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

環境哲学の現在の課題
St'ahel, Richard / Dedeckova, Eva (eds.), Current Challenges of Environmental Philosophy. (New Research in the History of Western Philosophy 3) 266 pp. 2023:9 (Brill, NE) <702-85>
ISBN 978-90-04-67994-8 hard ¥31,116.- (税込) EUR 128.00

It is extremely difficult to seek new paths in the twilight of our former idols, ideals and visions of a happy and successful life. The authors of the book invite the reader to embark on this journey in a free-spirited manner and to look at the challenges posed by the new climate regime from different perspectives. Whether one accepts the concept of the Anthropocene as a starting point, or rather as an opportunity for constructive criticism, readers will be fully engaged by thinking through historical-philosophical, scientific, political, social, as well as educational problems.

メディア、政治、環境－欧州とアジアの経験の分析
Briesen, Detlef / Das, Sarada Prasanna (eds.), Media, Politics and Environment: Analyzing Experiences from Europe and Asia. (Springer Studies in Media and Political Communication) 286 pp. 2023:7 (Springer, GW) <702-892>
ISBN 978-3-031-31251-9 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Environmental protection has not equally established itself as a permanent fixture in the political systems of all countries: to date, governments and entire societies have responded to environmental challenges in a variety of ways, and concrete environmental policy is still a highly national matter. Moreover, the perception of environmental problems varies considerably on a global scale. The reasons normally cited for these differences largely stem from the environmental policy debates themselves, e.g. poverty, ignorance, capital interests, etc. In contrast, this book shows that concrete environmental policy emerges from a complex interplay of mass media and political conflicts: first, the mass media provide the framework for national environmental policy through agenda-setting, framing and scandalization; second, the mass media thereby change values in the political and social discourse, e.g. by altering the perception of global commons and expanding the possibilities of interest articulation; and third, this can lead to political decision-making processes in which legal and other measures for environmental protection are enforced. The book systematically compares industrialized countries such as Germany and Japan with several rapidly emerging countries in South and Southeast Asia.

Olive, Andrea / Finegan, Chance / Beazley, Karen F. (eds.), Transformative Politics of Nature: Overcoming Barriers to Conservation in Canada. 320 pp. 2023:11 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <702-938>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4949-7 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-5051-6 paper ¥8,963.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

Transformative Politics of Nature highlights the most significant barriers to conservation in Canada and discusses strategies to confront and overcome them. Featuring contributions from academics as well as practitioners, the volume brings together the perspectives of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts on land and wildlife conservation, in a way that honours and respects all peoples and nature. Contributors provide insights that enhance understanding of key barriers, important actors, and strategies for shaping policy at multiple levels of government across Canada. The chapters engage academics, environmental conservation organizations, and Indigenous communities in dialogues and explorations of the politics of wildlife conservation. They address broad and interrelated themes, organized into three parts: barriers to conservation, transformation through reconciliation, and transformation through policy and governance. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the need for increased social-political awareness of biodiversity and conservation in Canada, enhanced wildlife conservation collaborative networks, and increased scholarly attention to the principles, policies, and practices of maintaining and restoring nature for the benefit of all peoples, species, and ecologies. Transformative Politics of Nature presents a vision of profound change in the way humans relate to each other and with the natural world.

Dhiman, Satinder (ed.), Sustainable Development and Environmental Stewardship: Global Initiatives Towards Engaged Sustainability. 170 pp. 2023:5 (Springer, GW) <702-472>
ISBN 978-3-031-28884-5 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

ジェンダー、セクシュアリティ、国連SDGs
Dalton, Drew / Smith, Angela (eds.), Gender, Sexuality and the UN's SDGs: A Multidisciplinary Approach. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 524 pp. 2023:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-274>
ISBN 978-3-031-31045-4 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

Against the backdrop of Covid-19, this edited volume will utilize a gendered lens to explore the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a clear focus on challenging the omission of sexuality in relation to the SDGs as well as analyzing the ways in which the SDGs are also equally relevant for Western countries. While acknowledging the importance of these goals, contributors unpack the exclusion of marginalized genders and sexualities as well as how popular media and social media contribute to the wider understanding of issues of gender and sexuality and the SDGs. This volume also dispels assumptions about the irrelevance of SDGs to countries in the West, with a particular focus on the UK. Chapters examine a variety of topics including: HIV/AIDS, sex work, global migration, climate change and environmental sustainability, poverty, education, and sexual harassment. This collection will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students across Sociology,Gender & Sexuality Studies, Education, Development Studies and Sustainability Studies.

