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

Gada, Muhammad Yaseen, Islam and Environmental Ethics. (Elements in Islam and Science) 75 pp. 2024:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <720-63>
ISBN 978-1-00-949455-7 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-00-930824-3 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element explores environmental ethics in Islam. Its core argument is that Islamic culture and civilization are rich in environmental concerns; Islam has unique considerations and directions about what sort of human-nature relationship there should be. Muslim environmental commentators have explored basic environmental or eco-ethical principles that are deeply embedded in the Qur'an and Sunnah. Protecting and conserving the environment are not only moral duties but also an obligation in Islam. The Islamic environmental ethical system offers both conceptual paradigms and operational components to realize environmental justice and sustainable development.

Hormio, Saede, Taking Responsibility for Climate Change. 150 pp. 2024:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <720-65>
ISBN 978-3-031-51752-5 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book proposes that it is not only states and international bodies that have a responsibility to take action toward mitigating climate change. Other collective agents, such as corporations, need to also come onboard. Additionally, the book argues that climate change is not solely a problem for collective agents, but also for individuals, as they are members of collectives and groups of several kinds. Therefore, framing climate change responsibility exclusively from either the collective or the individual perspective leaves out something crucial: how we all are influenced by the collectives we belong to and how, in turn, collectives are influenced by individuals. The focus of the book is on areas of climate change responsibility that are often left out of the picture or get too little attention in climate ethics, such as carbon inequality within countries. But why should any theoretical arguments about normative issues matter when we have a real-life climate crisis on our hands? Saede Hormio argues that ethical arguments have an important role in setting climate policy: they can highlight what values are at stake and help ground normative arguments in public deliberations.

Yeow, Agnes S. K. / Tham, Wai Liang (eds.), A Malaysian Ecocriticism Reader: Considerations of Nature, Culture, Place and Identities. 224 pp. 2024:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <720-673>
ISBN 978-981-9994-65-6 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This collection of essays brings together ecocritical interpretations of Malaysian texts - including fiction, nonfiction, and other media / cultural expressions. It includes original works by environmental activists as well as emerging and established scholars, who collectively analyse various aspects of Malaysian ecological discourse.The contributors address crucial - and often controversial - topics such as local ecological imaginations, wildlife conservation, overdevelopment, postcolonial ecological identities, biopolitics, nature and sexuality, nature and race, the commodification of nature, nature-culture embodiments and entanglements, human-animal relations, waste and materiality, human and other-than-human agency, toxicity and slow violence, self-representations as well as attitudes towards land, nativity and indigeneity, migrancy and diaspora.Readers will gain valuable insights into the ways in which environments and ecological relationships are mediated within this national space, while opening up room to theorise beyond its boundaries.

Maurer, Anais, The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists. 256 pp. 2024:4 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-677>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2486-6 hard ¥22,195.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3004-1 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

Bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. Well before climate change became a global concern, nuclear testing brought about untimely death, widespread diseases, forced migration, and irreparable destruction to the shores of Oceania. In The Ocean on Fire, Anais Maurer analyzes the Pacific literature that incriminates the environmental racism behind radioactive skies and rising seas. Maurer identifies strategies of resistance uniting the region by analyzing an extensive multilingual archive of decolonial Pacific art in French, Spanish, English, Tahitian, and Uvean, ranging from literature to songs and paintings. She shows how Pacific nuclear survivors' stories reveal an alternative vision of the apocalypse: instead of promoting individualism and survivalism, they advocate mutual assistance, cultural resilience, South-South transnational solidarities, and Indigenous women's leadership. Drawing upon their experience resisting both nuclear colonialism and carbon imperialism, Pacific storytellers offer compelling narratives to nurture the land and each other in times of global environmental collapse.

