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

Miller, Ian M. / Davis, Bradley Camp et al. (eds.), The Cultivated Forest: People and Woodlands in Asian History. (A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) 294 pp. 2022:12 (U. Washington Pr., US) <679-865>
ISBN 978-0-295-75090-3 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

Forests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the history of forest management across these regions as well as the distinctive qualities of human-forest relations within each context. With a general introduction to forest histories in East and Southeast Asia and a multidisciplinary set of authors, The Cultivated Forest constructs alternative lineages of forest knowledge that aim to transcend the frameworks imposed by colonial or national histories. Across these regions, forests were sites of exploitation, contestation, and ritual just as they were in Europe and America. This volume puts studies of Asian forests into conversation with global forest histories.

Ding, Iza, The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China. 258 pp. 2022:9 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <679-884>
ISBN 978-1-5017-6037-2 hard ¥11,881.- (税込) US$ 52.95 *

What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions and defuse crises through the theatrical deployment of language, symbols, and gestures of good governance-performative governance. Iza Ding unpacks the black box of street-level bureaucracy in China through ethnographic participation, in-depth interviews, and public opinion surveys. She demonstrates in vivid detail how China's environmental bureaucrats deal with intense public scrutiny over pollution when they lack the authority to actually improve the physical environment. They assuage public outrage by appearing responsive, benevolent, and humble. But performative governance is hard work. Environmental bureaucrats paradoxically work themselves to exhaustion even when they cannot effectively implement environmental policies. Instead of achieving "performance legitimacy" by delivering material improvements, the state can shape public opinion through the theatrical performance of goodwill and sincere effort. The Performative State also explains when performative governance fails at impressing its audience and when governance becomes less performative and more substantive. Ding focuses on Chinese evidence but her theory travels: comparisons with Vietnam and the United States show that all states, democratic and authoritarian alike, engage in performative governance.

Green, Andrew, Picking Up the Slack: Law, Institutions, and Canadian Climate Policy. (UTP Insights) 320 pp. 2022:7 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <679-576>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4751-6 hard ¥19,074.- (税込) US$ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-5011-0 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Canada has over-promised and under-delivered on climate change, setting weak goals and allowing carve-outs, exceptions, and exemptions to undermine its climate policies. Why, in an era when climate change is front of mind for so many people, have we failed to make progress? This question has been the source of heated debate across the political spectrum. In Picking Up the Slack, Andrew Green draws together different perspectives on the challenge facing Canada to offer an accessible account of the ideas and institutions that have impeded climate change action. Picking Up the Slack embraces the complexity of the problem, showing that its sources lie deep in Canada's institutional arrangements - pointing to the role played by federal-provincial power sharing arrangements, the heavy reliance on discretion in Canadian law, the role of the courts, and the impact of social norms. Working from a broad perspective that incorporates the insights of economics, law, political science, and philosophy, Green unpacks the features of Canadian policy making that determine the successes and failures of climate policies. His message is ultimately optimistic: Picking Up the Slack sheds light on how we can bring about meaningful movement towards a fair and positive future.

Perera, Frederica, Children's Health and the Peril of Climate Change. 248 pp. 2022:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <679-372>
ISBN 978-0-19-758816-1 hard ¥8,748.- (税込) US$ 38.99 *

Today, approximately two billion children breathe toxic air at levels exceeding standards set by the World Health Organization, causing immediate and long-term physical and mental health effects. Nearly every child around the world is at risk from at least one climate-related shock such as severe heat, flooding, drought, air pollution, forest fires, water scarcity, and displacement. Air pollution and climate change, largely driven by emissions from fossil fuel, are widening inequality in children's health. From urban centers in the United States to remote villages in the furthest corners of Asia, we are seeing the effects of our inaction on climate change affecting the next generation--even those still in utero. The global transition away from fossil fuel to a low carbon economy creates a major opportunity for the health and future of our children, but only if we all take action. Children's Health and the Peril of Climate Change brings to light the mental and physical harms to children's health inflicted by climate change and its root cause--our addiction to fossil fuel. Drawing on the author's extensive expertise in children's environmental health, this essential and thought-provoking text exposes the unique vulnerability of the developing child and the multiple and synergistic effects of climate change and air pollution on child health, especially for disadvantaged children. However, it also shows how all children, regardless of their generational wealth or birth country, are imperiled by climate change. While this book provides specific evidence for the escalating dangers of climate change, it also presents a roadmap to a brighter future with case studies of climate change and air pollution policies that have benefitted children's health and the economy. Through facts and compelling storytelling, Frederica Perera shares the growing power of advocacy by youth, environmental justice, and Indigenous groups. She describes the many solutions now available, highlighting the need for integrated climate and social policies to accelerate the transition into a zero-carbon future. Leveraging the universally shared value of protecting children, Children's Health and the Peril of Climate Change is a call to action to replace denial and despair around climate change with purpose and commitment for a healthier, more sustainable future.

