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

Feaux de la Croix, Jeanne / Penati, Beatrice (eds.), Environmental Humanities in Central Asia: Relations Between Extraction and Interdependence. (Routledge Environmental Humanities) 328 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) <703-898>
ISBN 978-1-03-242341-8 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book is the first collection to showcase the flourishing field of environmental humanities in Central Asia. A region larger than Europe, Central Asia possesses an astounding range of environments, from deserts to glaciated peaks.The volume brings into conversation scholarship from history to social anthropology, demonstrating the contribution that interdisciplinary and engaged research offers to many urgent issues in the region: from the history of conservationism to the tactics of environmental movements, from literary engagements with 'pure nature' to the impact of fossil fuel extraction. The collection focuses on the Central Asian republics of the former USSR, where a complex layering of nomadic and sedentary, Turkic and Persianate, Islamic and Soviet cultures ends up affecting human relations with distinct environments. Featuring state-of-the-art contributions, the book enquires into human-environment relations through a broad-brush typology of interactive modes: to extract, protect, enspirit and fear. Broadening the scope of analysis beyond a consideration of power, the authors bring into focus alternative local cosmologies and the unintended consequences of environmental policy. The volume highlights scholarship from within Central Asia as well as expertise elsewhere, offering readers diverse modes of knowledge-production in the environmental humanities.This book is an important resource for researchers and students of the environmental humanities, sustainability, history, politics, anthropology and geography of Asia, as well as Soviet and Post-Soviet studies.Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Alley, Kelly D., Microbial Machines: Experiments with Decentralized Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in India. 224 pp. 2023:8 (U. California Pr., US) <703-905>
ISBN 978-0-520-39430-8 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-39431-5 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Around 2004, members of governmental and nongovernmental organizations, science institutes, and private companies throughout India began brainstorming and then experimenting with small-scale treatment systems that could produce usable water from wastewater. Through detailed case studies, Microbial Machines describes how residents, workers, and scientists interact with technology, science, and engineering during the processes of treatment and reuse. Using a human-machine-microbe framework, Kelly Alley explores the ways that people's sensory perceptions of water-including disgust-are dynamic and how people use machines and microbes to digest wastewater. A better understanding of how the human and nonhuman interact in these processes will enable people to generate more effective methods for treating and reusing wastewater. While decentralized wastewater treatment systems may not be a perfect solution, they alleviate resource stress in regions that are particularly hard hit by climate change. These case studies have broad relevance for solving similar problems in many other places around the world.

Arora-Jonsson, Seema / Michael, Kavya et al. (eds.), Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India's Climate Politics. (Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments) 288 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <703-906>
ISBN 978-0-367-49968-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book turns critical feminist scrutiny on national climate policies in India and examines what transition might really mean for marginalized groups in the country.A vision of "just transitions" is increasingly being used by activists and groups to ensure that pathways towards sustainable futures are equitable and inclusive. Exploring this concept, this volume provides a feminist study of what it would take to ensure just transitions in India where gender, in relation to its interesting dimensions of power, is at the centre of analysis. With case studies on climate mitigation and adaptation from different parts of India, the book brings together academics, practitioners and policymakers who provide commentary on sectors including agriculture, forestry and renewables. Overall, the book has relevance far beyond India's borders, as India's attempt to deal with its diverse population makes it a key litmus test for countries seeking to transition against a backdrop of inequality both in the Global North and South.This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate policy, gender studies, sustainable development and development studies more broadly.

Cederloef, Gustav, The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba. (Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics 13) 256 pp. 2023:9 (U. California Pr., US) <703-981>
ISBN 978-0-520-39312-7 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-39313-4 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

In the pursuit of socialism, Cuba became Latin America's most oil-dependent economy. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the country lost 86 percent of its crude oil supplies, resulting in a severe energy crisis. In the face of this shock, Cuba started to develop a low-carbon economy based on economic and social reform rather than high-tech innovation. The Low-Carbon Contradiction examines this period of rapid low-carbon energy transition, which many have described as a "Cuban miracle" or even a real-life case of successful "degrowth." Working with original research from inside households, workplaces, universities, and government offices, Gustav Cederloef retells the history of the Cuban Revolution as one of profound environmental and infrastructural change. In doing so, he opens up new questions about energy transitions, their politics, and the conditions of a socially just low-carbon future. The Cuban experience shows how a society can transform itself while rapidly cutting carbon emissions in the search for sustainability.

Fisher, Chelsea, Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatan. 280 pp. 2023:10 (U. California Pr., US) <703-987>
ISBN 978-0-520-39586-2 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-39587-9 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

In Rooting in a Useless Land, Chelsea Fisher examines the deep histories of environmental-justice conflicts in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. She draws on her innovative archaeological research in Yaxunah, an Indigenous Maya farming community dealing with land dispossession, but with a surprising twist: Yaxunah happens to be entangled with prestigious sustainable-development projects initiated by some of the most famous chefs in the world. Fisher contends that these sustainable-development initiatives inadvertently bolster the useless-land narrative-a colonial belief that Maya forests are empty wastelands-which has been driving Indigenous land dispossession and environmental injustice for centuries. Rooting in a Useless Land explores how archaeology, practiced within communities, can restore history and strengthen relationships built on contested ground.

