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

Kim, Chanwahn / Kim, Misu (eds.), Great Transition in India: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 250 pp. 2024:4 (World Scientific, SI) <718-706>
ISBN 978-981-12-8549-3 hard ¥16,816.- (税込) US$ 78.00 *

India, with its vast population, has become a focal point of global attention due to its remarkable economic growth and potential. In addition, India's geo-political influence has assumed significance within the context of Indo-Pacific strategy. This has further intensified the need to understand and examine India's great transition from an inter-disciplinary perspective. The first two decades following independence were significant in highlighting the challenges faced by a newly independent nation and the strategies employed to address them. The pivotal turning point in 1991, when India initiated comprehensive economic reforms, also set the stage for a diverse political climate characterized by evolving ideologies.This book comprehends ongoing transition in India from interdisciplinary perspective. The chapters in the book highlight the key milestones and shifts in India's journey since its inception as an independent nation in 1947. Written in a simple and accessible manner, the book comprehensively addresses a diverse range of issues concerning India's significant transition, engaging prominent scholars from respective fields.

de Massol de Rebetz, Clara, Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human. (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies) 282 pp. 2024:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <718-746>
ISBN 978-3-031-50368-9 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book provides a definition of the developing field of environmental memory studies. It reflects on the possibilities, challenges, prospects and limitations of culturally and collectively remembering (in) the Anthropocene. Located at the intersection of environmental humanities and memory studies, the analysis draws on and surveys a series of Anthropocene-related memorials, from a sculpture lost in Welsh waterways to cat colonies and perennial chickens. This leads to an examination of different memory agents across histories - past, present and future - and an investigation of memorialisation politics under new ecological regimes, within and beyond the human.

持続可能な開発の教育に向けた大学の貢献
Filho, Walter Leal / Dibbern, Thais et al. (eds.), The Contribution of Universities Towards Education for Sustainable Development. (World Sustainability Series) 590 pp. 2024:4 (Springer, GW) <718-749>
ISBN 978-3-031-49852-7 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

The book gathers inputs from universities and research organizations working on matters related to sustainable development in a variety of contexts. It also provides a platform for the dissemination of information on the latest initiatives, paving the way for technology transfer and networking. Furthermore, the book intends to provide a fertile basis upon which universities may cooperate more closely in this key area. Universities, as centers of education, research, and innovation, have a unique position and responsibility in promoting sustainability. They can offer degree programs, courses, and workshops focused on sustainability, environmental studies, and related fields, educating students and the wider community about the principles and challenges of sustainability. Also, universities can conduct cutting-edge research to address sustainability challenges, such as climate change, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss. They can develop innovative technologies and solutions that promote sustainable practices in various sectors, including energy, agriculture, transportation, and urban planning. There is a perceived need to better understand and engage universities further on sustainability initiatives. Against this backdrop and in order to facilitate a broad discussion on the contribution of universities toward sustainability, this book is being produced.Last but not least, a further aim of the book is to present methodological approaches and experiences deriving from case studies and projects, which aim to show how sustainability may be incorporated as part of university programs.

Fisher, Dana R., Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action. (Society and the Environment) 224 pp. 2024:2 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <718-750>
ISBN 978-0-231-20930-4 hard ¥4,301.- (税込) US$ 19.95 *

We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the challenge. Governments have struggled to meet even modest goals. Fossil fuel interests maintain a stranglehold on political and economic power. Even though we have seen growing concern from everyday people, civil society has succeeded only in pressuring decision makers to adopt watered-down policies. All the while, the climate crisis worsens. Is there any hope of achieving the systemic change we need?Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action-but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private-sector efforts have been ineffective. Spurred by this lack of progress, climate activism has become increasingly confrontational. Fisher examines the radical flank of the climate movement: its emergence and growth, its use of direct action, and how it might evolve as the climate crisis worsens. She considers when and how activism is most successful, identifying the importance of creating community, capitalizing on shocking moments, and cultivating resilience. Clear-eyed yet optimistic, Saving Ourselves offers timely insights on how social movements can take power back from deeply entrenched interests and open windows of opportunity for transformative climate action.

