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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
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A.シャリフィ、D.シマンガン、金子慎治編 平和と持続可能性への統合的アプローチ
Sharifi, Ayyoob / Simangan, Dahlia / Kaneko, Shinji (eds.),
Integrated Approaches to Peace and Sustainability. (World Sustainability Series) 244 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-977>
ISBN 978-981-19-7294-2 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *
This book provides new insights into the development of integrated approaches to peace and sustainability in the era of global change. Since the late 1980s, and in order to regulate the increasingly detrimental impacts of humans on the environment, the transition towards sustainability has been high on the agenda of researchers and policymakers alike. Meanwhile, peace considerations have expanded in recent decades to include the varied types and sources of conflict, from inter-state to intra-state conflicts due to various social, political, economic, and environmental factors. Through providing theoretical and empirical insights, this book demonstrates that sustainability and peace as intrinsically interrelated. The book elaborates on the multi-dimensional and constantly evolving concepts of sustainability and peace. In addition, the book contributes to a better understanding of the complex and dynamic interlinkages between peace and sustainability by presenting examples of pathwayswhere sustainability and peace interact considering the different factors and contexts that are constantly shaping and reshaping the conditions for sustainable and peaceful societies.
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Blair, James J. A.,
Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic. 312 pp. 2023:8 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <693-982>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7117-0 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-7154-5 paper ¥6,888.- (税込) US$ 31.95 *
Salvaging Empire probes the historical roots and current predicaments of a twenty-first century settler colony seeking to control an uncertain future through resource management and environmental science. Four decades after a violent 1982 war between the United Kingdom and Argentina reestablished British authority over the Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas in Spanish), a commercial fishing boom and offshore oil discoveries have intensified the sovereignty dispute over the South Atlantic archipelago. Scholarly literature on the South Atlantic focuses primarily on military history of the 1982 conflict. However, contested claims over natural resources have now made this disputed territory a critical site for examining the wider relationship between imperial sovereignty and environmental governance. James J. A. Blair argues that by claiming self-determination and consenting to British sovereignty, the Falkland Islanders have crafted a settler colonial protectorate to extract resources and extend empire in the South Atlantic. Responding to current debates in environmental anthropology, critical geography, Atlantic history, political ecology, and science and technology studies, Blair describes how settlers have asserted indigeneity in dynamic relation with the environment. Salvaging Empire uncovers the South Atlantic's outsized importance for understanding the broader implications of resource management and environmental science for the geopolitics of empire.
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Breyfogle, Nicholas B. / Brown, Philip C. (eds.),
Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History. 320 pp. 2023:6 (Oregon State U. Pr., US) <693-983>
ISBN 978-0-87071-237-1 paper ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *
Hydraulic Societies explores the linked themes of water, power, state-building, and hydraulic control. Bringing together a range of ecological, geographical, chronological, and methodological perspectives, the essays in this book address the how humans have long harnessed water and sought to contain its destructive power for political, economic and social ends. Water defines every aspect of life and remains at the center of human activity: in irrigation and agriculture; waste and sanitation; drinking and disease; floods and droughts; religious beliefs and practices; fishing and aquaculture; travel and discovery; scientific study; water pollution and conservation; multi-purpose dam building; boundaries and borders; politics and economic life; and wars and diplomacy. From the earliest large irrigation works thousands of years ago, control over water has involved control over people, as the essays in this volume reflect. The intersections of water and political, economic, and social power historically span international as well as domestic politics and operate at scales ranging from the local to the global. The authors consider the role of water in national development schemes, water distribution as a tool of political power, international disputes over waterways and water supplies, and the place of water in armed conflicts. They explore the ways in which political power and social hierarchies have themselves been defined and redefined by water and its control, how state leaders legitimized their rule both culturally and economically through the control of water, and how water management schemes were a means to impose and refine colonial power.
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池谷和信他編 歴史的視点におけるグローバルなエコロジー-モンスーンアジア他
Ikeya, Kazunobu / Balee, William (eds.),
Global Ecology in Historical Perspective: Monsoon Asia and Beyond. 329 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-988>
ISBN 978-981-19-6556-2 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99
This book primarily examines human-animal and human-plant interactions in Asian forests (Southeast Asia?and Japan) and inland waters (China). For comparison, cases from the Americas (whales in the Arctic, sea turtles in the Caribbean, and plants in the Amazon) and Central Asia are also included. The relationship between plants, animals, and humans in Asia is quite unique from a global perspective. For example, "satoyama" in Japan means ecotone area, or the boundary between a village and a forest. There, as the number of inhabitants declines, bears, wild boars, and other animals increasingly ravage crops, sometimes attacking humans as well.By showing the regional nature of human-animal and human-plant interactions in Asia, this book provides for the first time a framework for understanding the world's animal and plant-human relationships. It is assumed that the relationships between humans and animals and plants during this period were diverse, including hunting, taming, semi-domestication, and full domestication. At the same time, for regions outside of Asia, the extent to which these diverse relationships were adapted and how diversity was formed is explained from the perspective of historical ecology.Customers can expect to derive perspectives on the coexistence of human-animal and plant-animal relationships from this book in the near future.The conservation of rare species, diverse habitats, and biodiversity is a central theme in considering the relationship between modern civilization and the global environment. In post-industrial Japan, one focus has been the protection of iconic animals such as storks, crested ibis, dugongs, and sea turtles, while damage to crops and humans by deer, wild boars, monkeys, bears, and other common animals has become an important social issue. How can the world's 7.7 billion-plus people live in harmony with other species? We would like to get some hints on how to solve the problems we are facing.
