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

Naithani, Sadhana, The Inhuman Empire: Wildlife, Colonialism, Culture. (Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000) 224 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <717-804>
ISBN 978-1-03-270049-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book is a study of selected texts of British writings on Indian wildlife published between 1860 and 1960.Set in the context of British colonial rule in India, this book also reflects on similar situations across the British Empire and other colonial empires. The destruction of wildlife in the making of empires is a subject not yet fully explored in scholarship. This book aims to speak to global concerns regarding the extinction of several species and shows that the crisis has international roots. The Inhuman Empire breaks new grounds as it juxtaposes colonial narratives to folk narratives. These two types of narratives treat nonhuman animals very differently - folk narrative considers them sentient beings, while colonial narratives see them as 'game' and do not care for their sentience. Both types of narratives are further evaluated with reference to the contemporary position of natural sciences regarding animal sentience and of anthropologists and philosophers regarding the relationship between nature and culture. Analyzing colonial accounts of hunting, the author looks at the pain and suffering of nonhuman animals and combines statistics alongside narratives of British writers, Indian populace and nonhuman animals in order to show narratives' reflect and impact reality.This book will be of great value to those interested in Animal Studies, Folkloristics, the history of Colonialism and India.Sign up here for the table talk on Sadhana Naithani's book: Indian Animal Studies Collective Table Talk Ep 37 (mailchi.mp)

Bailey-Charteris, Bronwyn, The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water. (Routledge Environmental Humanities) 208 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <717-854>
ISBN 978-1-03-250194-9 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-250132-1 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book challenges conventional notions of the Anthropocene and champions the Hydrocene: the Age of Water. It presents the Hydrocene as a disruptive, conceptual epoch and curatorial theory, emphasising water's pivotal role in the climate crisis and contemporary art.The Hydrocene is a wet ontological shift in eco-aesthetics which redefines our approach to water, transcending anthropocentric, neo-colonial and environmentally destructive ways of relating to water. As the most fundamental of elements, water has become increasingly politicised, threatened and challenged by the climate crisis. In response, The Hydrocene articulates and embodies the distinctive ways contemporary artists relate and engage with water, offering valuable lessons towards climate action. Through five compelling case studies across swamp, river, ocean, fog and ice, this book binds feminist environmental humanities theories with the practices of eco-visionary artists. Focusing on Nordic and Oceanic water-based artworks, it demonstrates how art can disrupt established human-water dynamics. By engaging hydrofeminist, care-based and planetary thinking, The Hydrocene learns from the knowledge and agency of water itself within the tide of art going into the blue.The Hydrocene urgently highlights the transformative power of eco-visionary artists in reshaping human-water relations. At the confluence of contemporary art, curatorial theory, climate concerns and environmental humanities, this book is essential reading for researchers, curators, artists, students and those seeking to reconsider their connection with water and advocate for climate justice amid the ongoing natural-cultural water crisis.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Black, Simon, Conservation Leadership: A Practical Guide. (Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment) 296 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <717-855>
ISBN 978-0-367-48617-4 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-48614-3 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This book is an important guide for individuals seeking to develop and grow their leadership skills in the wildlife conservation sector, across varied disciplines such as environmental management, conservation biology, and ecotourism.Conservation Leadership addresses what leadership is, why it is important, and how to be an effective leader. It identifies the common pitfalls or mistakes in a leader's thinking or behaviour, and the unexpected consequences or responses which can arise, and then explores more helpful alternative approaches to leadership. The book is divided into three parts:Part I: Leadership principlesPart II: Four areas of profound theory: knowledge, psychology, systems, and variationPart III: Skills and competencies for conservation leadersIt focuses on contextual and organisational challenges in conservation, including limited resources, remote locations, fragile species of concern, politics, community conflict, crime, and commercial pressures. The scope is global, using diverse examples such as sea turtle head-starting in South Asia, reforestation in North Africa, bird conservation in North America, human-wildlife interactions in the Himalayas, and post-colonial issues in the Caribbean. Case studies illustrate key learning points from small local teams through to global transnational initiatives. Exercises in each chapter enable the exploration of less-familiar topics, including interpersonal skills, goal setting and performance measurement, plus a unique research-derived conservation leadership self-assessment tool.This book is an essential reading resource for professionals and senior leaders in the wildlife management and conservation sector, as well as students on biodiversity conservation, wildlife conservation, and environmental management courses.

