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

Gbenou, Romuald, La repression des atteintes a l'environnement en Afrique: l'exemple du droit positif beninois. (Etudes africaines. Droit) 159 p. 2024:1 (L'Harmattan, FR) <719-960>
ISBN 978-2-336-42229-9 paper ¥4,375.- (税込) EUR 18.00

私法と持続可能性ハンドブック
Silva, Marta Santos / Nicolussi, Andrea et al. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 690 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <719-514>
ISBN 978-1-03-266200-8 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

The Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability reflects on how the law can help tackle the current environmental challenges and make our societies more resilient to future crises.Sustainability has been high on the political agenda since the approval of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 and the EU Green Deal in 2019. The Green Agenda aims at making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, but humanity persists in an ecological overshoot that puts at risk the survival of species, including that of our own. Drawing together a selection of leading thinkers in the field, this Handbook provides a curated overview of the most recent and relevant discussions for private lawyers related to environmental and sustainability concerns. The authors delve into case study examples from 20 countries in Europe and beyond and discuss a wide range of issues, including new property law and consumer law paradigms, the use of legal tech for promoting sustainable property management, strategies for fighting planned obsolescence, eco-design, the servitisation economy, advances on corporate climate litigation and mandated green private sludges. Overall, the volume is designed to empower new generations of legal scholars to take an active role in the transition to a more sustainable future. It will also assist policymakers in producing better policy, through pinpointing the main legal issues that need to be addressed and offering a comparative overview of legal solutions and best practices.Divided into six key parts and overseen by a team of internationally recognised expert editors, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students, scholars, private lawyers and policymakers who wish to have a comprehensive, fundamental overview of how environmental sustainability concerns reflect on private law.

Waite, Marilyn, Sustainability at Work: Careers That Make a Difference. 2nd ed. 232 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-372>
ISBN 978-1-03-261583-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-261582-0 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.Containing career advice of great value to students and professionals, and explaining how one can integrate sustainability into future roles, this book's appeal extends far beyond those well versed in sustainability thinking. The text includes an easy-to-follow structure-the SURF Framework-that anyone wondering how they can make a difference in the workplace can apply. In this thoroughly revised new edition, Marilyn Waite builds upon recent career trends to include two all-important themes that are redefining sustainability: justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion and climate-related career pathways. In addition, practical advice for finding and creating roles that correspond to one's preferences and purpose is elaborated. The book explains how real people in a plethora of sectors can have a positive impact on people and planet. Professionals from a variety of backgrounds and locations explain how they brought a sustainability approach to various sectors, including agriculture, business, economics, and financial services, education and research, entertainment and media, health care, law and policy, and science and technology. The breadth of stories covers individuals working on five continents in various levels of responsibility.Through inspiring narratives and a structured framework, Sustainability at Work illustrates how sustainability can be incorporated into every imaginable career to impact the quadruple bottom line: environment, economy, society, and future generations.

COVID-19以後の法と持続可能な開発
Arimoro, Augustine Edobor / Igbokwe, E. M. et al. (eds.), Law and Sustainable Development After COVID-19. (Law, Development and Globalization) 280 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-215>
ISBN 978-1-03-259199-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the realisation of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.Although efforts towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals are ongoing, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on these efforts: accentuating inequities, as well as absorbing resources. This book addresses this impact, as it takes up the question of how to ensure global recovery - in line with the target for the Sustainable Development Goals - after the pandemic. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, but focusing particularly on the role of law and legal frameworks in this recovery, the book considers the effect of the pandemic on key industries such as shipping, insurance, manufacturing, and banking, as well as on the role of the State and non-State actors. Pursuing an explicitly Global South perspective, the book maintains that in the post-COVID era it is the elaboration a rule of law framework that is in sync with both the Global North and South that is crucial if the Sustainable Development Goals are to be achieved.This book will be of value to scholars, students and policymakers working in the general area of law and development, but especially those with specific interests in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Cottafava, Dario / Torchia, Daniel / Camoletto, S. et al., Sustainable Management of Transnational Megaprojects. (Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Business and Management) 148 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <719-217>
ISBN 978-1-03-268559-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book analyses the seminal role of megaprojects for sustainable development, and the related, complex challenges they bring. It provides insights into the growing social responsibilities that megaprojects have, not only to be environmentally sustainable, but also towards the multitude of stakeholders involved, whether directly or indirectly. After an historical overview of the increasingly necessary links between sustainable infrastructure and megaprojects, the book builds on and applies stakeholder theory to stakeholder engagement and management in megaprojects. It also emphasizes the importance of building impact assessment frameworks that consider the unheard voices that are often passively sitting at the receiving end of a megaproject, as well as the local context where the megaproject is embedded. The book then proceeds to analyse the case of a very contested transnational railway megaproject between Italy and France, the Turin-Lyon high-speed railway, which has been suffering from stakeholder and communication issues for over thirty years, as well as from notable managerial and legal differences in the two countries. In this way, the book informs both theory and practice and encourages scholarly interventions into wicked problems. It contains a comprehensive review of the academic literature on the sustainability, sustainability challenges, and sustainability reporting of megaprojects. Conceptual models, frameworks and future research opportunities are provided to clarify the empirical challenges and highlight the gaps and opportunities to be explored by researchers and practitioners in future. The audience for the book is both academic researchers and practitioners in the field of megaprojects and more specifically, those dealing with managing transnational megaprojects. It also includes several topics that will be of interest to policy and decision-makers.

