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

Little, Peter C., Critical Zones of Technopower and Global Political Ecology: Platforms, Pathologies, and Plunder. 258 pp. 2023:9 (Lexington Books, US) <710-743>
ISBN 978-1-66690-109-2 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

This book explores technology and the global tech industry in relation to social, health, economic, and environmental relations and politics. Peter Little argues that the power and influence of electronics and Big Tech-from the proliferation of digital platforms to the expansion of global electronic waste streams-is a political-ecological problem that impacts communities and lives in both the Global North and South. From intense resource extraction, industrial pollution, and surging health and economic inequalities, to data-driven surveillance, platform economy proliferation and intrusion, and Silicon Valley corporate-power, Little argues that the political ecology of tech matters now more than ever. Based on a mixture of engagements with tech criticism, ethnographic case studies, and critical analysis and development of guiding concepts-ranging from technocapital to technoprecarious political ecology-the book exposes and interrogates the underlying toxicity, precarity, and planetary politics of the global tech. Critical Zones of Technopower and Global Political Ecology also tracks justice struggles that confront technopower, including "just tech" forms of social action that further reinforce the importance of a global political ecology of technocapitalism in the digital age.

Heise, Ursula K. / Pham, Chi P. (eds.), Environment and Narrative in Vietnam. (Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment) 396 pp. 2023:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-826>
ISBN 978-3-031-41183-0 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

Environment and Narrative in Vietnam brings together essays about Vietnam's natural environments and environmental crises from the perspective of culture, with particular attention to narrative templates that have shaped perceptions and interactions with nature on the part of different communities. The essays in this volume explore theoretical problems in the assessment of ecological stewardship and attitudes toward nature across cultures. They focus on both majority (Kinh) and ethnic minority narratives about nature and seek to outline how different ideas of modernization, from the French colonial project to the Marxist understanding of nature on the part of the Communist government, have shaped perceptions, policies, and activism regarding the environment. The essays also highlight the tensions and confluences between nationalist nation-building projects and economic integration into global markets for environmental thinking over the last half-century, and they analyze how texts from literary fiction to contemporary news media represent different environmental cultures in Vietnam. Taken together, the essays in Environment and Narrative in Vietnam begin to fill a significant gap in the understanding of environmental cultures in Asia and in the Environmental Humanities. This is an open access book.

Liow Li Sa, Melissa / Choon-Yin, Sam, Sustainable Urban Development in Singapore: Imagining Walkability in an Urban Concrete Jungle. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 210 pp. 2023:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-828>
ISBN 978-981-9954-50-6 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Adeola, Ogechi / Evans, Olaniyi / Ngare, Innocent, Gender Equality, Climate Action, and Technological Innovation for Sustainable Development in Africa. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 259 pp. 2023:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-868>
ISBN 978-3-031-40123-7 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-40126-8 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book explores the intersection of gender and climate change, suggests ways in which innovative technologies can accelerate climate relief actions, and offers strategies for integrating climate change initiatives into national policies and planning. By examining the devastating consequences of climate change on women and girls throughout the continent, the authors pose a crucial question: Does gender matter in climate change discussions in Africa? Political and social traditions have burdened women with greater vulnerability to the impacts of climate-related natural disasters, including violence, displacement, poverty, famine and lack of access to clean water. However, women are also key to effective and inclusive climate mitigation, adaptation, and decision-making. The authors provide a compelling discourse that identifi es the social and economic benefi ts for all citizens when genderinclusive policies shape equitable and targeted action plans, from mitigationto adaptation and funding.The UN's SDG 13 calls for urgent action and commitment to combat climate change. The implementable and action-oriented propositions presented in this book will be of interest to students, educators, practitioners, third-sector actors, and policymakers committed to gender equality, sustainable development and climate action in Africa.