Buffington, Jack, Environmental Innovation: An Action Plan for Saving the Economy and the Planet by 2050. 264 pp. 2024:4 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <717-857>
ISBN 978-1-5381-7814-0 hard ¥8,527.- (税込) US$ 38.00 *

Byrne, George, Ethnographic Constructions of Indigenous Others: Indigeneity, Climate Change, and the Limits of Western Epistemology. 232 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <717-859>
ISBN 978-1-03-237776-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-237777-3 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book examines the ways in which indigeneity interacts with climate change politics at multiple levels and at the same time offers a self-critical reflection on the role of ethnographic research (and researchers) in this process. Through a multi-sited ethnography, it shows how indigeneity and climate change mitigation are at this point so intensely intertwined that one cannot be clearly understood without considering the other. While indigenous identities have been (re)defined in relation to climate change, it argues that Indigenous Peoples continue to subvert pervasive notions of the nature/culture dichotomy and disrupt our understanding of what it means to be human in relation to nature. It encourages students and researchers in anthropology, international development, and other related fields to engage in more meaningful reflection on the epistemic shortcomings of "the West", including in our own research, and to acknowledge the ongoing role of power, coloniality, extractivism, and whiteness in climate change discourses.

Gough, Annette, Gender and Environmental Education: Feminist and Other(ed) Perspectives: The Selected Works of Annette Gough. (World Library of Educationalists) 344 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <717-860>
ISBN 978-1-03-248820-2 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This timely book provides a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of gendered perspectives in environmental education research.Through bringing together selected writings of Annette Gough, it documents the evolving discussions of gender in environmental education research since the mid-1990s, from its origins in putting women on the agenda through to women's relationships with nature and ecofeminism, as well as writings that engage with queer theory, intersectionality, assemblages, new materialisms, posthumanism and the more-than-human. The book is both a collection of Annette Gough, and her collaborators, writings around these themes and her reflections on the transitions that have occurred in the field of environmental education related to gender since the late 1980s, as well as her deliberations on future directions.An important new addition to the World Library of Educationalists, this book foregrounds women, their environmental perspectives, and feminist and other gendered research, which have been marginalised for too long in environmental education.

モア・ザン・ヒューマンのスマートシティを設計する
Heitlinger, Sara / Foth, Marcus / Clarke, Rachel (eds.), Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities: Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation. 352 pp. 2024:6 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <717-862>
ISBN 978-0-19-288416-9 hard ¥31,702.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-19-890489-2 paper ¥11,528.- (税込) GB￡ 40.00

Climate change, rapid urbanisation, pandemics, as well as innovations in technologies such as blockchain, AI and IoT are all impacting urban space. One response to such changes has been to make cities ecologically sustainable and 'smart'. The 'eco smart city' for instance uses networked sensing, cloud and mobile computing to optimise, control, and regulate urban processes and resources. From real-time bus information to autonomous electric vehicles, smart parking, and smart street lighting, such initiatives are often presented as a social and environmental good. Critics, however, increasingly argue that technologically driven, and efficiency-led approaches are too simplistic to deal with the complexities of urban life. Sustainability in the smart city is predominantly performed in limited ways that leave little room for participation and citizen agency despite government efforts to integrate innovative technologies in more equitable ways. More importantly, there is a growing awareness that a human-centred notion of cities, in which urban space is designed for, and inhabited by, humans only, is no longer tenable. Within the age of the Anthropocene - a term used to refer to a new geological era in which human activity is transforming Earth systems, accelerating climate change and causing mass extinctions - scholars and practitioners are working generatively by acknowledging the entanglements between human and non-human others (including plants, animals, insects, as well as soil, water, and sensors and their data) in urban life. In Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities, renowned researchers and practitioners from urban planning, architecture, environmental humanities, geography, design, arts, and computing critically explore smart cities beyond a human-centred approach. They respond to the complex interrelations between human and non-human others in urban space. Through theory, policy and practice (past and present), and thinking speculatively about how smart cities may evolve in the future, the book makes a timely contribution to lively, contemporary scientific and political debates on genuinely sustainable smart cities.

Heppler, Jason A., Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism. (The Environment in Modern North America 9) 224 pp. 2024:4 (U. Oklahoma Pr., US) <717-863>
ISBN 978-0-8061-9373-1 hard ¥20,196.- (税込) US$ 90.00
ISBN 978-0-8061-9374-8 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