ケイパビリティ・アプローチとSDGs
Ikejiaku, Brian Vincent (ed.), The Capability Approach and the Sustainable Development Goals: Inter, Multi, and Trans Disciplinary Perspectives. (The Routledge Human Development and Capability Debates) 380 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-218>
ISBN 978-1-03-259857-4 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book demonstrates how the capability approach to human development can contribute to the realisation of the 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).The capability approach dictates that success should not be measured by economic indicators, but by people leading meaningful, free, fulfilled, happy or satisfied lives. Drawing from a range of disciplinary perspectives, this book argues that it is vital that the focus for the SDGs should shift to benefiting the most vulnerable. Case studies from across Asia, Africa, Latin America (global south), and the USA, UK, and Australia (global north) consider how the capability approach can contribute as a practical framework to achieving the SDGs' ambitions for social, economic, political, and legal progress.Drawing on insights from a range of disciplines, this book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners from law, politics, international relations, criminology, international development, sociology, public policy, area studies and others.

Schramme, Annick / Verboven, Nathalie (eds.), Sustainability and the Fashion Industry: Can Fashion Save the World? (Responsible Fashion) 256 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-219>
ISBN 978-1-03-264110-2 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

There is widespread rhetorical agreement that the fashion industry must get itself onto a more ethical and sustainable footing. What does this mean in practice, and how can this be achieved in different regions around the world?This book brings together expert scholars and reflective practitioners via a network of dialogue and exchange to help drive forward an ethical and sustainable future for the fashion industry. With insights from fashion design, management, sociology, philosophy, education, heritage studies and policy, the book asks whether or not fashion can save the world.Enriched with illuminating case interviews and the perspective of experts, this book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of sustainable business and the fashion industry, and provides a unique resource for readers seeking to understand more about the need for responsible fashion.

Griffith, Ivelaw Lloyd (ed.), Oil and Climate Change in the Guyana-Suriname Basin. (New Regionalisms Series) 376 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-254>
ISBN 978-1-03-259893-2 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book is about oil and gas dynamics in the world's newest petro-powers-in-the-making, and the attempts to balance this against the impact of climate change. The known oil reserves in the Guyana-Suriname Basin total some 30 billion barrels equivalent, and the gas reserves exceed 30 trillion cubic feet. This massive offshore discovery amounts to 10 percent of the world's conventional oil, but Guyana and Suriname are also in a wet neighborhood, where the impact of climate change stands to wreak havoc on the area and undermine some of the oil gains. Examining the political economy of petroleum production and some of the myriad challenges and opportunities involved, the expert contributors discuss the global and regional geopolitical and national security ramifications of the petroleum pursuits and explore global climate change dynamics and their effects on the region. This title will be of interest to students, scholars of international political economy, environmental politics, and the Caribbean. It will also be invaluable to policymakers in countries with business investments in Guyana and Suriname, especially in the energy sector, and policy and operational staffs in regional and international organizations and companies.

