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

Gerhardt, Christina, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean. 320 pp. 2023:5 (U. California Pr., US) <692-4>
ISBN 978-0-520-30482-6 hard ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

"A stunning atlas of the present and future."-Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases-San Francisco, New Orleans, New York "An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities."-Booklist, starred review One of the Best Science Books of 2023, New ScientistThis immersive portal to islands around the world highlights the impacts of sea level rise and shimmers with hopeful solutions to combat it. Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing. What does an island see when the sea rises? Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean weaves together essays, maps, art, and poetry to show us-and make us see-island nations in a warming world. Low-lying islands are least responsible for global warming, but they are suffering the brunt of it. This transportive atlas reorients our vantage point to place islands at the center of the story, highlighting Indigenous and Black voices and the work of communities taking action for local and global climate justice. At once serious and playful, well-researched and lavishly designed, Sea Change is a stunning exploration of the climate and our world's coastlines. Full of immersive storytelling, scientific expertise, and rallying cries from island populations that shout with hope-"We are not drowning! We are fighting!"-this atlas will galvanize readers in the fight against climate change and the choices we all face.

Lamoreaux, Janelle, Infertile Environments: Epigenetic Toxicology and the Reproductive Health of Chinese Men. (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography) 160 pp. 2023:1 (Duke U. Pr., US) <692-566>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1670-0 hard ¥19,393.- (税込) US$ 89.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1933-6 paper ¥5,163.- (税込) US$ 23.95 *

In Infertile Environments, Janelle Lamoreaux investigates how epigenetic research into the effects of toxic exposure conceptualizes and configures environments. Drawing on fieldwork in a Nanjing, China, toxicology lab that studies the influence of pesticides and other pollutants on male reproductive and developmental health, Lamoreaux shows how the lab's everyday research practices bring national, hormonal, dietary, maternal, and laboratory environments into being. She situates the lab's work within broader Chinese history as well as the contemporary cultural and political moment, in which declining fertility rates and reproductive governance and technology are growing concerns. She also points to how toxicology in China is a transnational endeavor tied to both local conditions and international research agendas and infrastructures, which highlights the myriad scales and scope of epigenetic environments. At a moment of growing concerns about toxins, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and climate change, Lamoreaux demonstrates that epigenetic research's proliferation of environments produces new kinds of toxic relations that impact multiple generations of humans.

Khan, Naveeda, River Life and the Upspring of Nature. 256 pp. 2023:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <692-580>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1673-1 hard ¥21,549.- (税込) US$ 99.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1939-8 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

In River Life and the Upspring of Nature Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existence of chauras, the people who live on the chars (sandbars) within the Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Nature is a primary force at play within this existence as chauras live itinerantly and in flux with the ever-changing river flows; where land is here today and gone tomorrow, the quality of life itself is intertwined with this mutability. Given this centrality of nature to chaura life, Khan contends that we must think of nature not simply as the physical landscape and the plants and animals that live within it but as that which exists within the social and at the level of cognition, the unconscious, intuition, memory, embodiment, and symbolization. By showing how the alluvial flood plains configure chaura life, Khan shows how nature can both give rise to and inhabit social, political, and spiritual forms of life.

Braverman, Irus, Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel. 344 pp. 2023:4 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <692-590>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1205-5 hard ¥25,009.- (税込) US$ 116.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5179-1526-1 paper ¥6,252.- (税込) US$ 29.00 *

A study of Palestine-Israel through the unexpected lens of nature conservation Settling Nature documents the widespread ecological warfare practiced by the state of Israel. Recruited to the front lines are fallow deer, gazelles, wild asses, griffon vultures, pine trees, and cows-on the Israeli side-against goats, camels, olive trees, hybrid goldfinches, and akkoub-which are affiliated with the Palestinian side. These nonhuman soldiers are all the more effective because nature camouflages their tactical deployment as such.?Drawing on more than seventy interviews with Israel's nature officials and on observations of their work, this book examines the careful orchestration of this animated warfare by Israel's nature administration on both sides of the Green Line. Alongside its powerful protection of wildlife biodiversity, the territorial reach of Israel's nature protection is remarkable: to date, nearly 25 percent of the country's total land mass is assigned as a park or a reserve. Settling Nature argues that the administration of nature advances the Zionist project of Jewish settlement and the corresponding dispossession of non-Jews from this space.

