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

Yang, Jibo, Effective Supply Mechanism and Path of Environmental Public Goods in China. (Public Economy and Urban Governance in China) 222 pp. 2023:8 (Springer, GW) <706-791>
ISBN 978-981-9929-38-2 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book, from the perspectives of the spatial and intergenerational externalities of environmental public goods, provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts and theories concerning environmental public goods supply and illustrates how to design the mechanism for promoting resident participation in effective environmental public goods supply under the guidance of the government. Noticeably, an intergenerational overlapping model for resident participation in environmental public goods supply has been created in the book, which generates new ideas for mitigating the long-standing forward intergenerational goods shortage. Moreover, this book uses happiness dataset to measure the feasibility of resident participation in environmental public goods supply and also makes a comparison between two supply models: Government Provide Model and Residents, Enterprises and Government Provide Model, so as to offer theoretically feasible suggestions.Not only is this book highly recommended for professionals in government units, universities, and research institutions that are engaged in environmental governance, but it can be used as a reference book for students of relevant majors in institutions of higher learning.

Wesche, Tilo, Die Rechte der Natur: Vom nachhaltigen Eigentum. (stw 2414) 300 S. 2023: (Suhrkamp, GW) <706-83>
ISBN 978-3-518-30014-5 paper ¥5,178.- (税込) EUR 22.00

企業の環境行動、トランスナショナルな政治、世界秩序
Hulme, Charlotte, Corporate Climate Action, Transnational Politics, and World Order. (Environmental Politics and Theory) 255 pp. 2023:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <706-835>
ISBN 978-3-031-34114-4 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book explores the origins and significance of the corporate climate action phenomenon, which has attracted increased attention in recent years. It examines how and why, during the 2010s, American, German, and Indian corporations spanning finance, technology, automotive, and energy-intensive industries adopted certain climate practices and converged around the idea that the private sector has a vital role to play in addressing climate change and advancing a low-carbon future. It also considers how policy developments that states widely understood as watersheds, including the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, simply confirmed what the private sector had long believed: that states lacked answers about how to achieve concerted, ambitious, and effective climate action. It was in this context, amid diminishing expectations for robust state climate action, that select corporations sought to fill a perceived leadership vacuum in an issue area poised to shape future global trends. Providing a novel assessment of the corporate sector as a climate actor, this book evaluates how the shift in the center of gravity in the climate change issue area away from national governments and toward other players may influence world order and impact an international security landscape increasingly defined by non-military challenges.

気候変動と国際安全保障
Trombetta, Maria J. (ed.), Handbook on Climate Change and International Security. 400 pp. 2023:12 (E. Elgar, UK) <706-874>
ISBN 978-1-78990-643-1 hard ¥56,980.- (税込) GB￡ 200.00 *

This topical Handbook explores the emergence of climate change as an international security issue, the threats it poses, and the political and academic debates it has prompted. Framing climate change as a security issue, it explores the ways relevant actors, states and international organizations have conceptualized climate security and its associated threats.Theoretically sound and empirically innovative, this Handbook explores the political implications of linking climate change and security and tackles the questions that are subsequently raised. Through a collection of international case studies, expert contributors explore a diverse range of issues emerging in the debate about climate change and security, including the problem of migration, the impact on energy security and the role of the military. Contributing to various discourses, logics, practices and constructions of climate security, the Handbook outlines how security language shapes and transforms the way climate change is governed. Ultimately, it identifies an emerging, broader reconceptualization of international security in the Anthropocene.Displaying the challenges that climate change poses in the context of existing security practices and institutions, this Handbook will be vital for policymakers looking to identify and understand threats to formulate effective countermeasures. It will also prove useful to students and scholars of security studies, international relations, climate change and energy politics, environmental politics and policy, and governance.