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Pradhan, Pushkar K. / Leimgruber, Walter (eds.),
Nature, Society, and Marginality: Case Studies from Nepal, Southeast Asia and other regions. (Perspectives on Geographical Marginality 8) 327 pp. 2023:1 (Springer, GW) <693-992>
ISBN 978-3-031-21324-3 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99
This book focuses on the interrelations between nature and humans, in particular on those segments of societies that have been left behind (marginal groups). Nature is both the friend of humans and their adversary, depending on the way people treat and use it. Consequently, the book adopts a wide perspective of marginality: nature that has been marginalized by man (ecological marginality), but also social groups marginalized by politics, economic interests, and value judgements imbedded in culture. Many chapters deal specifically with issues in Nepal, but along with the other chapters with case studies from Southeast Asia and other regions, they demonstrate that the major man-nature problems are the same everywhere and can only be solved by constructive politics through clear regulations, convincing actions and general acceptance.
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Zuniga, Didier,
Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds: Vulnerability and Care of the Earth. 240 pp. 2023:2 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <693-837>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4738-7 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-4839-1 paper ¥7,750.- (税込) US$ 35.95 *
In Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds, Didier Zuniga examines the possibility for dialogue and mutual understanding in human and more-than-human worlds. The book responds to the need to find more democratic ways of listening to, giving voice to, and caring for the variety of beings that inhabit the earth. Drawing on ecology and sustainability in democratic theory, Zuniga demonstrates the transformative potential of a relational ethics that is not only concerned with human animals, but also with the multiplicity of beings on earth, and the relationships in which they are enmeshed. The book offers ways of cultivating and fostering the kinds of relations that are needed to maintain human and more-than-human diversity in order for life to persist. It also calls attention to the quality of the relationships that are needed for life to flourish, advancing our understanding of the diversity of pluralism. Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds ultimately presses us to question our own condition of human animality so that we may reconsider the relations we entertain with one another and with more-than-human forms of life on earth.
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Stuckey, Mary E.,
For the Enjoyment of the People: The Creation of National Identity in American Public Lands. 304 pp. 2023:7 (U. Pr. Kansas, US) <693-876>
ISBN 978-0-7006-3479-8 hard ¥8,621.- (税込) US$ 39.99 *
National parks are widely revered as "America's best idea"-they are abundantly popular and remarkably noncontroversial in the United States. American presidents use these parks to stake their claims to environmentalism, assert a singular national history, and define a unified national identity, often doing so inside the parks themselves. However, the establishment and history of almost every national park has been riddled with conflict over competing claims to land, knowledge, and economic interests. Like any major area of public policy, the fissures present in debates over the national parks also represent important fracture lines in the public understanding of the meaning of America and of individual claims to citizenship. The park system, in other words, does a lot of political work for both presidents and the mass public, even though much of that work goes largely unnoticed. This book explores that political work by addressing themes of national origins and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples; monuments to the national past, heritage, and the assertion of a national narrative; environmentalism and natural resources; and exploitation of the national landscape for economic gain.In For the Enjoyment of the People, Mary Stuckey looks at the politics of the parks as well as what the parks can teach us about citizenship and what it means to be American. Stuckey asserts that through the national parks we can hope to explain the past, clarify the present, and project the future. Combining interdisciplinary conversations about tourism, public memory, national history, park history, the presidency, and national identity, Stuckey contributes insightful ideas to the conversation on the history of national parks while examining the natural, military, and patriotic nature of America's best idea.
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Lewis, Joanna I.,
Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China's Clean Energy Sector. 370 pp. 2023:3 (MIT Pr., US) <693-350>
ISBN 978-0-262-54482-5 paper ¥9,702.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *
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Mumme, Stephen Paul,
Border Water: The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945-2015. 277 pp. 2023:3 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <693-351>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4831-6 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8165-4830-9 paper ¥8,624.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *
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Parinandi, Srinivas C.,
Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone?: How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy. 312 pp. 2023 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <693-353>
ISBN 978-0-472-07582-9 hard ¥15,092.- (税込) US$ 70.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-05582-1 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *
In recent years, the federal government's increasing inability to address major societal challenges has arguably hampered America's commitment to renewable energy initiatives. Individual U.S. states have stepped into this void and adopted their own policies, leading some to believe that the states can propel America's renewable energy industry forward. However, we know little about how legislative and regulatory dynamics within America's states might accelerate or hinder renewable energy policy creation. In Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone?, Srinivas Parinandi explores how states have devised their own novel policies, and how the political workings of legislatures and public utilities commissions have impacted state renewable energy policy design. Through the meticulous study of nearly three decades of state-level renewable energy policy-making, he finds that their creation is primarily driven by legislatures, and that ideologically liberal legislatures largely push the envelope. The book suggests that having a predominantly state-driven renewable energy effort can lead to uneven and patchwork-based policy development outcomes, and a possible solution is to try to more successfully federalize these issues. Parinandi urges readers, scholars, and policy practitioners to consider whether a state-led effort is adequate enough to handle the task of building momentum for renewable energy in one of the world's largest electricity markets.