Levine, Caroline, The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis. 224 pp. 2023:10 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <703-733>
ISBN 978-0-691-25081-6 hard ¥22,427.- (税込) US$ 99.95 *
ISBN 978-0-691-25058-8 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

An argument that humanists have the tools-and the responsibility-to mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change? In this thought-provoking book, Caroline Levine makes the case for an alternative view, arguing that humanists have the tools to mobilize political power-and the responsibility to use those tools to avert the worst impacts of global warming. Building on the theory developed in her award-winning book, Forms, Levine shows how formalist methods can be used in the fight for climate justice.Countering scholars in the environmental humanities who embrace only "modest gestures of care"-and who seem to have moved directly to "mourning" our inevitable environmental losses-Levine argues that large-scale, practical environmental activism should be integral to humanists' work. She identifies three major infrastructural forms crucial to sustaining collective life: routines, pathways, and enclosures. Crisscrossing between art works and public works-from urban transportation to television series and from food security programs to rhyming couplets-she considers which forms might support stability and predictability in the face of growing precarity. Finally, bridging the gap between academic and practical work, Levine offers a series of questions and exercises intended to guide readers into political action. The Activist Humanist provides an essential handbook for prospective activist-scholars.

気候変動と民主主義的変容
Orr, David W. (ed.), Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation. 288 pp. 2023 (MIT Pr., US) <703-745>
ISBN 978-0-262-04859-0 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Rajan, S. Ravi, Risk, Disaster, and Vulnerability: An Essay on Humanity and Environmental Catastrophe. 176 pp. 2023:7 (U. California Pr., US) <703-764>
ISBN 978-0-520-39262-5 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-39263-2 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Over the course of the past century, there has been a sustained reflective engagement about environmental risks, disasters, and human vulnerability in our modern industrial world. This inquiry has raised a host of crucial questions. Just how safe is humanity in a world of toxic chemicals and industrial installations that have destructive potential? Is it feasible to prevent large-scale catastrophes like the ones in Bhopal, Chernobyl, and Fukushima and smaller-scale disasters such as oil spills and gas leaks? How do environmental hazards affect social and political orders? S. Ravi Rajan expertly synthesizes decades of public policy and academic discourse on how societies measure and ultimately come to terms with risk, danger, and vulnerability and offers a fresh, humanistic perspective for grappling with the new global scale and interconnectedness of these threats.

環境上の危機－リスク評価と災害の緩和　第7版
Smith, Keith / Fearnley, Carina J. / Dixon, D. et al., Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster. 7th ed. 624 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <703-765>
ISBN 978-0-8153-6540-2 hard ¥33,143.- (税込) GB￡ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8153-6541-9 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century globally. It integrates cutting-edge materials to provide an interdisciplinary approach to environmental hazards and their management, illustrating how natural and human systems interact to place communities of all sizes, and at all stages of economic development, at risk. Part 1 defines basic concepts of hazard, risk, vulnerability and disaster and explores the evolution of hazards theory. Part 2 employs a consistent chapter structure to demonstrate how individual hazards occur, their impacts and how the risks can be assessed and managed.This extensively revised edition includes:Fresh perspectives on the reliability of disaster data, disaster risk reduction, risk and disaster perception and communication, and new technologies available to assist with environmental hazard managementThe addition of several new environmental hazards including landslide and avalanches, cryospheric hazards, karst and subsidence hazards, and hazards of the AnthropoceneMore boxed sections with a focus on both generic issues and the lessons to be learned from a carefully selected range of up-to-date extreme eventsAn annotated list of key resources, including further reading and relevant websites, for all chaptersMore colour diagrams and photographs, and more than 1,000 references to some of the most significant and recent published materialNew exercises to assist teaching in the classroom, or self-learningThis carefully structured and balanced textbook captures the complexity and dynamism of environmental hazards and is essential reading for students across many disciplines including geography, environmental science, environmental studies and natural resources.

T.ブルック著　小氷河期と明の滅亡
Brook, Timothy, The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China. 248 pp. 2023:11 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <703-866>
ISBN 978-0-691-25040-3 hard ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history's mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule.The mid-seventeenth century witnessed the deadliest phase of the Little Ice Age, when temperatures and rainfall plunged and world economies buckled. Timothy Brook draws on the history of grain prices to paint a gripping portrait of the final tumultuous years of a once-great dynasty. He explores how global trade networks that increasingly moved silver into China may have affected prices and describes the daily struggle to survive amid grain shortages and famine. By the early 1640s, as the subjects of the Ming found themselves caught in a deadly combination of cold and drought that defied all attempts to stave off disaster, the Ming price regime collapsed, and with it the Ming political regime.A masterful work of scholarship, The Price of Collapse reconstructs the experience of ordinary people under the immense pressure of unaffordable prices as their country slid from prosperity to calamity and shows how the market mediated the relationship between an empire and the climate that turned against it.

