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

Das, Satabdi, Environmental Security and India: Global Concerns and National Interests. 224 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <678-972>
ISBN 978-1-03-220586-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book examines environmental issues through the lens of security studies and presents a comprehensive analysis of Indian policy in dealing with threats posed by climate change.This book:Puts forward theoretical base for securitization of environmental issues, incorporating different schools of thought;Presents a survey of global environmental politics in general and the effects of climate change and its consequences for India's national security in particular;Examines the politics involved in India's environmental policy at both the domestic and international levels;Outlines key policy takeaways and possibilities for action that can help contain the threat of environmental change.A comprehensive guide to a new and emerging dimension in Indian security policy, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers of international relations, security studies, especially non-traditional security, public policy, especially environmental policy; and area studies.

Mubayi, Yaaminey, Water and Historic Settlements: The Making of a Cultural Landscape. 164 pp. 2022:9 (Routledge, UK) <678-988>
ISBN 978-0-367-72368-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book explores the manner in which human societies understood and managed scarce water resources. Focusing on the arid, rain shadow region of Marathwada, it documents the panoramic history of this region's most important resource - water. It shows how water delineates the establishment of political authority, marks the intersection of networks of trade and pilgrimage and is the bearer of identity through community memories.The book foregrounds how, as a material as well as a ritual and symbolic element, water flows across the boundaries of caste, sect and religion, bringing communities together and linking the past with the present. It not only analyses textual and archaeological sources but also focuses on oral narratives and their potential to provide consensual as well as alternative narratives of the historical and cultural landscape of Ellora-Khuldabad-Daulatabad. It also shows how water has been framed in myriad forms in human history - as a ritual, allegorical element present in the myths and cosmology that order the sacred geography of pilgrimage centres, as a physical tangible presence manipulated through human technology to sustain the population and finally, as a subliminal driver for historic agency, its often hidden, underground presence underwriting the region's vitality over the past millennium.A nuanced history of water over millennia, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of environmental history, historical geography, South Asian studies, heritage studies and environmental studies.

Arantes, Virginie, China's Green Consensus: Participation, Co-optation and Legitimation. (Routledge Contemporary Asian Societies) 240 pp. 2022:9 (Routledge, UK) <678-911>
ISBN 978-1-03-213881-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Despite contrasting approaches, democratic and authoritarian governments all underline the fact that environmental protection is crucial and inevitable-and China's enthusiasm in stepping up its efforts to protect the environment has not gone unnoticed. This book highlights how the consensual orchestration of sustainability in China's biggest city, Shanghai, affects non-state actors' ways of perceiving, acting, and organizing around environmental issues.China's Green Consensus examines grassroots realities as they intersect with events of everyday life, offering insights into areas that far transcend debates over coercive forms of environmentalism and exploring the "soft" and "green" facets of President Xi Jinping's authoritarian approach to governance. The importance of environmental protection in people's lives serves as a lens to analyze and understand authoritarian adaptations to environmental global phenomena. Arantes highlights how, through mobilization and (de)politicization, a "green" consensus leads to the displacement of state responsibilities and the cultivation of civil society in its own image. In so doing, she opens up new ways of thinking about the complexities of environmental governance, consensus politics, subject making, and citizenship in authoritarian contexts.This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Chinese society and politics, environmental politics, political ecology, international relations, and urbanization in Asia, as well as all others interested in the rising appeal of authoritarianism around the globe.

De Sousa, Dariel, Law, Policy and Climate Change: The Regulation of Systemic Risks. 280 pp. 2022:9 (Routledge, UK) <678-596>
ISBN 978-1-03-218214-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Focusing on systemic risks caused by climate change, this book examines how these risks can be effectively regulated to ensure resilience and avoid catastrophe.Systemic risks are risks that threaten the systems upon which society depends, including ecosystems, social systems, financial systems, and systems of infrastructure. Such risks are typically characterised by inherent complexity, profound uncertainty, and overwhelming ambiguity. In combination, these features pose significant regulatory challenges for policy and law-makers. Examining how different types of systemic risks caused by climate change are being regulated in four different jurisdictions - the EU, the UK, the US and Australia - this book identifies deficiencies associated with regulating systemic risks using a traditional approach, based on a linear relationship between risk and regulation, which is widely used to regulate risk. The book advances a regulatory approach that is, instead, founded on the concept of "risk governance". This involves a structured yet flexible, holistic, interdisciplinary and inclusive basis for responding to systemic risks; and it is, this book argues, a more effective basis for regulating systemic risks given their uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.This book will appeal to academics, policy and law-makers and practitioners working at the intersection of law and policy in the areas of regulation, risk management and climate change.