気候変動に直面する社会生態学的弾力性ハンドブック－発展途上国のコンテクスト
Nautiyal, Sunil / Gupta, A. K. / Goswami, M. et al. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Socio-ecological Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: Contexts from a Developing Country. 684 pp. 2023:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <706-886>
ISBN 978-981-9922-05-5 hard ¥47,076.- (税込) EUR 199.99

This book shares experiences and knowledge on climate change impacts and adaptation, risk reduction strategies, communities' responses, and best practices from different landscapes of India. It provides insights into climate change risk reduction in trans-disciplinary frameworks. The findings and discussions put forward in the chapters, largely based on micro-level case studies, provide an in-depth understanding of interactions among ecology, society, and economy under different conditions of changing climate. It contains critical discussion on both existing and required actions as adjustments to climate change impacts by different actors at diverse scales and contexts. The recommendations will be beneficial in climate change adaptation planning for India and other developing countries, where a large portion of the population directly depends on climate-sensitive sectors. The content of the book is interdisciplinary and it will be beneficial for scholars and practitioners from natural science, social science, policy, and governance across the continents.

除本理史、林美帆、清水万由子、藤吉圭二編　現代日本における環境汚染とコミュニティの再構築
Yokemoto, Masafumi / Hayashi, Miho / Shimizu, Mayuko / Fujiyoshi, Keiji (eds.), Environmental Pollution and Community Rebuilding in Modern Japan. 144 pp. 2023:6 (Springer, GW) <706-895>
ISBN 978-981-9932-38-2 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book describes how modern industry affected people in Japan and their communities by polluting their living environment with toxic emissions. It also shows how the populace endeavored not only to restore their once-clean environment but also to rebuild communities that had been damaged by pollution and its accompanying effects. Environmental pollution is usually referred to in Japan as kogai, public damage, meaning that such pollution not only harms the physical environment-air, water, soil, and the human body-but also destroys the social and personal relationships in the polluted area. Those people who took action recognized that industrial and economic development had been given the highest national priority even at the cost of their health and welfare. In this sense, anti-kogai movements led them to alternative community development and to rethinking what kind of environment and community they wanted. This book also explores the efforts driven byresidents in several parts of Japan after the middle of the twentieth century and the endeavors of museums and archives as a memorial to those who suffered from the pollution and for the prospect of a better society with a good environment.

中国の都市部の環境ガバナンス・ハンドブック
Zhang, Fangzhu / Wu, Fulong (eds.), Handbook on China's Urban Environmental Governance. (Handbooks of Research on Contemporary China) 464 pp. 2023:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <706-916>
ISBN 978-1-80392-203-4 hard ¥56,980.- (税込) GB￡ 200.00 *

This timely and comprehensive Handbook addresses how Chinese cities govern the environmental changes generated by fast economic growth and urbanisation. Outlining the relationship between the state, market, and society, this Handbook provides a systematic understanding of urban environmental governance in China.Exploring the context of changing urban environmental policies in China, leading international scholars highlight the arts of governance and governmentality through experimentation and discourse. Chapters investigate the political ecologies of eco-cities and conservation, urban waste management, and governance and sustainability transitions, as well as focusing on low-carbon innovations and green buildings. With a territorial perspective grounded in Chinese cities, contributors interrogate changing and complex state-market-society dynamics in urbanisation and urban environmental governance.With a thorough and systematic analysis of new environmental initiatives, practices, and impacts, this Handbook provides scholars, students, and policy researchers of environmental studies, politics, and East Asian studies with an exemplary selection of contemporary research on China's urban environmental governance.

Richardson, Benjamin J, Before Environmental Law: A History of a Vanishing Continent. 376 pp. 2023:10 (Hart, UK) <706-585>
ISBN 978-1-5099-6902-9 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This landmark book unveils the history of defending Australia's natural environment and examines the subject's legal and political contexts from the birth of the nation in 1901 until the advent of the so-called modern era of environmental regulation in the late 1960s. It rejects the mythology that Australia lacked environmental law before the late 1960s in revealing how many of today's environmental laws, from pollution control to nature conservation, emerged from precedents or events much earlier in the 20th century. This history however reveals a discrepancy between lawmakers' greater efficacy to exploit rather than protect the environment, a discrepancy that grew as nature's backlash intensified in a rapidly degrading continent colonised to build the Australian nation. In exploring these dynamics, the book offers a rich tapestry of case studies illustrated with historic photographs that show the origins of Australia's environmental laws and how they borrowed from international precedents or furnished lessons for other nations. Through its multi-disciplinary enquiry, the book offers scholars and students of environmental law, legal history and the environmental humanities a unique story about the failures and successes in the making of environmental law.