Hudson, Marc, Carbon Capture and Storage in the United Kingdom: History, Policies and Politics. (Routledge Focus on Energy Studies) 152 pp. 2024:3 (Routledge, UK) <719-255>
ISBN 978-1-03-260911-9 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

This book is a concise but comprehensive guide to the history, present and possible futures of carbon capture and storage policy and action in the United Kingdom (UK).There have been multiple failed starts, promises and "last chances" for carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe, North America, China and Australia, but thus far it has repeatedly collided with the political and economic realities that the technology is too expensive and complicated to gain and keep policymakers' support. However, in the UK that might be changing, with explicit government support for CCS to help decarbonise industry. Set within the broader context of global interest in CCS, this book first outlines the technologies involved in the types of capture technology, transport options and storage options in the UK. It then briefly introduces an overarching policy analysis framework (John Kingdon's multiple streams approach) and uses it to give an account of the long history of CCS interest and efforts in three chapters covering the 1970s to 2002, 2003 to 2015 and 2016 to the present day. Marc Hudson focusses on the various arguments made for the introduction of CCS, and the slowly shifting coalitions of actors who make those arguments, while contrasting these with the perspectives of those opposed to CCS.This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers researching and working in the field, as well as the related areas of energy policy, energy transitions and climate change.

Johnston, Lucas F., Key Thinkers in Religion and Environment: Theoretical Foundations. (Interdisciplinary Studies in Religion) 200 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <719-144>
ISBN 978-1-03-242897-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-242898-7 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

Key Thinkers in Religion and Environment provides a theoretical foundation for scholarship related to the intersection of religions, natures and cultures across disciplines.The text introduces students to the major names, theoretical issues, and methodological orientations of the field while giving professors maximum freedom to insert case studies and examples as they wish. Students will come away with an understanding of the most important scholars, their theoretical contributions, and the scholarly conundrums with which they wrestled. The book includes figures who are foundational to the field of religious studies more broadly, foregrounding key themes in their works which highlight the "nature" in/of their argumentation, whilst also highlighting the voices of women and people of color. The thinkers come from a range of fields, including religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, American Indian studies, ethology, agroecology, theology, and environmental history, demonstrating the importance and impact of interdisciplinary research. The book also offers a theoretical orientation which illuminates methodological and theoretical deficits in religious studies more generally, whilst opening new avenues for thinking about environmental ethics.It is a must-read for all students and researchers of religion and the environment.

Amoroso, Nadia (ed.), Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action. (Representing Landscapes) 392 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1001>
ISBN 978-1-03-251994-4 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-251996-8 paper ¥9,507.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99

This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia. The book features visualizations of climate adaptation and resilience, developed by award-winning landscape architects and academics from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy, France, Finland, South Africa, Singapore, and China. Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action illustrates the imaginative ways in which climate action and climate resilient concepts are visually presented, communicated, and perceived. The book will be especially valuable for students and practitioners in landscape architecture, urban planning, and related fields to understand how to visually capture climate change issues and design solutions, and to deliver this message to the public.

気候変動の批判的人類学の構築
Baer, Hans A. / Singer, Merrill, Building the Critical Anthropology of Climate Change: Towards a Socio-Ecological Revolution. (Routledge Environmental Anthropology) 288 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1003>
ISBN 978-1-03-274577-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-274576-3 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This book applies a critical perspective to anthropogenic climate change and the global socio-ecological crisis.The book focuses on the critical anthropology of climate change by opening up a dialogue with the two main contending perspectives in the field, namely the cultural ecological and the cultural interpretive perspectives. Guided by these, the authors take a firm stance on the types of changes that are needed to sustain life on Earth as we know it. Within this framework, they explore issues of climate and social equity, the nature of the current era in Earth's geohistory, the perspectives of the elite polluters driving climate change, and the regrettable contributions of anthropologists and other scholars to climate change. Engaging with perspectives from sociology, political science, and the geography of climate change, the book explores various approaches to thinking about and responding to the existential threat of an ever-warming climate. In doing so, it lays the foundation for a brave new sustainable world that is socially just, highly democratic, and climatically safe for humans and other species.This book will be of interest to researchers and students studying environmental anthropology, climate change, human geography, sociology, and political science.

Bose, Purabi, Acknowledging Indigenous Knowledge: Voices of Tropical Forest People. (Urbanization, Industrialization, and the Environment) 144 pp. 2024:7 (CRC Pr., US) <719-1004>
ISBN 978-0-367-71025-5 hard ¥34,584.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

This book explores how the landscapes in indigenous territories are rapidly changing due to increased global industrial demand. This deforestation and urbanization have isolated the indigenous people from practicing 'traditional ways of life.' Portrayed in this book is the indigenous people's perspective of their indigenous knowledge (IK) about the environment and why losing IK is a threat to humans, wildlife, and nature. Insight is shared into why acknowledging IK as a science can help solve climate change, food and nutrition insecurity, and increasing new types of pandemics through evidence-based stories from indigenous people. Features:* Bridges the fractured space between science and nature.* Documents the perspectives of indigenous peoples about their ancestral knowledge.* Provides ethnographic qualitative comparative case studies of forest-dwelling indigenous peoples over a 19-year period.* Covers largely remote indigenous territories of ten tropical countries in the Global South.* Provides evidence-based stories examining indigenous knowledge's role in the tropics in preserving diverse landscapes and providing nature-based solutions.