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Siew, Renard,
Sustainability Analytics Toolkit for Practitioners: Creating Value in the 21st Century. 248 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-519>
ISBN 978-981-19-8236-1 hard ¥21,182.- (税込) EUR 89.99
This book solicits meaningful contributions from key experts and practitioners that have been dealing with the emerging area of sustainability analytics. In doing so, readers would understand the cost, impact and performance of their sustainability initiatives. The book covers current analytical tools (eg: frameworks, standards, ESG indexes) to measure sustainability, and how these tools embed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition to that, a part of the book is also dedicated to the application of sustainability analytics, highlighting key challenges as well as the importance of engagement and communication in shaping the future direction of sustainability assessments. This book will be extremely useful to both researchers and practitioners who are looking for best--in-class practices to create value from their sustainability initiatives.
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Adeniran, Adebusuyi Isaac (ed.),
African Development and Global Engagements: Policy, Climate Change, and COVID-19. 390 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-288>
ISBN 978-3-031-21282-6 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *
The book takes a cursory look at the drivers and the directions of Africa's developmental drive as a largely developing continent within the frameworks of the ever-dynamic global space, putting into perspective inherent challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century, and thereafter. Being the continent with most youthful population, Africa appears to still lack in requisite innovative interventions to transmute such demographic dividend into economic opportunities for the benefits of the larger population. Instead, there has been increasing trend in South-North migrations among both skilled and unskilled Africans across all age groups. Besides, impacts of climate change on the continent have also implied unstructured migratory trend within and beyond the bounds of the continent. Africa has continued to play a feeble role in various United Nations (UN)-enabled 'Conference of Parties' (COP) negotiations, such as the COP-26 in Glasgow, Scotland (2021). The management of recent Covid-19 epidemic across the world has presented a clear pointer to Africa that except development is internally-driven, no one is ready to exogenously drive sustainable good life for others. Ostensible 'vaccine nationalism' that has dotted the production and availability of various Covid-19 vaccine brands, which has ultimately left Africa as the 'begging continent' one more time calls for in-depth interrogation in contextualizing what the place of Africa has been, is and to be within the global interactive mode.
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Lenzi, Cristiano Luis,
Transgenics in Dispute: Political conflicts in the commercial liberation of GMOs in Brazil. 175 pp. 2023:1 (Springer, GW) <693-299>
ISBN 978-3-031-21791-3 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99
This book analyses the conflict over the release of transgenic soybean in Brazil based on a narrative analysis of political conflict. At the end of the 1990s, the commercial release of Roundup Ready (RR) soybean triggered a heated debate over the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Brazilian agriculture, which developed into an open political conflict opposing pro- and anti-GMOs groups in Brazilian society. This volume examines some of the structuring axes of this conflict by applying a narrative analysis of political conflict. In this approach, politics is perceived as a process of interpretive conflict in which participants in the political game seek to establish the lines that delimit the very definition of public issues under debate. The issue of GMOs is understood, from this perspective, as a public controversy whose dynamics are shaped by the discourses that emerge from the dispute itself. To analyze these controversies, the book focuses on three axes of narrative analyses: the conflict over distributives issues associated with the commercial release of RR soy; the conflict over scientific uncertainty associated with the environmental risks of GMOs; and the conflict over labeling policies. Transgenics in Dispute: Political Conflicts in the Commercial Liberation of GMOs in Brazil will be of interest to both social and environmental scientists concerned with the risks produced by the newest technologies that mediate our relationship with the environment and with the public debate that their use tends to provoke. This book is a translation of the original Portuguese edition “Transgenicos em disputa: Os conflitos politicos na liberacao comercial dos OGMs no Brasil” by Cristiano Luis Lenzi, published in Brazil by Appris Editora in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The author has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
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Zagonari, Fabio,
Environmental Ethics, Sustainability and Decisions: Literature Problems and Suggested Solutions. 186 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-135>
ISBN 978-3-031-21181-2 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99
This book provides a summary of the main concepts involved in environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions and a consistent sequence of environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions. It presents many environmental ethics, by focusing on maximising welfare within teleological approaches and minimising inequalities within deontological approaches. It presents many sustainability paradigms, by focusing on weak sustainability to maximise welfare and strong sustainability to minimise inequalities. Two main decisions are presented by focusing on policies (taxes, standards, subsidies, permits, protected areas, exploitation rights) and projects (CBA) towards efficiency to maximise welfare and policies (national laws/regulations, bilateral/multilateral agreements) and projects (MCA) towards equity to minimise inequalities.