In the half century after World War II, California's Santa Clara Valley transformed from a rolling landscape of fields and orchards into the nation's most consequential high-tech industrial corridor. How Santa Clara Valley became Silicon Valley and came to embody both the triumphs and the failures of a new vision of the American West is the question Jason A. Heppler explores in this book. A revealing look at the significance of nature in social, cultural, and economic conceptions of place, the book is also a case study on the origins of American environmentalism and debates about urban and suburban sustainability. Between 1950 and 1990, business and community leaders pursued a new vision of the landscape stretching from Palo Alto to San Jose-a vision that melded the bucolic naturalism of orchards, pleasant weather, and green spaces with the metropolitan promise of modern industry, government-funded research, and technology. Heppler describes the success of a new, clean, future-facing economy, coupled with a pleasant, green environment, in drawing people to Silicon Valley. And in this overwhelming success, he also locates the rapidly emerging faults created by competing ideas about forming these idyllic communities-specifically, widespread environmental degradation and increasing social stratification. Cities organized around high-tech industries, suburban growth, and urban expansion were, as Heppler shows, crucibles for empowering elites, worsening human health, and spreading pollution. What do "nature" and "place" mean, and who gets to define these terms? Key to Heppler's work is the idea that these questions reflect and determine what, and who, matters in any conversation about the environment. Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism vividly traces that idea through the linked histories of Silicon Valley and environmentalism in the West.

Kluwick, Ursula, Victorian Water Writing: Liquid Ecologies. (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) 272 pp. 2024:6 (U. Virginia Pr., US) <717-864>
ISBN 978-0-8139-5097-6 hard ¥25,806.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-8139-5098-3 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Kormos, Rebecca, Intertwined: Woman, Nature, and Climate Justice. 304 pp. 2024:6 (The New Pr., US) <717-865>
ISBN 978-1-62097-749-1 hard ¥6,279.- (税込) US$ 27.99

A powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change-floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures overwhelmingly affect women in the short and long term. In some cases, women make up almost 90 percent of casualties during dangerous climate events, and the majority of those displaced in the aftermath are women. Despite this disparity, women are underrepresented at every level of decision-making about the future of our planet: only 24 percent of CEOs in nonprofit conservation and around one-third of the representatives in national and global climate negotiating bodies have been women.In Intertwined, writer and wildlife biologist Rebecca Kormos elevates the voices of women working to prevent the climate crisis, weaving together their stories to make a powerful case for why women are essential to changing our current trajectory toward catastrophic global warming and environmental degradation. Kormos argues that empowering women is one of the most important solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss: women's leadership and equal representation is linked to lower CO2 emissions, better forest management, better land protection, less land grabbing, and fewer conflicts over resources.For readers of All We Can Save and Braiding Sweetgrass, Kormos joins the ranks of recent breakthrough efforts to showcase women's voices in the movement to combat climate change. Kormos takes this endeavor one step further with a global, intersectional narrative of how women and gender nonconforming individuals are doing the crucial work at the local and national levels to reframe how we think about environmental activism. Ultimately, Intertwined proves that climate justice is inextricable from gender equality.

デジタル技術、スマートシティ、環境
Kuntsman, Adi / Xin, Liu, Digital Technologies, Smart Cities and the Environment: In the Ruins of Broken Promises. 128 pp. 2024:7 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <717-866>
ISBN 978-1-5292-3714-6 hard ¥11,528.- (税込) GB￡ 40.00

The concept of smart cities holds environmental promises: that digital technologies will reduce carbon emissions, air pollution and waste, and help address climate change. Drawing on academic scholarship and two case studies from Manchester and Helsinki, this timely and accessible book examines what happens when these promises are broken, as they prioritise technological innovation rather than environmental care. The book reveals that smart cities' vision of sustainable digital future obfuscates the environmental harms and social injustices that digitisation inflicts. The framework of "broken promises", coined by the authors, centres environmental questions in analysing imaginaries and practices of smart cities. This is a must read for anyone interested in the connections between digital technologies and environment justice.

Lobo, Michele / Mayes, Eve / Bedford, Laura (eds.), Planetary Justice: Stories and Studies of Action, Resistance, and Solidarity. 240 pp. 2024:7 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <717-869>
ISBN 978-1-5292-3528-9 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

Bringing together interdisciplinary climate change scholarship and grassroots activism, this book considers the possibilities of planetary justice across human difference, generations, species, and the concept of life and non-life. Writing amidst bushfires, cyclones, global climate strikes and a global pandemic, contributors from the Earth Unbound Collective share stories from India, Australia, Canada and Scotland. Chapters draw on Indigenous, Black, Southern, ecosocialist and ecofeminist perspectives to call for more radical and interconnected ideas of justice and solidarity. This accessible book features diverse voices that speak with the planet in the face of climate change, biodiversity loss and extinction. It explores the politics and practices of working towards a future where the planet thrives.

