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

Cheshmehzangi, Ali (ed.), Green Infrastructure in Chinese Cities. (Urban Sustainability) 514 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <677-875>
ISBN 978-981-16-9173-7 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

Since 2014, and the start of the New-type Urbanization Plan (NUP), we see a turning point in the sustainability agenda of China. One of the main indicators is greening cities and the built environments, which will be covered holistically in this edited book. From the perspective of green infrastructure, in particular, the book approaches key areas of 'forest city development', 'sponge city program', 'green roofing', 'nature-based solutions', 'urban farming', 'eco-city development', etc. This is the first time that such important areas of research come together under the perspective of green Infrastructure. The results would be beneficial to policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in China and across the globe. The comprehensive set of findings from this book will benefit other countries, as we aim to highlight some of the best practices of the current age.The main aim of the book is to put together an excellent group of scholars and practitioners from the field, focusing on the topic of 'Green Infrastructure in Chinese Cities'. In doing so, we aim to cover some of the key 'best practices' for sustainable urbanism. Divided into four parts, the book covers four key areas of (1) Policy Interventions, (2) Planning Innovation, (3) Design Solutions, and (4) Technical Integration. In doing so, we cover an array of best practices related to green infrastructures of various types and their impacts on cities and communities in China.We expect the book to be a valuable resource for researchers in the areas of sustainability, urbanism, urban planning, urban geography, urban design, geographical sciences, environmental sciences, landscape architecture, and urban ecology. The book covers essential factors such as policy, regulations, and programs (in Part 1), planning paradigms and their impacts on urban development (in Part 2), integrated design solutions that suggest sustainable urbanization progression (in Part 3), and technical knowledge that would be utilized for the future development of green infrastructure practices in China and beyond. Lastly, this edited book aims to provide a collaborative opportunity for experts and researchers of the field, who could contribute to the future pathways of sustainable urbanization of China. Lessons extracted from these contributions could be utilized for other contexts, which will benefit a wider group of stakeholders.

Telles, Jason Paolo R. / Ryan, John Charles et al. (eds.), Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia. (Asia in Transition 17) 547 pp. 2022:6 (Springer, GW) * paper 2022 <677-896>
ISBN 978-981-19-1129-3 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *
ISBN 978-981-19-1132-3 paper ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region, exploring methods such as textual analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis, participatory ethnography, auto ethnography, and semi-structured interviewing. It is divided into four sections: I. Activism, Environment, and Indigeneity; II. Political, Ecologies and Urban Spaces; III. Narratives, Discourses, and Aesthetics; and IV. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Islands, covering topics such as broadcast media (radio and TV) and the environment; green cinema and ecodocumentaries, ecodigital art, digital environmental literature. It is of great interest to researchers, students, practitioners and scholars working in the area of humanities, media, communications, cultural studies, environmental humanities, environmental studies, and sustainability.

Johnson, Alan, India's Forests, Real and Imagined: Writing the Modern Nation. 352 pp. 2022:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <677-907>
ISBN 978-0-7556-3410-1 hard ¥25,938.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India's Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have been integral to India's sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial and danger to shape new ideas of India as a modern nation. The book casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay - widely regarded as the first Indian novelist - to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie as well as local attitudes to nationhood and the environment across the country.

Fonseca, Alberto (ed.), Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment. (Research Handbooks on Impact Assessment) 464 pp. 2022:9 (E. Elgar, UK) <677-982>
ISBN 978-1-80037-962-6 hard ¥59,945.- (税込) GB￡ 208.00 *

Reviewing over 50 years of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) policy-making and implementation around the world, this thought-provoking Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the current research surrounding EIA. Presenting new trends in law and policy-making, it highlights best practices in the application of technology to impact prediction and management, procedural efficiency, decision-making and public participation. In addition to explaining the practicalities of the EIA process, chapters delve deep into EIA's decision-making stages and methods, revealing the causes of, and solutions to, recurrent issues. Contributions from leading scholars analyse case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North and South America to provide a truly global picture of EIA implementation. Critically examining the laws, policies and procedures involved in these case studies, this Handbook concludes by highlighting new ideas, trends and methods in the field. With a global scope, the illustrative case studies and critical evaluations will prove a useful resource for students and scholars of environmental and management studies and law. Exploring how to implement best practices, it will prove invaluable to EIA practitioners, including consultants, developers and regulators, offering inspiration and guidance for policy reforms.

Moser, Keith, Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 251 pp. 2022:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <677-986>
ISBN 978-3-030-96128-2 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era is focused on the fields of biosemiotics, linguistics, ecocriticism, and environmental ethics. Closely aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 13.1, Keith Moser's study aims to strengthen resilience to climate-related hazards by drawing on ecological theories developed by French philosophers in conversation with biosemiotic principles. Not only does the novel theoretical framework offered by biosemiotic interpretations of the universe and our place in it represent an indispensable conceptual tool for understanding the unprecedented medical challenges at the dawn of a new millennium, but it also beckons us to think harder about the environmental crisis that threatens the continued existence of all sentient beings who call the biosphere home. This book also highlights the richness, diversity, and utility of the ecological theories developed by the French philosophers Michel Serres, Edgar Morin, Jacques Derrida, Dominique Lestel, and Michel Onfray in addition to how they engage with biosemiotic principles. Taken together, the book probes the scientific, linguistic, philosophical, and ethical implications of biosemiotic theories in a post-pandemic world from an environmental and medical perspective.