Correia, Joel E., Disrupting the Patron: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco. 229 pp. 2023:4 (U. California Pr., US) <692-618>
ISBN 978-0-520-39310-3 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Paraguay's Chaco region, cattle ranching drives some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme inequality in land tenure, with grave impacts on Indigenous well-being. Disrupting the Patron traces Enxet and Sanapana struggles to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ranches where they labored as peons-a decades-long resistance that led to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and back to the frontlines of Paraguay's ranching frontier. The Indigenous communities at the heart of this story employ a dialectics of disruption by working with and against the law to unsettle enduring racial geographies and rebuild territorial relations, albeit with uncertain outcomes. Joel E. Correia shows that Enxet and Sanapana peoples enact environmental justice otherwise: moving beyond juridical solutions to harm by maintaining collective lifeways and resistance amid radical social-ecological change. Correia's ethnography advances debates about environmental racism, ethics of engaged research, and Indigenous resurgence on Latin America's settler frontiers.

Aber, John D., Less Heat, More Light: A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change. 288 pp. 2023:7 (Yale U. Pr., US) <692-629>
ISBN 978-0-300-25943-8 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A straightforward and fact-based exploration of how weather happens, how it relates to climate, and how science answers major questions about Earth as a system Climate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental topics of our day. To answer criticisms and synthesize available information, scientists have been driven to devise increasingly complex models of the climate system. This book conveys that the basics of climate and climate change have been known for decades, and that relatively simple descriptions can capture the major features of the climate system and help the general public understand what controls climate and weather, and how both might be changing. Renowned environmental scientist and educator John D. Aber distills what he has learned from a long fascination with weather and climate, the process of science, and the telling of the story of science. This is not a book about policies and politics. Instead, it explores how weather happens, how it relates to climate, and how science has been used to answer major questions about the Earth as a system and inform policies that have reversed environmental degradation. By providing a guided tour of the science of weather, this thoughtful survey will contribute clarity and rationality to the public understanding of climate change.

Fletcher, Robert, Failing Forward: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservation. 320 pp. 2023:3 (U. California Pr., US) <692-633>
ISBN 978-0-520-39068-3 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-39069-0 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Failing Forward documents the global rise of neoliberal conservation as a response to biodiversity loss and unpacks how this approach has managed to "fail forward" over time despite its ineffectiveness. At its core, neoliberal conservation promotes market-based instruments intended to reconcile environmental preservation and economic development by harnessing preservation itself as the source of both conservation finance and capital accumulation more generally. Robert Fletcher describes how this project has developed over the past several decades along with the expanding network of organizations and actors that have come together around its promotion. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, he explores why this strategy continues to captivate states, nongovernmental organizations, international financial institutions, and the private sector alike despite its significant deficiencies. Ultimately, Fletcher contends, neoliberal conservation should be understood as a failed attempt to render global capitalism sustainable in the face of its intensifying social and ecological contradictions. Consequently, the only viable alternative capable of simultaneously achieving both environmental sustainability and social equity is a concerted program of "degrowth" grounded in post-capitalist principles.

Giacomelli, Joseph, Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America. 256 pp. 2023:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <692-636>
ISBN 978-0-226-82443-7 hard ¥8,624.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

Uncertain Climes looks to the late nineteenth century to reveal how climate anxiety was a crucial element in the emergence of American modernity. Even people who still refuse to accept the reality of human-induced climate change would have to agree that the topic has become inescapable in the United States in recent decades. But as Joseph Giacomelli shows in Uncertain Climes, this is actually nothing new: as far back as Gilded Age America, climate uncertainty has infused major debates on economic growth and national development. In this ambitious examination of late-nineteenth-century understandings of climate, Giacomelli draws on the work of scientists, foresters, surveyors, and settlers to demonstrate how central the subject was to the emergence of American modernity. Amid constant concerns about volatile weather patterns and the use of natural resources, nineteenth-century Americans developed a multilayered discourse on climate and what it might mean for the nation's future. Although climate science was still in its nascent stages during the Gilded Age, fears and hopes about climate change animated the overarching political struggles of the time, including expansion into the American West. Giacomelli makes clear that uncertainty was the common theme linking concerns about human-induced climate change with cultural worries about the sustainability of capitalist expansionism in an era remarkably similar to the United States' unsettled present.