Helmcke, Cornelia, Engineering Reality: The Politics of Environmental Impact Assessments and the Just Energy Transition in Colombia. 290 pp. 2023:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-908>
ISBN 978-3-031-40642-3 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Engineering Reality offers unprecedented insights into the power of environmental impact assessments in engineering a reality favourable to any investment, focusing on the highly contested environmental study of a large hydroelectric dam project in southern Colombia, El Quimbo. The inclusion of environmental impact assessments to project proposals of environmental influence has been an undeniably important step to environmental governance in many countries around the world. Regarding the science behind these studies as objective and their results as the closest in representing reality, however, is misleading. Many activists and scholars made it their mission to uncover the limitations and work towards filling the gaps. Participation processes are considered key to any successful evaluation, but local knowledges and alternative perspectives are still often disqualified through more widely accepted scientific methods. Engineering Reality systematically walks through and accounts for the shortcomings and injustices associated with environmental monitoring. It compares the reality as presented in the dam's environmental impact study with first-hand accounts from the local and affected populations and observations gathered through two periods of fieldwork in 2012 (before) and 2016-17 (after the dam started operating). It explores how the knowledge of the study was used politically and to what end. Bringing the findings in conversation with the wider environmental impact assessment literature, the book proposes a new framework to assess energy projects -Energy Data Justice- that regards the environmental impact assessment a strictly political tool aimed at reaching the just energy transition in Colombia and worldwide.

Alberro, Heather, Radical Environmental Resistance: Love, Rage and Hope in an Era of Climate and Biodiversity Breakdown. (Emerald Points) 112 pp. 2023:11 (Emerald, UK) <710-921>
ISBN 978-1-83797-379-8 hard ¥12,936.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

Acknowledging mounting socioeconomic inequality, a climate system in disarray, and a collapse of biodiversity that now threatens the very viability of life on earth for both present and future generations, Radical Environmental Resistance demystifies activists' ecological worldviews, their tactical motivations, and their diagnostic and prognostic framings. Providing a succinct overview of key aspects of contemporary radical environmental movements, Heather Alberro offers a brief yet in-depth look into the poorly understood aims and motivations of radical environmental activists as increasingly salient actors within global environmental politics. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with activists from a range of environmental groups as well as analysis of activist websites and print materials, chapters feature a critical discussion of the ethics and salience of radical tactics and of attempts by state, media and corporate actors to criminalize and delegitimize environmental activism. Will mainstream policy and government approaches to addressing climate and biodiversity crises amount to too little, too late? At what point, if ever, do desperate times legitimize desperate actions? Exploring the role of direct action within times of severe social and ecological upheaval, Radical Environmental Resistance evokes the rich, diverse world that radical environmental activists and indigenous environmental protectors are fighting for.

Billet, Bret L., Navigating Global Environmental Sustainability: Enriching Well-Being in the Wake of the Great-Recession. 276 pp. 2023:9 (Lexington Books, US) <710-922>
ISBN 978-1-4985-7957-5 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

The Great Recession provided an opportunity to reconsider how to simultaneously enhance the well-being of individuals, corporations, countries, and the global environment. A half-century of vital environmental data demands examining several questions pertaining to the impact of a recession on sustainable environmental consumption. Does a recession provide an occasion for productive dialogue that might reconcile the ostensible incompatibility of economic and ecological rationales? Does it constitute an artificial "turning point" whereby appropriate incentives may induce productive change? Are post-recession environmental consumption patterns indicative of government encouragement, and corporate willingness, to pursue transformative environmental technologies? Alternatively, are the patterns illustrative of countries transferring their environmental consumption to other countries via international trade?Bret L. Billet argues that the simultaneous investigation of both the Ecological Modernization theory and the Ecological Unequal Exchange theory strengthens the present quantitative analysis, enhancing understanding of the recession, well-being, sustainable environment nexus. Each ecological theory is rooted in the politicized evolution of traditional theories of economic development. The introduction of an Aristotelean conception of development as well-being, an exceptionally large number of cases, and the analysis of multiple country subsets, results in a more robust inquiry as to the impact of the Great Recession on the global sustainable environment.