Sehring, Jenniver / ter Horst, Rozemarijn et al. (eds.), Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance: Feminist Perspectives on Water Conflict and Cooperation. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management) 208 pp. 2022:7 (Routledge, UK) <678-305>
ISBN 978-1-03-205730-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This volume assesses the nexus of gender and transboundary water governance, containing empirical case studies, discourse analyses, practitioners' accounts, and theoretical reflections.Transboundary water governance exists at the intersection of two highly masculinised fields: diplomacy and water resources management. In both fields, positions are mainly held by men, and core ideas, norms, and guiding principles that are presented as neutral, are both shaped by men and based on male experiences. This book sheds light on the often hidden gender dynamics of water conflict and cooperation at the transboundary level and on the implicit assumptions that guide research and policies. The individual chapters of the book, based on case studies from around the world, reveal the gendered nature of water diplomacy, take stock of the number of women involved in organisations that govern shared waters, and analyse programmes that have been set up to promote women in water diplomacy and the obstacles that they face. They explore and contest leading narratives and knowledge that have been shaped mainly by privileged men, and assess how the participation of women concretely impacts the practices, routines, and processes of water negotiations.This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of water governance, water diplomacy, gender, international relations and environmental politics. It will also be of interest to professionals and policymakers involved in supporting gender mainstreaming in water cooperation.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.

Benish, Barbara L. / Blanc, Nathalie, Art, Farming and Food for the Future: Transforming Agriculture. (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies) 272 pp. 2022:9 (Routledge, UK) <678-309>
ISBN 978-0-367-43369-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book explores the impact of artistic experiments in inspiring people to turn away from current food consumerism and take an active role in preserving, sustaining, and protecting the environment. As artists are expanding their practice into social justice and community concerns, erasing traditional forms of expression and integrating others, the culture around food and its production has been added to a new vocabulary of experiential art. The authors measure the impact of such experiments on local food consumption and production, focusing on education and youth, both in the surrounding community and culture at large. They suggest how these projects can be up-scaled to further encourage sustainable solutions for our environment and communities. The book explores the reflections and motivations of case study practitioners in urban and rural areas and, through interviews, engages with artists who are pioneering a new trend to create hubs of activity away from traditional art spaces in cities to follow a non-hierarchal practice that is de-centralized and communally based. This book will be of great interest to academic readers concerned with issues related to environmental aesthetics, eco-design, eco-criticism, culture, heritage, memory, and identity, and those interested in the current debates on the place of aesthetics and culture in sustainability.

Bray, Francesca / Hahn, Barbara / Lourdusamy, J. B. et al., Moving Crops and the Scales of History. (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) 384 pp. 2023:2 (Yale U. Pr., US) <678-373>
ISBN 978-0-300-25725-0 hard ¥8,624.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "cropscape"-the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have been on the move for millennia, from wildlands into fields, from wetlands to dry zones, from one imperial colony to another. This book is a bold but approachable attempt to redefine historical inquiry based on the "cropscape": the assemblage of people, places, creatures, technologies, and other elements that form around a crop. The cropscape is a method of reconnecting the global with the local, the longue duree with microhistory, and people, plants, and places with abstract concepts such as tastes, ideas, skills, politics, and economic forces. Through investigating a range of contrasting cropscapes spanning millennia and the globe, the authors break open traditional historical structures of period, geography, and direction to glean insight into previously invisible actors and forces.