After Oil Collective, Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice. Ed. by A. Vemuri et al. (Forerunners: Ideas First) 92 pp. 2022:5 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <679-287>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1414-1 paper ¥2,244.- (税込) US$ 10.00 *

A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation Solarities considers the possibilities of organizing societies and economies around solar energy, and the challenges of a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels. Far from presenting solarity as a utopian solution to the climate crisis, it critically examines the ambiguous potentials of solarities: plural, situated, and often contradictory. Here, a diverse collective of activists, scholars, and practitioners critically engage a wide range of relationships and orientations to the sun. They consider the material and infrastructural dimensions of solar power, the decolonial and feminist promises of decentralized energy, solarian relations with more-than-human kin, and the problem of oppressive and weaponized solarities. Solarities imagines-and demands- possibilities for energy justice in this transition.

Cohen, Alice / Biro, Andrew, Organizing Nature: Turning Canada's Ecosystems into Resources. 272 pp. 2022:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <679-288>
ISBN 978-1-4875-9485-5 hard ¥17,952.- (税込) US$ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-9484-8 paper ¥8,290.- (税込) US$ 36.95 *

Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in Canada's resource-dependent economy. The book examines how particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life in Canada. In tracing transitions from "ecosystem component" to "resource," this book weaves together the roles that commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies focused on specific resources - fish, forests, carbon, water, land, and life - the book explores six channels through which this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments, culture and ideas, economies, and bodies and identities. Ultimately, Organizing Nature encourages readers to think critically about what is at stake when Canadians (re)produce myths about the false separation between Canadian peoples and their environments.

Tang, Qiuhong / Leng, Guoyong (eds.), Climate Risk and Sustainable Water Management. 502 pp. 2022:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <679-299>
ISBN 978-1-108-47983-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Climate change is leading to changing patterns of precipitation and increasingly extreme global weather. There is an urgent need to synthesize our current knowledge on climate risks to water security, which in turn is fundamental for achieving sustainable water management. Climate Risk and Sustainable Water Management discusses hydrological extremes, climate variability, climate impact assessment, risk analysis, and hydrological modelling. It provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of climate risks to water security, helping to guide sustainable water management in a changing and uncertain future. The relevant theory is accessibly explained using examples throughout, helping readers to apply the knowledge learned to their own situations and challenges. This textbook is especially valuable to students of hydrology, resource management, climate change, and geography, as well as a reference textbook for researchers, civil and environmental engineers, and water management professionals concerned with water-related hazards, water cycles, and climate change.

Thomas, Mary E. / Braun, Bruce (eds.), Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil. 248 pp. 2023:2 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <679-300>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1386-1 hard ¥24,235.- (税込) US$ 108.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5179-1387-8 paper ¥6,058.- (税込) US$ 27.00 *

Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boom Over the past decade, new oil plays have unsettled U.S. energy landscapes and imaginaries. Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms.This collection reveals the results of sustained research in Williston, North Dakota, the epicenter of the "Bakken Boom." While the boom brought a rapid influx of capital and workers, the book questions simple timelines of before and after. Instead, Settling the Boom demonstrates how the unsettling forces of an oil play resolve through normative narratives and material and affective infrastructures that support settler colonialism's violent extension and its gendered orders of time and space. Considering a wide range of evidence, from urban and regional policy, interviews with city officials, media, photography, and film, these essays analyze the ongoing material, aesthetic, and narrative ways of life and land in the Bakken.Contributors: Morgan Adamson, Macalester College; Kai Bosworth, Virginia Commonwealth U; Thomas S. Davis, Ohio State U; Jessica Lehman, Durham U.