Kadri, Ali, The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction. (Studies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work 3) 604 pp. 2023:7 (Brill, NE) <702-278>
ISBN 978-90-04-54801-5 hard ¥40,111.- (税込) EUR 165.00 *

Phenomenal waste has surfaced as the social form and substance of value. In capital's totalizing process, which commodifies all that comes in its way, wasting classes consume the wasted classes. This book addresses the metamorphosis of value into waste and it focuses on wars as industries of perfect waste. Whereas wasted man is visibly the prevalent commodity on sale, this central element in the commodity relation is rarely mentioned. In line with this, the book examines how waste, as a surrogate value, eludes the crises of capital and maintains its resilience.

Ahidjo, Paul, Vulnerabilite ecologique et developpement durable au Sahel camerounais. (Etudes africaines. Environnement) 187 p. 2023:3 (L'Harmattan, FR) <702-308>
ISBN 978-2-14-032484-0 paper ¥5,226.- (税込) EUR 21.50

Bollig, Michael / Mosimane, Alfons Wabahe et al. (eds.), Conservation, Markets & the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa: Commodifying the 'Wild'. (Future Rural Africa) 512 pp. 2023:5 (J. Currey, UK) <702-309>
ISBN 978-1-84701-340-8 paper ¥8,642.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

Focuses on a much discussed and controversial aspect of conservation: the commodification of nature. Can the successful marketization of what is generally perceived as wilderness help to provide for biodiversity conservation, economic development and social emancipation? At a time of profound anxiety about the impact of human activity on nature and the catastrophic effects of climate change, the "sixth mass extinction", invasive species and rapidly expanding zoonotic diseases, this volume engages with the practices, discourses, and materialities surrounding the commodification of "the wild". Focusing on the relationship between commodification and wilderness, the contributors pay particular attention to commodification's newer iterations in which human management plays a significant role, such as wildlife-park tourism, trophy-hunting, and trade in herbal medicines, perfumes and luxury exotic food items. Dominant neoliberal approaches have aimed to address global environmental challenges through the commodification and marketization of nature: by valorizing nature, they claim, biodiversity can be safeguarded and "wild" landscapes protected. This, it is thought, will not only open up a new frontier of sustainable, non-exploitative, participatory capitalist expansion, but invigorate rural livelihoods, reduce poverty, and add important assets to otherwise vulnerable rural economies. This important book challenges this future trajectory. Investigating a broad range of cases across southern and eastern Africa, from the illegal sandalwood trade to legal trade in devil's claw and honeybush, to trophy-hunting and wilderness safaris, the contributors reveal the pitfalls and challenges of commodification, what this means for the continent and beyond. OPEN ACCESS: This title is available in digital format under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND

Hamouchene, Hamza / Sandwell, Katie (eds.), Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region. 336 pp. 2023:10 (Pluto Pr., UK) <702-346>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4921-3 paper ¥6,625.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

'A thought-provoking book which empowers its readers to think about the problems in systematic, transformative ways' - Fadhel Kaboub, President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity The Arab region is a focus of world politics, with authoritarian regimes, significant fossil fuel reserves and histories of colonialism and imperialism. It is also the site of potentially immense green energy resources. The writers in this collection explore a region ripe for energy transition, but held back by resource-grabbing and (neo)colonial agendas. They show the importance of fighting for a just energy transition and climate justice - exposing policies and practices that protect global and local political elites, multinational corporations and military regimes. Covering a wide range of countries from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia to Egypt, Sudan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Palestine, this book challenges Eurocentrism and highlights instead a class-conscious approach to climate justice that is necessary for our survival.

Sabyrbekov, Rahat / Overland, Indra / Vakulchuk, R. (eds.), Climate Change in Central Asia: Decarbonization, Energy Transition and Climate Policy. (SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies) 170 pp. 2023:4 (Springer, GW) <702-350>
ISBN 978-3-031-29830-1 paper ¥7,289.- (税込) EUR 29.99

This open access book explores climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation in Central Asia and discusses policy options for the Central Asian governments. To address the urgent need for local scholarship on climate change in Central Asia, and in particular the need for more research by social scientists, this book features a wide range of contributions on climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in the region. Each chapter makes an important contribution to social science scholarship on climate change and decarbonization in Central Asia. Topics include decarbonization opportunities, carbon pricing instruments, the geo-economics of the energy transition, the relationship between human mobility and climate change. The book thus offers valuable insights for both academics and policymakers.