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Sellers, Christopher C.,
Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis. (Environmental History and the American South Series) 277 pp. 2023:8 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <693-1233>
ISBN 978-0-8203-4407-2 hard ¥24,783.- (税込) US$ 114.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-4408-9 paper ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *
Race and the Greening of Atlanta turns an environmental lens on Atlanta's ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, from the city's variegated neighborhoods up to its place in regional and national political economies, this book reinterprets the fall of Jim Crow as a democratization born of two metropolitan movements: a well-known one for civil rights and a lesser known one on behalf of "the environment." Arising out of Atlanta's Black and white middle classes respectively, both movements owed much to New Deal capitalism's undermining of concentrated wealth and power, if not racial segregation, in the Jim Crow South.Placing these two movements on the same historical page, Christopher C. Sellers spotlights those environmental inequities, ideals, and provocations that catalyzed their divergent political projects. He then follows the intermittent, sometimes vital alliances they struck as civil rights activists tackled poverty, as a new environmental state arose, and as Black politicians began winning elections. Into the 1980s, as a wealth-concentrating style of capitalism returned to the city and Atlanta became a national "poster child" for sprawl, the seedbeds spread both for a national environmental justice movement and for an influential new style of antistatism. Sellers contends that this new conservativism, sweeping the South with an antienvironmentalism and budding white nationalism that echoed the region's Jim Crow past, once again challenged the democracy Atlantans had achieved.
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Spiteri, Jane,
Educating for Sustainability in a Small Island Nation: Voices from Early Childhood Education. (International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education 11) 250 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-1236>
ISBN 978-3-031-23181-0 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99
This volume problematizes the intentions of early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS) from two new perspectives - the context of small island states and the bi-directional, intergenerational learning about the environment and sustainability that takes place in a variety of contexts, including the family home and school. It questions how belonging to a small island and the children's home influence learning in the early years of life. In doing so, this book offers new insights and new theoretical perspectives into intergenerational environmental learning in the school, family and beyond. Informed by consideration of the most recent literature in early childhood education and sustainability, this volume also looks at how these informal learning spaces provide young children with the opportunities to enhance further learning in the field, thus portraying the fluidity of intergenerational learning from different theoretical standpoints. It provides a deep insight into ECEfS and intergenerational learning about the environment and environmental issues in early childhood education from a perspective of a small island state by adopting a children's rights perspective. It additionally explores the relationship between early childhood theories, children's rights and postcolonial theory.
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Wilson, Gregory S.,
Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and its Legacy. (Environmental History and the American South Series) 277 pp. 2023:4 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <693-1239>
ISBN 978-0-8203-6347-9 hard ¥24,783.- (税込) US$ 114.95 *
ISBN 978-0-8203-6348-6 paper ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *
In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand name for the pesticide chlordecone. They made the poison under contract for a much larger Hopewell company, Allied Chemical. Life Science workers had been breathing in the dust for more than a year. Ingestion of the chemical made their bodies seize and shake. News of ill workers eventually led to thediscovery of widespread environmental contamination of the nearby James River and the landscape of the small, working-class city. Not only had Life Science dumped the chemical, but so had Allied when the company manufactured it in the 1960s and early 1970s. The resulting toxic impact was not only on the city of Hopewell but also on the faraway fields where Kepone was used as an insecticide.Aspects of this environmental tragedy are all too common: corporate avarice, ignorance, and regulatory failure combined with race and geography to determine toxicity and shape the response. But the Kepone story also contains some surprising medical, legal, and political moments amid the disaster. With Poison Powder, Gregory S. Wilson explores the conditions that put the Kepone factory and the workers there in the first place and the effects of the poison on the people and natural world long after 1975. Although the manufacture and use of Kepone is now banned by the Environmental Protection Agency, organochlorines have long half-lives, and these toxic compounds and their residues still remain in the environment.
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Machaqueiro, Raquel Rodrigues,
Carbon Calculation: Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique. (Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and its Alternatives) 277 pp. 2023:3 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <693-1153>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4663-3 hard ¥14,014.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *
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Curley, Andrew,
Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation. 232 pp. 2023:4 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <693-1208>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4866-8 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8165-3960-4 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *
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女性と気候変動
Detraz, Nicole,
Women and Climate Change: Examining Discourses from the Global North. 288 pp. 2023:2 (MIT Pr., US) <693-1210>
ISBN 978-0-262-54207-4 paper ¥8,624.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *
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Dixon, Barnali,
Interdisciplinary Environmental Solutions: Using Geospatial Technologies for Bridging Disciplines, Scale and Data. 300 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-1211>
ISBN 978-3-031-16762-1 hard ¥16,474.- (税込) EUR 69.99
This textbook presents a clear and accessible argument for sustainable planning and development. The book discusses multiple environmental issues and examines how potential solutions can and should be addressed in the context of space and place. The book also offers an invaluable discussion on the need for a framework for system-based thinking where various disciplines should work together to find innovative solutions. Students are provided with an appreciation of the need for an interdisciplinary approach to these issues combined with an underlying sense of space, an appreciation of cultural diversity and differences, as well as associated insights into human relationships. These core attributes put space at the heart of environmental and natural resources management, in terms of policy, planning and on-the-ground initiatives.This book will be an invaluable reference for advanced undergraduate, graduate students and researchers working in the field looking for an accessible overview of this interdisciplinary approach to the topic.
