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

Sojka, Maria M., A Heated Debate: Meta-Theoretical Studies on Current Climate Research and Public Understanding of Science. (Edition Moderne Postmoderne) 240 S. 2023:9 (Transcript, GW) <704-65>
ISBN 978-3-8376-6580-2 paper ¥10,593.- (税込) EUR 45.00

Ever since climate change has been identified as one of the most significant challenges of humanity, climate change deniers have widely tried to discredit the work of scientists. To show how these processes work, Maria M. Sojka examines three ideals about how science should operate. These ideals concern the understanding of uncertainties, the relationship between models and data, and the role of values in science. Their widespread presence in the public understanding of science makes it easy for political and industrial stakeholders to undermine inconvenient research. To address this issue, Sojka analyses the importance of tacit knowledge in scientific practice and the question what defines an expert.

Nurmi, Suvielise, Relational Agency and Environmental Ethics: A Journey beyond Humanism as We Know It. 316 pp. 2023:5 (Lexington Books, US) <704-75>
ISBN 978-1-66690-454-3 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

Why does ethics only weakly contribute to the most crucial problems of the current world? Relational Agency and Environmental Ethics: A Journey Beyond Humanism as We Know It explores how the concept of moral agency embedded in modern humanist ethics, in its reliance on environmentally harmful and scientifically implausible presuppositions, prevents ethics from efficiently supporting a sustainability transition. The modernist individualist notion of agency includes conceptual dichotomies between moral agency and human nature, mind and body, reason and emotion, and knowledge and will, yet it should be revised without dismissing responsibility, normativity, and a shared ground for critical assessment. Suvielise Nurmi proposes an agential shift resting on a relational concept of agency, combining ecofeminist and evolutionary criticisms of modernism together with various interdisciplinary discussions involving philosophy of mind, cognitive science, anthropology, social ontology, and developmental biology and psychology. This book argues that the relational shift can resolve the dilemma and bring environmental relationships to the core of ethical discourse: there is no ethics distinct from environmental ethics. Environmental responsibilities can be justified as responsibilities for one's relationally considered agency.

P.B.トンプソン著　ローカル及びグローバルな食料の倫理
Thompson, Paul B., From Silo to Spoon: Local and Global Food Ethics. 312 pp. 2023:11 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <704-76>
ISBN 978-0-19-774472-7 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-774473-4 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Following the pattern of From Field to Fork (OUP, 2015) Paul B. Thompson provides a highly readable and up-to-date analysis of contemporary ethical issues connected with food. Thompson reinterprets Peter Singer's work on famine relief in light of the history of funding development assistance through food aid, defends locavore diets against philosophical critics, and analyzes the ethics of food labelling in light of J.S. Mill's On Liberty. Further exploring today's key ethical questions about food, Thompson compares anthropological and toxicological approaches to pollution and defends a revised notion of agricultural sustainability. These topics provide an entry point for a novel approach in practical ethics that blends pragmatist philosophy of language, historical interpretation of agrarian thought, and recent philosophical writings on race and structural racism.

Lin, Jean Yen-chun, A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities. 344 pp. 2023:8 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <704-827>
ISBN 978-0-231-19450-1 hard ¥30,184.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-19451-8 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Environmental organizing in Beijing emerged in an unlikely place in the 2000s: new gated residential communities. After rapid population growth and housing construction led to a ballooning trash problem and overflowing landfills, many first-time homeowners found their new neighborhoods facing an unappetizing prospect-waste incinerator projects slated for their backyards.Delving into the online and offline conversations of communities affected by the proposed incinerators, A Spark in the Smokestacks demonstrates how a rising middle class acquires the capacity for organizing in an authoritarian context. Jean Yen-chun Lin examines how urban residents create civic life through everyday associational activities-learning to defend property rights, fostering participation, and mobilizing to address housing-related grievances. She shows that homeowners cultivated petitioning skills, informational networks, and community leadership, which they would later deploy against incinerator projects. To interact with government agencies, they developed citizen science-based tactics, a middle-class alternative to disruptive protests. Homeowners drew on their professional connections, expertise, and fundraising capabilities to produce reports that boosted their legitimacy in city-level dialogue. Although only one of the three incinerator projects Lin follows was ultimately canceled, some communities established durable organizations that went on to tackle other environmental problems.Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and ethnography, A Spark in the Smokestacks casts urban Chinese communities as "schools of democracy," in which residents learn civic skills and build capacity for collective organizing. Through compelling case studies of local activism, this book sheds new light on the formation of civil society and social movements more broadly.