Martin, Jane Roland, Preserving Planet Earth: Changing Human Culture with Lessons from the Past. 176 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <717-870>
ISBN 978-1-03-266011-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-266008-0 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book encourages readers to acknowledge humanity's contribution to the environmental crisis, proposing a way forward by exploring the power of ordinary people to bring about large-scale cultural change.Is it possible for humankind to change its ways and shed the belief that the planet is ours to do with as we like? Internationally acclaimed philosopher of education Jane Roland Martin argues that "humancentrism" is a learned affair, and what is learned can be unlearned. Turning to the past to see how large-scale cultural change has occurred, she discovers a pattern in the achievements of such historical luminaries as Martin Luther, Mahatma Gandhi, Rosa Parks and Greta Thunberg that we too can follow. Drawing on history, philosophy, and literature as well as the natural and social sciences and hoping to mobilize readers to effective action, Martin employs an accessible and powerful rhetoric, with each chapter beginning with a scene from history written in dialogue form.This book calls on young and old to avert a looming tragedy of Aristotelian proportions--the demise of the "Mother Nature" that made it possible for our species to flourish. Thoroughly interdisciplinary in its approach, it will appeal to students and teachers as well as general readers interested in environmental studies, philosophy, and education.

McCarthy, Gerald P., Blueprint for Going Green: How a Small Foundation Changed the Model for Environmental Conservation. 224 pp. 2024:3 (U. Virginia Pr., US) <717-871>
ISBN 978-0-8139-5072-3 hard ¥19,074.- (税込) US$ 85.00
ISBN 978-0-8139-5183-6 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95

How one organization took on industrial pollution--and the lessons for our new century In 1977, one forward-thinking judge took an ecological disaster--the poisoning of the James River by Allied Chemical--and turned it into a great environmental-protection legacy. The $8 million payment made by Allied would go on to fund the game-changing Virginia Environmental Endowment.Blueprint for Going Green provides an insider's account of the remarkable results of this landmark ruling and the foundation it spawned. Over the following decades, the VEE helped to grow the fledgling environmental movement in Virginia into a powerful force for protecting the state's water quality and conserving its landscape. This inspiring story reveals how a small group can make a profound difference by engaging in public policy work, funding science to advance public policy, and helping to build a lasting and effective citizen-led environmental movement.

Ross, Eleanor, Communicating Climate: How to Transmit Your Climate Message and Avoid Greenwashing. 232 pp. 2024:3 (Emerald, UK) <717-878>
ISBN 978-1-83753-643-6 paper ¥7,401.- (税込) US$ 32.99 *

Businesses can no longer afford to stick their heads in the sand. The time to act is now. Cities are becoming unliveable, triggering migration patterns and resource shortages, in turn causing civil wars and conflict. Natural disasters like hurricanes and wildfires are simply becoming known as 'weather', and biodiversity is disappearing from our very eyes. The fact is, we won't have a planet to do business on if we don't act now. Climate change is already hitting our bottom lines, as the cost of natural resources, energy, and manpower skyrocket. It's predicted to cost the world $20 trillion a year if we can't keep global heating to less than 2 degrees Celsius. This is a book about communicating climate: how to achieve cut-through, whether you're trying to inspire your clients, get your shareholders on board, or simply showcase your progress in greening the world. This is not a greenwashing manual. It is about achieving balance in a world where we need to reduce our consumption, but also keep businesses functioning, just in a cleaner, greener, way. Communicating Climate is packed with case studies, examples, tips and interviews from those leading the charge towards sustainability.

Smith, Thomas G., A Conservative Environmentalist: The Life and Career of Frank Masland Jr. 290 pp. 2024:6 (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) <717-881>
ISBN 978-0-271-09752-7 hard ¥22,427.- (税込) US$ 99.95

A wealthy textile titan from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Frank Masland Jr. was an ardent political conservative and an equally fervent conservationist who was well known and highly respected in the mid-twentieth-century environmental preservation community. This eye-opening biography charts Masland's life work, telling the story of how he and fellow Republicans worked with Democrats to expand the national park system, preserve wild country, and protect the environment. Though a conservative conservationist appears to be a contradiction in terms today, this was not necessarily the case when Masland and his compatriots held sway. Conservatives, Masland insisted, had a duty to be good stewards of the earth for present and future generations, and they worked closely with members of both parties in Congress and nonpolitical conservation groups to produce landmark achievements. When conservatives turned against environmentalism during the Reagan presidency, Masland refused to join what historians have termed the "Republican reversal." During his long life of nearly a hundred years, Masland used his voice, influence, experiences with nature, and considerable wealth to champion environmental causes at the national, state, and local levels. Engaging, informative, and at times eyebrow-raising, this portrait of a passionately anti-statist nature-loving Republican environmentalist documents the history of the twentieth-century conservation movement and reminds us of a time when conservative Republicans could work with liberal Democrats to protect the environment.