Kessler, Sarah, Competing Climate Cultures in Germany: Variations in the Collective Denying of Responsibility and Efficacy. (Sociology of Sustainability 4) 260 S. 2024:3 (Transcript, GW) <718-751>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7143-8 paper ¥10,593.- (税込) EUR 45.00

Despite frequent protests and abounding discussions about the subject, climate action measures to counter human-made climate change have so far remained largely ineffective. By identifying profound climate-cultural differences, Sarah Kessler offers an explanation to this issue and shows that conventional assumptions of an implicit consensus on the need to prioritise climate action should be reconsidered. She uncovers climate-cultural variations in (implicit and explicit) denial of climate change and thus challenges existing approaches that treat the German public as a unified entity waiting to be activated by the right kind of rationally convincing information.

Leichenko, Robin / O'Brien, Karen, Climate and Society: Transforming the Future. 2nd ed. 296 pp. 2024:5 (Polity Pr., UK) <718-754>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5928-2 hard ¥17,237.- (税込) US$ 79.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5929-9 paper ¥6,241.- (税込) US$ 28.95 *

This bold and passionate textbook has become a go-to introduction to current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change, presenting key concepts and frameworks for understanding the multifaceted connections between climate and society. Using clear language and powerful examples, Robin Leichenko and Karen O'Brien explore the varied social drivers, impacts, and responses to climate change. They highlight the important roles that worldviews, values, and - especially in this updated edition - emotions play in shaping interpretations of climate challenges. They include additional material on climate justice and equity, eco-centric discourses, paradigm shifts, and other topics. Situating climate change within the context of a rapidly changing world, the book demonstrates how dynamic political, economic, and environmental contexts amplify risks, often unequally for different groups based on race, gender, wealth, and location. Yet these shifting conditions also present opportunities for transformative responses: the new edition strengthens its emphasis on individuals' power to influence systems, structures, and cultures. With updated references, examples, and data, and expanded pedagogical features, this informative and engaging new edition empowers undergraduates across the social sciences and other disciplines with a broader and deeper understanding of climate change and the potential for equitable and sustainable responses.

Madu, Christian N., Environmental Planning and Management. 2nd ed. 348 pp. 2024:1 (World Scientific, SI) <718-755>
ISBN 978-1-80061-453-6 hard ¥29,752.- (税込) US$ 138.00 *

Competing in today's marketplace requires a holistic view of both products and processes. It requires that companies pay attention to their stakeholders in addition to their customers. Environmental planning lays the foundation to adapt to the needs of the changing world and avoid the hazards, risks and high costs associated with poor environmental practices.Written by an expert in chemical safety, security management, sustainability management, disaster risk reduction, process change and quality control in environmental planning, this book identifies good environmental practices, and lays down effective strategies and practical models. The book focuses mostly on designing for the environment, using sustainable practices to achieve competitiveness. Following the successful publication of the 1st edition, this edition brings existing chapters up to date as well as introduces new chapters on current topics of concern such as global environmental challenges, a circular economy, environmental impact assessment, climate change, and disaster risk reduction and management. The case studies presented point to companies that have increased profitability because of their environmental programs.This book is intended as an introduction to corporate environmental management and is suitable for basic courses in sustainability management, and environmental management and planning. Practitioners would also find it helpful as it explains some of the basic concepts and environmental strategies that are in practice today.

Penteado, Ana / Chakrabarty, Shambhu Prasad et al. (eds.), Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change: An Environmental Impact on Landscape and Communities. 347 pp. 2024:4 (Springer, GW) <718-757>
ISBN 978-981-9988-29-7 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This edited book uses a methodology that includes multidisciplinary collaboration to approach climate issues from several disciplines involved in climate governance. The main aim is to showcase collaborative research designed from the point of view of experiences associated with Indigenous Knowledge from an assumption of the equitable importance of its practices, methods of search, and cultural background that Indigenous Peoples custodians have maintained through time immemorial. In showing their applied ethics and activism to protect their traditional land, this book's mission is to advocate the concept of climate justice absent from our mainstream academic and legal discourse. Their investigation into some real-life examples and local practices organised by Nature as their main element offers, inter alia, a detailed account of Indigenous Knowledge's duty of care towards local biodiversity that can potentially be adopted in policy formulation on environmental management and governance. These selected essays represent an international human rights approach, a human understanding of genetic resources that existed for centuries alongside the First Nations and their strategies to mitigate the contemporary climate crisis afflicting all of us. The book revolves around Indigenous Knowledge of First Peoples, tribal and local communities in the Global South. In climate justice, Indigenous Peoples' advocacy to protect our local biodiversity must be crucial change mitigation.