Fang, Kai / Zhang, Qifeng / Tang, Yiqi, Emission Trajectories and Mitigation Schemes for China. 232 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <703-869>
ISBN 978-1-03-256095-3 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book seeks to model the possible emission trajectories and identify the feasible mitigation schemes for China to meet its climate commitments to peak emissions before 2030 and net zero emissions before 2060.In line with these ambitions, China has taken a number of measures to improve carbon efficiency and energy structure in recent years. The book first analyzes changes in the carbon footprint at the city level, identify the different pathways to peak emissions by province and industry, and develop a bottom-up approach to determining when and how China could reach peak emissions. It then illustrates how the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) reduces abatement costs, and examines the cost-saving effects under carbon intensity reduction and peak emissions targets. Based on the findings and the status quo in China, the authors propose a multicriteria allocation scheme for carbon emission allowances at the provincial level and quantify the impact of sectoral coverage on the abatement costs of the ETS by developing a cost-based approach to sectoral coverage in China. In addition, the co-benefits between CO2 and PM2.5 reductions as a result of the ETS operation are elaborated.The book will benefit researchers and policy-makers interested in environmental governance, climate policy, environmental economics, and sustainable development.

Schulte-Tickmann, Dirk, Was ist Nachhaltigkeit?: Naturphilosophische Reflexionen auf einen vielfaeltig verwendeten Begriff. (Wissenschaftliche Beitraege aus dem Tectum-Verlag: Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaft 5) 102 S. 2022:11 (Tectum-Vlg., GW) <703-52>
ISBN 978-3-8288-4844-3 paper ¥7,049.- (税込) EUR 29.00

Der Begriff der Nachhaltigkeit scheint allgegenwaertig und mit allem nur erdenklich ?Guten“ assoziiert zu sein. Gleichzeitig zeigen sich nur recht durchwachsene Erfolge, wenn es um die Umsetzung vermeintlich nachhaltigen Verhaltens geht. Das Buch beleuchtet daher aus naturalistisch-kritischer Perspektive und mit Rekurs auf aktuelle Selbstorganisationskonzepte die Bedeutungsvielfalt des Begriffs und lotet Moeglichkeiten und Grenzen nachhaltigen Verhaltens aus. Auf diesem Weg wird ein differenzierterer Begriff der Nachhaltigkeit und der dahinterstehenden gesellschaftlichen Dynamiken gewonnen, der als ein grundlegender Beitrag zu staerker wissenschaftlich gestuetzten Diskursen um Moeglichkeiten und Grenzen nachhaltigen Verhaltens verstanden werden kann.

John, Chukwuemeka Kingsley / Pu, Jaan H., Household Reusable Rainwater Technology for Developing and Under-Developed Countries. 216 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <703-214>
ISBN 978-1-03-248890-5 hard ¥24,493.- (税込) GB￡ 84.99 *

Household Reusable Rainwater Technology for Developing and Under-Developed Countries provides insight into household techniques for collecting and treating harvested rainwater safely for both potable and nonpotable uses, as well as practices to improve its quality, with numerous realworld case studies and data. It gives a comprehensive, holistic account on the household scale for both developing and under-developed countries. Improvement mechanisms such as the impacts of first flush, household water treatment techniques, and sedimentation in the harvested water are described in depth together with the advantages and disadvantages of their common practices in developing and under-developed societies. Also discussed is a comprehensive survey illustrating the impact of rainwater sources on the daily life of a carefully selected community from the perspective of its residents.The book is ideal for students, researchers, academics, water policy providers, and bodies worldwide such as WHO and DFID.

Almunawar, Mohammad Nabil et al. (eds.), Sustainable Development and the Digital Economy: Human-centricity, Sustainability and Resilience in Asia. (Routledge Advances in Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management) 312 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <703-217>
ISBN 978-1-03-248382-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The advancement of technology, such as data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), has led to the birth of Industry 4.0, in which technology seems to be the centre of development. However, as the Covid-19 pandemic created havoc, the entire world production chain has been seriously affected, highlighting that machines alone, although fully connected and automated, cannot function without people. This book addresses the pillars of moving towards Industry 5.0 for sustainable development, drawing on examples from Asia.As Asian nations are moving fast toward the digital economy, this edited collection offers new perspectives on understanding emerging business opportunities as well as the challenges faced. Chapters span the three pillars of Industry 5.0, human centricity, sustainability and resilience, and includes topics related to people management for creating wealth, technology advancements in supporting creativity, resilience and agility of organisations, as well as the important issue of sustainability in future industrial development.With rich, empirical studies from leading researchers, this book will be a reference for academics and scholars across business disciplines, including information, technology and innovation management, organisational and strategic management, as well as those interested in industrial development and sustainability.

Gadhoke, Preety / Brenton, Barrett / Katz, S. H. (eds.), Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health. 298 pp. 2023:8 (CRC Pr., US) <703-256>
ISBN 978-0-367-85762-2 paper ¥15,847.- (税込) GB￡ 54.99 *

Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health provides poignant case studies of climate change resilience frameworks for nutrition-focused transformations of agriculture and food systems, food security, food sovereignty, and population health of underserved and marginalized communities from across the globe. Each chapter is drawn from diverse cultural contexts and geographic areas, addressing local challenges of ongoing food and health system transformations and illustrating forms of resistance, resilience, and adaptations of food systems to climate change.Fourteen chapters present global case studies, which directly address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Food and Agriculture Organization's global call to action for transforming agriculture, addressing food security and nutrition, and the health of populations impacted by climate change and public health issues.They also integrate reflections, insights, and experiences resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic.This edited volume includes research on (1) enhancing food sovereignty and food security for underserved populations with a particular focus on indigenous peoples; (2) improving locally contextualized definitions and measurements of climate change resilience, food security, hunger, nutrition, and health; (3) informing public health programs and policies for population health and nutrition; and (4) facilitating public and policy discourse on sustainable futures for community health and nutrition in the face of climate change and natural disasters, including ongoing and future pandemics or emergencies.Within this book, readers discover an array of approaches by the authors that exemplify the mutually engaged and reciprocal partnerships that are community-driven and support the positive transformation of the people with whom they work. By doing so, this book informs and drives a global sustainable future of scholarship and policy that is tied to the intersectionality and synergisms of climate change resilience, food security, food sovereignty, nutrition, and community health.