Chacon, Richard J. (ed.), The History and Environmental Impacts of Hunting Deities: Supernatural Gamekeepers and Animal Masters. (Conflict, Environment, and Social Complexity) 428 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-925>
ISBN 978-3-031-37502-6 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This edited volume analyzes the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and/or animal masters of wildlife from a cross-cultural perspective. It documents the antiquity and widespread occurrence of the belief in supernatural gamekeepers at the global level. This interdisciplinary volume documents both the antiquity and the widespread geographical distribution of this belief along with surveying the various manifestations of this cosmology by way of studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America. Some chapters explore the manifestations of this belief as they appear in petroglyphs/pictographs and other forms of material culture. Others focus on the environmental impacts of these beliefs/rituals and prescribed foraging restrictions by analyzing how they affect game harvests. The internationally recognized scholars in this volume assess the efficacy of this particular form of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and investigate if adherence to the belief in animal masters actually causes hunters to refrain from overharvesting wild game and thereby contributes to sustainable hunting practices. This volume is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists and other social scientists researching traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), indigenous conservation, biodiversity, and sustainability practices, and animal deities.

Dessai, Suraje / Lonsdale, Kate / Lowe, Jason et al. (eds.), Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK. 225 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-926>
ISBN 978-3-031-39728-8 hard ¥7,058.- (税込) EUR 29.99

This open access book draws together key research from the UK Climate Resilience programme. It focuses on topics central to the programme's research agenda, including improved characterisation and quantification of climate risks, enhanced understanding of the management of climate risks, and the development and delivery of climate services. Key chapters address the challenges inherent to undertaking resilience research, including how to make the term 'climate resilience' usable and useful, co-producing research between academics, policy makers and practitioners, and engaging and communicating outside of academia. This book is unique in providing a concise and accessible overview of the programme's key lessons, placing the findings into a wider context and it will inform future research, policy and practice agendas.

Drucza, Kristie / Kaddour, A. / Ganguly, S. et al. (eds.), Centering Gender in the Era of Digital and Green Transition: Intersectional Perspectives. 209 pp. 2023:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-927>
ISBN 978-3-031-38210-9 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This edited volume examines the importance of centering gender in research and policymaking focused on climate change, environmental sustainability, and digital technology. Chapters unpack how the transition to a green and digital future affects various fields and industry sectors including STEM, agriculture, and energy, as well as why gender-transformative approaches-particularly the production and analysis of gender-inclusive disaggregated data-should be included in those transitions. The editors and authors also look at the positive impact of these considerations on economic growth and poverty eradication. Finally, this book presents an ideal/utopian view of what a gender-equal and inclusive world that has transitioned to green industries and embraced digital technologies might look like.This book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, students and policymakers across the Social Sciences including Sociology, Anthropology, Gender Studies, Science & Technology Studies, and Economics.

Durdevic, Goran / Marjanic, Suzana (eds.), Ecofeminism on the Edge: Theory and Practice. (Women, Economy and Labour Relations) 352 pp. 2024:2 (Emerald, UK) <710-928>
ISBN 978-1-80455-042-7 hard ¥24,794.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *

Ecofeminism is defined as a unique academic discipline, theoretical framework, and political and philosophical movement centred around both environmental and feminist concerns. With a special focus on education and underrepresented geographical locations, Ecofeminism on the Edge: Theory and Practice is an inclusive collection of theories, discourses, art, identities, and practices related to this discipline. Expert contributors collaborate with junior scholars and early-stage researchers to demonstrate the compatibilities between different generations, academic backgrounds, political views, and gender perspectives for a holistic, globally conscious approach to ecofeminism and ecofeminist studies. Chapters focus on regions not yet represented in this discipline as well as emerging educational practices to provide a truly inclusive approach to the many creative solutions ecofeminism offers. Topics explored include promoting ecofeminisms plural as potential solutions for environmental and social crises, gender inequality, labour issues, and capitalism. An interdisciplinary approach to an interdisciplinary field, Ecofeminism on the Edge: Theory and Practice understands ecofeminism as a connective point between issues of gender and the environment, one with strong solutional potential for two distinct, yet often interconnected, fields.