Winfield, Mark / Hill, Stephen / Gaede, James (eds.), Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada. 360 pp. 2023:11 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <702-352>
ISBN 978-0-7748-6945-4 paper ¥11,220.- (税込) US$ 50.00 *

Canadian energy systems need to evolve. Beyond providing essential energy services, they must respond to climate change, enhance social justice, and remain sensitive to local cultures and traditions. Can they do this and still make financial sense? Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada gathers experts from across the country to share perspectives on leading theories and practices. Contributors first deal with the conceptual aspects of energy transitions, investigating such topics as energy justice and poverty, the decolonization of energy, community energy planning, the role of energy systems modelling, and links between energy and climate change policy. Building on this foundation, they offer case studies that cover the North, the Atlantic region, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, along with crucial but difficult to decarbonize sectors like transportation and space heating.Running throughout this comprehensive discussion is a common thread: the importance of paying attention to wider sustainability goals and distributional justice in the process of decarbonizing the Canadian economy.

Giroux, Elodie / Merlin, Francesca / Fayet, Yohan (eds.), Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposome Research: Epistemological and Practical Issues. 215 pp. 2023:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-402>
ISBN 978-3-031-28431-1 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

Research on the relationship between health and the environment in a postgenomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures as a whole, simultaneously taking into account data pertaining to the biology of organisms and the physical and social environment. Exposome research is a paradigmatic case of this new trend in environmental health studies. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach focusing on the conceptual, epistemological, and sociological reflections in the latest research on environmental and social determinants of health and disease. It offers a combination of theoretical and practical approaches and the authors are scholars from a multidisciplinary background (epidemiology, geography, philosophy of medicine and biology, sociology). Crucially, the book balances the benefit and cost of the integration of biological and social factors when modelling aetiology of disease.

Hirschfeld, Katherine / de Beurs, K. / Brayfield, B. et al., New Wars and Old Plagues: Armed Conflict, Environmental Change and Resurgent Malaria in the Southern Caucasus. 126 pp. 2023:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-404>
ISBN 978-3-031-31142-0 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor's concept of "New Wars" to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the Southern Caucuses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relies on remote sensing data and qualitative historical research to explore how armed conflict between non-state actors generated the region's largest epidemic of P. vivax malaria since the 1960s. This book is an important addition to the literature on the Karabakh conflict and conflict studies more broadly because the infectious disease outbreaks associated with warfare often kill more people than the armed conflicts themselves. Warfare itself has also changed dramatically since the collapse of the USSR, and the Karabakh conflict provides an excellent case study of the way "New Wars" transform the natural and social environment to facilitate outbreaks of preventable disease. This extended case study will be useful to researchers from a variety of academic disciplines, including medical anthropology, geography, conflict studies, disease ecology, global health and public health. It also reveals the fragility of twentieth century malaria control in temperate regions and will assist in predictive modeling for future outbreaks.

Leung, Tiffany Cheng Han / Chiu, Wang-Kin et al., Environmental, Social and Governance and Sustainable Development in Healthcare. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 116 pp. 2023:6 (Springer, GW) <702-406>
ISBN 978-981-9915-63-7 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book applies environmental, social and governance (ESG) to issues of sustainable development in healthcare. ESG reporting has been widely used for some time in the business industry to show the economic, social and environmental responsibilities of companies that aim to achieve superior ESG performance for lower risk, more accountability and transparency. Moreover, public-listed companies in healthcare have been growing in significant numbers in recent years. The application or practice of ESG in healthcare has become a growing trend for these large organisations looking to demonstrate their strengths in areas of financing, operations, sustainability and social responsibilities. Such an approach is essential not only for the long-term development of the companies but also for services delivered by healthcare practitioners. Equally, the implications to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 is relevant to healthcare worldwide with a growing ageing population, which has led to a great burden of care in many countries, particularly in the public sector. The potential development and expansion in private healthcare services, accelerated by technology advancement, has demanded a new paradigm in the healthcare industry, particularly in business, service delivery and policy. The book examines this paradigm through health in all policies, ESG and SDG 3 objectives, research, training and practice. It is relevant to graduate students and scholars working in areas relating to health, business and the SDGs and is also useful to policymakers and practitioners in healthcare.