kumari, Avnesh / Garg, Rajni / Garg, Rishav (eds.), Nanotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Environment. 264 pp. 2023:10 (CRC Pr., US) <703-258>
ISBN 978-1-03-250301-1 hard ¥33,143.- (税込) GB￡ 115.00 *

Nanotechnology has the potential to drastically transform the agri-food sector with its significant applications to improve agricultural productivity and the efficiency of agrochemicals. The food sector has benefitted from the inclusion of nanoparticles in food matrixes and the nanoencapsulation of nutraceuticals. Smart packaging materials designed with the help of nanotechnology have been used for increasing the shelf life of stored food products. Nanomaterials have been extensively used for the delivery of important agrochemicals to enhance their bioefficacy, prevent their degradation, and control their release. Various nanomaterials have been explored for remediation of arising environmental issues. Nanotechnology has also made a useful contribution to the utilization of huge agricultural and food wastes for production of valuable products. The existing and emerging applications of nanotechnology will contribute to environmental sustainability.Nanotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Environment has been structured to provide a widespread coverage and up-to-date progress of nanotechnology and its applications in the agri-food sector and environmental remediation. Synthesis of value-added nanomaterials from agri-food wastes and their potential applications in environmental remediation have been explored. In addition, toxicity issues with nanomaterials have also been discussed.Features:Elaborated information on the use of nanotechnology for sustainable agricultureIn-depth study about valorization of agri-food wasteAn overview of applications of nanotechnology in environmental remediationToxicity analysis of nanotechnology-based productsWe aim to satisfy the need for a reference book for scientists, researchers, academicians and students in nanotechnology, agricultural, food, nutraceuticals, environmental and material sectors.

Paerregaard, Karsten, Andean Meltdown: A Climate Ethnography of Water, Power, and Culture in Peru. 210 pp. 2023:8 (U. California Pr., US) <703-1002>
ISBN 978-0-520-39391-2 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-39392-9 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Andean Meltdown examines how climate change and its consequences for Peru's glaciers are affecting the country's water supply and impacting Andean society and culture in unprecedented ways. Drawing on forty years of extensive research, relationship building, and community engagement in Peru, Karsten Paerregaard provides an ethnographic exploration of Andean ritual practices and performances in the context of an altered climate. By documenting Andean peoples' responses to rapid glacier retreat and urgent water shortages, Paerregaard considers the myriad ways climate change intersects with environmental, social, and political change. A pathbreaking contribution to cultural anthropology and environmental humanities, Andean Meltdown challenges prevailing theoretical thinking about the culture-nature nexus and offers a new perspective on Andean peoples' understanding of their role as agents in the shifting relationship between humans and nonhumans.

Alexander, Ruth M., Democracy's Mountain: Longs Peak and the Unfullfilled Promises of America's National Parks. (Public Lands History 5) 336 pp. 2023:9 (U. Oklahoma Pr., US) <703-1010>
ISBN 978-0-8061-9267-3 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8061-9268-0 paper ¥6,046.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

At 14,259 feet, Longs Peak towers over Colorado's northern Front Range. A prized location for mountaineering since the 1870s, Longs has been a place of astonishing climbing feats-and, unsurprisingly, of significant risk and harm. Careless and unlucky climbers have experienced serious injury and death on the peak, while their activities, equipment, and trash have damaged fragile alpine resources. As a site of outdoor adventure attracting mostly white people, Longs has mirrored the United States' tenacious racial divides, even into the twenty-first century. In telling the history of Longs Peak and its climbers, Ruth M. Alexander shows how Rocky Mountain National Park, like the National Park Service (NPS), has struggled to contend with three fundamental obligations-to facilitate visitor enjoyment, protect natural resources, and manage the park as a site of democracy. Too often, it has treated these obligations as competing rather than complementary commitments, reflecting national discord over their meaning and value. Yet the history of Longs also shows us how, over time, climbers, the park, and the NPS have attempted to align these obligations in policy and practice. By putting mountain climbers and their relationship to Longs Peak and its rangers at the center of the story of Rocky Mountain National Park, Alexander exposes the significant role outdoor recreationists have had-as both citizens and privileged adventurers-in shaping the peak's meaning, use, and management. Since 2000, the park has promoted climber enjoyment and safety, helped preserve the environment, facilitated tribal connections to the park, and attracted a more diverse group of visitors and climbers. Yet, Alexander argues, more work needs to be done. Alexander's nuanced account of Longs Peak reveals the dangers of undermining national parks' fundamental obligations and presents a powerful appeal to meet them fairly and fully.