Salata, Stefano, Urban Resilience: Lessons on Urban Environmental Planning from Turkey. (Emerald Points) 116 pp. 2024:3 (Emerald, UK) <720-700>
ISBN 978-1-83549-617-6 hard ¥12,936.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

Advocating for the reintroduction of natural areas and biodiverse green spaces within our cities, Urban Resilience stems from the two years' experience living and teaching ecological planning in Turkey. What is resilience? What does it mean practically to design resilient cities? Demonstrating that the expansion of the ecological footprint of urban areas is no longer sustainable, Stefano Salata underscores that authentic resilience in urban planning necessitates embracing the reduction and de-sealing of urban surfaces, which he advocates for as the sole viable means of confronting the challenges posed by climate change. Providing a fresh methodological outlook on urban adaptation, Salata introduces a novel approach to understanding resilience, streamlining the key components of knowledge that urban planners need to acquire in order to effectively address the challenges posed by climate change. Supplemented with short personal reflections on Turkish space and society, this study explores the societal significance of embracing a new cultural paradigm characterized by reduced consumerism. Taking the Turkish case as a pioneering testing ground, Salata substantiates the potential of resilient approaches for urban transformation, affording us the opportunity to evaluate the efficacy of various solutions across the globe.

Angus, Siobhan, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography. 328 pp. 2024:3 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-739>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2593-1 hard ¥23,273.- (税込) US$ 107.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3018-8 paper ¥6,241.- (税込) US$ 28.95 *

In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus focuses on the inextricable links between image-making and resource extraction, revealing how the mining of bitumen, silver, platinum, iron, uranium, and rare earth elements is a precondition of photography. Photography, Angus contends, begins underground and, in photographs of mines and mining, frequently returns there. Through a materials-driven analysis of visual culture, she illustrates histories of colonization, labor, and environmental degradation to expose the ways in which photography is enmeshed within and enables global extractive capitalism. Angus places nineteenth-century photography in dialogue with digital photography and its own entangled economies of extraction, demonstrating the importance of understanding photography's complicity in the economic, geopolitical, and social systems that order the world.

Berr, Karsten / Koegst, Lara / Kuehne, Olaf (eds.), Landscape Conflicts. (RaumFragen: Stadt - Region - Landschaft) 403 pp. 2024:5 (Springer VS, GW) <720-740>
ISBN 978-3-658-43351-2 paper ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99

Landscape conflicts, for example in connection with / in view of the energy transition, climate policy, transport policy, nature conservation, the extraction of mineral raw materials, the design of urban landscapes or tourism are potentially associated with high economic, social and political costs even before a possible escalation. It is therefore undoubtedly useful to gain a better understanding of landscape-related conflicts in terms of their causes, their course, their dynamics, their inherent logic and possible regulatory procedures. Frequently, such conflicts manifest themselves in particular in different claims and aspired or arrogated interpretative sovereignties concerning what can or may be considered together as 'landscape' (here understood as a special case to 'space'), and these conflicts are not limited to the economic dimension, but they also ignite in social, political and cultural, often also in aesthetic and moral questions. The contributions to this anthology therefore focus on the question of how landscape conflicts can be seen as a productive social normality and be brought to a non-violent and not necessarily consensual settlement.

Fish, Adam, Oceaning: Governing Marine Life with Drones. (Elements) 248 pp. 2024:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-743>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2580-1 hard ¥22,195.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3001-0 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

Drones are revolutionizing ocean conservation. By flying closer and seeing more, drones enhance intimate contact between ocean scientists and activists and marine life. In the process, new dependencies between nature, technology, and humans emerge, and a paradox becomes apparent: Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? In Oceaning, Adam Fish answers this question through eight stories of piloting drones to stop the killing of porpoises, sharks, and seabirds and to check the vitality of whales, seals, turtles, and coral reefs. Drone conservation is not the end of nature. Instead, drone conservation results in an ocean whose flourishing both depends upon and escapes the control of technologies. Faulty technology, oceanic and atmospheric turbulence, political corruption, and the inadequacies of basic science serve to foil governance over nature. Fish contends that what emerges is an ocean/culture-a flourishing ocean that is distinct from but exists alongside humanity.