Nicholson, Calum / Mayer, Benoit (eds.), Climate Migration: Critical Perspectives for Law, Policy, and Research. 280 pp. 2023:9 (Hart, UK) <706-593>
ISBN 978-1-5099-6174-0 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This book investigates the epistemological and ethical challenges faced by studies exploring the relations between climate change and human migration. At the heart of the contemporary preoccupation with climate change is a concern for its societal impacts. Among these, its presumed effect on human migration is perhaps the most politically resonant, regardless of whether that politics is oriented towards human or national security. There is, however, a problem: research on the causal link between climate change and migration has shown it to be a highly equivocal one. By extension, it remains unclear what - if any - response is required from law and policy. Carefully structured to guide the reader through the issue of 'climate migration' in a logical and rigorous manner, this book is the first to bring together key critiques, caveats, and cautions in order to systematically examine the challenges facing law, policy, and research on the topic. At a time in which both the effects of climate change and the causes of migration are of great public and political interest, and in which these interests are often fraught with sentiment and freighted with politics, the book brings dispassionately critical perspectives to bear on a topic that desperately needs it.

知的財産とSDGs必携
Rimmer, Matthew / Ncube, Caroline B. / Amani, Bita (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals. (Elgar Companions to the Sustainable Development Goals) 520 pp. 2023:12 (E. Elgar, UK) <706-234>
ISBN 978-1-80392-522-6 hard ¥74,074.- (税込) GB￡ 260.00 *

Complex geopolitical debate surrounds the role of intellectual property (IP) in advancing and achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Summarising and advancing this discourse, this prescient Companion is a thorough examination of how IP law interacts, influences and impacts each of the seventeen SDGs.This comprehensive Companion brings together an array of leading international experts to assess and interrogate how IP law impacts each specific SDG in turn. Providing in-depth analysis and invaluable insight, chapters explore IP's role in ending poverty and inequality, improving food security, ensuring a sustainable environment, better regulating gene patents, and supporting health and well-being through access to medicines. This Companion deftly explores a variety of models of technology transfer and diffusion. Ultimately, the book provides a realistic overview of current progress towards the SDGs and a blueprint to reform IP institutions, agreements and laws to achieve a more sustainable future.The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals will be an essential resource for academics, researchers, regulators and policymakers interested in the unique intersection between IP law and sustainable development. It will also prove a highly informative read for researchers specialising in development studies, as well as legal practitioners working in private law, public law, technology law, comparative law and international law.

Walker, Thomas / Cucuzzella, C. / Goubran, S. et al. (eds.), The Role of Design, Construction, and Real Estate in Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals. (Sustainable Development Goals Series 11) 207 pp. 2023 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <706-235>
ISBN 978-3-031-28738-1 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

This edited book brings together insights from scholars and practitioners from many different fields to uncover the role of the construction and real estate sectors and how they align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It follows a lifecycle-based approach to the topic, addressing the design, construction, management, investment, and regulatory dimensions of projects in the area. It expands the reader's understanding of the built environment beyond the design and construction phases, which enables the collection to explore the links and transitions between different project phases and uncover new methodologies that aim to tackle systemic sustainable development challenges. The chapters' comprehensive coverage allows the collection to capitalize on the strengths and weaknesses of the building industry, highlight emerging trends, and uncover some critical gaps that need to be addressed to attain the 2030 vision. This puts into perspective the interconnected nature of the SDGs and highlights the importance of multi-stakeholder collaborations in achieving them.