Busetti, Simone / Pace, Noemi (eds.), Food Loss and Waste Policy: From Theory to Practice. (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment) 264 pp. 2022:10 (Routledge, UK) <679-304>
ISBN 978-1-03-212941-9 hard ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-212935-8 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted.Investigating food waste and loss under an interdisciplinary lens, the contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches, including quantitative and qualitative techniques, drawing on in-depth case studies and action research. The volume is organised into four parts: Understanding Food Loss and Waste, International Programmes, National Policies and Local Initiatives. The first part introduces the reader to the concept of food loss and waste, how it can be measured, its causes and consequences, and how it can be reduced. The second part is dedicated to international and cross-country case studies, with six chapters reviewing national policies implemented in France, Italy, Romania, Japan, China and the United States. In Part Four, three chapters are dedicated to local food recovery and redistribution initiatives. By focusing on different territories and different levels of governance, the book provides a detailed evaluation of food loss and waste policies, the barriers and opportunities of implementing the policies, as well as the impact they are actually having. The chapters are both descriptive and evaluative and draw out lessons for designing, implementing and reforming programmes.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars working on food waste, food policy, sustainable food systems, agricultural production and supply chains and public policy, as well as policymakers involved with developing and implementing programmes and policies to regulate and reduce food waste and loss.

都市部の食のガバナンス・ハンドブック
Moragues-Faus, Ana / Clark, Jill K. et al. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 456 pp. 2022:10 (Routledge, UK) <679-311>
ISBN 978-0-367-51800-4 hard ¥56,199.- (税込) GB￡ 195.00 *

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance is the first collection to reflect on and compile the currently dispersed histories, concepts and practices involved in the increasingly popular field of urban food governance.Unpacking the power of urban food governance and its capacity to affect lives through the transformation of cities and the global food system, the Handbook is structured into five parts. The first part focuses on histories of urban food governance to trace the historical roots of current dynamics and provide an impetus for the critical lens on urban food governance threaded through the Handbook. The second part presents a broad overview of the different frames, theories and concepts that have informed urban food governance scholarship. Drawing on the previous parts, part three engages with the practice of urban food governance by analysing plans, policies and programmes implemented in different contexts. Part four presents current knowledge on how urban food governance involves different agencies that operate across scales and sectors. The final part asks key figures in this field what the future holds for urban food governance in the midst of pressing societal and environmental challenges. Containing chapters written by emerging and established scholars, as well as practitioners, the Handbook provides a state of the art, global and diverse examination of the role of cities in delivering sustainable and secure food outcomes, as well as providing refreshed theoretical and practical tools to understand and transform urban food governance to enact more sustainable and just futures.The Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance will be essential reading for students, scholars, practitioners and policymakers interested in food governance, urban studies, sustainable food and agriculture, and sustainable living more broadly.

Zakaria, Faizah, The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia. (Culture, Place, and Nature) 254 pp. 2022:12 (U. Washington Pr., US) <679-190>
ISBN 978-0-295-75119-1 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *
ISBN 978-0-295-75118-4 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not a potent force in Southeast Asian environmental movements? The Camphor Tree and the Elephant brings these questions into the history of ecological change in the region, centering the roles of religion and colonialism in shaping the Anthropocene-"the human epoch." Historian Faizah Zakaria traces the conversion of the Batak people in upland Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula to Islam and Christianity during the long nineteenth century. She finds that the process helped shape social structures that voided the natural world of enchantment, ushered in a cash economy, and placed the power to remake local landscapes into the hands of a distant elite. Using a wide array of sources such as family histories, prayer manuscripts, and folktales in tandem with colonial and ethnographic archives, Zakaria brings everyday religion and its far-flung implications into our understanding of the environmental history of the modern world.

Flipo, Fabrice, Le developpement durable et ses critiques: vers la transition sociale et ecologique? (Themes & debats) 120 p. 2022:5 (Breal, FR) <679-223>
ISBN 978-2-7495-5116-6 paper ¥2,891.- (税込) EUR 11.90

Borde, Radhika / Ormsby, Alison A. et al. (eds.), Religion and Nature Conservation: Global Case Studies. (Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment) 264 pp. 2022:10 (Routledge, UK) <679-126>
ISBN 978-1-03-215900-3 hard ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-215899-0 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This book presents a broad array of global case studies exploring the interaction between religion and the conservation of nature, from the viewpoints of the religious practitioners themselves. With conservation and religion often being championed as allies in the quest for a sustainable world where humans and nature flourish, this book provides a much-needed compendium of detailed examples where religion and conservation science have been brought together. Case studies cover a variety of religions, faiths and practices, including traditional, Indigenous, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto and Zoroastrianism. Importantly, this volume gives voice to the religious practitioners and adherents themselves. Beyond an exercise in anthropology, ethnobiology and comparative religion, the book is an applied work, seeking the answer to how in a world of nearly eight billion people, we might help our own species to prevent the extinction of life. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of nature conservation, environment and religion, cultural geography and ethnobiology, as well as practitioners and professionals working in conservation.