Glasgow, Greg / Mayer, Kathryn, Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was. 218 pp. 2023:9 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <710-929>
ISBN 978-1-5381-7367-1 hard ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

A fascinating look at Walt Disney's last, unfinished project and the controversy that surrounded it.It was going to be Disneyland at the top of a mountain. A vacation destination where guests could go skiing, ice skating, or unwind in one of several gourmet restaurants. In the summer, visitors could fish, camp, hike, or attend a wilderness lecture led by Donald Duck. It was the Mineral King resort in Southern California, and it was Walt Disney's passion project. But there was one major obstacle to Walt's dream: the growing environmentalist movement of the 1960s.In Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was, Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer provide an unprecedented look inside the Mineral King saga, from its origins at the 1960 Winter Olympics to the years-long environmental fight that eventually shut it down. The fight, which went all the way to the Supreme Court, reshaped the environmental movement and helped to put in place long-reaching laws to protect nature. Although the court battle, coupled with Walt's death in 1966, meant the end for the Mineral King resort, the ideas and planning behind it have permeated throughout the Walt Disney Company and the ski tourism industry in ways that are still seen today. With first-hand interviews and behind-the-scenes details, Disneyland on the Mountain offers incredible access to a part of Disney history that hasn't been thoroughly explored before, including Walt's love of nature, how the company changed after Walt's death, and of course, the story of Mineral King. It's a tale of man versus nature, ambition versus mortality, and how a gang of scrappy environmentalists took on one of America's most beloved companies.

Hewlett, Denise / Clarke, Richard / Finneran, Niall (eds.), Managing Protected Areas: People and Places. 395 pp. 2023:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-932>
ISBN 978-3-031-40782-6 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-40785-7 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book brings together 16 specially commissioned chapters drawn from a range of different professional-practitioner and academic global perspectives on the importance of the relationship between people and green and blue spaces. It focuses on issues surrounding the importance of natural environments on public health and wellbeing, and the environmental, cultural, and social importance of green and blue spaces that can result through responsible and sustainable adaptive management processes. It explores how the Covid-19 pandemic forced reconsiderations of our relationship with these natural spaces and highlights the important impact of the pace of climate change. While not pretending to have the answers, the stimulating and imaginative contributions embrace rich perspectives drawn from backgrounds as diverse as heritage studies, tourism, conservation, geography, policy formulation, public health, environmental health, research methods, history, literature, art, and theology.

Ourkiya, Asmae, Queer Ecofeminism: From Binary Environmental Endeavours to Postgender Pursuits. (Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives) 184 pp. 2023:9 (Lexington Books, US) <710-937>
ISBN 978-1-79364-021-5 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *

Queer Ecofeminism: From Binary Environmental Endeavours to Postgender Pursuits navigates environmental politics by revisiting ecofeminism through an intersectional lens that enmeshes climate justice with matters revolving around sexuality, gender, race, and far-right politics. Asmae Ourkiya focuses on deconstructing essentialised conceptualisations of femininities, masculinities, and gender identities and reintroduces humanity as a species with much potential that is yet to be unlocked if only "biological sex", skin color, and indigeneity would not be classist factors shaping humans into hierarchical classes. This work draws from analyzing a diverse and carefully chosen selection of artwork, film productions, and historical events to showcase the potency of ecofeminism.this work draws from analyzing a diverse and carefully chosen selection of artwork, film productions, and historical events to showcase the potency of ecofeminism.

Rantala, Outi / Kinnunen, Veera / Hoeckert, Emily (eds.), Researching with Proximity: Relational methodologies for the Anthropocene. (Arctic Encounters) 212 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-939>
ISBN 978-3-031-39499-7 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-39502-4 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book presents a series of speculative, experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene. Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. They counter distancing, exoticising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Arctic by staying proximate with mundane places and beings of the north. The volume engages and plays with familiar tourism concepts, such as hospitality, visiting, difference, care, openness, and distance, while expanding the focus from binary and human-centric approaches of hosts and guests to questions of wellbeing among multispecies communities. The transdisciplinary group of contributors share a curiosity about how staying proximate may provide theoretical depth and epistemological openings to attend to current tensions and to diversify the ways we do and enact research. Thus, each chapter provides a methodological experiment with proximity, developing diverse ways of envisioning and storying more-than-human worlds.?