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Gross, Stephen G.,
Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change. 408 pp. 2023:6 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <693-1213>
ISBN 978-0-19-766771-2 hard ¥11,858.- (税込) US$ 55.00 *
A novel exploration of the deeper political, economic, and geopolitical history behind Germany's daring campaign to restructure its energy system around green power. Since the 1990s, Germany has embarked on a daring campaign to restructure its energy system around renewable power, sparking a global revolution in solar and wind technology. But this pioneering energy transition has been plagued with problems. In Energy and Power, Stephen G. Gross explains the deeper origins of the Energiewende--Germany's transition to green energy--and offers the first comprehensive history of German energy and climate policy from World War II to the present. The book follows the Federal Republic as it passed through five energy transitions from the dramatic shift to oil that nearly wiped out the nation's hard coal sector, to the oil shocks and the rise of the Green movement in the 1970s and 1980s, the co-creation of a natural gas infrastructure with Russia, and the transition to renewable power today. He shows how debates over energy profoundly shaped the course of German history and influenced the landmark developments that define modern Europe. As Gross argues, the intense and early politicization of energy led the Federal Republic to diverge from the United States and rethink its fossil economy well before global warming became a public issue, building a green energy system in the name of many social goals. Yet Germany's experience also illustrates the difficulty, the political battles, and the unintended consequences that surround energy transitions. By combining economy theory with a study of interest groups, ideas, and political mobilization, Energy and Power offers a novel explanation for why energy transitions happen. Further, it provides a powerful lens to move beyond conventional debates on Germany's East-West divide, or its postwar engagement with the Holocaust, to explore how this nation has shaped the contemporary world in other important ways.
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Harcourt, Wendy / Agostino, A. / Elmhirst, R. et al. (eds.),
Contours of Feminist Political Ecology. (Gender, Development and Social Change) 245 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-1214>
ISBN 978-3-031-20927-7 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-20930-7 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99
This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the field. As Professor Lyla Mehta says in her Foreword, the book is "foregrounding multiple ways of knowing and being, thus enabling new conceptions of politics, justice and alternatives to dominant, capitalist development trajectories". In an innovative methodological twist, the edited book engages the reader in conversations that have emerged from the multi-sited and cross-generational dialogues of the Well-Being Ecology Gender cOmmunities (WEGO) network over the last four years. The conversations explore topics that range from climate change and extractivism, to body politics and health, degrowth, care and community well-being. The authors reflect on their collective learning process as they map out the new directions of FPE research and analysis. The chapters highlight WEGO transnational/transdisciplinary conversations with local communities, social movements and different academic spaces. The book foregrounds the ethics of doing feminist work inside and outside academe and brings to life the importance of doing reflexive research aware of situated historical and contemporary geographical contours of power.
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Howell, Jordan P.,
Garbage in the Garden State. (Ceres: Rutgers Studies in History) 226 pp. 2023:4 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <693-1215>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3340-1 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-3339-5 paper ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *
Garbage in the Garden State is the only book to examine the history of waste management in New Jersey. The state has played a pioneering role in the overall trajectory of waste management in the US. Howell's book is unique in the way that it places the contemporary challenges of waste management into their proper historical context - for instance, why does the system for recycling seem to work so poorly? Why do we have so many landfills in New Jersey, but also simultaneously not enough landfills or incinerators? Howell acknowledges that New Jersey is sometimes imagined, particularly by non-New Jerseyans, as a giant garbage dump for New York and Philadelphia. But every place has had to struggle with the challenges of waste management. New Jersey's trash history is in fact more interesting and more important than most. New Jersey's waste history includes intensive planning, deep-seated political conflict, organized crime, and literally every level of state and federal judiciary. It is a colorful history, to say the least, and one that includes a number of firsts with regard to recycling, comprehensive planning, and the challenging economics of trash.
