emerges supports innovative practices that are alternatives to dominant academic cultures and approaches in pertinent disciplines, fields, professionals, and members of government, industry, and communities.Applying a comparative perspective throughout, the contributors reflect on aspects of institutionalizing interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as well as insights applicable to further contexts. This innovative volume will be of great interest to students, scholars, practitioners, and members of organizations promoting and facilitating interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

Walker, Kenneth, Climate Politics on the Border: Environmental Justice Rhetorics. (Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series) 216 pp. 2022:1 (U. Alabama Pr., US) <669-1310>
ISBN 978-0-8173-2111-6 hard ¥11,207.- (税込) US$ 49.95 *

Explores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated politically in a border communityAs a borderland city with generations of slow violence and extreme weather events like flash flooding and intense heat waves, San Antonio, Texas, speaks directly to global issues in climate politics. In Climate Politics on the Border: Environmental Justice Rhetorics, Kenneth Walker takes a place-based approach to his study of San Antonio to explore how extreme weather events and responses to them shape local places, publics, and politics, with an eye toward a future characterized by severe climate breakdown.Attending to the local histories and micropolitics of San Antonio, Walker examines the effects of extreme weather events as they are experienced across radically inequitable social categories. These local histories serve as a guide, not just for future climates, which stand to be unprecedented, but for the necessary public and political responses to them. He shows how extreme weather events in the past have reinforced colonial social orders that weaken democratic goals of pluralism and equity. Conversely, he also shows how diverse coalitions have resisted and responded to these forces.Walker examines the ethics of Latinx and Anglo relations within state-sponsored productions of racial inequity and environmental degradation, the coalitional capacities of environmental activists and second-wave Chicana/o organizations to protect clean water and transform local political representation, the obligations of place-keeping in Latinx urban design and ecological restoration, and the need to foster pluriversal worlds in city-level climate action and adaptation plans. Collectively these chapters rethink tropes of adaptation, resilience, and coalition as rhetorical and ecological capacities for public and political responses to extractivism.Based on years of archival work and fieldwork, Climate Politics on the Border demonstrates vividly why ecological and anticolonial approaches to rhetoric are essential for grappling with climate politics. Overall, this is a timely study of how environmental degradation, pollution, and climate change are disputed and negotiated at the local political level in a borderland community.

Iheka, Cajetan, African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics. 336 pp. 2021:12 (Duke U. Pr., US) <669-1205>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1381-5 hard ¥24,223.- (税込) US$ 107.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1474-4 paper ¥6,495.- (税込) US$ 28.95 *

In African Ecomedia, Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture. Iheka shows how, through visual media such as film, photography, and sculpture, African artists deliver a unique perspective on the socioecological costs of media production, from mineral and oil extraction to the politics of animal conservation. Among other works, he examines Pieter Hugo's photography of electronic waste recycling in Ghana and Idrissou Mora-Kpai's documentary on the deleterious consequences of uranium mining in Niger. These works highlight not only the exploitation of African workers and the vast scope of environmental degradation but also the resourcefulness and creativity of African media makers. They point to the unsustainability of current practices while acknowledging our planet's finite natural resources. In foregrounding Africa's centrality to the production and disposal of media technology, Iheka shows the important place visual media has in raising awareness of and documenting ecological disaster even as it remains complicit in it.

Wang, Sidan, Climate Change Discourse in China. (Palgrave Pivot) 136 pp. 2022 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <669-1087>
ISBN 978-981-16-6753-4 hard ¥19,444.- (税込) EUR 79.99 *

This book focuses on the politics, discourse and actors surrounding climate change issues in China. This framework offers a new way of observing Chinese discourses around climate change. Discursive changes in coal consumption and air pollution have been raised to uncover the various motivations of China towards addressing climate issues. This book will be of interest to a variety of different stakeholders including policy-makers, non-state actors, business communities and media, and anyone who are interested in the climate governance of China.

Connolly, Creighton, Political Ecologies of Landscape: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang. 2022:5 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <669-1101>
ISBN 978-1-5292-1414-7 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *

Connolly uses ongoing urban redevelopment in Penang in Malaysia to provide stimulating new perspectives on urbanisation, governance and political ecology. The book deploys the concept of landscape political ecology to show how Penang residents, activists, planners and other stakeholders mobilize new relationships with the urban environment, to contest controversial development projects and challenge hegemonic visions for the city's future. Based on six years of local research, this book provides both a dynamic account of region's rapid reshaping and a fresh theoretical framework in which to consider issues of sustainable development, heritage and governance in urban areas worldwide.

Varkkey, Helena, The Forests for the Palms: Essays on the Politics of Haze and the Environment in Southeast Asia. 117 pp. 2021:9 (ISEAS, SI) <669-1124>
ISBN 978-981-4881-86-9 paper ¥3,791.- (税込) US$ 16.90 *

Transboundary haze has been a recurring problem in the Southeast Asian region since at least 1982. Why does this toxic form of air pollution still persist? Helena Varkkey, a Malaysian political scientist, has been studying this multifaceted problem for more than fifteen years. This book provides an ideal collection for those who want a clear but concise introduction to this complex issue. Its commentaries explore how often sensitive matters of ASEAN diplomacy, national interest or political patronage continue to stand in the way of clear skies in the region.