Tatrishvili, Tamara / Abraham, A. R. / Haghi, A. K. (eds.), Environmental Technology and Sustainability: Physical, Chemical and Biological Technologies for Environmental Protection. 346 pp. 2025:4 (Apple Academic Pr., US) <717-884>
ISBN 978-1-77491-434-2 hard ¥40,059.- (税込) GB￡ 139.00 *

This new title covers the most recent theoretical and practical advancements in green technology for a clean and healthy environment. It aims to provide a better understanding of the research and development of new technologies that are becoming increasingly important for ensuring sustainability.The book provides vital information on advanced materials and green composites and expounds on environmental chemistry for a sustainable world, focusing on different characterization methods as well as new techniques. The volume also considers recent developments and applications of clean energy materials. It presents case studies that emphasize the green technologies being discussed.

Landes, Xavier, Engineering and Governing the Climate: Ethical and Political Issues. (Key Issues in Climate Change and Sustainability: Ethics, Politics and Policy) 284 pp. 2024:4 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <717-90>
ISBN 978-1-5381-4560-9 hard ¥28,050.- (税込) US$ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5381-4561-6 paper ¥8,976.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

Geoengineering increasingly appears to be the key to future climate policies. Societies and governments the world over have so far failed to sufficiently curb greenhouse gas emissions necessary for averting dramatic temperature increases and climate change. This book introduces readers to the concepts and methods of climate engineering by presenting the technologies and risks, as well as the political and ethical issues. This timely text tackles topics such as the arguments for and against altering the climate on purpose, the uncertainties of geoengineering technologies, the international coordination in engineering projects, and the duties towards the future generations. Landes engages with global cases, including reforestation efforts, melting ice in the Artic regions, Siberia and Alaska, forest fires in Brazil, California, Australia, and Europe, and coral reef destruction in our oceans. Distinctive features of the book include: Situating climate engineering within the more general context of the AnthropoceneSetting up an evaluative framework used for assessing climate engineering methods from three angles: feasibility, permissibility, and, preferabilityA taxonomy of the different methods of climate engineering: carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation managementA structured and critical review of the different justifications for and oppositions to climate engineering R&D as well as deploymentEngineering and Governing the Climate: Ethical and Political Issues is an essential read for all those working in environmental studies, climate policy, and building a sustainable future.

Lawson, Kathryn, Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil: Decreation for the Anthropocene. (Routledge Studies in Sustainability) 224 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <717-57>
ISBN 978-1-03-258329-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book places the philosophy of Simone Weil into conversation with contemporary environmental concerns in the Anthropocene.The book offers a systematic interpretation of Simone Weil, making her ethical philosophy more accessible to non-Weil scholars. Weil's work has been influential in many fields, including politically and theologically-based critiques of social inequalities and suffering, but rarely linked to ecology. Kathryn Lawson argues that Weil's work can be understood as offering a coherent approach with potentially widespread appeal applicable to our ethical relations to much more than just other human beings. She suggests that the process of "decreation" in Weil is an expansion of the self which might also come to include the surrounding earth and a vast assemblage of others. This allows readers to consider what it means to be human in this time and place, and to contemplate our ethical responsibilities both to other humans and also to the more-than-human world. Ultimately, the book uses Weil's thought to decanter the human being by cultivating human actions towards an ecological ethics.This book will be useful for Simone Weil scholars and academics, as well as students and researchers interested in environmental ethics in departments of comparative literature, theory and criticism, philosophy, and environmental studies.

Halverson, Jeffrey B., An Introduction to Severe Storms and Hazardous Weather. 528 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <717-676>
ISBN 978-1-03-238423-8 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-238424-5 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This book presents a deep and encompassing survey of severe weather in all its forms. An Introduction to Severe Storms and Hazardous Weather is an exciting new textbook that allows students to learn the principles of atmospheric science through the drama, exhilaration, and even tragedy of severe weather.Balancing breadth and depth, Jeffrey B. Halverson adeptly combines a short, accessible introduction to the basic principles of meteorology with detailed coverage on large- and small-scale weather hazards. He draws on specific up-to-date case studies from North America to illustrate the cause of meteorological events including hurricanes, heavy snow and ice, floods, and tornadoes. Unlike existing books on the market, Halverson delves deep into the societal impacts of these events, drawing on examples from agriculture, utility infrastructure, and commercial aviation. Each chapter also features high-quality, customized color artwork by Thomas D. Rabenhorst that helps to enhance and embed learning.Thorough in its scope, and written with an impeccable focus on the science, this book will be an essential resource for introductory undergraduate courses in severe weather, natural hazards, and extreme meteorology. It is also an excellent supplemental textbook for courses on meteorology and atmospheric science.