Kraal, Diane / Nagtzaam, G. / Ho, Susie Siew Yuen et al., A Just Transition to Decarbonisation: Themes of Loss and Damage, Transport, Nature and Youth. (Just Transitions) 162 pp. 2024:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <720-746>
ISBN 978-3-031-49136-8 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book provides researchers and policy-makers with legal avenues to enable a just transition to decarbonisation. The focus is on the United Nations themes of loss and damage, transport, nature and youth - across Australia and other economies - to significantly reduce CO2 emissions by 2030 and beyond. The four themes scaffold discussions about a just transition beyond the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai with the specific issues addressed in this book serving as a starting point for future discussions.

Pilkey, Orrin H. / Pilkey, Charles O. et al., Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change. 312 pp. 2024:3 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-751>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2066-0 hard ¥23,273.- (税込) US$ 107.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-2544-3 paper ¥6,241.- (税込) US$ 28.95 *

Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth's climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies while reducing nutritional levels in crops. Billions of people will become climate refugees. Hotter temperatures will allow tropical diseases to spread into temperate regions. Higher levels of CO2, allergens, dust, and other particulate matter will impair our physical and mental health and even reduce our cognitive abilities. Climate change disproportionately affects the world's poor. It also harms Nature, and could ultimately trigger a sixth mass extinction. In Escaping Nature, Orrin H. Pilkey and his coauthors offer concrete suggestions for how to respond to the threats posed by global climate change. They argue that while we wait for the world's governments to get serious about mitigating climate change we can adapt to a hotter world through technological innovations, behavioral changes, nature-based solutions, political changes, and education.

Richardson, Michael, Nonhuman Witnessing: War, Data, and Ecology after the End of the World. (Thought in the Act) 256 pp. 2024:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-752>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2090-5 hard ¥22,195.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-2564-1 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

In Nonhuman Witnessing Michael Richardson argues that a radical rethinking of what counts as witnessing is central to building frameworks for justice in an era of endless war, ecological catastrophe, and technological capture. Dismantling the primacy and notion of traditional human-based forms of witnessing, Richardson shows how ecological, machinic, and algorithmic forms of witnessing can help us better understand contemporary crises. He examines the media-specificity of nonhuman witnessing across an array of sites, from nuclear testing on First Nations land and autonomous drone warfare to deepfakes, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic investigative tools. Throughout, he illuminates the ethical and political implications of witnessing in an age of profound instability. By challenging readers to rethink their understanding of witnessing, testimony, and trauma in the context of interconnected crises, Richardson reveals the complex entanglements between witnessing and violence and the human and the nonhuman.

Vantaggiato, Francesca Pia / Lubell, Mark, Governing Sea Level Rise in a Polycentric System: Easier Said than Done. (Organizational Response to Climate Change: Businesses, Governments) 75 pp. 2024:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <720-755>
ISBN 978-1-00-947594-5 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-00-943358-7 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

How do polycentric governance systems respond to new collective action problems? This Element tackles this question by studying the governance of adaptation to sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Like climate mitigation, climate adaptation has public good characteristics and therefore poses collective action problems of coordination and cooperation. The Element brings together the literature on adaptation planning with the Ecology of Games framework, a theory of polycentricity combining rational choice institutionalism with social network theory, to investigate how policy actors address the collective action problems of climate adaptation: the key barriers to coordination they perceive, the collaborative relationships they form, and their assessment of the quality of the cooperation process in the policy forums they attend. Using both qualitative and quantitative data and analysis, the Element finds that polycentric governance systems can address coordination problems by fostering the emergence of leaders who reduce transaction and information costs. Polycentric systems, however, struggle to address issues of inequality and redistribution.