木材、貿易、スペインの海軍力　1740～95年
Reichert, Rafal B., Wood, Trade, and Spanish Naval Power (c.1740-1795). (Brill's Series in the History of the Environment 7) 260 pp. 2024:6 (Brill, NE) <718-758>
ISBN 978-90-04-68963-3 hard ¥25,894.- (税込) EUR 110.00 *

By focussing on timber sourcing, this book sheds light on the exploitation of forests in settings outside the Iberian Peninsula, including foreign states in the southern Baltic region and the colonial territory of New Spain between the c.1740-1795. Analysis of contracts, projects, and their implementation by the Spanish crown in the 18th century allow for a better understanding of the position of the Spanish monarchy's nearly global efforts to sustain its naval commitments in the Atlantic World.

Ribeiro Hoffmann, Andrea / Sandrin, Paula et al. (eds.), Climate Change in Regional Perspective: European Union and Latin American Initiatives, Challenges, and Solutions. (United Nations University Series on Regionalism 27) 192 pp. 2024:4 (Springer, GW) <718-759>
ISBN 978-3-031-49328-7 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-49331-7 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This Open Access book addresses climate change in Europe and Latin America from a comparative regionalism studies (CRS) perspective. Written by an international team of scholars and experts, chapters critically analyze proposals for mitigating climate change while contributing to the mutual understanding about the issues at stake across regions. The book is divided into three main sections. In the first section, authors discuss EU and Latin American cooperation, negotiations, and perspectives on climate change, exploring their agendas, the interests and key challenges at the global, regional and interregional levels. The second section focuses on the challenges to finance development and a greener economy. The third section explores new green solutions to climate change in the agriculture sector and initiatives such as nature-based solutions to climate change and best practices. Providing policy oriented solutions for combatting regional climate change at a critical juncture, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of international relations, international law, and environmental politics, as well as public officials and climate change activists.

Tabara, J. David / Flamos, Alexandros et al. (eds.), Positive Tipping Points Towards Sustainability: Understanding the Conditions and Strategies for Fast Decarbonization in Regions. (Springer Climate) 493 pp. 2024:3 (Springer, GW) <718-760>
ISBN 978-3-031-50761-8 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-50764-9 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book provides the first comprehensive review of the state of the art of social tipping points applied to energy systems from a social interdisciplinary perspective. It does so by presenting a novel theory of systemic and transformative change, linking it to empirical cases assisted with relevant assessment methodologies, including modeling. The authors unveil the narratives and visions, the transformative capacities as well as deliberate strategies and collective actions that at one point in time have been able - or were prevented - to tip a given social-ecological system towards low-carbon, sustainable trajectories in diverse high-intensive carbon regions around the world. This volume shows that self-reinforcing learning feedbacks connecting transformative solutions and strategies across scales and domains can be induced by targeted policy interventions both in local and regional contexts. It further indicates how changes in behavioral patterns, supported by good governance of disruptive technologies, carbon (dis)investment and finance processes as well as new forms of civic engagement, can create the necessary transformative enabling conditions for the emergence of positive tipping points towards low-carbon sustainable futures. The book is a must-read for students, researchers, and scholars, as well as policy-makers and practitioners interested in a better understanding of sustainability, climate, and energy issues and in assessing the potential impacts and effectiveness of strategic interventions aimed at accelerating just sustainable decarbonization processes.

竹本明生他編　気候変動緩和、災害リスク削減、損失と損害を結びつける
Wijenayake, Vositha / Stevenson, L. A. / Takemoto, Akio et al. (eds.), Linking Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Loss & Damage. 212 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <718-761>
ISBN 978-981-9980-54-3 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book advances knowledge on loss & damage (L&D) and its interlinkages with climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. The book includes twelve case studies conducted across South and Southeast Asia, covering sectors including agriculture, rural livelihoods, energy, infrastructure and natural resources. These studies provide insights into complex climate-induced L&D, enhancing local, national and regional knowledge and contributing to global agendas.

Dutta, Venkatesh / Ghosh, Priyanka (eds.), Sustainability: Science, Policy, and Practice in India: Challenges and Opportunities. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 241 pp. 2024:3 (Springer, GW) <718-82>
ISBN 978-3-031-50131-9 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book is an interdisciplinary work that reveals the contemporary sustainability narratives in India within the context of various SDGs. Several case studies are presented, each of which sheds light on the challenges and constraints that are impeding the process of achieving SDGs and investigates potential long-term answers to socio-economic and environmental issues. Through empirical case studies from different parts of India, the book explores the current status of achieving sustainable development goals in India. The volume immensely benefits scientists, researchers, policymakers and practitioners as it offers a thematic and comprehensive understanding of challenges associated with mainstreaming SDGs at national, sub-national, and micro scales in India.