人新世とコスモポリタンのシティズンシップ－欧州と新しい国際秩序
Montani, Guido, Anthropocene and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Europe and the New International Order. (Federalism Studies) 152 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <717-723>
ISBN 978-1-03-260546-3 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Anthropocene and Cosmopolitan Citizenship criticizes the Westphalia system of international relations and, as an alternative, proposes cosmopolitan citizenship. The book offers a critique of the theory of international relations based on the Westphalian system and the principle of national sovereignty.At the end of the Second World War, the two superpowers agreed on a new international order that, to this day, has prevented a new world war. This era is over. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the economic and political affirmation of new international powers - such as China, India and Brazil - have generated a multipolar world, in which growing tensions between great and small powers are manifested, up to the threat of nuclear war. To this threat, a second one has been added: the possible collapse of the biosphere, an epoch called the Anthropocene, because the pollution of nature is suffocating the life of every living species on the Planet, including Homo sapiens. The United Nations can be viewed as the first step towards a post-Westphalian system, and the European Union represents an alternative model for peaceful relationships among national peoples. The book's methodology draws on an interdisciplinary relationship between social sciences and nature sciences to provide a European foreign policy strategy that shows how the European Union can play a crucial role in current international politics, helping build a just world in harmony with nature, including by calling for a Global Green Deal and an Earth Constitution. The integration of the national peoples of the European Union shows that supranational citizenship is possible and that national independence is compatible with peaceful international interdependence. The author explores how this can be achieved and how alternatives have failed, with reference to federalism, ecologism, liberalism, democracy, socialism, nationalism, security and patriotism.This book will be of interest to scholars of international relations and European studies and activists, including ecologists, young people, federalists and members of political parties.

Obydenkova, Anastassia (ed.), Global Environmental Politics and International Organizations: The Eurasian and European Experience. 150 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <717-728>
ISBN 978-1-03-270410-4 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The literature on environmental politics and regional governance has mainly been dedicated to the role played by the European Union (EU). The analysis of environmental agenda and politics of other regional international organisations (IOs) and banks remained in the shadows compared to studies of European actors. This book aims to address the following questions: How do various actors (such as regional IOs) matter in promoting an environmental agenda? What challenges do they face?The first perspective developed in this book investigates European IOs (e.g., the EU, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) and newly emerged Eurasian IOs (e.g., the Eurasian Economic Union, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank). The second perspective unfolds various environmental issues within the EU and across post-Communist EU members and candidate states (e.g., in Serbia, Latvia, Hungary). The analysis of these two perspectives discloses multiple dimensions in the impact of the EU and other regional and non-regional IOs on sustainable development. The book aspires to shed more light on the nexus of political and economic developments, and to contribute to better understanding of the role of a variety of IOs in sustainable development in Europe and Eurasia.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Post-Communist Economies.

21世紀におけるエネルギーと環境ハンドブック
Asif, Muhammad (ed.), Handbook of Energy and Environment in the 21st Century: Technology and Policy Dynamics. 472 pp. 2024:5 (CRC Pr., US) <717-242>
ISBN 978-1-03-271542-1 hard ¥30,261.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

The Handbook of Energy and Environment in the 21st Century discusses the key dimensions of the present energy scenario as well as the emerging trends. Global responses to environmental challenges are examined, taking into account technical, economic, social, and policy perspectives. Responding to the latest developments, the book also discusses the impacts of natural disasters and pandemics on energy in the context of energy and environmental implications. Further, it presents various related topics such as the dynamics of sustainable energy transition, renewable energy implementation, decarbonization of fossil fuels, electric mobility, distributed generation systems, and energy security. The book will benefit a wide range of stakeholders from the fields of energy, environment, socioeconomics, geopolitics, and sustainable development. It serves as a valuable reference for academics, researchers, and analysts in these fields.Provides a comprehensive and balanced account of the interwoven subjects of energy and environment in terms of technology and policy dynamics. Incorporates up-to-date data, case studies, and comparative assessments.

Buser, Michael, Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context. 176 pp. 2024:6 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <717-244>
ISBN 978-1-5292-1687-5 hard ¥23,052.- (税込) GB￡ 79.99 *

This book investigates and analyses places in Europe, North America and Asia that are facing the immense challenges associated with climate change adaptation. Presenting real-world cases in the contexts of coastal change, drinking water and the cryosphere, Michael Buser shows how the concept of care can be applied to water security and climate adaptation. Exploring the everyday and often hidden ways in which water security is accomplished, the book demonstrates the pervasiveness and power of care to contribute to flourishing lives and communities in times of climate change.