James, Simon P., How Nature Matters: Culture, Identity, and Environmental Value. 176 pp. 2022:8 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <679-105>
ISBN 978-0-19-887161-3 hard ¥14,986.- (税込) GB￡ 52.00 *

HOW NATURE MATTERS presents an original theory of nature's value based on partDLwhole relations. James argues that when natural things have cultural value, they do not always have it as means to valuable ends. In many cases, they have value as parts of valuable wholes DL as parts of traditions, for instance, or cultural identities. James develops his theory by investigating twelve real-world cases, ranging from the veneration of sacred trees to the hunting of dugongs. He also analyses some key policy-related debates and explores various fundamental issues in environmental philosophy, including the question of whether anything on earth qualifies as natural. This accessible, engagingly written book will be essential reading for all those who wish to understand the moral and metaphysical dimensions of environmental issues.

気候難民
Behrman, Simon / Kent, Avidan (eds.), Climate Refugees: Global, Local and Critical Approaches. 370 pp. 2022:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <679-1054>
ISBN 978-1-108-83072-0 hard ¥27,087.- (税込) GB￡ 93.99 *
ISBN 978-1-108-82877-2 paper ¥11,812.- (税込) GB￡ 40.99 *

The last few years have witnessed a flurry of activity in global governance and international lawseeking to address the protection gaps for people fleeing the effects of climate change. This book discusses cutting-edge developments in law and policy on climate change and forced displacement, including theories and potential solutions, issues of governance, local and regional concerns, and future challenges. Chapters are written by a range of authors from academics to key figures in intergovernmental organisations, and offer detailed case studies of policy developments in the Americas, Europe, South-East Asia, and the Pacific. This is an ideal resource for graduate students and researchers from a range of disciplines, as well as policymakers working in environmental law, environmental governance, and refugee and migration law. This is one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance.

Bubandt, Nils / Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck et al. (eds.), Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds. 456 pp. 2023:2 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <679-1056>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1164-5 hard ¥31,416.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5179-1165-2 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

A methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet The environmental and climatic crises of our time are fundamentally multispecies crises. And the Anthropocene, a time of "human-made" disruptions on a planetary scale, is a disruption of the fabric of life as a whole. The contributors to Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene argue that understanding the multispecies nature of these disruptions requires multispecies methods.Answering methodological challenges posed by the Anthropocene, Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene retools the empirical study of the socioecological chaos of the contemporary moment across the arts, human science, and natural science. Based on critical landscape history, multispecies curiosity, and collaboration across disciplines and knowledge systems, the volume presents thirteen transdisciplinary accounts of practical methodological experimentation, highlighting diverse settings ranging from the High Arctic to the deserts of southern Africa and from the pampas of Argentina to the coral reefs of the Western Pacific, always insisting on the importance of firsthand, "rubber boots" immersion in the field.The methodological companion to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (Minnesota, 2017), this collection puts forth empirical studies of the multispecies messiness of contemporary life that investigate some of the critical questions of our time.Contributors: Filippo Bertoni, Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin; Harshavardhan Bhat, U of Westminster; Nathalia Brichet, U of Copenhagen; Janne Flora, Aarhus U, Denmark; Natalie Forssman, U of British Columbia; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Kirsten Hastrup, U of Copenhagen; Colin Hoag, Smith College; Joseph Klein, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andrew S. Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Daniel Muenster, U of Oslo; Ursula Muenster, U of Oslo; Jon Rasmus Nyquist, U of Oslo; Katy Overstreet, U of Copenhagen; Pierre du Plessis, U of Oslo; Meredith Root-Bernstein; Heather Anne Swanson, Aarhus U; Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, U of California,Santa Cruz; Stine Vestbo.