環境社会学と社会変容－重要問題
Bostroem, Magnus / Lidskog, Rolf, Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation: Key Issues. (Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability) 218 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1005>
ISBN 978-1-03-260655-2 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-260653-8 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation demonstrates how sociological theory and research are critical for understanding the social drivers of global environmental destruction and the conditions for transformative change.Written by two professors of sociology who are deeply involved in the international community of environmental sociology, Magnus Bostroem and Rolf Lidskog argue that we need to better understand society as well as the fundamentally social nature of environmental problems and how they can be addressed. The authors provide answers to why so many unsustainable practices are maintained and supported by institutions and actors despite widespread knowledge of their negative consequences. Employing a pluralistic sociological approach to the study of social transformations, the book is divided into five key themes: Causes, Distributions, Understandings, Barriers, and Transformation. Overall, the book offers an integrative and comprehensive understanding of the social dimension of (un)sustainability, societal inertia, and conditions for transformative change. It provides the reader with references from classic and contemporary sociology and uses pedagogical features including boxes and questions for discussion to help embed learning.Arguing that a broad and deep social transformation is needed to avoid a global civilization crisis, Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation will be a great resource for students and scholars who are exploring current environmental challenges and the societal conditions for meeting them.

Cullen, Miriam / Scott, Matthew (eds.), Nordic Approaches to Climate-Related Human Mobility. (Routledge Studies in Environmental Migration, Displacement and Resettlement) 176 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1007>
ISBN 978-1-03-260898-3 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Academic discussion of climate-related human mobility has understandably focused on the places where people are especially vulnerable to climate-related harm: the Global South. Yet, the unique biophysical, legal and socio-political characteristics of the Nordic region, as well as its roles as both 'home' and 'host' to climate-related mobilities, justify its independent attention. Filling this lacuna, this collection is the first to address climate-related human mobility in the Nordic region. It is a timely and much needed collection, which brings together leading and emerging voices from both academia and practice in a single volume, spanning policy and geographical breadth. Its chapters cover both regional approaches to the global phenomenon of climate mobility, such as the traditional role of the Nordic states as norm entrepreneurs and their representation in multilateral fora, and on-the-ground climate impacts unique to this region and their localised responses. Case studies include judicial decision-making as it relates to climate-related migration, insights into the local communication of climate risk, changes to Nordic development and climate policy, as well as climate-related mobilities of Nordic Indigenous Peoples.This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of disaster and climate studies, as well as climate-related mobility, migration and displacement.

高密度の都市のグリーン化ハンドブック
Du, Peng / Al-Kodmany, Kheir / Ali, Mir M. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Greening High-Density Cities: Climate, Society and Health. (Routledge International Handbooks) 630 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1008>
ISBN 978-1-03-233142-3 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

This new handbook provides a platform to bring together multidisciplinary researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people's health. Written by leading scholars and experts, the chapters aim to summarize the "state-of-the-art" and produce a reference book for policymakers, practitioners, academics, and researchers to study, design, and build high-density cities by integrating green spaces. The topics covered in the book include (but are not limited to) Urban Heat Island, Green Space and Carbon Sequestration, Green Space and Social Equity, Green Space and Public Health, Biophilic Cities, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Farms, Urban Farming Technologies, Nature and Biodiversity, Nature and Health, Biophilic Design, Green Infrastructure, Urban Revitalization, Post-Covid Cities, Smart and Resilient Cities, Tall Buildings, and Sustainable Vertical Cities.