Kila, Kikelomo O., Corporate Regulation for Climate Change Mitigation in Africa: A Case for Dilute Interventionism. (Routledge Research in Sustainability and Business) 280 pp. 2022:9 (Routledge, UK) <678-265>
ISBN 978-1-03-223247-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book critically analyses the prospects of overhauling the legal framework of climate change regulation of corporations in African state. It adopts the dilute interventionism regulatory framework to tackle the culture of regulatory resistance by corporations in Africa.Over the course of this volume, Kikelomo O. Kila critiques the climate change legal framework in all 53 African states and conducts an in-depth case study of the two largest economies in Africa - Nigeria and South Africa - to highlight the commonality of the problems in Africa and the potential for the dilute interventionism paradigm to significantly address these problems. The book establishes why African states should directly intervene through legislative mechanisms to compel corporations to incorporate climate change mitigation in their business activities. It proposes that this direct intervention should comprise a blend of prescriptive and facilitative mechanisms structured in a dilute interventionism regulatory model. Overall, this volume argues that implementing this model requires the institution of a strong and independent regulator with a veto firewall protection system that guarantees its de facto independence from government and external influences.Corporate Regulation for Climate Change Mitigation in Africa will be of great interest to climate change stakeholders at the international, regional, and domestic levels, policymakers, regulatory practitioners, and legal experts on corporate regulation. It will also be an insightful resource for students and scholars of climate change and environmental law, policy, and governance.

Best Practice Guidance for Effective Management of Coal Mine Methane at National Level: Monitoring, Reporting, Verification and Mitigation. 104 pp. 2022:4 (UN, US) <678-299>
ISBN 978-92-1-117287-4 paper ¥5,390.- (税込) US$ 25.00 *

While Methane (CH4) is the second most prevalent anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) after carbon dioxide (CO2), the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of the former is 28-34 times higher than that of the latter. Coal mining is a major source of methane emissions, accounting for about 12% of global total anthropogenic emissions of that gas. Most emissions come from underground working mines, but those from abandoned mines are raising. Action on methane requires a solid understanding of emission sources at national, subnational, and local levels. Only with reliable emissions data, can policymakers design effective GHG policies, evaluate mitigation opportunities, and comply with their international climate commitments. National monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) programs can not only help countries better understand the contribution of coal mining to their overall methane and GHG emissions, but also identify opportunities for mitigation. In particular, MRV can help assess and track the effectiveness of the adopted climate policies. Setting up efficient MRV schemes is also important to deliver on international climate commitments in the context of the Paris Agreement.

Adamson, David / Axinte, Lorena / Lang, Mark et al., Sustainable Places: Addressing Social Inequality and Environmental Crisis. (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies) 216 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <678-1054>
ISBN 978-1-03-211794-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-211791-1 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The authors suggest that 'place' is a critical window on how to conceive a resolution to the multiple and overlapping crises. As well as diagnosing the problem (the world as it is), this book also offers a normative advocacy (the world as it could/should be and proposed pathways to get there). A series of 'Deep Place' case studies from the UK, Australia, and Vanuatu help to illustrate this approach. Ultimately, the book argues for the need for a real and green 'new deal' and identifies what this should be like. It suggests that a new economic order, whilst eventually inevitable, requires radical change. This will not be easy but will be essential given the current impasse, caused, not least by the conjunction of carbon-based, neoliberal capitalism in crisis and the multifactorial global ecological crisis. Ultimately, it concludes that there is a need to develop a new model of 'regenerative collectivism' to overcome these crises.This book will be of interest to academics, policy practitioners, and social and climate justice advocates/activists.

Algazi, Gadi / Ball, Roii / Schaefer, Sagi (Hrsg.), Verflochtene Waldgeschichten / Entangled Woods. (Tel Aviver Jahrbuch fuer deutsche Geschichte 50) 250 S. 2024:11 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <678-1055>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5322-0 paper ¥8,474.- (税込) EUR 36.00

Ueber Waelder und Forste, vermeintlich alte und sehr moderne, ihre Rodung und Wiederaufforstung. Die Beschaeftigung mit dem Thema Wald hat in der deutschen Geschichte zweifelsohne eine lange Tradition. Die Auswirkungen jedoch sind weit umfassender. Umweltschuetzer weltweit weisen auf die strategische Bedeutung von Waeldern hin, haeufig werden diese als Teil der nicht-sozialisierten ≫Natur≪ verstanden, die vor ungezuegelter Ausbeutung zu schuetzen ist. Andererseits haben Forscher aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln darauf hingewiesen, dass Entwaldung und Versteppung nicht immer der Realitaet entsprechen, so dass man sich mit den ideologischen Dimensionen der Aufforstungspolitik beschaeftigen muss. Die Bewirtschaftung von Waeldern kann zugleich Teil der Erhaltung wie auch der Ausbeutung natuerlicher Ressourcen sein, flankiert Staats- und Nationenbildung ebenso wie Kolonialpolitik.