Dilsaver, Lary M. / Babalis, Timothy J., Restoring Nature: The Evolution of Channel Islands National Park. (America's Public Lands) 426 pp. 2023:1 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <679-1059>
ISBN 978-1-4962-3336-3 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4962-3355-4 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Off the coast of California, running from Santa Barbara to La Jolla, lies an archipelago of eight islands known as the California Channel Islands. The northern five were designated as Channel Islands National Park in 1980 to protect and restore the rich habitat of the islands and surrounding waters. In the years since, that mission intensified as scientists discovered the extent of damage to the delicate habitats of these small fragments of land and to the surprisingly threatened sea around them. In Restoring Nature Lary M. Dilsaver and Timothy J. Babalis examine how the National Park Service has attempted to reestablish native wildlife and vegetation to the five islands through restorative ecology and public land management. The Channel Islands staff were innovators of the inventory and monitoring program whereby the resource problems were exposed. This program became a blueprint for management throughout the U.S. park system. Dilsaver and Babalis present an innovative regional and environmental history of a little-known corner of the Pacific West, as well as a larger national narrative about how the Park Service developed its approach to restoration ecology, which became a template for broader Park Service policies that shaped the next generation of environmental conservation.

Gabrys, Jennifer, Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle. 360 pp. 2022:11 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <679-1062>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1404-2 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5179-1405-9 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

An unparalleled how-to guide to citizen-sensing practices that monitor air pollution Modern environments are awash with pollutants churning through the air, from toxic gases and intensifying carbon to carcinogenic particles and novel viruses. The effects on our bodies and our planet are perilous. Citizens of Worlds is the first thorough study of the increasingly widespread use of digital technologies to monitor and respond to air pollution. It presents practice-based research on working with communities and making sensor toolkits to detect pollution while examining the political subjects, relations, and worlds these technologies generate. Drawing on data from the Citizen Sense research group, which worked with communities in the United States and the United Kingdom to develop digital-sensor toolkits, Jennifer Gabrys argues that citizen-oriented technologies promise positive change but then collide with entrenched and inequitable power structures. She asks: Who or what constitutes a "citizen" in citizen sensing? How do digital sensing technologies enable or constrain environmental citizenship? Spanning three project areas, this study describes collaborations to monitor air pollution from fracking infrastructure, to document emissions in urban environments, and to create air-quality gardens. As these projects show, how people respond to, care for, and struggle to transform environmental conditions informs the political subjects and collectives they become as they strive for more breathable worlds.

Goldstein, Jenny / Nost, Eric (eds.), The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics. 356 pp. 2022:10 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <679-1063>
ISBN 978-1-4962-1715-8 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4962-3250-2 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

When we look at some of the most pressing issues in environmental politics today, it is hard to avoid data technologies. Big data, artificial intelligence, and data dashboards all promise "revolutionary" advances in the speed and scale at which governments, corporations, conservationists, and even individuals can respond to environmental challenges. By bringing together scholars from geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, and ecology, The Nature of Data explores how the digital realm is a significant site in which environmental politics are waged. This collection as a whole makes the argument that we cannot fully understand the current conjuncture in critical, global environmental politics without understanding the role of data platforms, devices, standards, and institutions. In particular, The Nature of Data addresses the contested practices of making and maintaining data infrastructure, the imaginaries produced by data infrastructures, the relations between state and civil society that data infrastructure reworks, and the conditions under which technology can further socio-ecological justice instead of re-entrenching state and capitalist power. This innovative volume presents some of the first research in this new but rapidly growing subfield that addresses the role of data infrastructures in critical environmental politics.

Henry, Matthew S., Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition. 238 pp. 2023:1 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <679-1065>
ISBN 978-1-4962-2789-8 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4962-3375-2 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, Michigan, to the Appalachian coal and gas fields and the Gulf Coast, low-income communities, Indigenous communities, and communities of color face the disproportionate effects of floods, droughts, sea level rise, and water contamination. In Hydronarratives Matthew S. Henry examines cultural representations that imagine a just transition, a concept rooted in the U.S. labor and environmental justice movements to describe an alternative economic paradigm predicated on sustainability, economic and social equity, and climate resilience. Focused on regions of water insecurity, from central Arizona to central Appalachia, Henry explores how writers, artists, and activists have creatively responded to intensifying water crises in the United States and argues that narrative and storytelling are critical to environmental and social justice advocacy. By drawing on a wide and comprehensive range of narrative texts, historical documentation, policy papers, and literary and cultural scholarship, Henry presents a timely project that examines the social movement, just transition, and the logic of the Green New Deal, in addition to contemporary visions of environmental justice.