Duina, Francesco / Zhou, Hermione Xiaoqing, The Populist Logic on the Environment. (Transforming Environmental Politics and Policy) 86 pp. 2024:3 (Routledge, UK) <719-1009>
ISBN 978-1-03-271664-0 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

The Populist Logic on the Environment provides a framework that draws from populism's essence to explain populist politicians' approaches to the environment.Over the past few decades, populism has spread across the world - particularly in Europe, but also notably in the US, South America, and Asia. Its essential features - especially its ideological 'thinness' - mean that we can observe considerable variations across populists in their environmental stances. This holds across the political spectrum from the left to the right, despite the traditional tendency of right-wing parties to be skeptical of pro-environmental positions and of left-wing parties to subscribe to them. Regardless of variations, however, 'true populists' can be expected to consistently anchor environmental stances in people-centrism and anti-elitism - in ways linked to additional party-specific factors. This book systematizes analytically what the literature observes, corrects some of its empirical limitations, and allows for reflection on the commitment by any one populist party to the environment. The authors undertake a cross-regional analysis of four case studies to illustrate their argument: Marine Le Pen's National Rally in France, the US Republican Party led by Donald Trump, Spain's Podemos led by Pablo Iglesias, and Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro's socialist regime in Venezuela.This book will appeal to scholars and students of political science, public policy, environmental studies, sociology, and geography, as well as a general audience interested in populism and the environment.

Fiore, Amanda / Lin, Jing, Storying our Relationship with Nature: Educating the Heart and Cultivating Courage Amidst the Climate Crisis. 200 pp. 2024:4 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <719-1010>
ISBN 978-1-350-36137-9 hard ¥18,733.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-36136-2 paper ¥6,337.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99 *

This book takes readers on a journey that is part storytelling, part academic analysis, and part spiritual exploration. The authors identify the climate emergency as a breakdown in spiritual consciousness which fails to recognize our deep interconnection with Nature. To meet this crisis of spirit, Storying Our Relationship with Nature serves as a guide for transforming ourselves and our lives through story and highlights the importance of social and emotional aspects of environmental education. The authors introduce the philosophical and historical foundations of our objectification of Nature as a commodity and describe the effect this view has on our lives. They detail a path forward through storytelling, contemplative practice, Eastern philosophy, and the transformative power of education. Throughout the book, reflective activities provide a space for the reader to personalize their learning, leading the reader towards the book's central message: once we learn to consciously re-story our relationship with Nature, we can transform our cultural narrative of fatalism and greed into one of love, determination, and possibility, helping us move towards a sustainable future.

Gupta, Abhik, Many Layers of Ecocentrism: Revering Life, Revering the Earth. 216 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1013>
ISBN 978-1-03-260812-9 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-277076-5 paper ¥10,948.- (税込) GB￡ 37.99 *

This book unveils the myriad streams of ecocentric thoughts that have been flowing through the human mind - in indigenous communities, in the wisdom of philosophers, in the creative expressions of poets and writers - sometimes latent, but sometimes more explicit. The strength of this book lies in the fact that it attempts to show that ecocentrism had not emerged suddenly as a distinct line of philosophical thought or found its place among the various normative approaches toward nature, but the seeds of ecocentrism had always been running through human societies. Thus, this book not only emphasizes the "unity of life" but also reveals the inherent unity of all hues of ecocentrism. The book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, which is essential to dwell on a topic like ecocentrism which permeates the domains of disciplines as disparate as science, philosophy, religion, normative ethics, myths and folklore, poetry, and literature, among others. Despite this eclectic approach, the book attempts to maintain continuity among the chapters and present these concepts in a simple form that will be easily accessible by readers from all conceivable backgrounds. This book would be useful to the students, researchers, and faculty from the fields of ecology and environmental science, philosophy, sociology, religious studies, and literature. It will also be an indispensable companion for all nature lovers, activists, and general readers interested in the emergence and evolution of environmental thoughts.

Lehmann, Johannes / Joseph, Stephen (eds.), Biochar for Environmental Management: Science, Technology and Implementation. 3rd ed. 728 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1018>
ISBN 978-1-03-228615-0 hard ¥21,615.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *

Fully revised and updated for its third edition, this book presents the definitive compilation of current knowledge on all aspects of biochar.Research on biochar continues to accelerate as its importance for soil health, climate change mitigation and adoption, and the circular economy becomes more widely acknowledged. This book not only reviews recent advances made in our understanding of biochar properties, behavior, and effects in agriculture, environmental management, and material production, but specifically develops fundamental principles and frameworks of biochar science and application. This third edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent developments and growing trends, with important coverage of the application of biochar outside of its traditional soil-based uses, the commercialization of biochar, and its incorporation into policy. This includes brand new chapters on the role of biochar-based materials for environmental remediation, building construction, and animal feed, and a greater discussion of biochar's role in the circular economy, climate change mitigation, and sustainable development. Overall, this book provides a systematic, comprehensive, and global examination of biochar. Written by an international team of academics and professionals, it addresses its uses, production, and management and its broader potential for mitigating climate change and driving forward sustainable development.Edited by two leading figures in the field, Biochar for Environmental Management is essential reading for students, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in biochar and the role it can play in environmental sustainability and global sustainable development.