Altstaedt, Soeren / Fladvad, Benno / Hasenfratz, M. (Hrsg.), Praxis und Ungewissheit: Zur Alltaeglichkeit sozial-oekologischer Krisen. (Zukuenfte der Nachhaltigkeit) 220 S. 2022:8 (Campus, GW) <678-1056>
ISBN 978-3-593-51521-2 paper ¥7,062.- (税込) EUR 30.00 *

Bayer, Ellen / Finley, Judson Byrd (eds.), Ecopedagogies: Practical Approaches to Experiential Learning. 240 pp. 2022:9 (Routledge, UK) <678-1058>
ISBN 978-1-03-211844-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-211845-1 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Ecopedagogies showcases a range of creative approaches that educators across multiple disciplines use to empower students to access and engage with nature, an increasingly important consideration in a post-COVID world in environmental crisis.The volume includes chapters written by scholars from the environmental arts and humanities, literature, writing studies, rhetoric, music, religious studies, environmental studies and sustainability, sociology and anthropology, physical education, and outdoor education. Each author walks the reader through the details of how their ecopedagogy works, identifies potential challenges while also detailing how to address them, and explains the rewards to students, instructors, and more-than-human nature that they have witnessed through the use of these approaches. The contributions represent diverse types of academic institutions, offering broad applicability to instructors, including community colleges, private liberal arts colleges, and large state, regional, public, and private universities. The book explores a series of key questions about how educators can facilitate meaningful learning experiences with the natural world, inside and outside the classroom, and it looks at how to foster inclusivity, navigate problems with access, and explore intersections with environmental justice.As a practical guide, the book delivers a well-provisioned toolbox containing exercises, activity guides, and assignments for those teaching environmentally focused college courses.

Blenkinsop, Sean / Fettes, Mark / Piersol, Laura (eds.), Ecoportraiture: The Art of Research When Nature Matters. ([Re]thinking Environmental Education 16) 184 pp. 2022:3 (P. Lang, SZ) <678-1060>
ISBN 978-1-4331-9256-2 hard ¥23,222.- (税込) SFR 93.00

What changes in education, when it is not just humans whose teaching is sought and acknowledged? And how can educational research be accountable to the voices and agency of such more-than-human teachers, interlocutors, and kin? These have become pressing questions in an era of soaring interest in forest and nature schools, place- and land-based education. Ecoportraiture offers theoretical and practical guidance into an emerging methodology with deep roots in the anti-racist, emancipatory research tradition of portraiture initiated by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and Jessica Hoffman Davis. Bracketed by the editors' wide-ranging introductory essay and a closing critical conversation, five inspiring chapters take readers deep into the thinking and action that characterize ecoportraiture research. Ideal for researchers at all levels who want to explore more deeply how human learning is shaped and informed by the more-than-human, this book also invites a wider audience into the artful practice of close listening to the many voices of the natural world. Ecoportraiture seeks to evoke and to guide journeys of knowing that are both profoundly ecological and profoundly personal. This is an open-ended and transformative methodology: one that is less about finding answers than about asking better questions-about learning to participate more deeply, as student, teacher, parent, community member, and/or co-researcher, in the conversations of the Earth.