Peterson, Michael, Derrida and Inheritance in Environmental Ethics: The Half-Lives of Responsibility. 175 pp. 2024:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <720-33>
ISBN 978-3-031-52142-3 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book argues for the necessity of a re-evaluation of our thinking about responsibly relating to future generations in the context of environmental philosophy. Using long-term nuclear waste disposal as its paradigmatic case, this book makes the case that the predominant mode of thinking the future in terms of continuity and repetition of the present requires a critique informed by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in order to think responsibility adequately. The book begins by surveying contemporary accounts of intergenerational responsibility before outlining the specifics of nuclear waste disposal policy. With these stakes established, the contributions of Jacques Derrida to future-oriented ethics are introduced. These include discussions of communication across contexts, the relationship between inheritance and responsibility, and the political imperatives that result from this critique. This book concludes by arguing for an intergenerational environmental policy that rejects policy and infrastructural projects that depend on the present reproducing itself indefinitely.

Lippi, Andrea / Tsekos, Theodore N. (eds.), Policy Capacity, Design and the Sustainable Development Goals: Wicked Problems in Uncertain Environments. 384 pp. 2024:7 (Emerald, UK) <720-579>
ISBN 978-1-80455-687-0 hard ¥24,794.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *

While the utopian vision set by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals is certainly one worth striving for, it is no secret that many academics, practitioners and world leaders alike have struggled to navigate the intrinsic complexities of the SDGs and put them into practice. Policymakers face numerous challenges in moving ahead, creating wicked policy problems such as having multiple goals and targets that can sometimes contradict each other. Defining problems clearly and reaching a consensus on them is difficult, and there are no agreed criteria for prioritization. These challenges may be slowing down our progress. Focusing on pragmatic measures and implementation strategies for overcoming these barriers, Policy Capacity, Design and the Sustainable Development Goals collates a series of case studies that illustrate the complex challenges that can prevent the achievement of the SDGs. Chapters explore the theoretical and practical background needed to tackle sustainable development policies, including the additional administrative and policy capacities required for effective policymaking. Providing a cross-cutting contribution for the achievement of the 2030 Goals, this edited collection offers essential guidance for transforming the SDGs from agenda to reality.

Roy, Suddhabrata Deb, 'Natural' Disasters and Everyday Lives: Floods, Climate Justice and Marginalisation in India. (Diverse Perspectives on Creating a Fairer Society) 232 pp. 2024:8 (Emerald, UK) <720-580>
ISBN 978-1-83797-854-0 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

Disasters have a widescale impact with drastic consequences on human lives, especially those who are marginalised by the wider society. Proposing a fresh approach towards analysing the politics of disasters, climate change and climate justice, 'Natural' Disasters and Everyday Lives explores the relationship between citizens, the State and the society in the context of the Global South's highly underdeveloped areas. Drawing on both theoretical frameworks and lived experience, this is the first book to document the lives of people affected by floods in the Barak Valley, a flood prone area in Southern Assam, which is also one of the most underdeveloped regions of South Asia. Narrating the fear and perils of living in an underdeveloped area in India during natural disasters, Suddhabrata Deb Roy draws from interviews conducted in Silchar, the largest and most developed urban settlement in the Barak Valley, during the floods of 2022 - the worst flood in the region in over 100 years - and during 2024 to expose the processes through which the people of the region suffer from developmental negligence and socio-political apathy. Examining the intersections of natural disasters and marginality, the author relates Marx's ideas on humanism, nature, alienation and economic development to ideas around climate justice, marginalisation and urbanisation, taking into context the contradictions posed by factors such as class, caste, gender and race in highly underdeveloped regions in India. Recognising that these issues are addressed quite differently in the Global North, Deb Roy connects flooding in northeastern India to the context of the broader politics surrounding climate change and climate justice in the Global South, making this book important and powerful reading for countering today's climate emergency.