Sapignoli, Maria / Hitchcock, Robert K., People, Parks, and Power: The Ethics of Conservation-Related Resettlement. (SpringerBriefs in Anthropology) 101 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-940>
ISBN 978-3-031-39266-5 paper ¥10,589.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This book presents a critical review of the ethics of conservation-related resettlement. We examine what has become known as the" parks versus people" debate, also known as the "new conservation debate," which has pitted indigenous and other local people against nation states and social scientists against ecologists and conservationists for the past several decades. Aiming to promote biodiversity conservation and habitat preservation, some biologists, park planners, and conservation organizations have recommended that indigenous and other people should be removed from protected areas. Local people, for their part, have argued that residents of the areas that were turned into protected areas, national parks, game reserves and monuments had managed them in productive ways for generations and that they should have the right to remain there and to use natural resources as long as they do so sustainably. This position is often supported by indigenous rights organizations and social scientists, especially anthropologists. There are also some conservation-oriented NGOs that have policies involving a more human rights-oriented approach aimed at poverty alleviation, sustainable development, and social justice. The book discusses biodiversity conservation, indigenous peoples (those who are ethnic minorities and who are often marginalized politically), and protected areas, those categories of land set aside by nation-states that have various kinds of rules about land use and residence. The focus initially is on case studies from protected areas in the United States including Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park, and Glacier National Park and on national monuments and historical parks where resettlement took place. We then consider issues of coercive conservation in southern Africa, including Hwange National Park (Zimbabwe), the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana), Etosha National Park, and Bwabwata National Park (Namibia), and Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (South Africa and Botswana). All of these cases involved involuntary resettlement at the hands of the governments. In the book we consider some of the social impacts of conservation-forced resettlement (CfR), many of which tend to be negative. After that, we assess some of the strategies employed by indigenous peoples in their efforts to recover rights of access to protected areas and the cultural and natural resources that they contain. Examples are drawn from cases in Asia, Africa, and South America. Conclusions are provided regarding the ethics of conservation-related resettlement and some of the best practices that could be followed, particularly with regard to indigenous peoples.

ローカルなコンテクストにおけるグローバルな規範－フランスにおける環境ガバナンスの事例
Schnyder, Melissa, Global Norms in Local Contexts: Examining Cases of Environmental Governance in France. (SpringerBriefs in Political Science) 83 pp. 2023:9 (Springer, GW) <710-941>
ISBN 978-3-031-41107-6 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

Thorsteinsson, Bjoern / Anna Lund, Katrin et al. (eds.), Mobilities on the Margins: Creative processes of place-making. (Arctic Encounters) 198 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-944>
ISBN 978-3-031-41343-8 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-41346-9 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book examines places on the margins and the dynamics through which a marginal position of a place is created. Specifically, it explores how places, mostly in sparsely populated areas, often perceived as immobile and frozen in time, come into being and develop through interference of everyday mobilities and creative practices that cut across the spheres of culture and nature as usually defined. Through fieldwork and case studies from areas in Iceland, Finland, Greenland, and Scotland, the book's twelve chapters draw out the multiple relations through which places emerge, where people compose their lives as best they can with their surroundings. A special concern is to explore the links between travelling, landscape, and material culture and how places and margins are enacted through mobilities and creative practices of humans and other beings. The emphasis on mobility disturbs the perception of a place as a bounded entity and offers a useful and necessary understanding of places as mobile and fluid. Mobilities on the Margins is a novel and timely contribution to the exploration of human and more-than-human interactions in a world of increasingly fluid mobilities and insistent crises.

Cupi, Deniz, Environmental Debates in Albania: Media Discourse during the Post-Communist Period. 283 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-947>
ISBN 978-3-031-39759-2 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book investigates the role played by classical and digital media, and social networks in shaping debates on the environment. Providing a unique window of observation on environmental debates, the book explores the media theatre from the post-communist perspective of Albania. The work navigates the creation and development of environmental debate in Albania using evidence-based case studies, investigating the role of actors involved, who are closely related to the media, such as in business or politics. Environmental Debates in Albania offers an original insight on environmental debate, which is closely tied to and influenced by the place and culture within which it originates. Rich literature exists on global environmental issues, protests, policy and the rhetoric around climate change; this book supplies another piece to the puzzle through its focus on the under-researched area of environmental debate in post-communist and Eastern European countries.