都市部の水のガバナンス・ハンドブック
Bolognesi, Thomas / Pinto, Francisco Silva et al. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Urban Water Governance. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 424 pp. 2022:9 (Routledge, UK) <678-1061>
ISBN 978-0-367-52353-4 hard ¥61,253.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

This handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of urban water governance. Of the many growing challenges presented by rapid urbanization, water governance is a critical one and while urban water governance is now regarded as a critical field of research, the literature is fragmented. For the first time, this handbook brings together urban water governance research, containing interdisciplinary contributions from established and emerging scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. It addresses the key questions of how urban water governance works, how is it shaped, and what the impacts are. The handbook's structure offers a progressive entry into the complexity of urban water governance. Starting with technical dimensions, the handbook addresses supply and demand, wastewater, and sanitation. It then considers regulation and economic factors, examining water utilities and services. Political processes, and the actors involved, are addressed and the handbook finishes with a part focusing on governance and sustainability, where chapters address critically important topics such as access to water, water safety, and water security. This handbook is essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals interested in urban water governance, urban studies, and water resource management and sustainability more broadly.

Dodsworth, Ashley / Honohan, Iseult (eds.), Green Politics and Civic Republicanism: Green Republicanism as a Response to the Environmental and Political Crises of the 21st Century. 142 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <678-1065>
ISBN 978-1-03-232783-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The political and environmental crises of the twenty-first century require new approaches to the way we think and act politically. This book explores the potential for engagement between green and civic republican thought as part of these new approaches. The green and civic republican traditions have important historical and conceptual connections. They share an emphasis on the idea of interdependence, the common good as distinct from individual and sectional interests, and a corresponding critique of freedom as non-interference and of arguments for minimising the state. Both see the human project as marked by vulnerability, and the achievement of stability and sustainability as a critical though fragile goal, in whose realisation the state must play a significant role. Both focus accordingly on constitutional law, active citizenship and participatory democracy, and adopt a critical stance towards economic inequality and capitalist economic growth. The chapters address these in a variety of ways - from examining fundamental concepts: freedom, rights and political judgement, through analysing the potential grounds for connections between green and republican political theory - vulnerability, limits, sustainability and civic virtue - to outlining the kind of agonistic republican politics and green political economy that these imply. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy.

Duhaime, Ann-Christine, Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis. 336 pp. 2022:10 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <678-1066>
ISBN 978-0-674-24772-7 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate change, but also how the brain's amazing capacity for flexibility can-and likely will-enable us to prioritize the long-term survival of humanity.Increasingly politicians, activists, media figures, and the public at large agree that climate change is an urgent problem. Yet that sense of urgency rarely translates into serious remedies. If we believe the climate crisis is real, why is it so difficult to change our behavior and our consumer tendencies?Minding the Climate investigates this problem in the neuroscience of decision-making. In particular, Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD, points to the evolution of the human brain during eons of resource scarcity. Understandably, the brain adapted to prioritize short-term survival over more uncertain long-term outcomes. But the resulting behavioral architecture is poorly suited to the present, when scarcity is a lesser concern and slow-moving, novel challenges like environmental issues present the greatest danger. Duhaime details how even our acknowledged best interests are thwarted by the brain's reward system: if a behavior isn't perceived as immediately beneficial, we probably won't do it-never mind that we "know" we should. This is what happens when we lament climate change while indulging the short-term consumer satisfactions that ensure the disaster will continue.Luckily, we can sway our brains, and those of others, to alter our behaviors. Duhaime describes concrete, achievable interventions that have been shown to encourage our neurological circuits to embrace new rewards. Such small, incremental steps that individuals take, whether in their roles as consumers, in the workplace, or in leadership positions, are necessary to mitigate climate change. The more we understand how our tendencies can be overridden by our brain's capacity to adapt, Duhaime argues, the more likely we are to have a future.

Kim, Hyunjung (ed.), Microplastics: Analytical Challenges and Environmental Impacts. 224 pp. 2022:9 (CRC Pr., US) <678-1069>
ISBN 978-1-03-206077-4 hard ¥31,339.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *

This book introduces the growing problem of microplastics pollution in the soil and aquatic environment and its interaction with other chemical pollutants. Further, it provides a detailed review of existing analysis techniques for characterization, separation, and quantification of microplastics including their merits and demerits with possible suggestions. Additionally, the regulatory need and actions for improving the economic and quality of plastic recycling, curbing microplastic littering, and stakeholders, researchers, and recyclers challenges are reviewed comprehensively. Priorities are identified to bridge the knowledge gaps for appropriate management of existing challenges.Features:Provides a comprehensive description of the fate and environmental impact of microplastics, along with various characterization methodsOverviews the interaction of microplastics with other toxic chemicals and further their transportation in environment Explains how microplastics enter in environment and its effect on biota and human health Analyses existing analytical techniques for characterization of microplasticsDescribes societal awareness related to use of plastic and discardingThis book focusses on graduate students, researchers in environmental engineering, ecological engineering, chemical and biological engineering, plastics and material sciences/engineering, waste management. materials science.