Mamut, Pia, Sufficiency - An Emerging Discourse?: At the Crossroads of Mainstreaming and Transformation. (Sustainable Development in the 21st Century 7) 280 S. 2023:12 (Nomos, GW) <719-1019>
ISBN 978-3-7560-0631-1 paper ¥16,773.- (税込) EUR 69.00 *

This book argues that while there is scholarly agreement on the relevance of sufficiency as a sustainability principle, there is no consensus about its precise contribution to change. Using discourse analysis, the author shows that sufficiency is also charged with multiple meanings in the context of the practices used in energy and climate model regions. It criticises the fact that the most common interpretation of sufficiency is also the one with the weakest transformative potential and shows how this untapped potential can be unleashed. This work can be used by researchers and policymakers who want to help sufficiency make its urgently needed contribution to sustainability. The author is a researcher in the fields of sustainability, democracy and energy.

Murphy, Joseph, Empires of Sustainability: People and Planet after Globalisation. 200 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1020>
ISBN 978-1-03-247904-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-247847-0 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Focussing on the greening of imperialisms and empires, Empires of Sustainability analyses the shift around the world from denial of the environmental crisis to action to prevent catastrophe, and the resulting implications.Evidence of this shift is clear in widespread and purposeful social change which is gathering momentum. The book explains how globalisation accelerated us towards the crisis, and today, even as its own legitimacy is being questioned, is evolving through solutions and responses to it. Looking ahead and as the environmental crisis worsens, two possible futures are discerned and explored. One is that through universal actions to save the planet, shaped by interweaving political and economic forces, the hegemony of globalisation is restored, albeit in a green form. The other is that the world reorganises into competing spheres of influence, with politics, economics and the environment interwoven differently in each case. In these ways, we face the prospect of one or more Empires of Sustainability emerging over the decades ahead, unless we build a better alternative society. The author presents an alternative: a more diverse World of Caring Places.This accessible book will appeal to students and scholars of international political economy, sustainability and environmental studies, and analysts, policy makers, campaigners and others concerned about the future of relations between people and planet.

Osuna, Celina / Tynan, Aidan (eds.), Storied Deserts: Reimagining Global Arid Lands. (Routledge Environmental Humanities) 288 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1021>
ISBN 978-1-03-250181-9 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-250179-6 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

Storied Deserts makes a crucial and critical intervention in the field of environmental humanities by showcasing an emerging body of research on desert places from around the world.Deserts, despite dominant stereotypes of wasteland and barrenness, are culturally and ecologically abundant places. This edited volume sets out to reimagine the world's desert places and the very concept of "the desert" itself, taking a boldly interdisciplinary and multicultural approach. Authors engage in literary ecocriticism and ecopoetics, film and visual studies, critical theory, personal and transdisciplinary reflection, creative practices, and historical scholarship. Through their diverse range of perspectives, contributors show how arid lands have been and can be understood as sites of narrative production, places where signs and imaginaries are born from the materialities of space and entanglement. In this way, this volume highlights how the storied matter of the Earth's deserts informs lived realities, environmental histories, cinematic and literary imaginaries, political conflicts, and even intellectual categories such as "the human" and "the elemental".Ultimately, this book shows that reimagining desert places can help us to grapple with the epochal challenges of the Anthropocene. It is an important and engaging collection for scholars and students across disciplines that helps establish the value of desert humanities.