批判的環境政治ハンドブック
Pellizzoni, Luigi / Leonardi, Emanuele / Asara, V. (eds.), Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics. 688 pp. 2022:9 (E. Elgar, UK) <677-987>
ISBN 978-1-83910-066-6 hard ¥72,050.- (税込) GB￡ 250.00 *

This timely Handbook offers a comprehensive outlook on global environmental politics, providing readers with an up-to-date view of a field of ever-increasing academic and public significance. Its critical perspective interrogates what is taken for granted in current institutions and social and power relations, highlighting the issues preventing meaningful change in the relationship between human societies and their biophysical underpinnings.Featuring contributions from over 60 established and emerging international scholars, the Handbook is organized into six thematic sections. It addresses theoretical approaches, contested notions, key issues, governance processes, mobilizations and emergent directions of inquiry, presenting a vital contemporary analysis of the major social science and political ecology debates over environmental questions.Scholars and students in the social sciences, in particular those studying politics and public policy, with an interest in the environment and climate change will find this Handbook to be essential reading. It will also be useful to academics in other disciplines related to ecology and environmental politics, as well as politicians and practitioners involved in green transition policies.

Rousell, David / Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Amy, Climate Child Imaginaries: Posthuman Research Playspaces. (Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories) 166 pp. 2022:5 (Springer, GW) <677-988>
ISBN 978-981-16-9958-0 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book addresses the need for new forms of climate change education that are responsive to the rapidly changing material conditions of children's social and environmental worlds. It connects climate change education with posthumanist studies of childhood in the social sciences and environmental humanities. It also offers opportunities for readers to encounter new theoretical and methodological approaches for collaborative art, inquiry, and learning with children.The book provides a comprehensive description of how posthumanist concepts and practices can be creatively developed and deployed in collaboration with children and young people. Drawing on three years of participatory research undertaken with 135 children in the Climate Change and Me (CC+Me) project (the first project in the international CC+Me international research program), it takes children's creative and affective responses to climate change as the starting point for the co-production of knowledge, community engagement, and the transformation of pedagogy and curriculum in schools. The book offers new perspectives on climate change education as a field that can foster and achieve a new synthesis of creative, critical, philosophical, and empirical practices and orientations. It presents a series of generative openings and propositions for future research initiatives in the field of climate change education

Weeda, Claire / Stein, Robert / Sicking, Louis (eds.), Communities, Environment and Regulation in the Premodern World: Essays in Honour of Peter Hoppenbrouwers. (Comparative Rural History Network- Publications 20) 308 pp. 2022:6 (Brepols, BE) <677-994>
ISBN 978-2-503-59446-0 paper ¥21,392.- (税込) EUR 88.00 *

R.ショウ編　気候変動と災害ハンドブック
Shaw, Rajib (ed.), Handbook on Climate Change and Disasters. (Elgar Handbooks in Energy, the Environment and Climate Change) 500 pp. 2022:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <677-802>
ISBN 978-1-80037-160-6 hard ¥73,491.- (税込) GB￡ 255.00 *

This comprehensive Handbook assesses the escalation of global natural disasters as a result of climate change. Examining the complex interplay of human and natural activities, it highlights the growing vulnerability of people and communities in developing countries to floods, landslides, cyclones, heat waves and wildfires. The Handbook opens with a global framework analysis, outlining the implications of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction. International contributors address the roles of stakeholders in mitigating climate hazards, as well as offer detailed analysis of cross-cutting issues, including poverty, health, education and gender. Concluding chapters address the future of climate change mitigation and disaster protection, exploring the growing role of emerging technologies in disaster resilience and sustainable development. Bringing together cutting-edge research from renowned global scholars and professionals, this Handbook offers key insights for researchers and students of environmental studies and development studies, particularly those focusing on natural disasters and climate technologies. The empirical data and case analysis will also benefit practitioners, professionals and policymakers working in climate risk relief.

Guglyuvatyy, Evgeny, Climate Change, Forests and Federalism: Australian Experience. 89 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <677-554>
ISBN 978-981-19-0741-8 paper ¥18,229.- (税込) EUR 74.99 *

Climate change is one of the most serious global challenges facing humankind. Climate change has enormous environmental and economic implications, and finding a solution is a daunting task. The purpose of this book is to look at the global problem of climate change through the prism of an individual country's attempt to tackle this problem.This book begins with a discussion of the origins of climate change and the evolution of the international response to climate change. Key climate change mitigation actions and policies are considered to provide the necessary framework for analysing Australia's approach to climate change. Australia's climate change policy development is considered from a historical perspective. The book traces the evolution of the response to climate change, focusing on Australia as one of the Federal countries unable to adequately reduce greenhouse gas emissions due to the systematic failure of the Australian government to develop a common and effective approach to the problem of climate change. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of environmental law and the contemporary International and Australian climate change law.