気候正義に関する対話
Gardiner, Stephen M. / Obst, Arthur, Dialogues on Climate Justice. (Philosophical Dialogues on Contemporary Problems) 240 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <678-107>
ISBN 978-0-367-64196-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-64195-5 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Written both for general readers and college students, Dialogues on Climate Justice provides an engaging philosophical introduction to climate justice, and should be of interest to anyone wanting to think seriously about the climate crisis. The story follows the life and conversations of Hope, a fictional protagonist whose life is shaped by a terrifyingly real problem: climate change. From the election of Donald Trump in 2016 until the 2060s, the book documents Hope's discussions with a diverse cast of characters. As she ages, her conversations move from establishing the nature of the problem, to engaging with climate skepticism, to exploring her own climate responsibilities, through managing contentious international negotiations, to considering big technological fixes, and finally, as an older woman, to reflecting with her granddaughter on what one generation owes another. Following a philosophical tradition established by Plato more than two thousand years ago, these dialogues are not only philosophically substantive and carefully argued, but also distinctly human. The differing perspectives on display mirror those involved in real-world climate dialogues going on today.Key Features:Written in an engaging dialogue form, which includes characterization, clear exchanges of ideas, and a compelling story arcClearly organized to allow readers both in-depth consideration and rapid overviews of various topicsMemorable examples that enable and encourage discussion inside and outside the classroomAn Introduction to the book aimed at instructors, which includes helpful instructions for teaching the book and engaging student assignments

Leal Filho, Walter (Hrsg.), Nachhaltigkeit in den Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften. 402 S. 2022:3 (P. Lang, SZ) <678-1071>
ISBN 978-3-631-87149-2 paper ¥18,727.- (税込) SFR 75.00 *

Der Band praesentiert Ideen, Konzepte, Best Practices und Beispiele von Initiativen, die den Beitrag der Ingenieur- und Sozialwissenschaften zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung aufzeigen. Die Publikation traegt dazu bei, den Beitrag dieser beiden Schluesselbereiche fuer Studierende der Ingenieur- und Sozialwissenschaften in einer bisher nicht dagewesenen Weise zu verdeutlichen.

持続可能な開発のための審議的ガバナンス
Lehner, Franz, Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development: An Innovative Solution for Environment, Economy and Society. (Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy) 248 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <678-1072>
ISBN 978-1-03-219842-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development argues that governance has become the core problem of sustainable development and identifies deliberative democracy and governance as a path forward for Western societies. In this book the author puts forward three messages. Firstly, while sustainable development theoretically is a common good of all people, it is in practice constantly associated with a multitude of smaller and larger conflicts. These conflicts arise repeatedly because, in practice, the benefits, costs and risks of sustainable development are unequally distributed and therefore form a massive barrier to sustainable development. As a result, sustainable development depends on the ability of the social and political institutions of societies to accommodate these conflicts. Second, within the framework of their established institutional structures, Western societies do not have the sufficient tools for conflict resolution that are adequate to the conditions of modern diversified societies and the complex challenges of sustainable development. They need to implement institutional reforms that switch institutional structures towards deliberation. Third, by switching to deliberation, Western societies can reach the high level of governance that enables them to achieve environmentally sustainable development that will bring them significant economic and social benefits and, as a result, may reach far beyond their borders. This volume offers a novel, transdisciplinary approach to sustainable development and governance in Western societies. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of sociology, economics, politics, environmental studies and philosophy, as well as professionals and policymakers working in the area of sustainable development.