昆虫の保全ハンドブック
Pryke, James S. / Samways, Michael J. et al. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Insect Conservation. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 544 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1022>
ISBN 978-1-03-225950-5 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of insect conservation and provides practical solutions to counteract insect declines, at a time where insects are facing serious threats across the world from habitat destruction to invasive species and climate change.The Routledge Handbook of Insect Conservation consist of six sections, covering all aspects of insect conservation, containing contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners from across the globe. Section I addresses the fundamentals of insect conservation and outlines the reason why insects are important and discusses the greatest drivers of insect decline. The chapters in Section II examine the approaches that can be used for insect conservation globally, such as protected areas and agroecology, while highlighting the importance of insects in the composition and function of ecosystems. The chapters in Section III focus on insect populations in the major biomes around the world, from temperate and tropical forests to savannas and grasslands, with the chapters in Section IV focusing on natural and manmade ecosystems of the world, including mountain, soil, urban, island and agricultural habitats. They discuss the unique pressures and challenges for each biome and ecosystem and offer practical solutions for conserving their insect populations. Section V focuses on the assessment and monitoring of insects for conservation, discussing how we can implement practical monitoring protocols and what options are available. A wide variety of methods and tools are examined, including citizen science, bioindication, the role of taxonomy, drones and eDNA. The book concludes by examining policy and education strategies for insect conservation in Section VI. The chapters discuss key issues around social and policy strategies and conservation legislation for ensuring the long-term protection of insects.This book is essential reading for students and scholars of biodiversity conservation and entomology as well as professionals and policymakers involved in conservation looking for real-world solutions to the threats facing insects across the globe.

Randazzo, Elisa / Richter, Hannah, Challenging Anthropocene Ontology: Modernity, Ecology and Indigenous Complexities. 192 pp. 2024:5 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <719-1023>
ISBN 978-0-7556-3467-5 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Using the recent turn to ecology as a starting point, Hannah Richter and Elisa Randazzo bring ecological thinking into contact with Critical Indigenous Studies, in which awareness of the necessity for sustainable relations between humans and non-humans has long preceded Western Anthropocene discourse. Currently, the drastic ecological changes labelled as 'the Anthropocene' not only increasingly shape the political awareness and the priorities of citizens and governments, but also inform a large body of social scientific scholarship. Indigenous scholarship and practice, in particular ecological adaptability, is intrinsically related to power structures and political struggle - hence indigenous understanding of Anthropocene discourses are intertwined with discourses of colonialism and political contestation. This book problematises the depoliticising character of Western Anthropocene discourses in relation to indigenous ecologies. The authors reveal how the anti-colonial struggles of Indigenous communities and the unequal distribution of responsibilities for and suffering from ecological change, are concealed and devalued in Western discourses of the Anthropocene.

Riordan, Patrick / Flood, Gavin (eds.), Connecting Ecologies: Integrating Responses to the Global Challenge. (Routledge Studies in Religion and Environment) 280 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1024>
ISBN 978-0-367-25190-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Connecting Ecologies focuses on the environmental aspects of Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si' and the challenge to care for our common home. It considers how best to devise and implement the new societal models needed to tackle the ecological problems facing the world today. The book addresses the need for and complexity of an integral ecology, one that looks not only at physical and biological processes but also allows for the contributions of theology, philosophy, spirituality, and psychology, including the implications for the human and social sciences. The contributions document four categories of resonances, resources, requirements, and responses evoked by a reading of Laudato Si' and include consideration of other faith traditions. They reflect on how care for our common home motivates people in different places, cultures, and professions to cooperate for myriad goods in common. The volume is particularly relevant for scholars working in religious studies and theology with an interest in ecology, the environment, and the Anthropocene.

Rogers, Alison / Kelly, Leanne, A Toolkit for Effective Everyday Activism. 216 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <719-1025>
ISBN 978-1-03-236824-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-236825-2 paper ¥9,507.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99

This book examines how everyday activists can enhance their effectiveness. Leanne Kelly and Alison Rogers unpack theories from the social sciences to help find meaning, explain these feelings of inertia, and provide strategies to overcome them. Through lessons learned over their careers as evaluators in non-profit organisations, Kelly and Rogers provide tools and strategies for measuring, improving, and sharing the effectiveness of planet-saving activities. They draw upon interviews with everyday people who are contributing to change in their homes, community groups, workplaces, and social settings to understand how they motivate and encourage others. The book concludes with a realistic look at individual expectations and focuses on how to prioritise self-care to ensure that activists can keep contributing in a way that maintains their wellbeing and balance.A Toolkit for Effective Everyday Activism empowers people to use theory, research, and practical tools to leverage their power so they can make the maximum contribution possible and sustain their efforts over the long term. It will be a great resource for individuals working and volunteering in community groups, NGOs, and non-profit and corporate organisations with an environmental focus.