Catalyzing the Green Digital Transformation in Low- and Middle-Income Economies. (Climate Change and Development Series) 130 pp. 2023:9 (World Bank, US) <706-241>
ISBN 978-1-4648-2002-1 paper ¥8,797.- (税込) US$ 43.95 *

The book examines how to increase synergies between socioeconomic development goals, climate change policies, and digital technologies, offering guidance on how government institutions and private organizations in the digital field can catalyze green digitalization.

Brenton, Paul / Chemutai, Vicky / Maliszewska, M. et al., Trade and Climate Change: Policy Considerations for Developing Countries. 300 pp. 2023:10 (World Bank, US) <706-243>
ISBN 978-1-4648-2013-7 paper ¥11,000.- (税込) US$ 54.95 *

This report provides analysis and tools to guide policymakers in developing countries on key issues related to trade. Part 1 analyzes climate change and evolving comparative advantages of developing country trade. Part 2 takes an in-depth look into the design of climate-related trade policy instruments that support developing country trade.

Puplampu, Korbla P. / Hanson, Kobena T. / Arthur, P. (eds.), Sustainable Development, Digitalization, and the Green Economy in Africa Post COVID-19. (International Political Economy Series) 225 pp. 2023:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <706-276>
ISBN 978-3-031-32163-4 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book examines sustainable development in the broader framework of Africa post COVID-19. Specifically, the book studies governance and digitalization from the perspective of natural environment management, climate change, the green economy, as well as agriculture and education. Digitalization supports the deepening of natural resource governance by assessing extractive practices, sovereign wealth funds and the emerging discourse on global warming and green economic policies. This analytical exercise will better inform economic and socio-political policies and institutions for African development. The book, against the backdrop of the United Nations Agenda 2030 and the African Union Agenda 2063, offers unique insights on digitalization, governance, the green economy, and natural resource regime in Africa post COVID-19.

欧州のエネルギー政治－グリーンな移行とEU・ロシアのエネルギー関係
Siddi, Marco, European Energy Politics: The Green Transition and EU-Russia Energy Relations. (New Horizons in European Politics) 192 pp. 2023:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <706-321>
ISBN 978-1-03-530698-5 hard ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *

In this timely book, Marco Siddi expertly navigates topics of European energy politics, drawing on pressing issues from times of unprecedented crisis. From the war in Ukraine to worsening climate change, he illustrates the intense pressure the EU is under to accelerate its green transition, and explores the potential obstacles that may arise on the road to energy security.Siddi provides a wealth of critical analysis on the rise and decline of EU-Russia energy relations; the nature of the EU's actorness in both domestic and external energy policy; and the opportunities and challenges of the energy transition for the European continent. The geopolitical consequences of the energy transition are adeptly examined, and the book highlights the critical need for the EU to adopt well-calibrated policies and develop multidimensional international partnerships to obtain access to key supply chains and promote a just global energy transition.With a comprehensive and thorough analysis of contemporary EU energy policy, this book will prove essential to academics and students interested in international relations, energy policy, regulation and governance, European politics and public policy. It will also be a vital resource to practitioners and diplomats working on energy and climate issues in national ministries, European union institutions, and diverse international organisations.

Skjaerseth, Jon Birger / Hansen, Teis et al., Wind Power Policies and Diffusion in the Nordic Countries: Comparative Patterns. 168 pp. 2023:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <706-322>
ISBN 978-3-031-34185-4 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book focuses specifically on policy mixes and wind power diffusion in four Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Although these Nordic welfare states have much in common, they have adopted different wind power policies and experienced dissimilar diffusion trajectories. Understanding these patterns across the Nordic countries is the central puzzle that this book investigates. Empirically, this book provides a first-of-its-kind comparative study of wind power policies in the Nordic countries. Analytically, the authors contribute to the transition policy mix literature, which remains largely insensitive to political feasibility. This book will be of interest to researchers and students as well as private and public decision makers looking for tools to enable the energy transition.