ヒマラヤの国際政治的エコロジー
Davis, Alexander E., The Geopolitics of Melting Mountains: An International Political Ecology of the Himalaya. (Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific) 200 pp. 2023:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-1083>
ISBN 978-981-9916-80-1 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

The book addresses the urgent need for rethinking the geopolitics and ecology in the Himalaya, by emphasising the entanglements between these two factors. Most international relations analyses of the Himalaya emphasize the central role of the region's states and their great power struggles. By reducing the region to its state actors, however, we miss the intense more-than-human diversity of the region, and the crucial role that the mountains play in the global environment. In doing so, the book makes a major contribution to international relations theory by drawing on insights from international political ecology. It first theorises international political ecology and examines the Himalaya as a global region, before moving looking at the international aspects of political ecology in the Himalaya through key areas of the mountains where international politics and ecology are deeply, inextricably linked. It presents three detailed case studies of different environmentaland political issues in the Himalaya: icecaps (the India-China-Pakistan boundary dispute in the western Himalaya), foothills and forests (the Nepal-Bhutan-Sikkim borderlands), and rivers (the India-China Bangladesh dispute over the Brahmaputra River basin). Each case study draws on a mix of source materials including fieldwork, government sources, foreign policy discourse, Himalayan ethnographies, and environmental and ecological sciences scholarship.

Addaney, Michael / Jarbandhan, D. B. et al. (eds.), Climate Change in Africa: Adaptation, Resilience, and Policy Innovations. 246 pp. 2023:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-1120>
ISBN 978-3-031-30049-3 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This edited collection chronicles the public policy responses to climate change and current and potential impacts that will affect critical and priority sectors within and across African countries now and in the coming decades. Contributions cover governance and policy responses to climate change, emphasizing continental governance and policy responses, national governance and policy responses (what selected countries in Africa are doing), and local or community policy and programmatic responses (what some selected major African communities are doing). Each chapter adopts multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, combining insights from social and policy sciences, emphasizing existing gaps, particularly in the area of decision-making, governance and local climate action. The book offers both theoretical and practical contributions, with the aim of advancing academic discourse and thinking, policymaking and implementation of climate interventions in Africa.

Heffernan, Andrew, The Global Politics of Local Conservation: Climate Change and Resource Governance in Namibia. (Environmental Politics and Theory) 250 pp. 2023:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-1133>
ISBN 978-3-031-24176-5 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines the politics of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Namibia. CBNRM and similar forms of conservation across southern Africa have long been studied for their potential benefits as domestic policy tools to help improve sustainable development. However, they have often failed to achieve their stated goals. By assessing the initiation, design, implementation and outcomes of CBNRM, the book argues that communities are often unable to attain the degree of empowerment that these forms of resource governance promise. It also considers the impact of climate change on CBNRM programmes, and the responses of international actors involved in their governance. In doing so, the book demonstrates how the power imbalances that are built into the global political economy have ensured that those most marginalized in society are no better off as a result of this new form of resource governance. It will appeal to all those interested in CBNRM,conservation studies and environmental governance in Africa, as well political economy and international relations.

Feldmann, Andreas E. / Luna, Juan Pablo, Criminal Politics and Botched Development in Contemporary Latin America. (Elements in the Politics of Development) 75 pp. 2023:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-1154>
ISBN 978-1-108-95805-9 paper ¥4,899.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element investigates the relationship between the narcotics industry and politics and assesses how it influences domestic political dynamics, including economic development prospects in Latin America. It argues that links between criminal organizations, politicians, and state agents give rise to criminal politics (i.e., the interrelated activity of politicians, organized crime actors, and state agents in pursuing their respective agendas and goals). Criminal politics is upending how countries function politically and, consequently, impacting the prospects and nature of their social and economic development. The Element claims that diverse manifestations of criminal politics arise depending on how different phases of drug-trafficking activity (e.g., production, trafficking, and money laundering) interact with countries' distinct politico-institutional endowments. The argument is probed through the systematic examination of four cases that have received scant attention in the specialized literature: Chile,Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

Baetzing, Werner, Homo destructor: Eine Mensch-Umwelt-Geschichte. Von der Entstehung des Menschen zur Zerstoerung der Welt. 256 S. 2023:10 (Beck, GW) <702-1172>
ISBN 978-3-406-80668-1 hard ¥7,779.- (税込) EUR 32.00 *