Anantharaman, Manisha, Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability. (Urban and Industrial Environments) 280 pp. 2023:12 (MIT Pr., US) <703-1013>
ISBN 978-0-262-54697-3 paper ¥10,098.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

国際環境政策ハンドブック
Basu, Mahua, The Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Policy. 600 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <703-1015>
ISBN 978-1-03-249634-4 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

This handbook is a one-stop, comprehensive guide to global initiatives for climate action. It examines policies to tackle climate change and the critical role various organizations play.The volume:Includes in-depth discussion of individual issues related to the environmentHighlights global initiatives, negotiations, and international organizations responsible for climate action, protecting marine and freshwater environment, protecting atmosphere and climate, conserving biological diversity, chemicals and wastes management, environmental governance, safeguarding against warfare and disastersDebates on-ground implications of the international policies for the Global SouthBrings together case studies from across the worldPresents a toolkit for environment practitioners to seek sustainable and practicable solutions to problemsIncludes suggested readings for researchersBrings together primary documents, supportive illustrations, graphs, and mapsThe handbook will be an essential reference for scholars and researchers of environmental studies, environmental policy and governance, sustainability and resilience. It will also be indispensable for policy makers, think tanks and NGOs.

Bruch, Carl / Batra, Geeta / Anand, Anupam et al., Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Lessons from the Global Environment Facility. 240 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) <703-1017>
ISBN 978-1-03-239794-8 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-239795-5 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing literature relies primarily on anecdotal evidence.Seeking to better understand the impact of conflict on the implementation and outcomes of environmental projects, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Independent Evaluation Office and the Environmental Law Institute undertook an evaluation of GEF support to fragile and conflict-affected contexts. Following a qualitative and quantitative analysis of documents from more than 4,000 projects, the research team discovered a statistically significant negative correlation between a country's Fragile States Index score and the implementation quality of environmental projects in that country. In this book, the evaluation and research team explain these groundbreaking findings in detail, highlighting seven key case studies: Afghanistan, Albertine Rift, Balkans, Cambodia, Colombia, Lebanon, and Mali. Drawing upon additional research and interviews with GEF project implementation staff, the volume illustrates the pathways through which conflict and fragility frequently impact environmental projects. It also examines how practitioners and sponsoring institutions can plan and implement their projects to avoid or mitigate these issues and find opportunities to promote peacebuilding through their environmental interventions.Examining data from 164 countries and territories, this innovative book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental management, conservation, international development, and the fast-growing field of environmental peacebuilding. It will also be a great resource for practitioners working in these important fields.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Cain, Bruce E., Under Fire and Under Water: Wildfire, Flooding, and the Fight for Climate Resilience in the American West. (The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series 16) 168 pp. 2023:11 (U. Oklahoma Pr., US) <703-1018>
ISBN 978-0-8061-9320-5 hard ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West into a region hostile to human habitation-a "Great American Desert," as early US explorers once mislabeled it. As Bruce E. Cain suggests in this timely book, the unique complex of politics, technology, and logistics that once won the West must be rethought and reconfigured to win it anew in the face of a widespread accelerating threat. The challenges posed by increasingly extreme weather in the West are complicated by the region's history, the deliberate fractiousness of the American political system, and the idiosyncrasies of human behavior-all of which Cain considers, separately and together, in Under Fire and Under Water. He analyzes how, in spite of coastal flooding and spreading wildfires, people continue to move into, and even rebuild in, risky areas; how local communities are slow to take protective measures; and how individual beliefs, past adaptation practices and infrastructure, and complex governing arrangements across jurisdictions combine to flout real progress. Driving Cain's analysis is the conviction that understanding the habits and politics that lead to procrastination and obstruction is critical to finding solutions and making necessary adaptations to the changing climate. As a detailed look at the rising stakes and urgency of the various interconnected issues, this book is an important first step toward that understanding-and consequently toward the rethinking and reengineering that will allow people to live sustainably in the American West under the conditions of future global warming.

Cram, Shannon, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility. (Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics 14) 229 pp. 2023:10 (U. California Pr., US) <703-1020>
ISBN 978-0-520-39511-4 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-39512-1 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

What does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? In Unmaking the Bomb, Shannon Cram considers the complex social politics of this question and the regulatory infrastructures designed to answer it. Blending history, ethnography, and memoir, she investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation's high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities. Cram examines the embodied uncertainties and structural impossibilities integral to that endeavor. In particular, this lyrical book engages in a kind of narrative contamination, toggling back and forth between cleanup's administrative frames and the stories that overspill them. It spends time with the statistical people that inhabit cleanup's metrics and models and the nonstatistical people that live with their effects. And, in the process, it explores the uneven social relations that make toxicity a normative condition.

Gray, Summer, In the Shadow of the Seawall: Coastal Injustice and the Dilemma of Placekeeping. 236 pp. 2023:9 (U. California Pr., US) <703-1025>
ISBN 978-0-520-39273-1 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-39274-8 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

In the Shadow of the Seawall journeys to the low-lying lands of Guyana and the Maldives to grapple with the existential dilemma of seawalls alongside struggles to resist displacement. With the gathering momentum of ocean instability wrought by centuries of injustice, seawalls have become objects of conflict and negotiation, around which human struggles for power and resistance collide. Through stories of colonial ruination and green seawalls, the concept of placekeeping emerges-a justice-oriented framework for addressing adaptation and the global dangers of coastal disruption at the front lines of climate change. Drawing on ethnographic observation and interviews, Gray shows how seawalls are entrenched in relationships of power and entangled in processes of making and keeping place.