Shimray, Chong, Understanding Environmental Education: From Theory to Practices in India. 350 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1027>
ISBN 978-1-03-257295-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-260930-0 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

The book establishes the importance of environmental education by tracing its history and the developments that have taken place subsequently to date. It provides basic understanding about environmental education as well as valuable suggestions for its effective incorporation in the school curriculum. The strength of the book lies in its content as all major areas of environmental education have been addressed such as school curriculum, professional development, and policies, especially in the context of India, thus making it a unique and go-to resource for all stakeholders working in the field of environmental education. The well-balanced content will help readers appreciate the nature of environmental education and its distinctiveness from other subject disciplines as well as environmental studies and environmental science substantiated with several examples and illustrations. What is striking about the book is its proposed road map which is critical for successful implementation of environmental education in India with the launch of the National Education Policy 2020 and the subsequent introduction of new curriculum frameworks. The book will be useful to students, preservice teachers, and teacher educators. It will also be of much value to in-service teachers, practitioners in different settings, teachers, policy makers, curriculum developers, and researchers in the field of environmental education.

Smith, John A. / Wilson, Anna, Radical Ecology in the Face of the Anthropocene Extinction: A New and Urgent Philosophy for Complexity in the Social Sciences. (Routledge Advances in Sociology) 216 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1029>
ISBN 978-1-03-250811-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book has two interlocking ambitions. The first is to steer what we purposefully call the idioms of critical philosophy towards a more ecologically informed paradigm. The second is to recognise that what has rightly come to be called The Anthropocene extinction is not and cannot be treated as simply a scientific fact but rather a socio-political and ecological dispute of immense complexity.We start with an exploration of the consequences of a critical tradition which, under the name Enlightenment, has placed humanity at its centre and chance as its most general - and problematic - characteristic. We argue that this leads to a schizophrenic relationship between radical critique and science which can be avoided if we take the implications of biosemiotics seriously and develop a new, ecologically informed social science. We argue that in practice this means that for science to be practical in addressing the Anthropocene extinction, we have to recognise that it operates in a historically emergent, highly differentiated technopolitical ecology. Science, as it is currently commonly understood and used, is not ecological enough.This book will interest social scientists interested in not only describing and critiquing but also understanding and responding to the complex problems facing humanity; scientists wanting to make sense of social phenomena; those educating the next generation of social scientists; and climate activists and policy-makers.

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Hourdequin, Marion, Environmental Ethics: From Theory to Practice. 2nd ed. 320 pp. 2024:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <719-103>
ISBN 978-1-350-18593-7 hard ¥18,733.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-18592-0 paper ¥6,337.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99 *

What is environmental virtue? Is developing good habits enough? What does climate justice require? Is ecological restoration just another form of the human domination of nature? Exploring these questions and more, this book provides an up-to-date and balanced introduction to environmental ethics. It first examines ethical theory, then ties theory to practice, showing how values guide environmental policies, but also how policies and institutions shape environmental values. Updated and expanded to engage with the latest scholarship, scientific findings, and societal challenges, this 2nd edition features: New sections on food ethics, multispecies justice, intergenerational ethics, and the Anthropocene Contemporary case studies focusing on the rights of nature, the use of biotechnology in ecological restoration, and just climate transitions Expanded coverage of diverse philosophical traditions, including Confucian, Daoist, and Indigenous ethical perspectives Updated discussion questions, further reading sections, and online resources Exploring the possibilities and limitations inherent in both classical ethical models and modern theoretical approaches to the environment, this is a key resource for teaching students to think ethically about the world we live in.

Webb, Jeremy, Exploring Climate Change Related Systems and Scenarios: Preconditions for Effective Global Responses. (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research) 328 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <719-1031>
ISBN 978-1-03-273566-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Jeremy Webb draws on multiple disciplines to piece together the climate change puzzle, identifying what it would take to limit climate change and its impacts.The book starts with a summary of the climate change problem and develops a Climate Change, National Interests, International Cooperation (CCNIIC) model of the climate response system. Webb reviews 'reverse stress testing', 'backcasting', and 'theory of change' methods, showing how they can be used to collect a large sample of possible futures. He also shows how we can explore the multiverse of futures using a new method called thematic chain analysis, finding relevant connections across scenarios. In the second half of the book, Webb explores 175 scenarios collected through 27 interviews with climate change experts. From these scenarios a signal response model is developed. Preconditions for effective social change and behaviour, political will and policy, as well as business and economic activity are synthesised. Lessons include preconditions for effective global responses to climate change, showing what it takes to limit climate change and related impacts. The book finishes with an epilogue, applying the signal response model and preconditions for effective global responses to COVID-19, demonstrating that models from this book can be applied to other global response problems - and used to quickly assess possible response strategies.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental policy and future studies.