中世の河川の風景－北西欧州における環境と記憶　300～1100年
Arnold, Ellen F., Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300-1100. (Studies in Environment and History) 345 pp. 2023:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <704-948>
ISBN 978-1-00-929939-8 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Fishermen, monks, saints, and dragons met in medieval riverscapes; their interactions reveal a rich and complex world. Using religious narrative sources to evaluate the environmental mentalities of medieval communities, Ellen F. Arnold explores the cultural meanings applied to rivers over a broad span of time, ca. 300-1100 CE. Hagiographical material, poetry, charters, chronicles, and historiographical works are explored to examine the medieval environmental imaginations about rivers, and how storytelling and memory are connected to lived experiences in riverscapes. She argues that rivers provided unique opportunities for medieval communities to understand and respond to ecological and socio-cultural transformations, and to connect their ideas about the shared religious past to hopes about the future.

Barichella, Arnault, Can Cities, States and Regions Save Our Planet?: Transatlantic Perspectives on Multilevel Climate Governance. (Energy, Climate and the Environment) 439 pp. 2023:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <704-949>
ISBN 978-3-031-33935-6 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book examines the potential for cities, states and regions to take decisive action on climate change at the local level. Local action constitutes an essential component of global efforts to keep temperatures below the 2 degreesC Paris Agreement threshold. Focusing on three green municipal leaders - New York, Boston and Paris - this volume examines their multilevel interactions with higher governance echelons in the United States and France. Even though these countries are located on different continents, similar patterns emerge on both sides of the Atlantic. This book explores the key role of municipalities and sub-state entities in shaping the climate policy agenda vis-a-vis national governments in the US and France. It argues that inadequate articulation of multilevel governance may jeopardize efforts to limit global temperature increase below the 2 degreesC threshold by the end of the century.

Coppens, Philippe / Nanteuil, Matthieu de et al. (dir.), La democratie a l'epreuve: entre transitions constitutionnelles et defi ecologique. (En anthropocene) 195 p. 2023:4 (le Bord de l'eau, FR) <704-951>
ISBN 978-2-35687-927-1 paper ¥4,708.- (税込) EUR 20.00

Fazzi, Dario, Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement. (Global America) 272 pp. 2023:10 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <704-952>
ISBN 978-0-231-21242-7 hard ¥30,184.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-21243-4 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

The U.S. government, military, and industry once saw ocean incineration as the safest and most efficient way to dispose of hazardous chemical waste. Beginning in the late 1960s, toxic chemicals such as PCBs and other harmful industrial byproducts were taken out to sea to be destroyed in specially designed ships equipped with high-temperature combustion chambers and smokestacks. But public outcry arose after the environmental and health risks of ocean incineration were exposed, and the practice was banned in the early 1990s.Smoke on the Water traces the rise and fall of ocean incineration, showing how a transnational environmental movement tested the limits of U.S. political and economic power. Dario Fazzi examines the anti-ocean-incineration movement that emerged on both sides of the Atlantic, arguing that it succeeded by merging local advocacy with international mobilization. He emphasizes the role played at the grassroots level by women, migrant workers, and other underrepresented groups who were at greatest risk. Environmental groups, for their part, gathered and shared evidence about the harms of at-sea incineration, building scientific consensus and influencing international debates.Smoke on the Water tells the compelling story of a campaign against environmental degradation in which people from marginalized communities took on the might of the U.S. military-industrial complex. It offers new insights into the transnational dimensions of environmental regulation, the significance of nonstate actors in international history, and the making of environmental justice movements.

Gobbo, Alice Dal, Everyday Life Ecologies: Sustainability, Crisis, Resistance. (Environment and Society) 266 pp. 2023:5 (Lexington Books, US) <704-953>
ISBN 978-1-66692-066-6 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

Everyday Life Ecologies: Sustainability, Crisis, and Resistance is about those complex, sticky, but also open arrangements of bodies, objects, and plants that make up daily existence. The multiple and interlocking lines of a long capitalist crisis disrupt their normal flow: sometimes, they open opportunities for transformation, sometimes else, they foreclose horizons of change. In contrast with approaches that respond to environmental crisis by advocating "sustainable lifestyles" and "responsible behaviors," Alice Dal Gobbo suggests that it is necessary to address the complex socio-material relationalities that constitute everyday ecologies. Beyond that, the book argues for their politicization, illuminating daily existence as embedded in capitalist relations of re/production. Combining political ecology and new materialist sensitivities, this book investigates the ways in which ecologically damaging logics are inscribed in everyday assemblages through their habitual rehearsal and libidinal hold. But it also points to how apparently banal acts of resistance embody and promote different logics, such as a logic of care and an ecological "aesth-ethics" of desire. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Northeast of Italy, this journey through the concrete matters and beings of daily life in crisis talks beyond this emplaced reality and dialogues with emerging forms of contestation and prefiguration that put socio-ecological reproduction at their center.