Parmentola, Adele / Tutore, Ilaria, Industry 4.0 Technologies for Environmental Sustainability: Intended and Unintended Consequences. (CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance) 76 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-374>
ISBN 978-3-031-40009-4 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

Industry 4.0 technologies are expected to have a positive impact on the global economy by promoting autonomous interoperability, agility, flexibility, decision-making, efficiency or cost reduction, which are also expected to be resource efficient. However, new and emerging technologies can also have potentially harmful social and environmental impacts that must be considered.The goal of this book is to provide a deeper understanding of how Industry 4.0 technologies can benefit or harm the environmental sustainability of companies. To this end, it presents a classification of Industry 4.0 technologies and evaluates for each typology the positive and negative aspects of their implementation. Thus, the book considers Industry 4.0 technology and environmental sustainability from the perspective of management on the one hand and from the perspective of technology users on the other. The book is of interest to researchers from various disciplines who approach Industry 4.0 technologies from a business perspective, and on the other hand to managers and strategic consultants who want to promote sustainable change in their companies.

Singh, Nadia / Vu, Mai Chi / Chu, Irene et al. (eds.), Faith Traditions and Sustainability: New Views and Practices for Environmental Protection. (Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership) 264 pp. 2023:12 (Springer, GW) <710-383>
ISBN 978-3-031-41244-8 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99

Zsolnai, Laszlo / Walker, Thomas / Shrivastava, Paul (eds.), Value Creation for a Sustainable World: Innovating for Ecological Regeneration and Human Flourishing. (Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business in Association with Future Earth) 316 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-397>
ISBN 978-3-031-38015-0 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

The ecological, social and technological challenges of the Anthropocene require developing and implementing new economic, business, and financial models to create sustainable value for a wide range of stakeholders including nature, society, and future generations. This book defines 'sustainable value creation' as bringing forth products, services, organizational forms, processes, actions, and policies which satisfy real social needs and contribute to the ecological regeneration of nature. The book collects and analyzes innovative economic, business, and social models of sustainable value creation globally. It critically examines the existing mainstream models of business and financial value creation. In reviewing both traditional and sustainability-oriented models, it focuses on both the challenges and opportunities inherent in a possible shift from models based on single-stakeholder wealth creation to models that propagate multidimensional value creation. Part of the Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business in Association with Future Earth series, this book aims to engage academics, and business and civil society practitioners to discuss innovative value creation models for a sustainable world. Interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange will be facilitated to inspire and cross-fertilize different knowledge and action fields as well as to promote intergenerational dialogue about the prospects of the human-earth system.

Boublil, Elodie / Ferrarello, Susi (eds.), The Vulnerability of the Human World: Well-being, Health, Technology and the Environment. (Philosophy and Medicine 148) 210 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-62>
ISBN 978-3-031-41823-5 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book contains the most recent papers problematizing the notions of health, vulnerability, and well-being for individuals and their environment. Organized in 5 sections the book takes into consideration the critical and phenomenological history of well-being and health, their technological manipulation, how these notions connect with the body and the specific vulnerability of the human being, and what responsible direction we can take to improve people's relation to themselves, to other living beings and their environment. In order to address the issue of the vulnerability of the human world and how to respond to its specific challenges, the contributions in this book discuss the topic from a broad range of perspectives, including anthropological, psychological, sociological, philosophical, and environmental.

Wallenhorst, Nathanael / Hetier, Renaud et al. (eds.), Political Education in the Anthropocene. (Anthropocene - Humanities and Social Sciences) 280 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-661>
ISBN 978-3-031-40020-9 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book articulates an educational theory as well as a political theory of the Anthropocene. Divided into three sections it addresses educational anthropology, cultures and institutions, and educational recommendations in the Anthropocene. Topics covered in the volume measure the impact of the idea of the Anthropocene on the type of anthropology that underlies education and on a phenomenology of relationship. It links the notion of the Anthropocene with cultures and institutions so as not to 'smooth out' or erase the latter. Finally, it presents proposals and recommendations for educational practices. The work advocates rethinking education as an essential component in ensuring the sustainability of human life in society - by proposing to go beyond the approach of education for sustainable development or environmental education. The work also brings together empirical contributions in which proposals are elaborated for programs, pedagogical devices and experiments relating to the preparation of the future in the field of education. This volume is of interest to researchers of the Anthropocene.