スマートシティ
Belaid, Fateh / Arora, Anvita (eds.), Smart Cities: Social and Environmental Challenges and Opportunities for Local Authorities. (Studies in Energy, Resource and Environmental Economics) 411 pp. 2023:9 (Springer, GW) <706-329>
ISBN 978-3-031-35663-6 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-35666-7 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This edited volume discusses the socioeconomic, environmental, and policy implications of smart cities. Written by international experts in energy economics and policy, the chapters present wide range of high quality theoretical and empirical studies at the nexus of social, entrepreneurial, governmental and ecological transformation. The book covers a wide range of topics, with a view towards providing empirical evidence of the benefits of smart cities as well as practical frameworks for smart city initiatives. Topics discussed include: smart city transition pillars, innovation for smart and sustainable cities design and implementation, smart city governance, smart mobility within cities, and smart cities in emerging economies. This volume will be of use to students and researchers interested in resource economics, energy economics, sustainability, ICT, and governance, as well as policymakers working on smart city initiatives.This is an open access book.

Archer, Matthew, Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability. 264 pp. 2024:2 (New York U. Pr., US) <706-426>
ISBN 978-1-4798-2200-3 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-2201-0 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

A behind-the-scenes look at how corporate and financial actors enforce a business-friendly approach to global sustainability In recent years, companies have felt the pressure to be transparent about their environmental impact. Large documents containing summaries of yearly emissions rates, carbon output, and utilized resources are shared on companies' social media pages, websites, and employee briefings in a bid for public confidence in corporate responsibility. And yet, Matthew Archer argues, these metrics are often just hollow symbols. Unsustainable contends with the world of big banks and multinational corporations, where sustainability begins and ends with measuring and reporting. Drawing on five years of research among sustainability professionals in the US and Europe, Unsustainable shows how this depoliticizing tendency to frame sustainability as a technical issue enhances and obscures corporate power while doing little, if anything, to address the root causes of the climate crisis and issues of social inequality. Through this obsession with metrics and indicators, the adage that you can't manage what you can't measure transforms into a belief that once you've measured social and environmental impacts, the market will simply manage them for you. The book draws on diverse sources of evidence-ethnographic fieldwork among a wide array of sustainability professionals, interviews with private bankers, and apocalyptic science fiction-and features analyses of name-brand companies including Volkswagen, Unilever, and Nestle. Making the case for the limits of measuring and reporting, Archer seeks to mobilize alternative approaches. Through an intersectional lens incorporating Black and Indigenous theories of knowledge, power and value, he offers a vision of sustainability that aims to be more effective and more socially and ecologically just.

Sadovnichy, Viktor / Akaev, Askar / Ilyin, I. et al. (eds.), Reconsidering the Limits to Growth: A Report to the Russian Association of the Club of Rome. (World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures) 612 pp. 2023:9 (Springer, GW) <706-220>
ISBN 978-3-031-34998-0 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99

Echoing the famous "The Limits to Growth" report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the present, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original report. During the past fifty years, both the concept and understanding of these limits have significantly changed. This book highlights that the evolution of the World System has approached a new critical milestone, moving into a fundamentally new phase of historical development, when the old economic and social technologies no longer work as efficiently as before or even begin to function counterproductively, which leads the World System into a systemic crisis. The book discusses the transition of human society to a new phase state, the shape of which has not yet been determined. New approaches are needed for both, for the analysis of the global situation, and for forecasts. The book is based on an integrated approach including the world-systems, historical and evolutionary perspectives, as well as a systematic view of society, in which changes in one subsystem cause transformations in others. Through mathematical modeling, it defines the main vectors of transformations of the World System; makes a detailed forecast of the development of all the main subsystems of the society and the World System, while presenting horizons of changes from short-term to ultra-long-term; and presents different development scenarios as well as recommendations on how to achieve a transition to the most favorable scenario. The book will appeal to members and followers of the Club of Rome, policy-makers, as well as to scholars from various disciplines interested in a better understanding of the World System evolution, global futures, development studies, climate change, and future societies.