Riley, Kathryn, (Re)Storying Human/Earth Relationships in Environmental Education: Becoming (Partially) Posthumanist. (Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories) 124 pp. 2023:8 (Springer, GW) <704-958>
ISBN 978-981-9925-86-5 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book is situated in the simultaneous thinking (theory) and doing (action) of posthumanist performativity and new materialist methodologies to bring forth a multitude of stories that demonstrate co-constituted and co-implicated worldmaking practices.It is written in response to the fact that our Earth is at a critical juncture. As atmospheric temperatures rise and cast unprecedented and wide-spread social and ecological crises across the planet, social and ecological injustices and threats cannot be separated from globalising, neoliberal, capitalist, and colonial discourses that proliferate through anthropocentric and humancentric logics. Manifesting in binary classifications that position the human as separate from the Earth, and dominant categories of the human in hierarchies of power, such logics homogenise and institutionalise the field of environmental education and result in an over-emphasis on instrumentalist, technicist, and mechanistic teaching and learning practices.Exploring the affects emerging within, and between, an assemblage comprising Researcher/Teacher/Environmental Education Worldings, this book seeks to understand how the researcher makes sense of herself with/in the broader ecologies of the world; collaborative processes with an elementary-school teacher in Saskatchewan, Canada, as actualised through four co-created and co-implemented multisensory researcher/teacher enactments (Mindful Walking, Mapping Worlds, Eco-art Installation, and Photographic Encounters); and how the researcher/teacher organises themselves with Land-based pedagogies, environmental education curriculum policy, and wider discourses of Western education. This book does not propose a better way of teaching and learning in environmental education. Rather, showing how difference between categories is relationally bound, this book offers a conceptual (re)storying of human/Earth relationships in environmental education for social and ecologicaljustice in these times of the Anthropocene.

Rudel, Thomas K., Reforesting the Earth: The Human Drivers of Forest Conservation, Restoration, and Expansion. (Society and the Environment) 296 pp. 2023:9 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <704-959>
ISBN 978-0-231-21068-3 hard ¥30,184.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-21069-0 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Forests offer a natural solution to the climate crisis. Conserving and expanding them not only removes carbon from the atmosphere but also protects and fosters biodiversity. Yet the results of elite-driven reforestation initiatives have been disappointing, and in many world regions deforestation continues relentlessly.Thomas K. Rudel examines a wide range of conservation and reforestation efforts to shed new light on the social factors that lead to success. He details effective coalition-building strategies and organizational models that have protected, restored, and expanded forests around the world. Rudel argues that successful reforestation projects bring together diverse groups of people with a stake in the land and a commitment to collective decision making. They give voice to different economic and social interests, including small farmers, Indigenous peoples, loggers, ranchers, government officials, NGO personnel, international donors, and climate activists. These varied coalition members each make commitments to promote forests. Farmers limit the extent of lands under cultivation, governments protect land tenure for smallholders, and wealthy donors make payments for environmental protections.Timely and accessible, Reforesting the Earth offers a guide to scaling up local efforts to sequester carbon and makes a powerful case for a global reforestation movement.

Xu, Cassie / Iyengar, Radhika, Climate Change Education: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer. (Columbia University Earth Institute Sustainability Primers) 184 pp. 2023:11 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <704-963>
ISBN 978-0-231-20242-8 hard ¥17,248.- (税込) US$ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-20243-5 paper ¥4,312.- (税込) US$ 20.00 *

Climate change affects every person and society, every community and industry. Education at all levels, in all disciplines, and both inside and outside official institutions must now address climate change and its many effects on social and environmental systems. This book provides a framework for putting climate change at the forefront of educational agendas and pedagogical tools for teaching climate science across local and global settings.Cassie Xu and Radhika Iyengar present evidence-based teaching practices and strategies that are grounded in a broad conception of education and emphasize a systems approach. They share examples of effective approaches in diverse learning environments-not just in classrooms and other formal settings but also informal contexts with communities and families. This book makes the case that students and other learners need to understand climate science and the physical and social impacts of climate change not only to be good citizens but also to be well prepared for different career paths. Xu and Iyengar highlight systemic barriers and inequalities, reflecting on how to bring marginalized voices and perspectives into educational spaces. Providing a foundation for interdisciplinary environmental education, this book underscores that how we teach future generations about climate change will shape our future.