都市部の水資源管理におけるブルー・グリーン・インフラの役割　第2版
Brears, Robert C., Blue and Green Cities: The Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban Water Resources. 2nd ed. 255 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-243>
ISBN 978-3-031-41392-6 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

A completely revised and updated new edition of this successful book focused on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably. Since the first edition published, nature-based solutions in general and blue-green infrastructure, in particular, have become a more recognised solution to various societal challenges, including mitigating climatic extremes in cities while restoring the natural environment and enhancing biodiversity. This new edition provides updated research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of BGI in managing water resources sustainably. In particular, the book contains case studies that illustrate how cities of differing climates, lifestyles and income levels have implemented policy innovations that promote the application of BGI in managing water, wastewater and stormwater sustainably to enhance resilience to climate change and reduce environmental degradation. The seven case studies are leading cities that have implemented various fiscal and non-fiscal policy tools to encourage the implementation of BGI on both public and private property to reduce stormwater runoff volumes, enhance the health of waterways, enhance resilience to climate change and meet regulatory requirements.

Kayakutlu, Guelguen / Kayalica, M. Oezguer (eds.), Decision Making Using AI in Energy and Sustainability: Methods and Models for Policy and Practice. (Applied Innovation and Technology Management) 312 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-246>
ISBN 978-3-031-38386-1 hard ¥40,014.- (税込) EUR 169.99 *

Artificial intelligence (AI) has a huge impact on science and technology, including energy, where access to resources has been a source of geopolitical conflicts. AI can predict the demand and supply of renewable energy, optimize efficiency in energy systems, and improve the management of natural energy resources, among other things. This book explores the use of AI tools for improving the management of energy systems and providing sustainability with smart cities, smart facilities, smart buildings, smart transportation, and smart houses. Featuring research from International Federation for Information Processing's (IFIP) "AI in Energy and Sustainability" working group, this book provides new models and algorithms for AI applications in energy and sustainability fields. Any short-term, mid-term and long-term forecasting, optimization models, trend foresights and prescriptions based on scenarios are studied in the energy world and the smart systems for sustainability. The contents of this book are valuable for energy researchers, academics, scholars, practitioners and policy makers.

Ajala, Aderemi Suleiman (ed.), Environment, Economy, and Health in African Marginal Communities. 274 pp. 2023:9 (Lexington Books, US) <710-300>
ISBN 978-1-66693-986-6 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

This collection of essays examines the health risks, health programs, and access to healthcare among marginalized communities in Africa. Drawing on rich ethnographic evidence, Environment, Economy, and Health in African Marginal Communities foregrounds the lived experiences and personal knowledge of marginalized peoples and brings scholarly attention to emerging healthcare trends across Africa.

Sinha, Braj Raj Kumar (ed.), Urban Dynamics, Environment and Health: An International Perspective. 400 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-324>
ISBN 978-981-9957-43-9 hard ¥47,076.- (税込) EUR 199.99

The comprehensive volume focuses on spatial, temporal, conceptual and empirical approaches to various elements of urban dynamics, environment and urban health. It demonstrates a multidisciplinary account of the significant dimensions of urbanization and urban life. Chapters by leading international experts are presented in sections on urban dynamics, Urban Environmental Issues, Urban Health Problems and Urban Development, Planning and Policies. Each chapter provides a breadth of information on conceptual and empirical studies of urban issues. It enables the readers to understand the interconnections of various vital elements of each urban-related topical issue locally, regionally and globally. Extensive maps, charts, diagrams and tables as cartographic tools facilitate the reader's understanding. It also outlines an action plan for policy program change in both the developed and less developed countries toward sustainable urban development and environment for better health, prosperity and quality of life of the present and future urban population. It is an indispensable reference for students, research scholars of geography and environmental, medical, and social sciences at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Lambright, W. Henry, NASA and the Politics of Climate Research: Satellites and Rising Seas. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology) 155 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-335>
ISBN 978-3-031-40362-0 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

Today, there exists an integrated, large-scale satellite system to track sea-level rise, its speed, causes, and impacts. Building it was a struggle every step of the way. It was the most vivid and potentially consequential program within NASA's larger Earth Science directorate. How did it happen? Who did what? Why? This book seeks to answer such questions. It goes back to the origins of NASA's interest in the oceans in the 1960s and first true ocean satellite, Seasat, in 1978. After three months of operation, Seasat failed. But before it did, it showed how much satellites could tell about the ocean's dynamics. In many ways, sea-level rise is the clearest and most understandable result of a warming planet.