Paliewicz, Nicholas S., Extraction Politics: Rio Tinto and the Corporate Persona. (RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric) 228 pp. 2024:3 (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) <717-246>
ISBN 978-0-271-09706-0 hard ¥25,793.- (税込) US$ 114.95 *

An investigation into one of the largest and most lucrative mineral mining companies in the world, Rio Tinto, Extraction Politics reveals how the company constructs a presence in the places it operates and shapes meanings and orientations toward the environment. Taking readers on a "rhetorical pilgrimage" across the American Southwest, Nicholas Paliewicz shows how Rio Tinto creates adaptable corporate identities. From Ronald Reagan's frontiersman advertisements for the Borax Mine in California to the pioneer Mormon persona at Bingham Canyon Mine in Salt Lake City and the folksy, paternalistic perspective toward the San Carlos Apache at the proposed mine at Oak Flat, Arizona, the company appropriates local history to embed itself as a valued member of the public-without having to settle in those ecological communities and bear the costs of extraction. This does not occur without resistance, however. Paliewicz also shows how activists use these same tactics to expose Rio Tinto as an exploitative, colonialist polluter.In an era of surging demand for dwindling supplies of minerals and metals, this book previews what the future of extractivism may look like. Extraction Politics will appeal to scholars and students of environmental communication and activist politics as well as general readers interested in the climate crisis.

Sareen, Siddharth, The Sun Also Rises in Portugal: Ambitions of Just Solar Energy Transitions. 176 pp. 2024:7 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <717-248>
ISBN 978-1-5292-4210-2 paper ¥4,319.- (税込) GB￡ 14.99

This book addresses how a country with Europe's best solar irradiation potential yet very low installed solar capacity of less than 0.5 gigawatt (GW) in 2017, went on to become the darling of Europe's solar scene. By 2023, installed capacity has exceeded 2.5 GW, a five-fold increase within six years, but even more striking is the latest target of 20.4 GW by 2030 in Portugal's National Energy and Climate Plan, up from the earlier target of 9 GW by 2027. These are large ambitions, and policymakers, practitioners, and scholars alike wonder: will these targets bear out in practice? Drawing on long-term, multi-sited and multi-scalar ethnographic fieldwork, this book aims to address this concern. There is no comparable existing work that tells this story of Portugal, a case that has global significance as a laggard rather than a frontrunner and that is rapidly in the ascendancy.

J.ブレイスウェイト他編　気候変動と医療制度の持続可能性ハンドブック
Braithwaite, Jeffrey / Zurynski, Yvonne et al. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Health System Sustainability. 460 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <717-294>
ISBN 978-1-03-241065-4 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

The Routledge Handbook on Climate Change and Health System Sustainability takes the reader on a journey to understand the interconnectedness of human health, climate change, and healthcare systems.The book begins by exploring how climate change is affecting human health through the increasing frequency of natural disasters, such as bush fires, droughts and heatwaves, and the emergence of new infectious diseases, such as the SARS-CoV2 virus, all of which drive up demand for health services that are already heavily burdened by increasing rates of chronic diseases and ageing populations. Chapters then turn to the contribution of the healthcare system itself to climate change- explaining how current clinical practices, including wasteful care of low value, create an unsustainable carbon footprint and threaten the very viability of healthcare systems. Throughout the volume, descriptions of practical solutions and implemented case studies are used to illustrate the feasibility of taking action in the real world of the healthcare delivery ecosystem.Bringing together a mix of forward-thinking environmental and health researchers, policymakers, leaders, managers, clinicians, patients, and health industry leaders to clarify the current state and future of sustainable healthcare systems, this book will be of interest to researchers and policymakers of climate and health systems.

二酸化炭素を資源にする－研究、イノベーション、産業の間の相互作用
Stokke, Oyvind / Oftedal, Elin M. (eds.), Making CO2 a Resource: The Interplay Between Research, Innovation and Industry. (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies) 224 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <717-357>
ISBN 978-1-03-248365-8 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This interdisciplinary book explores how CO2 can become a resource instead of a waste and, as such, be a tool to meet one of the grandest challenges humanity is facing: climate change.Drawing on a Norwegian narrative that has significance for a global audience, Oyvind Stokke and Elin Oftedal introduce in-depth, multi-perspective analyses of a sustainable innovation research experiment in industrial carbon capture and utilisation technologies. Building on extensive literature within marine sciences, sustainability research, and environmental philosophy and ethics, this book documents how a misplaced resource like CO2 can become valuable within a circular economy in its own right, while at the same time meeting the challenge of food security in a world where food production is increasingly under pressure. The book is diverse in scope and includes chapters on how to reduce the environmental footprint of aquaculture by replacing wild fish and soy from the Amazon, how to optimise the monitoring of aquatic environments via smart technologies, and how to replace materials otherwise sourced from natural environments. The authors also analyse the pivotal role of the university in driving innovation and entrepreneurship, the pitfalls of different carbon technologies, and explore how the link between petroleum dependence and CO2 emissions has been addressed in Norway specifically.Making CO2 a Resource will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental ethics, environmental philosophy, sustainable business and innovation, and sustainable development more broadly.