渓谷必携－社会科学の視点
Aguiar, Luis LM / Senese, Donna / French, Diana E. (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Valleys: Social Science Perspectives. 368 pp. 2023:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <706-1022>
ISBN 978-1-78990-695-0 hard ¥41,310.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This unique Companion showcases the importance of valleys and their socio-economic, physical and cultural landscapes across three continents. Expert scholars in the field offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on the topic, discussing key historical and contemporary issues governing and transforming valleys.Exploring the impact of economic and spatial justice, and environmental and climate change issues on valleys, the Companion also studies key topics including lifestyle placemaking, the rise of inequalities within and across valleys, and alternate representations of this under-studied geographical feature. Highlighting some lesser-known valleys across Europe and North and South America, chapters provide in-depth reviews of experiencing, living in and growing up in valleys, and how internal and external factors shape each valley's characteristics.The Elgar Companion to Valleys is an excellent resource for academics and scholars in the fields of geography, and environmental studies, as well as anthropology and sociology. Using original empirical data to tackle emerging theoretical issues, researchers interested in the changing internal configurations of valleys and under what conditions those changes take place will find this Companion illuminating and insightful.

Baldwin, Claudia / van Bommel, Severine (eds.), Rural Development for Sustainable Social-ecological Systems: Putting Communities First. (Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sustainability) 818 pp. 2023:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <706-1024>
ISBN 978-3-031-34224-0 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book provides an overview of interdisciplinary approaches that have applied social science to research focused on issues around food, agriculture and natural resource management. The book demonstrates that those who work in rural sociology either as researchers or practitioners apply community development and participatory techniques to socio-environmental interaction. The book discusses how the evolving concept of interconnected social and ecological systems (SES) emerged, recognizing the inherent complexity, adaptive nature, and resilience of such systems. This book engages with contemporary theory, as well as new cutting-edge transdisciplinary research evidenced in case studies from three continents.

Gerner, Nadine / Hansen, Lina, Oekofeminismus: Zwischen Theorie und Praxis: Eine Einfuehrung. 136 S. 2023:12 (Unrast-Vlg., GW) <706-1027>
ISBN 978-3-89771-379-6 paper ¥4,660.- (税込) EUR 19.80 *

Was haben antimilitaristische Proteste in den USA und Europa, Kaempfe um Saatgut in Indien oder Kenia und indigener Widerstand gegen Extraktivismus in Ecuador mit Kampagnen zum Thema Hausarbeit ? wie der Streik der Care-Arbeiter*innen gegen das neoliberale Gesundheitswesen in NRW ? gemein? Das Zusammendenken von feministischen, oekologischen und dekolonialen Fragestellungen, wie es Oekofeminist*innen bereits in den 1970er-Jahren vorgemacht haben, stellt das Leben ? und zwar nicht nur menschliches ? in den Fokus der Analyse und des politischen Handelns. Die Autorinnen legen dar, wie Oekofeminismus es schafft, die Verbindung zwischen verschiedenen Herrschaftsstrukturen aufzuzeigen und die Herrschaft ueber Frauen, queere, migrantisierte, rassifizierte Menschen und andere marginalisierte Gruppen mit der Herrschaft ueber Natur zusammenzudenken. In der Praxis zeigt sich das in Form von Streiks und Besetzungen, Commoning und kollektiver Subsistenzarbeit bis hin zu autonomen Gemeinschaften und alternativen Gesellschaftsentwuerfen. Zugaenglich geschrieben und mit zahlreichen Beispielen aus der Praxis versehen ermoeglicht das Buch einen niedrigschwelligen Einstieg in die Vielfalt der Theorien und Praxen der Oekofeminismen.

海洋の変化を理解する
Jetoo, Savitri / Kouri, Jaana / Laine, Silja et al. (eds.), Understanding Marine Changes: Environmental Knowledge and Methods of Research. 304 pp. 2023:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <706-1029>
ISBN 978-1-03-531110-1 hard ¥31,339.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *

Studying environmental changes to the seas and oceans through a variety of perspectives and disciplines, this pioneering book outlines the challenges of researching marine environmental issues.With no linear cause-and-effect relationship between marine environmental changes and the often human-induced stressors which produce them, the changes to our seas and oceans are complex and uncertain, arising from multiple and interconnected issues. Bringing together academic expertise from different fields of study, this innovative book engages with stakeholders and branches of local ecological knowledge to address marine changes, outlining how they must be studied from multiple perspectives rather than a single academic discipline to reach effective solutions. Discussing marine interdisciplinarity in action, the book features international case studies from diverse fields across the ocean sciences, humanities and social sciences that explore art and science collaborations in practice.Showcasing the practical challenges and opportunities of such research, this will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars across such subject areas as environmental governance and regulation, marine and ocean sciences, sustainability studies and climate change. Its findings will also be of use to policymakers and practitioners concerned with marine changes across the world.