Guettler, Nils, Nach der Natur: Umwelt und Geschichte am Frankfurter Flughafen. (Historische Wissensforschung 24) 464 S. 2023:5 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <692-637>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5381-7 hard ¥8,945.- (税込) EUR 38.00 *

Am Grossbeispiel des Frankfurter Flughafens untersucht ≫Nach der Natur≪ die Rolle von Wissenschaft in den oekologischen Krisen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Das Rhein-Main-Gebiet ist heute eine der oekologisch besterforschten Regionen der Welt. Massgeblichen Anteil hat daran eines der groessten Umweltprobleme vor Ort: der Frankfurter Flughafen. Die historischen Wechselwirkungen von Umwelt, Wissen und Politik stehen im Zentrum von ≫Nach der Natur≪. Am Beispiel des groessten deutschen Flughafens beschreibt es soziale Konflikte und gesellschaftliche Raeume, in denen Wissen ueber Umwelt seit dem fruehen 20. Jahrhundert verhandelt und wirksam wurde. Viele Wissensbestaende wurden zuerst im Flughafen produziert, bevor die Umweltbewegung sie sich aneignete und gegen den Flughafen in Stellung brachte. Der Flughafen hat somit im Laufe der Geschichte die Moeglichkeit seiner eigenen Kritik geschaffen. ≫Nach der Natur≪ ist mehr als eine Fallstudie. Das Buch liefert weitreichende Erkenntnisse ueber den gesellschaftspolitischen Ort von Umweltwissen als Infrastrukturwissen und versteht sich als historischer Beitrag zur aktuellen Debatte um die Klimakrise und das Anthropozaen.

Hawhee, Debra, A Sense of Urgency: How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Rhetoric. 272 pp. 2023:5 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <692-638>
ISBN 978-0-226-82671-4 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-82678-3 paper ¥5,929.- (税込) US$ 27.50 *

A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician. Why is it difficult to talk about climate change? Debra Hawhee argues that contemporary rhetoric relies on classical assumptions about humanity and history that cannot conceive of the present crisis. How do we talk about an unprecedented future or represent planetary interests without privileging our own species? A Sense of Urgency explores four emerging answers, their sheer novelty a record of both the devastation and possible futures of climate change. In developing the arts of magnitude, presence, witness, and feeling, A Sense of Urgency invites us to imagine new ways of thinking with our imperiled planet.

Pyne, Lydia, Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene. (Forerunners: Ideas First) 106 pp. 2022:8 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <692-643>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1483-7 paper ¥2,156.- (税込) US$ 10.00 *

Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss An endling is the last known individual of a species; when that individual dies, the species becomes extinct. These "last individuals" are poignant characters in the stories that humans tell themselves about today's Anthropocene. In this evocative work, Lydia Pyne explores how discussion about endlings-how we tell their histories-draws on deep traditions of storytelling across a variety of narrative types that go well beyond the science of these species' biology or their evolutionary history.Endlings provides a useful and thoughtful discussion of species concepts: how species start and how (and why) they end, what it means to be a "charismatic" species, the effects of rewilding, and what makes species extinction different in this era. From Benjamin the thylacine to Celia the ibex to Lonesome George the Galapagos tortoise, endlings, Pyne shows, have the power to shape how we think about grief, mourning, and loss amid the world's sixth mass extinction.

Wrigley, Charlotte, Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic. 256 pp. 2023:4 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <692-644>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1181-2 hard ¥19,835.- (税込) US$ 92.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5179-1182-9 paper ¥4,947.- (税込) US$ 22.95 *

Exploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change-thawing permafrost-and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet Climate scientists point to permafrost as a "ticking time bomb" for the planet, and from the Arctic, apocalyptic narratives proliferate on the devastating effects permafrost thaw poses to human survival. In Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood, Charlotte Wrigley considers how permafrost-and its disappearance-redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity, both material and social, and something that affects not only life on earth but nonlife, too.Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood approaches the topic of thawing permafrost and the wild new economies and mitigation strategies forming in the far north through a study of the Sakha Republic, Russia's largest region, and its capital city Yakutsk, which is the coldest city in the world and built on permafrost. Wrigley examines people who are creating commerce out of thawing permafrost, including scientists wishing to recreate the prehistoric "Mammoth steppe" ecosystem by eventually rewilding resurrected woolly mammoths, Indigenous people who forage the tundra for exposed mammoth bodies to sell their tusks, and government officials hoping to keep their city standing as the ground collapses under it. Warming begets thawing begets economic activity- and as a result, permafrost becomes discontinuous, both as land and as a social category, in ways that have implications for the entire planet. Discontinuity, Wrigley shows, eventually evolves into extinction.Offering a new way of defining extinction through the concept of "discontinuity," Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood presents a meditative and story-focused engagement with permafrost as more than just frozen ground.