Jacobs, Stephen, Sustainable Living at the Centre for Alternative Technology: Radical Ideas and Practical Solutions. (Routledge Studies in Sustainability) 224 pp. 2022:10 (Routledge, UK) <679-1066>
ISBN 978-1-03-207562-4 hard ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This book presents a detailed exploration into the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), an enterprise concerned with finding and communicating sustainable ways of living, established in Wales in 1973. Playing a central role in the global green network, this study examines CAT's history and context for creation, its development over time and its wider influence in the progression of green ideas at the local, national and international levels.Based on original archival and ethnographic research, this book provides the first in-depth analysis of CAT and uses the case study to explore wider issues of sustainability and environmental communication. It situates the Centre within current environmental and political discourse and emphasises the relevance and reach of CAT's practical solutions and creative educational programme. These practical solutions to the destruction of the environment of human activity are increasingly vital in today's context of climate change, loss of biodiversity and rising levels of pollution. It debates the spectrum of attitudes between environmentalism and ecologism evident at CAT and in broader conversations surrounding sustainability.Woven throughout the text, the author makes clear what we can learn from CAT's almost 50 years of experiments and experiences, from his first-hand account of working at the site. This will be a fascinating and revealing read for academics, researchers, students and practitioners interested in all aspects of sustainability and environmental issues.

W.Leal Filho他編　気候変動の学術用語
Manolas, Evangelos / Leal Filho, Walter (eds.), The Academic Language of Climate Change: An Introduction for Students and Non-native Speakers. 216 pp. 2022:9 (Emerald, UK) <679-1068>
ISBN 978-1-80382-912-8 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. For the sake of human civilization and life on earth we must do all we can to keep global warming at the lowest possible level. Addressing climate change is everyone's duty and that includes teachers of English. In order to support students and non-native English speakers, this important work provides an introduction to climate change via simple chapters addressing different and important dimensions of climate change and helps students acquire basic language skills which will allow them to study similar or more difficult texts. Each chapter offers an introduction on the topic discussed and its relation to climate change, outlines climate change or other related environmental science terms and 6-8 exercises on grammar, syntax and consolidation of terminology. Topics covered include climate change and tourism, gender, worker safety, mental and physical health, food production, deforestation, art, and much more. Offering an interdisciplinary introduction to climate change and its intersection with numerous industries and facets of life, The Academic Language of Climate Change, provides a necessary and welcome introduction for undergraduate and graduate students, and any non-native English speakers seeking to engage with climate change research.

気候の歴史－石器時代から現代まで
Mauelshagen, Franz, Geschichte des Klimas: Von der Steinzeit bis zur Gegenwart. (Beck'sche Reihe: Wissen 2942) 128 S. 2023:8 (Beck, GW) <679-1069>
ISBN 978-3-406-79148-2 paper ¥2,917.- (税込) EUR 12.00 *

Die Geschichte der Zivilisationen ist unaufloeslich mit den Veraenderungen des Klimas auf unserer Erde verwoben. Das gilt nicht erst seit der Industrialisierung, seit also die Menschheit den Wandel des Klimas selbst beeinflusst. Schon der Erfolg und Misserfolg agrarischer Gesellschaften hing von klimatischen Veraenderungen ab und der Art und Weise, wie sich die Menschen daran anpassten. Auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung schildert Franz Mauelshagen die grossen Klimaschwankungen und ihre Bedeutung fuer den Gang der Geschichte, von der Steinzeit ueber das Roemische Klimaoptimum, das "warme Mittelalter" und die Kleine Eiszeit zu Beginn der Neuzeit bis hin zur Globalen Erwaermung.

McKeown, M Margaret, Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas - Public Advocate and Conservation Champion. 288 pp. 2022:9 (Potomac Books, US) <679-1070>
ISBN 978-1-64012-300-7 hard ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980) was a giant in the legal world, although often remembered for his four wives, as a potential vice-presidential nominee, as a target of impeachment proceedings, and for his tenure as the longest-serving justice from 1939 to 1975. His most enduring legacy, however, is perhaps his advocacy for the environment. Douglas was the spiritual heir to early 20th-century conservation pioneers such as Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir. His personal spiritual mantra embraced nature as a place of solitude, sanctuary, and refuge. Caught in the giant expansion of America's urban and transportation infrastructure after World War II, Douglas became a powerful leader in forging the ambitious goals of today's environmental movement. In doing so, he became a true citizen justice. In a way that would be unthinkable today, Douglas ran a one-man lobby shop from his chambers at the Supreme Court, bringing him admiration from allies in conservation groups but raising ethical issues with his colleagues. He became a national figure through his books, articles, and speeches warning against environmental dangers. Douglas organised protest hikes to leverage his position as a national icon; he lobbied politicians and policymakers privately about everything from logging to highway construction and pollution; and he protested at the Supreme Court through his voluminous and passionate dissents. He made a lasting contribution to both the physical environment and environmental law, with trees still standing, dams unbuilt, and beaches protected as a result of his work. His merged roles as citizen advocate and justice also put him squarely in the centre of ethical dilemmas that he never fully resolved. Citizen Justice elucidates the why and how of these tensions and their contemporary lessons against the backdrop of Douglas's unparalleled commitment to the environment.