Delina, Laurence L., COVID and Climate Emergencies in the Majority World: Confronting Cascading Crises in the Age of Consequences. 350 pp. 2023:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-1176>
ISBN 978-1-108-83834-4 hard ¥17,292.- (税込) GB￡ 60.00 *
ISBN 978-1-108-97880-4 paper ¥8,642.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

The Covid pandemic has amplified the hardships people are experiencing from human-induced climate change and its impact on weather extremes. Those in the Majority World are most effected by such global crises, and the pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of these populations while highlighting the differences between them and those fortunate to live in the Minority World. This book presents an overview of the impact of the climate emergency punctuated by a pandemic, discussing the expanding inequalities and deteriorating spaces for democratic public engagement. Pandemic responses demonstrate how future technological, engineering, political, social, and behavioural strategies could be constructed in response to other crises. Using a critical analysis of these responses, this book proposes sociotechnical alternatives and just approaches to adapt to cascading crises in the Majority World. It will be valuable for social science students and researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in inequality and vulnerability in developing countries.

Diesendorf, Mark / Taylor, Rod, The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: Technological, Socioeconomic and Political Change. 251 pp. 2023:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-1178>
ISBN 978-981-9906-62-8 paper ¥6,803.- (税込) EUR 27.99

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation shows that we have unwittingly fallen into an existential crisis of our own making. We have allowed large corporations, the military and other vested interests to capture governments and influence public opinion excessively. We have created a god called 'the market' and allowed our most important decisions to be made by this imaginary entity, which is in fact a human system controlled by vested interests. The result has been the exploitation of our life support system, our planet, and most of its inhabitants, to the point of collapse. This book argues that the way out of our black hole is to build social movements to apply overwhelming pressure on government and big business, weaken the power of vested interests and strengthen democratic decision-making. This must be done simultaneously with action on the specific issues of climate, energy, natural resources and social justice, in order to transition to a truly sustainable civilisation.

気候のガバナンスと連邦制
Fenna, Alan / Jodoin, Sebastien / Setzer, Joana (eds.), Climate Governance and Federalism: A Forum of Federations Comparative Policy Analysis. 300 pp. 2023:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-1180>
ISBN 978-1-00-924965-2 hard ¥34,584.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00 *

The majority of the world's largest carbon emitters are either federations or have adopted systems of decentralised governance. The realisation of the world's climate mitigation objectives therefore depends in large part on whether and how governments within federal systems can cooperate to reduce carbon emissions and catalyse the emergence of low-carbon societies. This volume brings together leading experts to explore whether federal or decentralised systems help or hinder efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change. It reviews the opportunities and challenges federalism offers for the development and implementation of climate mitigation and adaption policies and identifies the conditions that influence the outcomes of climate governance. Including in-depth case studies of 14 different jurisdictions, this is an essential resource for academics, policymakers and practitioners interested in climate governance, and the best practices for enhancing climate action. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Jewusiak, Jacob, Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures. (Elements in Environmental Humanities) 75 pp. 2023:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-1187>
ISBN 978-1-00-931836-5 paper ¥4,899.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural disasters: images of the 'gray flood' and 'silver tsunami' imbue senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the relative shift in younger and older populations: not of a world lacking children, but of one catastrophized by the overabundance of the old and aging. Drawing on examples of science fictional sterility dystopias, Aging Earth challenges the privilege of youth in ecocritical thought and practice, especially the heteronormative urgency to address climate change for the sake of children and future generations. By decoupling the figurative connection between futurity and children, senescent environmentalism attunes itself to the contingency of non-linear and non-teleological futures: drawing together the delicacy of ecosystems on the brink with the structural precarity of older people, queers, and people of color.