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Johansen, Bruce E.,
Resource Devastation on Native American Land: Toxic Earth, Poisoned People. 216 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-1217>
ISBN 978-3-031-21895-8 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *
This book focuses on the toxic legacy of Native North America, which is pervasive but largely invisible to most non-Native peoples. Many toxic sites are located in out-of-the-way rural areas largely forgotten by the majority of America, but which nonetheless have supplied its industries with the rudiments of manufacturing for the better part of a century before being closed and cast aside. Thousands of contaminated sites exist in the United States due to dumped, left out, or otherwise improperly managed hazardous waste. These sites include manufacturing facilities, processing plants, landfills, and mining sites. Based on the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleans up these so-called Superfund sites, of which roughly 40 percent are located in Native country. The book links present-day Native American cultural and economic revival to a fundamental struggle to restore the health of both Native peoples and their homelands. It links past and present with a sense of Native Americans’ perceptions of nature and the sacred land. By doing so, it also provides the majority society with an example to emulate as we emerge, by necessity, from the age of fossil fuels into a sustainable energy paradigm. This makes the book a must-read for students, scholars, and researchers of Native American studies, US politics, environmental studies, public policy, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of the environmental devastation of Native land and its consequences.
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Kaeding, Michael / Pollak, Johannes / Schmidt, Paul (eds.),
Climate Change and the Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals. (The Future of Europe) 164 pp. 2023:3 (Springer, GW) <693-1218>
ISBN 978-3-031-23327-2 hard ¥17,651.- (税込) EUR 74.99
While the ambitious objectives outlined in the EU's Green Deal aim at making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, national implementation greatly varies depending on local geographies, history, culture, economics, and politics. This book analyses Member States' and EU neighbours' national efforts to combat climate change. It subsequently draws on these factors to highlight local challenges, tensions, and opportunities on the road towards climate neutrality. In the context of inter-country dependencies following Russia's war against Ukraine, it addresses strategic questions regarding EU integration, the transformation of our economies, the reduction of energy dependencies, and public perception of the above. The book also makes concrete recommendations, in various policy areas, on how individual countries and the EU as a whole should deal with the climate crisis.
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Kaufer, Ricardo,
Forest Politics from Below: Social Movements, Indigenous Communities, Forest Occupations and Eco-Solidarism. (Contributions to Political Science) 182 pp. 2023:1 (Springer, GW) <693-1219>
ISBN 978-3-031-18964-7 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99
This book presents an analysis of forest politics that employs a broader scope to include non-institutionalized actors. It offers a comparative perspective on various environmental social movements fighting to protect forests around the globe, including indigenous communities in the Amazon and eco-anarchists in Europe. By examining the political goals, motives, and tactics of these sometimes-radical environmentalists, it helps readers understand the commonalities and differences among these "grass-roots forest politicians." In addition, the book highlights the importance of forest-related struggles for a just transition to a carbon-neutral future. Accordingly, it will appeal to scholars of political science, public policy, and political sociology, as well as anyone interested in social movements and forest conservation.
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Nikolakis, William / Moura da Veiga, Renata (eds.),
Social Value, Climate Change and Environmental Stewardship: Insights from Theory and Practice. 192 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-1225>
ISBN 978-3-031-23144-5 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99
This book provides insight on the concept of social value and social return on investment (SROI) - or measures to evaluate the social outcomes from interventions, beyond simply jobs and income. It offers a new and holistic perspective on the values generated from environmental stewardship and forest governance, and focuses on the methods, approaches and outcomes for understanding social value and SROI. The book offers new directions in social value and SROI, including cultural and spiritual outcomes, gender equity, and health and well-being, and provides pathways for implementing interventions and measuring social impact. It includes state of the art approaches from diverse and interdisciplinary experts drawn from academia and professional practice, including the voices and perspectives of Indigenous Peoples and local communities involved in programs, with a focus on environmental stewardship. Social value and SROI are increasingly used to assess outcomes from conservation and this book broadens the conversation on the impact and business case for these interventions. The book offers practical guidance to readers in pursuing social value and those seeking to measure it.
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Ortiz, Selena E. / McHale, S. M. / King, V. et al. (eds.),
Environmental Impacts on Families: Change, Challenge, and Adaptation. (National Symposium on Family Issues 12) 320 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-1227>
ISBN 978-3-031-22648-9 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99
This book examines ways in which families' physical environments have implications for their relationships and the health and well-being of their members. Attention is given to three aspects of the physical environment-disasters, climate change, and the built environment-and the challenges these may create for families. Chapters describe particular considerations within each of these three physical environment challenges, the ways they affect families, and factors that protect families, promote their resilience and enable them to flourish. Finally, the volume offers recommendations for the role of government programs and policies to support families to overcome and/or adapt to environmental challenges as well as highlights the efficacy of evidence-based interventions aimed at promoting family resilience.Featured areas of coverage include: Extreme natural events and families' postdisaster recovery.Family adaptations to climate change.The builtenvironment and children's health and well-being.Community-driven approaches to address environmental inequities.The urban environment of family caregiving. Environmental Impacts on Families is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, policymakers, and other related professionals in developmental psychology, family studies, environmental health and policy, social work, public health, educational policy and politics, economics, migration studies, and all interrelated disciplines.