Milne, Sarah, Corporate Nature: An Insider's Ethnography of Global Conservation. (Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and its Alternatives) 256 pp. 2022:11 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <679-1072>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4700-5 hard ¥13,464.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

Morrissey, Robert Michael, People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America. (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) 304 pp. 2022:11 (U. Washington Pr., US) <679-1074>
ISBN 978-0-295-75087-3 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *
ISBN 978-0-295-75088-0 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

In People of the Ecotone, Robert Morrissey weaves together a history of Native peoples with a history of an ecotone to tell a new story about the roots of the Fox Wars, among the most transformative and misunderstood events of early American history. To do this, he also offers the first comprehensive environmental history of some of North America's most radically transformed landscapes-the former tallgrass prairies-in the period before they became the monocultural "corn belt" we know today.Morrissey situates the complex rise and fall of the Illinois, Meskwaki, and Myaamia peoples from roughly the collapse of Cahokia (thirteenth to fourteenth century CE) to the mid-eighteenth century in the context of millennia-long environmental shifts, as changes to the climate shifted bison geographies and tribes adapted their cultures to become pedestrian bison hunters. Tracing dynamic chains of causation from microscopic viruses to massive forces of climate, from the deep time of evolution to the specific events of human lifetimes, from local Illinois village economies to market forces an ocean away, People of the Ecotone offers new insight on Indigenous power and Indigenous logics.

Poll, Ryan, Aquaman and the War against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene. (Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies) 270 pp. 2022:11 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <679-1076>
ISBN 978-1-4962-2585-6 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

The reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In Aquaman and the War against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that in this twenty-first-century iteration, Aquaman becomes an accessible figure for charting environmental violences endemic to global capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological imagination. Poll contends that The New 52 Aquaman should be read as an allegory that responds to the crises of the Anthropocene, in which the oceans have become sites of warfare and mass death. The Aquaman series, which works to bridge the terrestrial and watery worlds, can be understood as a form of comics activism by its visualizing and verbalizing how the oceans are beyond the projects of the "human" and "humanism" and, simultaneously, are all-too-human geographies that are inextricable from the violent structures of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The New 52 Aquaman, Poll demonstrates, proves an important form of ocean literacy in particular and ecological literacy more generally.

オーラル・ヒストリーと環境
Sloan, Stephen M. / Cave, Mark (eds.), Oral History and the Environment: Global Perspectives on Climate, Connection, and Catastrophe. (Oxford Oral History Series) 320 pp. 2022 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <679-1078>
ISBN 978-0-19-068496-9 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-068497-6 paper ¥8,523.- (税込) US$ 37.99 *

As uncontrolled development forces crises in the natural world, deeply ingrained human connections with the earth are changing. Oral history's proven ability to explore issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality make it a uniquely effective methodology for bringing in new perspectives to our understanding of environments. This book brings together interviews with a global range of activists, farmers, water system managers, victims of catastrophe, tribal trustees, wilderness rangers, reindeer herders, and foresters, among others whose life experience gives them special insights into human-environmental interaction and adaption. Commentary by oral historians examines how these stories can be used to better understand our relationship with the natural world. Oral History and the Environment takes what could seem broad and impersonal forces such as climate change and environmentalismLand crystalizes their meaning through personal stories. It overturns narrow historical frameworks bounded artificially by national borders and instead portrays the issues facing our common ecosystems.