Jaffee, Daniel, Unbottled: The Fight against Plastic Water and for Water Justice. 384 pp. 2023:9 (U. California Pr., US) <703-1026>
ISBN 978-0-520-30661-5 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-30662-2 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

An exploration of bottled water's impact on social justice and sustainability, and how diverse movements are fighting back. In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market dominated by global corporations. It sits at the convergence of a mounting ecological crisis of single-use plastic waste and climate change, a social crisis of affordable access to safe drinking water, and a struggle over the fate of public water systems. Unbottled examines the vibrant movements that have emerged to question the need for bottled water and challenge its growth in North America and worldwide. Drawing on extensive interviews with activists, residents, public officials, and other participants in controversies ranging from bottled water's role in unsafe tap water crises to groundwater extraction for bottling in rural communities, Daniel Jaffee asks what this commodity's meteoric growth means for social inequality, sustainability, and the human right to water. Unbottled profiles campaigns to reclaim the tap and addresses the challenges of ending dependence on packaged water in places where safe water is not widely accessible. Clear and compelling, it assesses the prospects for the movements fighting plastic water and working to ensure water justice for all.

Mitchell, Audra, Revenant Ecologies: Defying the Violence of Extinction and Conservation. 392 pp. 2024:2 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <703-1030>
ISBN 978-1-5179-0680-1 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5179-0681-8 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Engaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to articulate the ethical scale of global extinction As global rates of plant and animal extinctions mount, anxieties about the future of the earth's ecosystems are fueling ever more ambitious efforts at conservation, which draw on Western scientific principles to manage species and biodiversity. In Revenant Ecologies, Audra Mitchell argues that these responses not only ignore but also magnify powerful forms of structural violence like colonialism, racism, genocide, extractivism, ableism, and heteronormativity, ultimately contributing to the destruction of unique life forms and ecosystems. Critiquing the Western discourse of global extinction and biodiversity through the lens of diverse Indigenous philosophies and other marginalized knowledge systems, Revenant Ecologies promotes new ways of articulating the ethical enormity of global extinction. Mitchell offers an ambitious framework-(bio)plurality-that focuses on nurturing unique, irreplaceable worlds, relations, and ecosystems, aiming to transform global ecological-political relations, including through processes of land return and critically confronting discourses on "human extinction." Highlighting the deep violence that underpins ideas of "extinction," "conservation," and "biodiversity," Revenant Ecologies fuses political ecology, global ethics, and violence studies to offer concrete, practical alternatives. It also foregrounds the ways that multi-life-form worlds are actively defying the forms of violence that drive extinction-and that shape global efforts to manage it. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

都市部の生物多様性ハンドブック
Nilon, Charles H. / Aronson, Myla F. J. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Urban Biodiversity. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 432 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <703-1031>
ISBN 978-0-367-44454-9 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity.The field of urban biodiversity has emerged from within the broad discipline of urban ecology in the past two decades and is now a significant field in its own right. In view of this, the Routledge Handbook of Urban Biodiversity presents a thorough treatment of this field detailing the history of urban biodiversity, theoretical foundations, current state of knowledge, and application of that knowledge. The handbook is split into four parts:Part I: Setting the Stage for Urban Biodiversity Research and PracticePart II: Foundational Concepts and Theory in Urban Biodiversity ResearchPart III: Population and Community Ecology of Key Urban TaxaPart IV: Urban Biodiversity Practice: Management, Planning, and Design for Healthy Communities This volume contains interdisciplinary and global contributions from established and early career academics as well as professionals and practitioners, addressing two key fields in urban biodiversity: fundamental research focused on answering questions about the mechanisms explaining the distribution of species among and within cities; and applied research and work by practitioners to address concerns about urban biodiversity conservation, restoration, planning, design, and public involvement. This handbook is essential reading for students, academics, and professionals interested and working in the fields of urban biodiversity, ecology, nature conservation, urban planning, and landscape architecture.

Orsi, Jared, Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis: Recovering the Lost History and Culture of Quitobaquito. (Public Lands History 6) 226 pp. 2023:10 (U. Oklahoma Pr., US) <703-1033>
ISBN 978-0-8061-9294-9 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *

In the southwestern corner of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the border between Arizona and Mexico, one finds Quitobaquito, the second-largest oasis in the Sonoran Desert. There, with some effort, one might also find remnants of once-thriving O'odham communities and their predecessors with roots reaching back at least 12,000 years-along with evidence of their expulsion, the erasure of their past, attempts to recover that history, and the role of the National Park Service (NPS) at every layer. The outlines of the lost landscapes of Quitobaquito-now further threatened by the looming border wall-reemerge in Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis as Jared Orsi tells the story of the land, its inhabitants ancient and recent, and the efforts of the NPS to "reclaim" Quitobaquito's pristine natural form and to reverse the damage done to the O'odham community and culture, first by colonial incursions and then by proponents of "preservation." Quitobaquito is ecologically and culturally rich, and this book summons both the natural and human history of this unique place to describe how people have made use of the land for some five hundred generations, subject to the shifting forces of subsistence and commerce, tradition and progress, cultural and biological preservation. Throughout, Orsi details the processes by which the NPS obliterated those cultural landscapes and then subsequently, as America began to reckon with its colonial legacy, worked with O'odham peoples to restore their rightful heritage. Tracing the building and erasing of past landscapes to make some of them more visible in the present, Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis reveals how colonial legacies became embedded in national parks-and points to the possibility that such legacies might be undone and those lost landscapes remade.