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Rashkow, Ezra,
The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination & Conservation, 1818-2020. 400 pp. 2023:1 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <693-1101>
ISBN 978-0-19-286852-7 hard ¥26,780.- (税込) GB£ 94.00 *
Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more conservation efforts, than indigenous peoples. And in India, calls for the conservation of Adivasi culture have often reached a fever pitch, especially amongst urban middle-class activists and global civil society groups. But are India's 'tribes' really endangered? Do they face extinction? And is this threat somehow comparable to the threat of extinction facing tigers and other wildlife? Combining years of fieldwork and archival research with rigorous theoretical interrogations, this book examines fears of interlinking biological and cultural (or biocultural) diversity loss-particularly in regard to Bhil and Gond communities facing conservation and development-induced displacement in western and central India. It also problematizes the frequent usage of dehumanizing animal analogies that carelessly equate the fates of endangered species and societies. In doing so, it offers a global intellectual history of the concepts of endangerment and extinction, demonstrating that anxieties over tribal extinction existed long before there was even scientific awareness of the extinction of non-human species. The book is not a history or an ethnography of the tribes of India, but rather a history of discourses-including Adivasis' own-about what is often perceived to be the fundamental question for nearly all indigenous peoples in the modern world: the question of survival.
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インド、気候変動、グローバル・コモンズ 第2版
Damodaran, A.,
India, Climate Change, and The Global Commons. 2nd ed. 376 pp. 2023:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <693-1084>
ISBN 978-0-19-289982-8 hard ¥28,490.- (税込) GB£ 100.00 *
This book explores the genesis of the concept of global commons against the backdrop of the global environmental problems of climate change, biodiversity conservation, desertification, and the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes. It highlights blockchains and cryptocurrencies, and their role in transforming global institutions. It delves on the advent of COVID-19 as a global common and the way the pandemic has been handled by the world community. The book also explores the way the current geopolitics of the world is contributing to the resolution of the conservation problem associated with global commons.
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Rice, Jennifer L. / Long, Joshua / Levenda, Anthony (eds.),
Urban Climate Justice: Theory, Praxis, Resistance. (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series) 277 pp. 2023:5 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <693-1231>
ISBN 978-0-8203-6377-6 hard ¥24,783.- (税込) US$ 114.95 *
ISBN 978-0-8203-6376-9 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *
Arguing that climate injustice is one of our most pressing urban problems, this volume explores the possibilities and challenges for more just urban futures under climate change. Whether the situation be displacement within cities through carbon gentrification or the increasing securitization of elite spaces for climate protection, climate justice and urban justice are intimately connected.Contributors to the volume build theoretical tools for interrogating the root causes of climate change, as well as policy failures. They also highlight knowledge produced within communities already seeking transformative change and demonstrate meaningful learning from activist groups working to address the socionatural injustices caused by the impact of climate change.The editors' introduction situates our current climate emergency within historical processes of colonization, racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy, while the editors' conclusion offers pathways forward through abolition, care, and reparations. Where other books focus on the project of critique, this collection advances real-world politics to help academics, practitioners, and social justice groups imagine, create, and enact more just urban futures under climate change.
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Adler, Jonathan H. (ed.),
Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution. (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism) 226 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-1204>
ISBN 978-3-031-21107-2 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *
Climate Liberalism examines the potential and limitations of classical-liberal approaches to pollution control and climate change. Some successful environmental strategies, such as the use of catch-shares for fisheries, instream water rights, and tradable emission permits, draw heavily upon the classical liberal intellectual tradition and its emphasis on property rights and competitive markets. This intellectual tradition has been less helpful, to date, in the development or design of climate change policies. Climate Liberalism aims to help fill the gap in the academic literature examining the extent to which classical-liberal principles, including an emphasis on property rights, decentralized authority and dynamic markets, can inform the debate over climate-change policies. The contributors in this book approach the topic from a range of perspectives and represent multiple academic disciplines. Chapters consider the role of property rights and common-law legal systems in controlling pollution, the extent to which competitive markets backed by legal rules encourage risk minimization and adaptation, and how to identify the sorts of policy interventions that may help address climate change in ways that are consistent with liberal values.
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Viatori, Maximilian,
The Unequal Ocean: Living with Environmental Change along the Peruvian Coast. 277 pp. 2023:4 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <693-1201>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4965-8 hard ¥12,936.- (税込) US$ 60.00
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McCulligh, Cindy,
Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corrpution, and the Struggle for the Santiago River. (Urban and Industrial Environments) 346 pp. 2023:7 (MIT Pr., US) <693-1189>
ISBN 978-0-262-54592-1 paper ¥10,780.- (税込) US$ 50.00 *
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Rodenbiker, Jesse,
Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China. (The Environments of East Asia) 258 pp. 2023:6 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <693-1033>
ISBN 978-1-5017-6899-6 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-6900-9 paper ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *
Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China's ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state. Although Chinese urban sustainability initiatives have driven millions of citizens from their land and housing, Rodenbiker shows that these migrants are not passive subjects of state policy. Instead, they creatively navigate resettlement processes in pursuit of their own benefit. However, their resistance is limited by varied forms of state-backed infrastructural violence. Through extensive fieldwork with scientists, urban planners, and everyday citizens in southwestern China, Ecological States exposes the ways in which the scientific logics and practices fundamental to China's green urbanization have solidified state power and contributed to dispossession and social inequality With support from the Henry Luce Foundation, our goal is to produce all titles in this series both in Open Access, for reasons of global accessibility and equity, as well as in print editions.