阿部哲他編　アジアにおける近代化
Abe, Satoshi / Lim, Tai Wei (eds.), Modernization In Asia: The Environment/Resources, Social Mobilization, and Traditional Landscapes across Time and Space in Asia. 240 pp. 2022:1 (World Scientific, SI) <669-1041>
ISBN 978-981-12-4389-9 hard ¥19,747.- (税込) US$ 88.00 *

This book explores the unfolding of modernity in the greater Asia that uniquely takes shape at different times and places, with a particular attention to a common thread that has been at heart of the development: religion. The status of religion has been relegated in the Western modernity to such that its effects be restricted within the private realm and not be exerted in the public or one's rationality. This edited volume sheds light on the multifarious forces of religion both in the past and present that have impacted on the essential aspects of modern society - aspects in which one does not usually have recourse to religion in the West - from science and technology, politics, and to identity in Asia. Interdisciplinary approaches in the volume allow one to broadly examine religious practices within Asian contexts, thus enabling to reevaluate the concept, scope, and gamut of so-called religion.

Chatterjee, Uday / Biswas, A. / Mukherjee, J. et al. (eds.), Sustainable Urbanism in Developing Countries. 460 pp. 2022:4 (CRC Pr., US) <669-1042>
ISBN 978-0-367-64934-0 hard ¥43,230.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00 *

The mushrooming of illegal housing on the periphery of cities is one of the main consequences of rapid urbanisation associated with social and environmental problems in the developing countries. Sustainable Urbanism in Developing Countries discusses the linkage between urbanism and sustainability and how sustainable urbanism can be implemented to overcome the problems of housing and living conditions in urban areas. Through case studies from India, Indonesia, China, etc., using advanced GIS techniques, this book analyses several planning and design criteria to solve the physical, social, and economic problems of urbanisation and refers to urban planning as an effective measure to protect and promote the cultural characteristics of specific locations in these developing countries.FEATURES Investigates an interdisciplinary approach to urbanism, including urban ecology, ecosystem services, sustainable landscapes, and advanced geographical systems Analyses unique case studies of rapid urbanisation from a local to a national scale in countries such as India, Sri Lanka, China, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia and their global impact Examines the use of GIS and spatial statistics in analysing urban sprawl and the massive amount of data gathered by every operational activity of municipalities Focuses on the holistic perspective of sustainable urbanism and the harmony in the human-nature relationship to achieve sustainable development Covers a wide range of issues manifested in urban areas with economic, societal, and environmental implications contributed by leading scholars from the Global South

長谷川公一他編　東アジアにおける大気汚染のガバナンス
Chou, Kuei-tien / Hasegawa, Koichi et al. (eds.), Air Pollution Governance in East Asia. (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series) 272 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <669-1043>
ISBN 978-1-03-207834-2 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Focusing on Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Mainland China, the contributors to this book analyze various cases of air pollution within East Asia.Air pollution in East Asia is a major health risk, which also has damaging impacts on the environment leading to impacts on society, economic growth, and welfare. While existing laws and policies have made progress in alleviating air pollution in each country in the region, the protection of favorable environments and the resolution of transboundary air pollution problems have become major targets of regional cooperation. Combining perspectives from social sciences and science, technology, and society studies, the contributors to this book examine both the technical and socioeconomic-political aspects of these challenges through a range of case studies from around the region.The book is a valuable read for researchers and policymakers looking at air pollution and transboundary governance challenges within and beyond East Asia.

Jobin, Paul / Ho, Ming-sho / Hsiao, Hsin-Huang M. (eds.), Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene. 374 pp. 2021:6 (ISEAS, SI) <669-1050>
ISBN 978-981-4951-08-1 paper ¥8,952.- (税込) US$ 39.90 *

Shen, Shiran Victoria, The Political Regulation Wave: A Case of How Local Incentives Systematically Shape Air Quality in China. (Cambridge Studies on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance) 2022:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <669-1084>
ISBN 978-1-00-910014-4 hard ¥21,615.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *

Why has there been uneven success in reducing air pollution even in the same locality over time? This book offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives can affect bureaucratic regulation. Using empirical evidence, it examines and compares the control of different air pollutants in China-an autocracy-and, to a lesser extent, Mexico-a democracy. Making use of new data, approaches, and techniques across political science, environmental sciences, and engineering, Shen reveals that local leaders and politicians are incentivized to cater to the policy preferences of their superiors or constituents, respectively, giving rise to varying levels of regulatory stringency during the leaders' tenures. Shen demonstrates that when ambiguity dilutes regulatory effectiveness, having the right incentives and enhanced monitoring is insufficient for successful policy implementation. Vividly explaining key phenomena through anecdotes and personal interviews, this book identifies new causes of air pollution and proposes timely solutions. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.