Monaco, Salvatore, Identity, Territories, and Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 252 pp. 2024:7 (Emerald, UK) <720-145>
ISBN 978-1-83797-550-1 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

Using the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals as a reference framework, Identity, Territories, and Sustainability explores the interplay between territorial and collective identities, territorial policies, and their implications for environmental, economic, and social sustainability. Presenting a series of case studies from across the globe, Salvatore Monaco demonstrates how the meaning of sustainability can vary across different geographic contexts. Analysing specific policy initiatives, chapters stress the importance of considering the complex interweaving of social, cultural, political, historical, and biophysical factors in shaping different sustainability trajectories in each place. Providing tools for policy and practice, Monaco presents examples of how sustainable development can be achieved by recognizing the importance of involving local communities in the decision-making process, promoting social and environmental justice, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. Addressing the urgent need to tackle the global challenges of poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation, this is highly valuable reading for those interested in implementing sustainable development strategies across a variety of contexts.

Braithwaite, John, Simple Solutions to Complex Catastrophes: Dialectics of Peace, Climate, Finance, and Health. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 439 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <720-173>
ISBN 978-3-031-48746-0 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book sets out simple solutions to managing complex catastrophes. It focusses on four kinds of crises - climate change, crime-war cascades, epidemics and financial crises. These catastrophes are conceived as complex and prone to cascade effects. This book is optimistic in explaining that there are identifiable simple institutions that international society can strengthen and some simple principles that can help humankind to control the expanding gamut of complex catastrophes that confront the planet including simple, stable institutions and regulatory bodies. It draws on a wide range of current and past crises and challenges, from the Cold War to COVID-19, and from Weapons of Mass Destruction to restorative diplomacy with States like China, to provide an urgent and timely path forward. It speaks to those interested in criminology, public policy and international relations, political science, sociology, public health and economics.

Adams, Carol J. / Wise, Michael D. / Bekoff, Marc (eds.), Pedaling Resistance: Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan Cycling. (Food and Foodways) 244 pp. 2024:5 (U. Arkansas Pr., US) <720-194>
ISBN 978-1-68226-254-2 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Vegans and cyclists are often outsiders, negotiating food systems and built environments that tend to prioritize omnivores and motor vehicles by default. Pedaling Resistance: Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan Cycling examines the relationship between veganism and cycling through the journeys, experiences, and reflections of a dozen vegan cyclists from the United States and beyond. The essays in this collection explore the unity between cycling for health, work, competition, transport, and joy, and the issues of animal suffering, environmentalism, and speciesism inherent in veganism-all through lenses of class, race, gender, and disability. Pedaling Resistance illuminates themes of everyday resistance and boundary crossing to uncover the greater social and political issues that underlie the decisions to give up animal products and choose cycling over driving.

Cheshmehzangi, Ali / You, Nicholas / Siri, Jose et al., Harnessing Urban Innovation to Unlock the Sustainable Development Goals. (Urban Sustainability) XX, 230 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <720-198>
ISBN 978-981-9999-70-5 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Andersen, Torben Juul (ed.), Sustainable and Resilient Global Practices: Advances in Responsiveness and Adaptation. (Emerald Studies in Global Strategic Responsiveness) 312 pp. 2024:7 (Emerald, UK) <720-298>
ISBN 978-1-83797-612-6 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

We need to develop a better understanding of how to generate effective strategic adaptation in times of abrupt environmental changes. The global interdependencies across specialized economic functions and markets require that business activities co-evolve across interacting public-private relationships where organizations can engage around viable ecosystems forming a sustainable path for the future. The ability to develop sustainable solutions thrives on innovative behaviors across networks of collaborative relationships and we need to enhance our understanding about how they can be established and managed. The chapters presented here by global scholars fill the void in current knowledge with the aim of generating important leads for forthcoming scholarship efforts for the benefit of business and society. Emerald Studies in Global Strategic Responsiveness aspires to disseminate new inspiring research insights as a potential catalyst for the development of effective approaches to deal with the exposures imposed by dynamic complexities in the global business environment. The implied organizational and societal challenges require effective responses from both public and private organizations induced by supportive policy initiatives.