Quigley, Jennifer / Keller, Catherine (eds.), Assembling Futures: Economy, Ecology, Democracy, and Religion. (Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia) 240 pp. 2024:8 (Fordham U. Pr., US) <717-137>
ISBN 978-1-5315-0654-4 hard ¥28,050.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-1-5315-0655-1 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Transdisciplinary insights at the intersection of religion, democracy, ecology, and economy What is the relationship of religion to economy, ecology, and democracy? In our fraught moment, what critical questions of religion may help to assembly democratic processes, ecosystems, and economic structures differently? What possible futures might emerge from transdisciplinary work across these traditionally siloed scholarly areas of interest? The essays in Assembling Futures reflect scholarly conversations among historians, political scientists, theologians, biblical studies scholars, and scholars of religion that transgress disciplinary boundaries to consider urgent matters expressive of the values, practices, and questions that shape human existence. Each essay recognizes urgent imbrications of the global economy, multinational politics, and the materiality of ecological entanglements in assembling still possible futures for the earth. Precisely in their diversity of disciplinary starting points and ethical styles, the essays that follow enact their intersectional forcefield even more vibrantly.

16世紀初頭のストラスブールにおける気候と宗教
Rowlatt, Linnea, Weathering the Reformation: Climate and Religion in Early Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg. (Routledge Studies in Religion and Environment) 248 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <717-139>
ISBN 978-1-03-219391-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Weathering the Reformation explores the role of the Little Ice Age in early modern Christian culture and considers climate as a contributing factor in the Protestant Reform. The book focuses on religious narratives from Strasbourg between 1509 and 1541, pivotal years during which the European cultural concept of nature splintered along confessional differences. Together with case studies from antagonistic religious communities, Linnea Rowlatt draws on annual weather reports for a period during which the climate became less hospitable to human endeavours. Social uunrest and the cultural upheaval of Reform are examined in relation to deteriorating climactic conditions characteristic of the Spoerer Minimum. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of religious history and climate history.

持続可能な開発再考－経済統合と公共政策
Tan, Seck, Rethinking Sustainable Development: Economic Integration and Public Policy. (Routledge Studies in Public Economics and Finance) 176 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <717-180>
ISBN 978-0-367-43341-3 hard ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This book demonstrates falsified economic performance of global economies when the environment is not recognised as a capital, and when the ecosystem is overlooked towards sustainable development.Seck begins with an analysis of standard macroeconomic framework and policy practice. He argues, with reference to environmental accounting literature, that environmental capital must form an integral component of economic measurement. This paves the way for an alternative environmental-macroeconomics framework for policy analysis that promotes sustainable development. The book demonstrates how environmental capital can be measured with reference to select OECD countries and provides a methodology for analysing how macroeconomic goals are related to a steady-state economy. Seck then concludes with a summary of the conflict between current economic growth and ecosystem preservation, and outlines possible policy improvements and directions for research.Rethinking Sustainable Development is an invaluable reference for policymakers as well as researchers and students of environmental economics, sustainable development, and macroeconomics.

Obydenkova, Anastassia (ed.), Strategies and Challenges of Sustainable Development in Eurasia. 164 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <717-195>
ISBN 978-1-03-270407-4 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book examines the main environmental challenges and their management in post-Soviet Eurasia and China. It uncovers international, national, and subnational dimensions in sustainable development and aims to facilitate understanding of pressing environmental problems in the region.While supporting the values and goals of sustainable development at the international level, states might employ very different strategies at the national, regional and local levels. The goal of this edited book is twofold. First, it aims to advance our understanding of different strategies, paying special attention to China and Russia at global, national, and sub-national levels. Thus, analysis of their strategies across different levels presents a more rounded picture. The second goal is to identify at least a few of the most pressing challenges of sustainable development across post-Soviet Eurasia and China (e.g. nuclear supply chain, emissions, environmental conflict management) and to attempt to understand their triggers, outcomes, and potential solutions. This book reflects the state-of-the-art before the invasion in Ukraine took place. It aspires to develop a better dialogue across different sets of literature in area studies, environmental politics, and international relations to improve our understanding of obstacles to sustainable development in Eurasia.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Post-Communist Economies.