プラスチック汚染とネットワーク化されたケアの文化
Pezzullo, Phaedra C., Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care. (Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture 4) 280 pp. 2023:9 (U. California Pr., US) <703-1035>
ISBN 978-0-520-39363-9 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *

Addressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. Beyond Straw Men moves beyond "hot take" or straw man fallacies by illustrating how affective counterpublics mobilized around plastics reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change. Inspired by on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C. Pezzullo engages public controversies and policies through analysis of hashtag activism, campaign materials, and podcast interviews with headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the United States, and Vietnam. She argues that plastics have become an articulator of crisis and an entry point into the contested environmental politics of carbon-heavy masculinity, carceral policies, planetary fatalism, eco-ableism, greenwashing, marine life endangerment, pollution colonialism, and waste imperialism. Attuned to plastic attachments, Beyond Straw Men illustrates how everyday people resist unsustainable patterns of the plastics-industrial complex through imperfect but impactful networked cultures of care.

Pieck, Sonja K., Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain. 280 pp. 2023:8 (MIT Pr., US) <703-1036>
ISBN 978-0-262-54616-4 paper ¥10,098.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

Raphael, Chad / Matsuoka, Martha (eds.), Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice. 391 pp. 2024:1 (U. California Pr., US) <703-1038>
ISBN 978-0-520-38433-0 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This is the first book devoted entirely to summarizing the body of community-engaged research on environmental justice, how we can conduct more of it, and how we can do it better. It shows how community-engaged research makes unique contributions to environmental justice for Black, Indigenous, people of color, and low-income communities by centering local knowledge, building truth from the ground up, producing actionable data that can influence decisions, and transforming researchers' relationships to communities for equity and mutual benefit. The book offers a critical synthesis of relevant research in many fields, outlines the main steps in conducting community-engaged research, evaluates the major research methods used, suggests new directions, and addresses overcoming institutional barriers to scholarship in academia. The coauthors employ an original framework that shows how community-engaged research and environmental justice align, which links research on the many topics treated in the chapters-from public health, urban planning, and conservation to law and policy, community economic development, and food justice and sovereignty.

Rickinson, Mark / McKenzie, Marcia (eds.), Navigating the Research-Policy Relationship: Studies in Environmental and Sustainability Education. 166 pp. 2023:9 (Routledge, UK) <703-1039>
ISBN 978-1-03-252320-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Drawing on studies in environmental and sustainability education, this book brings together new work that has explored the research-policy interface in varied contexts and from diverse perspectives.It will be beneficial to those interested in understanding the interface between research and policy.The relationship between research and policy has become an increasing focus for theoretical inquiry, empirical investigation, and practical development across many different fields. This volume highlights new empirical insights, theoretical ideas, practical examples, and methodological approaches for understanding, navigating, and developing more productive research-policy relationships.This book will be beneficial to anyone who is interested in understanding the interface between research and policy. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Environmental Education Research.

Rosier, Paul C. (ed.), Environmental Justice in North America. (Themes in Environmental History) 424 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <703-1040>
ISBN 978-1-03-210247-4 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-208037-6 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

Emphasizing the voices of activists, this book's diverse contributors examine communities' common experiences with environmental injustice, how they organize to address it, and the ways in which their campaigns intersect with related movements such as Black Lives Matter and Indigenous sovereignty.The global COVID-19 pandemic exposed the ways in which BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities and white working-class communities have suffered disproportionately from the crisis due to sustained exposure to toxic land, air, and water, creating a new urgency for addressing underlying conditions of systemic racism and poverty in North America. In addition to exploring the historical roots of the Environmental Justice movement in the 1980s and 1990s, the volume offers coverage of recent events such as the DAPL pipeline controversy, the Flint water crisis, and the rise of climate justice. The collection incorporates the experiences of rural and urban communities, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans, and Indigenous peoples in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.The chapters offer instructors, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers a range of accessible case studies that create opportunities for comparative and intersectional analysis across geographical and ethnic boundaries.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew et al. (eds.), Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change. 408 pp. 2023:8 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <703-1041>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1534-6 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5179-1535-3 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

A groundbreaking book that combines the environmental humanities and social sciences to study the impact of environmental stories There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today's environmental crises; however, surprisingly little is known about their impact and effectiveness. In Empirical Ecocriticism, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder combine an environmental humanities perspective with empirical methods derived from the social sciences to study the influence of environmental stories on our affects, attitudes, and actions. Empirical Ecocriticism provides an approachable introduction to this growing field's main methods and demonstrates their potential through case studies on topics ranging from the impact of climate fiction on readers' willingness to engage in activism to the political empowerment that results from participating in environmental theater. Part manifesto, part toolkit, part proof of concept, and part dialogue, this introductory volume is divided into three sections: methods, case studies, and reflections. International in scope, it points toward a novel and fruitful synthesis of the environmental humanities and social sciences. Contributors: Matthew Ballew, Yale U; Helena Bilandzic, U of Augsburg; Rebecca Dirksen, Indiana U; Greg Garrard, UBC Okanagan; Matthew H. Goldberg, Yale U; Abel Gustafson, U of Cincinnati; David I. Hanauer, Indiana U of Pennsylvania; Ursula K. Heise, UCLA; Jeremy Jimenez, SUNY Cortland; Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale U; David M. Markowitz, U of Oregon; Marcus Mayorga; Jessica Gall Myrick, Penn State U; Mary Beth Oliver, Penn State U; Yan Pang, Point Park U; Mark Pedelty, U of Minnesota; Seth A. Rosenthal, Yale U; Elja Roy, U of Memphis; Nicolai Skiveren, Aarhus U; Paul Slovic, U of Oregon; Scott Slovic, U of Idaho; Nicolette Sopcak, U of Alberta; Paul Sopcak, MacEwan U; Sara Warner, Cornell U.