Keskitalo, E. C. H., Rethinking Nature Relations: Beyond Binaries. (Rethinking Research and Theory) 122 pp. 2023:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <706-1030>
ISBN 978-1-03-530632-9 hard ¥18,518.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00 *

This incisive book explores the implications of the nature-culture binary and how it impacts the ways in which we think about nature. Bringing together and building on extensive work from varied fields, E. C. H. Keskitalo maps the many understandings of nature across diverse traditions and histories, and demonstrates that nature relations must be understood in connection to power.Focusing on five key binaries - nature-culture, urban-rural, productivism-landscape, leisure-work, and wilderness-civilization - the book unpacks how discussions and conceptions of nature shape our actions towards nature. It examines the role of classification and categorisation in language, and reflects on how to limit the overuse of natural resources. Looking beyond theory, Keskitalo examines the practical implications of understandings of nature relations on key topics including property systems, globalisation, planning, and management.Rethinking Nature Relations will be an accessible entry point for students and scholars in the social and natural sciences to begin critically examining nature relations. It will also be an invaluable resource for those working in environmental policy, sociology, geography, and development studies.

Martinez-Alier, Joan, Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice. 798 pp. 2023:12 (E. Elgar, UK) <706-1031>
ISBN 978-1-03-531276-4 hard ¥45,584.- (税込) GB￡ 160.00 *

This ground-breaking book makes visible the global counter-movement for environmental justice, combining ecological economics and political ecology. Using 500 in-depth empirical analyses from the Atlas of Environmental Justice, Martinez-Alier analyses the commonalities shared by environmental defenders and offenders respectively. Each narrative emphasizes the diverse vocabularies, iconographies, and valuation languages of poor and Indigenous activists without losing sight of the global scale of climate action and biodiversity loss. Revealing the circularity gap at the centre of the industrial economy, the book focuses on the frontiers of commodity extraction and waste disposal. Alongside exploring protagonists and geographies of resistance, chapters delve into corporate irresponsibility, unequal trade, and feminist neo-Malthusianism. Although grassroots movements for socio-economic sustainability are deeply diverse, there are global patterns of action and empowerment. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of environmental social sciences and humanities, anthropology, geography, international relations, and ecology. It will also help activists engaged in the movements for environmental justice.

McKie, Ruth E., The Climate Change Counter Movement: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sought to Delay Climate Action. 176 pp. 2023:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <706-1032>
ISBN 978-3-031-33591-4 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book provides an historical account of the emergence and spread of the climate change counter movement across the globe. Drawing on an extensive database developed by the author, the book recounts the development of an international network, taking the reader on a journey through the history of the movement before looking closely at a series of comparative case studies examining movement organisations in different countries.

持続可能な住宅への移行
Moore, Trivess / Doyon, Andreanne, A Transition to Sustainable Housing: Progress and Prospects for a Low Carbon Housing Future. 289 pp. 2023:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <706-1033>
ISBN 978-981-9927-59-3 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus, the book explores a range of housing-related challenges including social justice and equity issues. Sustainability transitions theory is presented as a framework to help facilitate a sustainable housing transition and a range of contemporary case studies are explored on issues including high performing housing, small housing, shared housing, neighbourhood-scale housing, circular housing, and innovative financing for housing. It is an important new resource that challenges policy makers, planners, housing construction industry stakeholders, and researchers to rethink what housing is, how we design and construct it, and how we can better integrate impacts on households to wider policy development.