Onaran, Korkut, Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis. 232 pp. 2022:9 (Routledge, UK) <678-1074>
ISBN 978-1-03-202266-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-202265-9 paper ¥9,398.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99 *

Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use planning and urbanism that will enable us to adapt to and survive the consequences of climate change.The book offers strong, straightforward measures for creating a landscape of resilience via pockets of self-sufficiencies. It demonstrates how to secure systems that sustain life (energy, water, food, waste, and production of essential goods) as well as political and social protocols enabling agile decision-making in managing these systems effectively at local levels. It also provides the design principles for creating a built environment that will enable the kind of localization we need for adaptation. The book explores how it is possible to create a life that does not depend on large-scale regional sustenance systems which are likely to be disrupted or fail. This book uncovers how to enable people to be creative, productive, and supportive at local levels, so that we can achieve strong and diverse local economies that can sustain life. It will appeal to students, planners, and policy makers working in environmental studies, environmental engineering, urban and regional planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism.

Travis, Charles / Dixon, Deborah P. et al. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 568 pp. 2022:9 (Routledge, UK) <678-1076>
ISBN 978-0-367-53663-3 hard ¥61,253.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

The Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities explores the digital methods and tools scholars use to observe, interpret, and manage nature in several different academic fields.Employing historical, philosophical, linguistic, literary, and cultural lenses, this handbook explores how the digital environmental humanities (DEH), as an emerging field, recognises its convergence with the environmental humanities. As such, it is empirically, critically, and ethically engaged in exploring digitally mediated, visualised, and parsed framings of past, present, and future environments, landscapes, and cultures. Currently, humanities, geographical, cartographical, informatic, and computing disciplines are finding a common space in the DEH and are bringing the use of digital applications, coding, and software into league with literary and cultural studies and the visual, film, and performing arts. In doing so, the DEH facilitates transdisciplinary encounters between fields as diverse as human cognition, gaming, bioinformatics and linguistics, social media, literature and history, music, painting, philology, philosophy, and the earth and environmental sciences.This handbook will be essential reading for those interested in the use of digital tools in the study of the environment from a wide range of disciplines and for those working in the environmental humanities more generally.

Warden, Claire Helen, Green Teaching: Nature Pedagogies for Climate Change & Sustainability. 152 pp. 2022:6 (Sage, UK) <678-1077>
ISBN 978-1-5297-5218-2 hard ¥20,227.- (税込) GB￡ 71.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5297-5217-5 paper ¥6,264.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99 *

Just being outside doesn't always guarantee a connection to the natural world. An awareness of the environment needs to be embedded within the curriculum, and with climate change and sustainability being such important and urgent issues, this book is a timely and much needed resource for early years and primary educators. Introducing nature pedagogy - an approach that seeks to respect and support the rights of children and the planet together. Nature pedagogy encourages all educators to embrace eco-logical choices and to use nature as the location, resource and context for learning. The author draws on international research and case studies to offer a way forward, to embed green teaching and a nature-based pedagogy in practice and transform teaching with young children.

Zeisler-Vralsted, Dorothy, African Americans and the Mississippi River: Race, History, and the Environment. (Routledge Environmental Humanities) 224 pp. 2022:9 (Routledge, UK) <678-1078>
ISBN 978-1-138-67132-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
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This book follows the historical trajectory of African Americans and their relationship with the Mississippi River dating back to the 1700s and ending with Hurricane Katrina and the still-contested Delta landscape.Long touted in literary and historical works, the Mississippi River remains an iconic presence in the American landscape. Whether referred to as "Old Man River" or the "Big Muddy," the Mississippi River represents imageries ranging from the pastoral and Acadian to turbulent and unpredictable. However, these imageries-revealed through the cultural production of artists, writers, poets, musicians, and even filmmakers-did not reflect the experiences of everyone living and working along the river. Missing is a broader discourse of the African American community and the Mississippi River. Through the experiences of African Americans with the Mississippi River, which included narratives of labor (free and enslaved), refuge, floods, and migration, a different history of the river and its environs emerges.The book brings multiple perspectives together to explore this rich history of the Mississippi River through the intersection of race and class with the environment. The text will be of great interest to students and researchers in environmental humanities, including environmental justice studies, ethnic studies, and US and African American history.