Van Nostrand, James M., The Coal Trap: How West Virginia Was Left Behind in the Clean Energy Revolution. 280 pp. 2022:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <677-290>
ISBN 978-1-108-83058-4 hard ¥20,170.- (税込) GB￡ 69.99 *
ISBN 978-1-108-82215-2 paper ¥6,625.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

Between 2009 and 2019, West Virginian politicians aligned themselves with the interests of the coal industry to the substantial detriment of the citizens and economy of the state. Despite the undeniable low-carbon transformation that was occurring in the energy industry in the US during this period, state political leaders doubled down on coal. Rather than provide the leadership necessary to manage the transition of the state's economic drivers away from fossil fuels, they largely blamed the demise of the coal industry on the federal government. At every turn, the interests of the coal industry were placed above the economic and environmental health of West Virginians. James Van Nostrand tells the story of why West Virginia now faces overwhelming obstacles to competing in the economic marketplace of the twenty-first century. The book serves as a warning of how a fair energy transition can be derailed by political failure.

Schoyen, Mi A. / Hvinden, B. / Dotterud Leiren, M. (eds.), Towards Sustainable Welfare States in Europe: Social Policy and Climate Change. 256 pp. 2022:9 (E. Elgar, UK) <677-307>
ISBN 978-1-83910-462-6 hard ¥31,413.- (税込) GB￡ 109.00 *

Foreword by Ian GoughThis seminal book addresses the critical and urgent question of 'what makes welfare states sustainable?' in the era of climate change. Expert authors challenge traditional perspectives on questions of sustainability which have focused on population ageing, global economic turbulence and on containing current and future public social spending.The chapters present new empirical evidence in the form of in-depth comparative country studies from across Europe, offering an insight into how political actors, social partners and civil society organisations in countries associated with different welfare models address questions of sustainability and the extent to which they balance social, ecological and economic considerations. The editors conclude by mapping out ways in which welfare states can address these increasingly urgent and complex issues and facilitate an eco-social transition towards true sustainability.This book will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of comparative social policy, environmental politics and policy and climate change. Highlighting the political and structural challenges European societies face in the transition to low carbon economies, this book will also be beneficial for policymakers and practitioners in these areas.

McFarlane, Colin, Waste and the City: The Urbanisation of the Sanitation Crisis. 320 pp. 2023:1 (Verso, UK) <677-329>
ISBN 978-1-83976-054-9 paper ¥5,760.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99 *

In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a call to action on one of modern urban life's most neglected issues: sanitation infrastructure. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the devastating consequences of unequal access to sanitation in cities across the globe. At this critical moment in global public health, Colin McFarlane makes the urgent case for Sanitation for All.The book outlines the worldwide sanitation crisis and offers a vision for a renewed, equitable investment in sanitation that democratises and socialises the modern city. Adopting Henri Lefebvre's concept of 'the right to the city', it uses the notion of 'citylife' to reframe the discourse on sanitation from a narrowly-defined policy discussion to a question of democratic right to public life and health. In doing so, the book shows that sanitation is an urbanizing force whose importance extends beyond hygiene to the very foundation of urban social life.

Slovic, Scott / Rangarajan, Swarnalatha et al. (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities. (Bloomsbury Handbooks) 432 pp. 2022:8 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <677-332>
ISBN 978-1-350-19730-5 hard ¥40,348.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00 *

Bringing together two parallel and occasionally intersecting disciplines - the environmental and medical humanities - this field-defining handbook reveals our ecological predicament to be a simultaneous threat to human health. The book: ? Represents the first collection to bring the environmental humanities and medical humanities into conversation in a systematic way ? Features contributions from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives including literary studies, environmental ethics and philosophy, cultural history and sociology ? Adopts a truly global approach, examining contexts including, but not limited to, North America, the UK, Africa, Latin America, South Asia, Turkey and East Asia ? Touches on issues and approaches such as narrative medicine, ecoprecarity, toxicity, mental health, and contaminated environments. Showcasing and surveying a rich spectrum of issues and methodologies, this book looks not only at where research currently is at the intersection of these two important fields, but also at where it is going.

Duenwald, Christoph / Abdih, Yasser / Gerlng, K. et al., Feeling the Heat: Adapting to Climate Change in the Middle East and Central Asia. 93 pp. 2022:3 (IMF, US) <677-232>
ISBN 978-1-5135-9109-4 paper ¥4,488.- (税込) US$ 20.00 *

Climate change is among humanity's greatest challenges, and the Middle East and Central Asia region is on the frontlines of its human, economic, and physical ramifications. Much of the region is located in already difficult climate zones, where global warming exacerbates desertification, water stress, and rising sea levels. This trend entails fundamental economic disruptions, endangers food security, and undermines public health, with ripple effects on poverty and inequality, displacement, and conflict. Considering the risks posed by climate change, the central message of this departmental paper is that adapting to climate change by boosting resilience to climate stresses and disasters is a critical priority for the region's economies.