Seuru, Samuel / Albouy, Benjamin (eds.), Modelling Human-Environment Interactions in and beyond Prehistoric Europe. (Themes in Contemporary Archaeology) 160 pp. 2023:9 (Springer, GW) <706-1040>
ISBN 978-3-031-34335-3 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them. It reconstructs key aspects of the palaeoenvironment - from large-scale drivers of environmental conditions, such as climate, to more regional variables such as vegetation cover and faunal communities. The volume underscores how computational archaeology is leading the way in the study of past human-environment interactions across spatial and chronological scales. With the increased availability of high-resolution climate models, agent-based modelling, palaeoecological proxies and the mature use of Geographic Information System in ecological modelling, archaeologists working in interdisciplinary settings are well-positioned to explore the intersection of human systems and environmental affordances and constraints. These methodological advancements provide a better understanding of the role humans played in past ecosystems - both in terms of their impact upon the environment and, in return, the impact of environmental conditions on human systems. They may also allow us to infer past ecological knowledge and land-use patterns that are historically contingent, rather than environmentally determined. This volume gathers contributions that combine reconstructions of past environments and archeological data with a view to exploring their complex interactions at different scales and invites scholars from varying disciplines and backgrounds to present and compare different modelling approaches.

Shevory, Thomas, Toxic Lake: Environmental Destruction and the Epic Fight to Save Onondaga Lake. 320 pp. 2023:12 (New York U. Pr., US) <706-1041>
ISBN 978-1-4798-1567-8 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-1568-5 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

The environmental history of "the most polluted lake in America." Native Americans have long regarded Onondaga Lake as one of the most sacred spaces in the continent, the place where peace between nations was achieved and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy was created. In the mid-twentieth century, however, it acquired a wholly different reputation as "the most polluted lake in America." Toxic Lake is an environmental history of this complex ecological system, tracking how it was tarnished, the costly efforts to clean it up, and the controversies those efforts generated. Thomas Shevory argues that the history of Onondaga Lake mirrors the larger environmental history of the US, from colonization to the industrial era, resulting, eventually, in the rise of social movements and legislative action for environmental protection. Layered within this history is the dismissal of indigenous land claims and the marginalization of indigenous voices in clean-up efforts. Toxic Lake illustrates that the failure to prevent the environmental destruction of Onondaga Lake was part of a political climate which favored unregulated industrial production and urban growth, ignoring the destructive impacts on local environments. Shevory argues this larger failure was the result of an active process of privileging the economic interests of polluters over other business interests, expanding neighborhoods, and indigenous rights. He concludes with an investigation of New York's recent declaration that the clean-up is complete, questioning what exactly that means and whether the lake's status as a sacred space will ever be re-established. Toxic Lake is a compelling work of history, demonstrating the disastrous effects of pollution and the importance of community involvement in environmental activism.

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Urban, Frauke / Nordensvaerd, Johan (eds.), Handbook on Climate Change and Technology. (Elgar Handbooks in Energy, the Environment and Climate Change) 560 pp. 2023:12 (E. Elgar, UK) <706-1045>
ISBN 978-1-80088-210-2 hard ¥66,951.- (税込) GB￡ 235.00 *

This timely Handbook presents the latest knowledge on technological innovation for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Looking beyond technical fixes, it further draws on economics, politics and sociology to explore how modern technology can contribute to effective and socially just sustainability transitions.Examining cutting-edge research on energy, transport and industry, this Handbook argues that we have the technologies and policy instruments needed to mitigate and adapt to climate change. However, for larger-scale implementation the support at the socio-economic and political levels has to be increased. Chapters further analyse the role that technology plays in key sectors, such as agriculture and forestry, in order to become more sustainable. Contributors also reflect on the position of technology in society, illustrating the wider socio-technical systems that determine the impact that new technologies can have. They call for the political will to implement and scale up technological measures to address climate change across the world.The Handbook on Climate Change and Technology will be essential reading for academics and students of climate change, energy, sustainability and environmental governance and regulation. It will also be an invaluable resource for practitioners and policymakers seeking a deeper understanding of the role of technology in sustainability transitions.