Spackman, Christy, The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage. (Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics) 249 pp. 2024:1 (U. California Pr., US) * paper 2023:12 <703-1044>
ISBN 978-0-520-39354-7 hard ¥19,074.- (税込) US$ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-39355-4 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water explores the increasing erasure of tastes from drinking water over the twentieth century. It asks how dramatic changes in municipal water treatment have altered consumers' awareness of the environment their water comes from. Through examining the development of sensory expertise in the United States and France, this unique history uncovers the foundational role of palatability in shaping Western water treatment processes. By focusing on the relationship between taste and the environment, Christy Spackman shows how efforts to erase unwanted tastes and smells have transformed water into a highly industrialized food product divorced from its origins. The Taste of Water invites readers to question their own assumptions about what water does and should naturally taste like while exposing them to the invisible-but substantial-sensory labor involved in creating tap water.

Walker-Franklin, Imari / Jambeck, Jenna, Plastics. (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series) 136 pp. 2023:8 (MIT Pr., US) <703-1045>
ISBN 978-0-262-54701-7 paper ¥3,802.- (税込) US$ 16.95 *

Wardle, Deborah, Subterranean Imaginaries and Groundwater Narratives. (Routledge Environmental Humanities) 304 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <703-1046>
ISBN 978-1-03-221881-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book interrogates the problems of how and why largely unseen matter, in this case groundwater, has found limited expression in climate fiction. It explores key considerations for writing groundwater narratives in the Anthropocene.The book investigates a unique selection of climate fiction alongside an exploration of hydrosocial environmental humanities through a focus on groundwater and groundwater narratives. Providing eco-critical analysis, with creative fiction and non-fiction excerpts interwoven throughout, and drawing on Indigenous Australian and Australian settler novels and poems alongside European, American and Japanese texts, the book illuminates the processes of 'storying with' subterranean waters - their facts, uncertainties, potencies and vulnerabilities. In a time when the water crisis in an Australian and worldwide context is escalating in response to global warming, giving voice to the complexities of groundwater extraction and pollution is vital. Drawing from non-representational, posthumanist and feminist perspectives, the book provides an important contribution to transnational, comparative climate fiction analysis, enabling an interdisciplinary exchange between hydrogeological science and the eco-humanities.This book is an engaging read for scholars and students in creative writing, environmental humanities, cultural and post-colonial studies, Australian studies, and eco-critical literary studies. Writers and thinkers addressing the problems of the Anthropocene are called to pay attention to the importance of subterranean imaginaries and groundwater narratives.

Yaka, Oezge, Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles. 248 pp. 2023:8 (U. California Pr., US) <703-1047>
ISBN 978-0-520-39360-8 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-39361-5 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Fighting for the River portrays women's intimate, embodied relationships with river waters and explores how those relationships embolden local communities' resistance to private run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plants in Turkey. Building on extensive ethnographic research, OEzge Yaka develops a body-centered, phenomenological approach to women's environmental activism and combines it with a relational ontological perspective. In this way, the book pushes beyond the "natural resources" frame to demonstrate how our corporeal connection to nonhuman entities is constitutive of our more-than-human lifeworld. Fighting for the River takes the human body as a starting point to explore the connection between lived experience and nonhuman environments, treating bodily senses and affects as the media of more-than-human connectivity and political agency. Analyzing local environmental struggles as struggles for coexistence, Yaka frames human-nonhuman relationality as a matter of socio-ecological justice.

Youngs, Yolonda, Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon. (America's Public Lands) 408 pp. 2024:2 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <703-1048>
ISBN 978-1-4962-0218-5 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River is an internationally known feature of the North American landscape, attracting more than five million visitors each year. A deep cultural, visual, and social history has shaped the Grand Canyon's environment into one of America's most significant representations of nature. Yet the canyon is more than a vacation destination, a movie backdrop, or a scenic viewpoint; it is a real place as well as an abstraction easily summoned in the minds of Americans. The Grand Canyon, or the idea of it, is woven into the fabric of American cultural identity and serves as a cultural reference point-an icon. In Framing Nature Yolonda Youngs traces the idea of the Grand Canyon as an icon and the ways people came to know it through popular imagery and visual media. She analyzes and interprets more than fourteen hundred visual artifacts, including postcards, maps, magazine illustrations, and photographs of the Grand Canyon, supplemented with the words and ideas of writers, artists, explorers, and other media makers from 1869 to 2022. Youngs considers the manipulation and commodification of visual representations and shifting ideas, values, and meanings of nature, exploring the interplay between humans and their environments and how visual representations shape popular ideas and meanings about national parks and the American West. Framing Nature provides a novel interpretation of how places, especially national parks, are transformed into national and environmental symbols.