Smith, Mick / Young, Jason, Does the Earth Care?: Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology. (Forerunners: Ideas First) 132 pp. 2022:5 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <679-1079>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1320-5 paper ¥2,244.- (税込) US$ 10.00 *

Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergency The world is changing. Progress no longer has a future but any earlier sense of Earth as "providential" seems of merely historical interest. The apparent absence of Earthly solicitude is a symptom and consequence of these successive Western modes of engagement with the Earth, now exemplified in global capitalism. Within these constructs, Earth can only appear as constitutively indifferent to the fate of all its inhabitants. The "provisional ecology" outlined in Does the Earth Care?-drawing on a variety of literary and philosophical sources from Richard Jefferies and Robert Macfarlane to Martin Heidegger and Gaia theory-fundamentally challenges that assumption, while offering an Earthly alternative to either cold realism or alienated despair in the face of impending ecological disaster. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

J.D.サックス他編　持続可能な開発のための活動における倫理
Sachs, Jeffrey D. / Sorondo, Marcelo Sanchez et al. (eds.), Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development. 368 pp. 2022:8 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <679-108>
ISBN 978-0-231-20286-2 hard ¥35,904.- (税込) US$ 160.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-20287-9 paper ¥8,976.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, comprise an ambitious and sweeping agenda that unites economic, social, and environmental aims. What resources do the world's religious and secular traditions offer in support of these objectives? Which principles do these traditions hold in common, and how can these shared values help advance global goals?This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts. Drawing on more than two years of close-knit discussions convened by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Marcelo Sa?nchez Sorondo, it offers an extensive and inclusive vision of how to promote human flourishing. The book features theological, philosophical, and ethical deliberations of great diversity and depth on the challenges of sustainable development, addressing questions of poverty, environmental justice, peace, conflict, and the future of work. It includes consensus statements on the moral imperatives of sustainable development, introductions to seven major religious traditions and their conceptions of the common good, and thematic reflections. Wide-ranging and urgent, this book represents a major contribution to interreligious dialogue and to the articulation of a shared global ethics.The book features a foreword by Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.

Todd, Anne Marie, Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley. 207 pp. 2022:10 (U. California Pr., US) <679-1082>
ISBN 978-0-520-38957-1 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-38958-8 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley over the past one hundred years from America's largest fruit-producing region into the technology capital of the world. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the region's focus shifted from fruits-such as apricots and prunes-to computers. Both personal and public rhetoric reveals how a sense of place emerges and changes in an evolving agricultural community like the Santa Clara Valley. Through extensive archival research and interviews, Anne Marie Todd explores the concepts of place and placelessness, arguing that place is more than a physical location and that exploring a community's sense of place can help us to map how individuals experience their natural surroundings and their sense of responsibility towards the local environment. Todd extends the concept of sense of place to describe Silicon Valley as a non-place, where weakened or disrupted attachment to place threatens the environment and community. The story of the Santa Clara Valley is an American story of the development of agricultural lands and the transformation of rural regions.

Vasant, Pandian / Kharchenko, V. / Thomas, J. J. et al., Introduction to Artificial Intelligence in Renewable Energy and Climate Change. 2022:8 (Wiley-Scrivener, US) <679-1083>
ISBN 978-1-119-76898-2 hard ¥50,490.- (税込) US$ 225.00 *

Ziska, Lewis H., Greenhouse Planet: How Rising CO2 Changes Plants and Life as We Know It. 232 pp. 2022:11 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <679-1085>
ISBN 978-0-231-20670-9 hard ¥5,610.- (税込) US$ 25.00 *

The carbon dioxide that industrial civilization spews into the atmosphere has dramatic consequences for life on Earth that extend beyond climate change. CO2 levels directly affect plant growth, in turn affecting any kind of life that depends on plants-in other words, everything.Greenhouse Planet reveals the stakes of increased CO2 for plants, people, and ecosystems-from crop yields to seasonal allergies and from wildfires to biodiversity. The veteran plant biologist Lewis H. Ziska describes the importance of plants for food, medicine, and culture and explores the complex ways higher CO2 concentrations alter the systems on which humanity relies. He explains the science of how increased CO2 affects various plant species and addresses the politicization and disinformation surrounding these facts.Ziska confronts the claim that "CO2 is plant food," a longtime conservative talking point. While not exactly false, it is deeply misleading. CO2 doesn't just make "good" plants grow; it makes all plants grow. It makes poison ivy more poisonous, kudzu more prolific, cheatgrass more flammable. CO2 stimulates some species more than others: weeds fare particularly well and become harder to control. Many crops grow more abundantly but also become less nutritious. And the further effects of climate change will be formidable.Detailing essential science with wit and panache, Greenhouse Planet is an indispensable book for all readers interested in the ripple effects of increasing CO2.