B.E.ジョハンセン著　グローバルな温暖化と気候危機
Johansen, Bruce E., Global Warming and the Climate Crisis: Science, Spirit, and Solutions. 301 pp. 2023:4 (Springer, GW) <702-1188>
ISBN 978-3-031-12353-5 hard ¥21,875.- (税込) EUR 89.99 *

This textbook introduces readers to basic scientific principles of climate change. Based on extensive empirical evidence, it explains weather events that indicate climate change's evolution and presents important topics connected to climate change, such as political controversies, climate policy, as well as Native American perspectives. Finally, it presents attempted solutions, including policy recommendations and technological proposals for necessary changes in our world.Providing a well-written and easy-to-follow overview of knowledge of science-based geophysical facts, including thermodynamics, the book puts a strong emphasis on why expeditious action on global warming is urgent. The book also explains why smart greenhouse-gas reduction strategies will ignite economic growth, generate new domestic jobs, protect public health, and strengthen energy security.Not assuming a scientific background on the part of the reader, Global Warming and the Climate Crisis: Science, Spirit, and Solutions offers an ideal supplemental reading in many types of courses in Earth sciences, climate policy, climate change sciences, as well as politics of climate change, from high school through undergraduate. General readers also will benefit from its treatment of this very important and timely issue.

Calarco, Matthew, Reflections on Roadkill between Mobility Studies and Animal Studies: Altermobilities. 98 pp. 2023:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-119>
ISBN 978-3-031-30577-1 hard ¥10,936.- (税込) EUR 44.99

Roadkill is a recurrent but often unthought feature of modern life. Yet, consideration of the broader significance of the myriad social, ethical, and political issues related to roadkill has largely gone missing from mainstream scholarship and activism. This neglect persists even in fields such as mobility studies and animal studies that would otherwise seem to have a vested interest in the topic. This book aims to bring roadkill to the foreground of current discussions among scholars and activists in these fields in order to demonstrate that roadkill is a uniquely important site from which to understand and contest the machinations of the dominant social order. It argues that a careful examination of roadkill can help both to uncover the hidden violence of contemporary human-centered systems of mobility and to develop alternative modes of mobility for a renewed social life in common with our more-than-human kin.

Koester, Roman, Muell: Eine schmutzige Geschichte der Menschheit. 416 S. 2023:8 (Beck, GW) <702-1190>
ISBN 978-3-406-80580-6 hard ¥7,049.- (税込) EUR 29.00 *

Lambert, Max / Schell, Christopher (eds.), Urban Biodiversity and Equity: Conservation, Management, and Environmental Justice in Cities. 288 pp. 2023:9 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <702-1191>
ISBN 978-0-19-887727-1 hard ¥28,820.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-887728-8 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This advanced textbook moves beyond a basic scientific comprehension of urban ecosystems to understand the essential details of how scientists, policy makers, and practitioners develop solutions to effectively manage urban biodiversity. Such efforts necessitate unravelling the complex components that bolster or constrain biodiversity including human-wildlife interactions, resource availability, climate fluctuations, novel species relationships, and landscape heterogeneity. However, key to an understanding of these processes is also recognizing the tremendous social variation inherent within and across urban areas. The diversity of urban human communities fundamentally shapes how society designs, builds, and manages urban landscapes. This means that urban environmental management unavoidably must account for human social variation. Unfortunately, urban systems have a history and continued legacy of social inequality (e.g., systemic racism and classism) that govern how cities are both built and managed. This novel text not only highlights these connections, but also illustrates the interdisciplinary approaches needed for advancing a new, justice-centred approach to nature conservation. Urban Biodiversity and Equity is suitable for graduate level students and professional researchers from both natural and social science disciplines studying the ecology, conservation, and management of urban environments and their biodiversity. It will also be of relevance and use to a broader audience of urban ecologists, urban planners, and urban wildlife practitioners.

Leone, Maryanne L. / Lino, Shanna (eds.), Beyond Human: Decentring the Anthropocene in Spanish Ecocriticism. 464 pp. 2023:12 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <702-1192>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4832-2 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

Chronicling sixteenth-century Spain to the present day, Beyond Human aims to decentre the human and acknowledge the material historicity of more-than-human nature. The book explores key questions relating to ecological equity, justice, and responsibility within and beyond Spain in the Anthropocene. Examining relations between Iberian cultural practices, historical developments, and ecological processes, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, and the contributors to this volume reveal the structures that uphold and dismantle the non-human-human dichotomy and nature-culture divide. The book critiques works from the Golden Age to the twenty-first century in a wide range of genres, including comedia, royal treatises, agricultural reports, paintings, satirical essays, horror fiction and film, young adult and speculative literature, poetry, graphic novels, and television series. The authors contend that Spanish cultural studies must expose the material historicity that entangles today's ecological crises and ecosocial injustices with previous, future, and contemporary entities. The book argues that this will require the simultaneous decentring of the human and of the Anthropocene as an ecocritical framework. By standardizing ecosocial analysis and widening avenues for ecopedagogical approaches, Beyond Human participates in the ecocentric transformation of Hispanic cultural studies.