Cheon, Andrew, Fueling State Capitalism: How Domestic Politics Shapes Foreign Investments of National Oil Companies. (Studies in Comparative Energy and Environmental Politics) 256 pp. 2023:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <692-154>
ISBN 978-0-19-767288-4 hard ¥17,894.- (税込) US$ 83.00 *

In the late 1990s, governments began investing hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign oil and gas assets through their national oil companies (NOCs), raising concerns about a "resource war" and asymmetric interdependence. Most critics perceive the foreign investments of NOCs as politically driven and inefficient. In Fueling State Capitalism, however, Andrew Cheon sees these investments as commercial ventures by ambitious state-owned enterprises seeking to become global players amid rising oil prices. Some have invested aggressively abroad, often in politically risky destinations, whereas others have been more moderate in their ambitions. The NOCs' capacity to pursue foreign investments varies, as Cheon argues, according to regime types and bureaucratic structures of their governments. Using principal agent theory, Cheon shows that competition among NOCs' principals at two different levels of government--national and bureaucratic--conditions the foreign investments of NOCs. While competition between the chief executive and opposition parties can limit democratic governments' capacity to tolerate failed investments abroad, non-democratic governments are less constrained. An overlap of authority among bureaucratic institutions can also encourage counterproductive behavior among NOCs, whereas a clear line of authority among them can prevent it. Looking at investments from 79 countries from 2000 to 2013, as well as case studies of China, India, Brazil, Norway, and Russia, Fueling State Capitalism unpacks the role of institutions, both national and bureaucratic, in shaping the global expansion of national energy firms. Moreover, Cheon probes the energy security motivations of NOC investments and the origins of bureaucratic structures. Based on the experience of NOC global expansion, Cheon concludes that bureaucratic institutions will be critical in achieving decarbonization that not only allows governments to meet their political objectives, but also helps NOCs ensure their long-term commercial viability through a managed transition to renewable energy.

Gerlak, Andrea K. (ed.), The Conversation on Water. (Critical Conversations) 264 pp. 2023:8 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <692-155>
ISBN 978-1-4214-4620-2 paper ¥3,654.- (税込) US$ 16.95 *

From the contributors to The Conversation, a compelling essay collection on the world's water crises and the necessary steps to build a more sustainable and equitable water future for all.Water-related crises are affecting more and more communities, both in the United States and internationally. If we continue to delay upgrading our infrastructure and addressing rising environmental concerns, we risk further destabilizing already strained systems-or, worse, causing a catastrophic collapse. In The Conversation on Water, water scholar and professor Andrea K. Gerlak collects essays from The Conversation U.S. on critical issues related to water from leading experts in everything from public policy to environmental engineering.Gerlak pays special attention to the threats facing our water systems today-covering insufficient infrastructure, climate change, and pollution-and integrates them with essays on technologies for harvesting water and Indigenous knowledge in governing the oceans. She then proposes solutions that present opportunities for hope and reform. From new partnerships and collaborative efforts to alternative governance practices and new scientific tools and community approaches, readers will learn about viable pathways forward and will understand the deep social and political dimensions of water governance. Understanding these challenges is the first step toward building a more sustainable and equitable water future for all. The Critical Conversations series collects essays from top scholars on timely topics, including water, biotechnology, gender diversity, gun culture, and more, originally published on the independent news site The Conversation U.S. Contributors: Roger Bales, Kevin Befus, Robert Blasiak, Ellen Bruno, Bethany Caruso, Sebastien Chastin, Craig E. Colten, Joseph Cook, Michelle DiBenedetto, Farshid Felfelani, Gabriel Filippelli, Michail Georgiou, Burke Griggs, Gary Griggs, Drew Gronewold, Marissa Grunes, Danielle Hare, Brian Haus, Dan Johnson, Carol Kwiatkowski, Rosalyn R. LaPier, Katharine Mach, Amahia Mallea, Daniel McCool, Jacob Miller-Klugesherz, Nobuhito Mori, Thomas Mortlock, Suzanne O'Connell, Itxaso Oderiz, Joseph D. Ortiz, Meg Parsons, Raquel Partelli-Feltrin, Yadu Pokhrel, Manzoor Qadir, Julie Reimer, Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos, Richard Rood, Asher Rosinger, Matthew R. Sanderson, Heidi Schweizer, Alan Seltzer, A. R. Siders, Rodolfo Silva-Casarin, Vladimir Smakhtin, Bruce Sutherland, Lara Taylor, Emily Ury, Ton Van den Bremer, Andrew J. Whelton