Krojer, Jo / Langergaard, Luise Li (eds.), Social Sustainability in Unsustainable Society: Concepts, Critiques and Counter-Narratives. (Ethical Economy 67) 137 pp. 2024:1 (Springer, GW) <718-180>
ISBN 978-3-031-51365-7 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book offers a unique, critical exploration of concepts and practices of social sustainability through both a critical concept analysis as well as empirical studies of practices that undermine social sustainability. It addresses the questions: What is the main role of social relations and social practice in the transition from fundamentally unsustainable societies and local practices towards a sustainable future? And how does economical sustainability reduce or enhance social sustainability? The chapters in this work define and understand social sustainability in relation to principles such as solidarity, community, welfare, reciprocity, and regenerative co-existence. These principles are analyzed through the lens of emotions, respect, carefulness, sensitivity, and art, to establish counter-principles and narratives to principles like growth, efficiency, capitalism, and mastery of nature. Such counter-narratives to mainstream understandings and histories of economy aid in shedding light on a variety of different aspects of sustainability. The book presents a methodological plurality including conceptual and empirical approaches, praxis-oriented and inductive approaches. The chapters present interdisciplinary approaches concerning welfare, ecology, sociology, organization and economy, social psychology and aesthetics and therefore appeal to a broad audience of scholars and academics.

Fang, Wei-Ta / Hassan, Arba'at / Horng, Max, Ecotourism: Environment, Health, and Education. (Sinophone and Taiwan Studies 7) 354 pp. 2024:3 (Springer, GW) <718-380>
ISBN 978-981-9990-96-2 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book bridges the gap on the critical issues of ecotourism and direct economic assistance to the conservation of local ecological and human resources. It covers various topics and case studies by ecotourism destination and ecotourism route from Sinophone and Taiwanese perspectives. Each chapter of this book includes comprehensive proposes as an important core value for planning and operating ecotourism. According to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this book highlights our balanced understanding of sustainable tourism from the perspective of human ecology. Ecotourism needs to integrate the perspectives of population biology, bioanthropology, biomedicine, and public health and strengthen the connection between human ecology and disease. It is here to provide a comprehensive guide to all fascinating places for ecotourism courses. We encourage the following persons to read relevant chapters: (1) ecotourism entrepreneurs: business operators such as homestays, hot springs, ecological farms, and travel agencies; (2) ecotourism researchers: scholars and experts, university (specialized) college students, primary and secondary school teachers, and other ecotourism, environmental education, resource conservation, tourism and dining, leisure and recreation, other related fields researchers; and (3) ecotourism practice management and planners.

太田宏編　日本の環境法・政策・政治ハンドブック
Ohta, Hiroshi (ed.), Handbook of Japan's Environmental Law, Policy, and Politics. (Japan Documents Handbooks Series) 2024:3 (Japan Documents, JA) <100-6410>
ISBN 978-4-909286-36-9 hard ¥28,875.- (税込)

R.Attfield著　気候危機の倫理学
Attfield, Robin, The Ethics of the Climate Crisis. 276 pp. 2024:4 (Polity Pr., UK) <718-102>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5908-4 hard ¥14,003.- (税込) US$ 64.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5909-1 paper ¥4,301.- (税込) US$ 19.95 *

The planet is in crisis. Time is short, but it is still possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions before disaster overtakes us all. Renowned philosopher Robin Attfield explains the moral reasons for urgent action based on current harms, threats to future generations, and to the species with which we share the planet. In compelling and student-friendly prose, he explores the science of climate change, biodiversity loss and air pollution, climate injustices, political implications of the crisis, and possible responses. Among other things, he argues that measures to introduce climate justice should be paid for by countries able to pay, and by the big polluters in particular. The recently agreed Loss and Damage fund can play a central part in climate funding. Related political measures, such as the introduction of Ecocide as an international crime alongside war crimes, also give cause for hope. Attfield's passionately argued twentieth book, The Ethics of the Climate Crisis, is crucial reading for our times.