Oppermann, Serpil, Blue Humanities: Storied Waterscapes in the Anthropocene. (Elements in Environmental Humanities) 75 pp. 2023:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-1195>
ISBN 978-1-00-939327-0 paper ¥4,899.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet's troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical perspectives. Since all waterscapes in the Anthropocene are overexploited and endangered sites, the field calls for transdisciplinary cooperation and encourages thinking with water and thinking together beyond the conventions of tentacular anthropocentric thought. Working across many disciplines, the blue humanities, then, challenges the cultural primacy of standard sea and freshwater narratives and promotes disanthropocentric discourses about water ecologies. Engaging with the most pressing water problems, this Element contributes to those new discursive practices from a material ecocritical perspective. The authors' hypothesis is that fluid-storied matter and the new stories we tell can change the game by changing our mindset.

Robinson, Richard M., Environmental Advocacy and Local Restorations. (Environmental Politics and Theory) 434 pp. 2023:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-1196>
ISBN 978-3-031-28438-0 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores the leadership of state and federal environmental agencies and local environmental groups in restoring the degraded rivers that flow into North America's Great Lakes and other sites in the northeastern industrial corridor of the US. Robinson examines twenty of the forty-eight sites included in the Areas of Concern Program of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between Canada and the US. These twenty include heavily urbanized locales such as those along the River Rouge and Detroit River, but also more pristine locales such as the St. Louis River that flows through Duluth. Additionally, Robinson examines challenging river restorations within the northeastern industrial corridor which are led by effective local environmental advocacy organizations: the Penobscot Nation of Indigenous People, the Mystic River Watershed Association, and the Housatonic River Valley Association. All of these river restorations are led and managed by the environmental experts of (i) state and federal agencies, (ii) academia, and (iii) environmental NGOs. Local restorations of industrially degraded water bodies now compose a significant segment of the environmental movement and, ultimately, Robinson demonstrates that local environmental advocacy organizations can help marshal state and local funding for those efforts.

Rodriguez, Iokine / Walter, Mariana / Temper, Leah (eds.), Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures. 416 pp. 2023:12 (Pluto Pr., UK) <702-1197>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4477-5 paper ¥7,201.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99 *

The climate crisis is the greatest existential threat humanity faces today. The need for a radical societal transformation in the interests of social justice and ecological sustainability has never been greater. But where can we turn to find systemic alternatives? From India, Turkey and Bolivia, to Venezuela, Canada and Lebanon, Just Transformations looks to local environmental struggles for the answers. With each case study grounded in the social movements and specific politics of the region in question, this volume investigates the role that resistance movements play in bringing about sustainable transformations, the strategies and tools they utilise to overcome barriers, and how academics and grassroots activists can collaborate effectively. The book provides a toolkit for scholar-activists who want to build transformative visions with communities. Interrogating each case study for valuable lessons, the contributors develop a conceptualisation of a just transformation that focuses on the changes that communities themselves are trying to produce.

多中心的気候ガバナンスの評価
Schoenefeld, Jonas J., The Evaluation of Polycentric Climate Governance. 350 pp. 2023:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-1199>
ISBN 978-1-316-51124-4 hard ¥30,261.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00 *

Polycentric climate governance holds enormous promise, but to unleash its full force, policy evaluation needs a stronger role in it. This book develops Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom's important work by offering fresh perspectives from cutting-edge thinking on climate governance and policy evaluation. Driven by theoretical innovation and empirical exploration, this book not only argues for a stronger connection between polycentric climate governance and practices of evaluation, but also demonstrates the key value of doing so with a real-world, empirical test in the polycentric setting of the European Union. This book offers a crucial step to take climate governance to the next level. It will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in climate governance, as well as practitioners who seek to enhance climate action, which is needed to avoid a climate catastrophe and to identify a pathway towards the 1.5 degrees Celsius target in the Paris Agreement.