Kotchen, Matthew J. / Deryugina, T. / Stock, J. H. (eds.), Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy. Volume 4. (NBER - Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy 4) 175 pp. 2023 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <692-157>
ISBN 978-0-226-82827-5 paper ¥12,936.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

Rigorous, careful, and nonpartisan research with a high policy impact on environmental and energy economics.Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy focuses on the effective and efficient management of environmental and energy challenges. Research papers offer new evidence on the intended and unintended consequences, the market and nonmarket effects, and the incentive and distributional impacts of policy initiatives and market developments. This volume presents six new papers on environmental and energy economics and policy. Gilbert Metcalf examines the distributional impacts of substituting a vehicle miles-traveled tax for the existing federal excise tax in the United States. David Weisbach, Samuel Kortum, Michael Wang, and Yujia Yao consider solutions to the leakage problem of climate policy with differential tax policies on the supply and demand for fossil fuels and on domestic production and consumption. Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Kyle Meng, and Paige Weber quantify and decompose recent trends in air pollution disparities in the US electricity sector. Severin Borenstein and Ryan Kellogg provide a comparative analysis of different incentive-based mechanisms to reduce emissions in the electricity sector on a path to zero emissions. Sarah Anderson, Andrew Plantinga, and Matthew Wibbenmeyer document distributional differences in the allocation of US wildfire prevention projects. Finally, Mark Curtis and Ioana Marinescu provide new evidence on the quality and quantity of emerging "green" jobs in the United States.

Pasek, Anne / Lin, Cindy Kaiying / Cooper, Z. G. T. et al., Digital Energetics. (In Search of Media) 152 pp. 2023:5 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <692-158>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1587-2 paper ¥3,880.- (税込) US$ 18.00 *

Exploring the connections between energy and media-and what those connections mean for our current momentEnergy and media are the entangled middles of social life-and also of each other. This volume traces the contours of both a media analytic of energy and an energy analytic of media across the cultural, environmental, and economic relations they undergird. Digital Energetics argues that media and energy require joint theorization-not only in their potential to universalize but also in the many contingent and intermeshed relations that they bind together across contemporary informational and fossil regimes. Focusing specifically on digital operations, the coauthors analyze how data and energy have jointly modulated the character of the materiality and labor of digital systems in a warming world.Anne Pasek provides a brief energy history of the bit, tracing how the electrification and digitization of American computing propelled a turn toward efficiency as both a solution and instigator of parallel crises in the workforce and the climate. Zane Griffin Talley Cooper traces these concerns within cryptographic proof-of-work systems and the heat they necessarily produce and seek to manage. Following heat through the twinned histories of thermodynamics and information theory, he argues that such systems are best approached as a paradigmatic, rather than exceptional, example of computing infrastructures. Cindy Kaiying Lin focuses on the practical and political frictions created as database and management designs move from the Global North to South, illustrating how the energy constraints and software cultures of Indonesia open new spaces of autonomy within environmental governance. Finally, Jordan B. Kinder offers a theorization of "platform energetics," demonstrating how public energy discourses and settler land claims are entangled in the digital infrastructures of data colonialism in Canada.

Zeitoun, Mark, Reflections: Understanding Our Use and Abuse of Water. 136 pp. 2023:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <692-159>
ISBN 978-0-19-757512-3 hard ¥21,128.- (税込) US$ 98.00 *

Water is central to all life, but we use it to destroy. Water can nourish, but we use it to starve. It can cleanse and unify, but we ensure it contaminates and divides. The consequences of continuing to desecrate or beginning to restore water's inner grace are tremendous-and will reflect as much on us as portend our future. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as a water engineer, negotiator, and scholar, Mark Zeitoun provides a unique insider's account of this phenomenon. He explains how unchecked assumptions about water mix with political and economic systems to create an insatiable and ruinous thirst for ever more water. He shows how we use water to lethal effect in wars, and demolish drinking-water systems with wanton disregard. He questions why we transform the most majestic of rivers into canals which spark international conflict and challenge our capacity for preventative diplomacy. The answers reflect more about our society than we might care to admit. If we are to restore water's inner grace, Zeitoun argues, we should worry not so much about "saving" water, but think about what we do with it when it is in our hands.