Bowles, Paul / Andrews, Nathan (eds.), Extractive Bargains: Natural Resources and the State-Society Nexus. (Frontiers of Globalization) 349 pp. 2023:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <704-217>
ISBN 978-3-031-32171-9 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book is the first to focus on state-led 'extractive bargains,' designed to reach a social consensus on the extent of extractive activities, how they should be governed and their negative consequences mitigated. These state-led 'bargains' have taken a number of different forms and offer varying degrees of promise in meeting environmental and social concerns. The book critically examines 'bargains' in states across the Global North and the Global South, incorporates Indigenous issues, and judiciously assesses their prospects for promoting long-term sustainability. It focusses on mineral and fossil fuel extraction in particular including bargains designed to govern the former as the demand for minerals used in "green energy" increases and to limit the use of the latter.The book will be of interest to students and researchers of global studies, global political economy, political science, political sociology, sustainability, environmental sociology, development studies and geography.

Jarvis, Jason L., Social Media and Oil in Southern California: Greenwashing Los Angeles. (Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene) 116 pp. 2023:6 (Lexington Books, US) <704-220>
ISBN 978-1-79363-099-5 hard ¥18,326.- (税込) US$ 85.00 *

Social Media and Oil in Southern California: Greenwashing Los Angeles interrogates the politics of invisibility that permeates Southern California's oil industry. Most residents are completely unaware that hospitals, schools, businesses, and homes are built among the thousands of active wells in Los Angeles County. Since the early 1900's, the oil industry used social media to greenwash itself and obscure the material consequences of drilling and refining. From postcards to YouTube, social media has been a key tool in the arsenal of the fossil fuel industry. Jason L. Jarvis argues that oil-not Hollywood-is the key industry that drives the California dream. Scholars of communication, environmental studies, and rhetoric will find this book of particular interest.

Schuetze, Nora, Polycentric Water Governance in Spain: Understanding Determinants, Patterns, and Performance of Coordination. (Political Science 152) 274 S. 2023:10 (Transcript, GW) <704-222>
ISBN 978-3-8376-6689-2 paper ¥12,947.- (税込) EUR 55.00

Increasing irrigation efficiency has been high on the political agenda in Spain for many years. However, the overarching aim to reduce agricultural water consumption has not been met so far. Nora Schuetze investigates processes of coordination between the water and agricultural sector in three Spanish river basins in the context of the EU Water Framework Directive implementation. From the perspective of polycentric governance, she identifies multiple mechanisms which illustrate how and why actors interact in certain ways, and thus shows why environmental aims of the Water Framework Directive remain unachieved.

Jobani, Yuval, The First Jewish Environmentalist: The Green Philosophy of A. D. Gordon. 208 pp. 2023:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <704-123>
ISBN 978-0-19-761797-7 hard ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Hailed by philosopher Martin Buber as "the true teacher", pioneer, philosopher and dreamer, Aharon David Gordon (1856--1922) is increasingly being recognized as the first Jewish environmentalist. Long before global warming became a major threat, Gordon warned against the mounting dangers of human assault on nature and urged us to open ourselves to nature and re-attune with it. Rather than trying to conquer nature, Gordon argued, we should merge with it; rather than being a master or slave of nature, we should become nature's friend and ally. Since childhood, nature fertilized and shaped Gordon's mindscape, as it eventually did his philosophical writings. Gordon's fresh insights on critical contemporary issues--such as ecology, gender, social justice, and post-secularism--have inspired not only a rapidly growing body of scholarly literature, but also communal readings and study among young readers whose imagination has been captured by Gordon's thoughts and dreams. The First Jewish Environmentalist introduces Gordon's ideas and sets them in their historical context, shedding new light on the interconnections between religion, culture, education, and the environment. Expanding his canonical status beyond the realm of Hebrew culture, the book situates Gordon in the tradition of nature-intoxicated prophets such as Rousseau, Thoreau, and Tolstoy, and extracts from his writings empowerment and inspiration for seekers advocating the protection of our planet.