Simms, Andrew / Murray, Leo, Badvertising: Polluting our Minds and Fuelling Climate Chaos. 304 pp. 2023:10 (Pluto Pr., UK) <702-1200>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4914-5 hard ¥5,764.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00 *

**An Independent Book of the Month** 'Brilliant ... if you thought your brain was being gently warmed by the advertising industry, read this book and you'll realise it's being fried' - Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 Advertising is selling us a dream, a lifestyle. It promises us fulfilment and tells us where to buy it - from international flights to a vast array of goods we consume like there is no tomorrow. The truth is, if advertising succeeds in keeping us on our current trajectory, there may not be a tomorrow. In Badvertising, Andrew Simms and Leo Murray raise the alarm about an industry that is making us both unhealthy and unhappy, and that is driving the planet to the precipice of environmental collapse in the process. What is the psychological impact of being barraged by literally thousands of advertisements a day? How does the commercialisation of our public spaces weaken our sense of belonging? How are car manufacturers, airlines and oil companies lobbying to weaken climate action? Examining the devastating impact of advertising on our minds and the planet, Badvertising also crucially explores what we can do to change things for the better.

Walker, Thomas / McGaughey, Jane et al. (eds.), Environmental Migration in the Face of Emerging Risks: Historical Case Studies, New Paradigms and Future Directions. 167 pp. 2023:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-1202>
ISBN 978-3-031-29528-7 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book will provide a space for new and emergent research in environmental migration, particularly in the context of a world beginning to emerge from the grip of a debilitating public health crisis that kept many firmly rooted in place while displacing others internationally. With famines, vast wildfires, droughts, and record heatwaves uprooting human settlements internationally, research on migration in the face of emerging risks is all the more urgent. As Balsari, Dresser, & Leaning point out, "the wall-building, xenophobic, and insular" platforms of some global powers in their immigration and asylum policies, and the ever-increasing stresses placed on the natural world that continue to make sites of human settlement less and less hospitable, make research on this topic both very timely and much needed. This book will include numerous case studies, historical analyses, projections, models, and recommendations for both policy and future research directions. Contributions are drawn from academics and practitioners in this fertile interdisciplinary field of academic inquiry, and each one focuses on the intersection of population and environment studies, history, geography, law, diaspora studies, economics, public health, and sociology.This book is composed of five clear sections. The introductory section includes one chapter that presents an overview of the current landscape, the scope and objectives of the book, as well as its specific approach and the various themes. The concluding section is composed of one chapter that presents a global map of recent innovations drawing together some of the core themes discussed throughout the book. The concluding chapter synthesizes the challenges and opportunities presented, and the possible future directions that researchers, practitioners, and regulators could and should move towards.

D.ジェイミソン著　倫理と環境入門　第2版
Jamieson, Dale, Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction. 2nd ed. (Cambridge Applied Ethics) 240 pp. 2023:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-128>
ISBN 978-1-108-83417-9 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-108-99439-2 paper ¥8,642.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99

This new edition of a widely used and cited introduction to ethics and the environment offers a broad and lively discussion of nature's future, focusing on climate change, conservation, and justice for both our contemporaries and future generations. It discusses the nature of environmental problems and their relationship to economics, religion, technology, and aesthetics. It includes incisive discussions of our moral relations with other animals, and of how animals are used in our food systems. It also provides a deep discussion of the value of nature, which takes up ecofeminist and deep ecology views as well as sentientism and biocentrism. It discusses the plurality of values, and applies this analysis to some conflicts from the author's home state of California. The volume is comprehensively revised and updated, with several new chapters, and concludes with a compelling discussion of the question "How should I live?" in this new epoch of the Anthropocene.

日本の東北地方における鯨と沿岸部のコミュニティ　1600～2019年
Holm, Fynn, The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019. (Cambridge Oceanic Histories) 240 pp. 2023:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-1031>
ISBN 978-1-00-930551-8 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Japan is often imagined as a nation with a long history of whaling. In this innovative new study, Fynn Holm argues that for centuries some regions in early modern Japan did not engage in whaling. In fact, they were actively opposed to it, even resorting to violence when whales were killed. Resistance against whaling was widespread especially in the Northeast among the Japanese fishermen who worshiped whales as the incarnation of Ebisu, the god of the sea. Holm argues that human interactions with whales were much more diverse than the basic hunter-prey relationship, as cetaceans played a pivotal role in proto-industrial fisheries. The advent of industrial whaling in the early twentieth century, however, destroyed this centuries-long equilibrium between humans and whales. In its place, communities in Northeast Japan invented a new whaling tradition, which has almost completely eclipsed older forms of human-whale interactions. This title is also available as Open Access.