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Cheshmehzangi, Ali / Tang, Tian,
China's City Cluster Development in the Race to Carbon Neutrality. (Urban Sustainability) 205 pp. 2022:12 (Springer, GW) <693-1012>
ISBN 978-981-19-7672-8 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99
The scope of this book is to map China's city clusters and their individual directions for the national-level strategies in line with the 2060 carbon neutrality plan. Since China announced the carbon neutrality plan in autumn 2020, no study has looked at the role of city clusters in achieving this long-term plan. Hence, this study is believed to be the first attempt to explore this important topic from the city cluster perspective. It explores the challenges, opportunities, and directions of all 19 city clusters, allowing readers to have a clear picture of China's historical and ongoing progress, as well as the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. In a short time, China's city clusters have helped boost regional economic development, infrastructure development, trade and business, and better urban-rural integration. With enhanced coordination of connection and transport networks in and between the city clusters, we see a growing number of initiatives beyond just the initial economic strategies. The dual approach of top-down policies and infrastructure systems and bottom-up governance and investments has helped China consider urban-rural development strategies and regional sustainable development. These factors are essential to be explored from the city cluster perspective and in line with China's sustainable development and carbon neutrality directions. Hence, the book covers these points holistically, ensuring that regional planning and development are favored in the face of uneven urbanization trends.We anticipate this book to be a valuable resource for local governments and authorities, urban planners and practitioners, developers, and urban researchers. While the focus is on China's city clusters, we believe there are similar examples elsewhere. Hence, lessons learnt from this book could apply to other countries, regions, and subregions. Lastly, the book aims to put regional sustainable development at the heart of longer-term strategies and plans,such as the case of China's carbon neutrality plan.
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小川晃弘著 反原発市民-ポストフクシマの日本における持続可能な政策と草の根のアクティビズム
Ogawa, Akihiro,
Antinuclear Citizens: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan. (Anthropology of Policy) 272 pp. 2023:6 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <693-1003>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3540-1 hard ¥14,014.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *
Following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, tsunamis engulfed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant located on Japan's Pacific Coast, leading to the worst nuclear disaster the world has seen since the Chernobyl crisis of 1986. Prior to this disaster, Japan had the third largest commercial nuclear program in the world, surpassed only by those in the United States and France-nuclear power significantly contributed to Japan's economic prosperity, and nearly 30% of Japan's electricity was generated by reactors dotted across the archipelago, from northern Hokkaido to southern Kyushu. This long period of institutional stasis was, however, punctuated by the crisis of March 11, which became a critical juncture for Japanese nuclear policymaking. As Akihiro Ogawa argues, the primary agent for this change is what he calls "antinuclear citizens"- a conscientious Japanese public who envision a sustainable life in a nuclear-free society. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research conducted across Japan-including antinuclear rallies, meetings with bureaucrats, and at renewable energy production sites-Ogawa presents an historical record of ordinary people's actions as they sought to survive and navigate a new reality post-Fukushima. Ultimately, Ogawa argues that effective sustainability efforts require collaborations that are grounded in civil society and challenge hegemonic ideology, efforts that reimagine societies and landscapes-especially those dominated by industrial capitalism-to help build a productive symbiosis between industry and sustainability.
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Fedman, David / Kim, Eleana J. / Park, Albert L. (eds.),
Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments. (The Environments of East Asia) 248 pp. 2023:5 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <693-1051>
ISBN 978-1-5017-6878-1 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-6879-8 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *
Bringing together a multidisciplinary conversation about the entanglement of nature and society in the Korean peninsula, Forces of Nature aims to define and develop the field of the Korean environmental humanities. At its core, the volume works to foreground non-human agents that have long been marginalized in Korean studies, placing flora, fauna, mineral deposits, and climatic conditions that have hitherto been confined to footnotes front and center. In the process, the authors blaze new trails through Korea's social and physical landscapes. What emerges is a deeper appreciation of the environmental conflicts that have animated life in Korea. The authors show how natural processes have continually shaped the course of events on the peninsula-how floods, droughts, famines, fires, and pests have inexorably impinged on human affairs-and how different forces have been mobilized by the state to variously, control, extract, modernize, and showcase the Korean landscape. Forces of Nature suggestively reveals Korea's physical landscape to be not so much a passive context to Korea's history, but an active agent in its transformation and reinvention across centuries. With support from the Henry Luce Foundation, our goal is to produce all titles in this series both in Open Access, for reasons of global accessibility and equity, as well as in print editions.
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