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

Abubakar, John, The Bible and Sustainability: Bringing Biblical Passages and Practices into the Ecological Debate. 192 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-86>
ISBN 978-1-03-244182-5 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-244183-2 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

The Bible and Sustainability addresses the ecological crisis the world is facing, and what the Bible can teach us about sustainable living. Drawing on the interest in the ecological crisis generated by Laudato Si, this book attempts to push the discussion beyond intellectual perspectives and help students and researchers apply biblical wisdom to the UN sustainable development goals.It begins with a discussion of what sustainability is, and how people, planet, and profit are affected by unsustainable practices, before exploring four specific biblical practices and their relationship with sustainability: covenants, the sabbatical year, monastic communities, and the fruit of the spirit. It also discusses the creation account and personalistic nature texts, considering the social relationship that humans have with nature. Finally, it examines an Augustinian perspective to sustainability which encourages sharing, common ownership of property, and living simply. The book concludes by inviting governments, civil society organizations, and academia to bring these biblical practices and passages into the ecological debate.It is an outstanding resource for researchers of the Bible and environment, and Religion and environment more generally.

Finley, Eleanor, Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond. (FireWorks) 192 pp. 2025:2 (Pluto Pr., UK) <723-502>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4690-8 paper ¥4,896.- (税込) GB￡ 16.99

How can we harness society's potential to change the trajectory of the climate crisis? So many of us feel helpless in the face of corporate environmental destruction, however, in Practicing Social Ecology Eleanor Finley shows that there is an amazing well of untapped power in our communities, we just need to know how to use it. Drawing from her experience of working in democratic ecology movements from the revolution in Rojava to Barcelona's municipalist movement and beyond, she shows how to develop assemblies, confederations, study groups, and permaculture projects. Looking to history, she maps out how social ecologists, such as Murray Bookchin, have led inspirational struggles around climate and energy, agriculture and biotechnology, globalisation and economic inequality. This guide is perfect for anyone curious about how to challenge unending capitalist growth through the democratic power of social ecology.

Newlands, Maxine / Hansen, Claire (eds.), Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities. (Routledge Environmental Humanities) 264 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-660>
ISBN 978-1-03-243049-2 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-243045-4 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. The blue humanities is a way of understanding humanity's relationship with water and manifestations of what is referred to as the 'blue' - reefs, oceans, rivers, creeks, basins, and inland bodies of water.In its scope, this collection emphasises both the importance of the local and the interconnectedness of Australia with global environmental concerns. It considers how we conceptualise watery spaces and shades of blue in a country where water is often marked by its absence, its ephemerality, its politicisation, and its dangers. Contributors from environmental history, environmental social science, political science, literary studies, creative arts, Indigenous Knowledge, education, and anthropology tackle various entanglements between the human, the more-than-human, and watery Australian spaces in modern culture. It is the first volume to offer a specific, dedicated focus on the intersections between Australian space and the blue humanities, and it offers a pathway for those wishing to explore, critique, and advance ideas around the blue humanities in both research and teaching.Directly contributing to a growing interdisciplinary field, this is the first book to comprehensively examine the blue in Australia, appealing to scholars, educators, and students working across the humanities and social sciences with an interest in the environmental humanities, ecopolitics, ecocriticism, the blue humanities, cultural geography, environmental history, and the role of place.

環境政策・ガバナンス・政治－南アジアの視点
Kandpal, Prakash Chand, Environmental Policy, Governance and Politics: A South Asian Perspective. 248 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-672>
ISBN 978-1-03-252300-2 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book traces the development-environment discourse in India and examines the multi-layered interaction between society and nature in the light of the role of the state, judiciary, and the civil society. Through an array of perspective, the volume challenges the conventional approach to understand the environmental politics in South Asia without considering the role of the civil society and other informal actors, which has radically altered the conventional articulation of the phenomenon.The volume underlines distinct structural characteristics of developmental politics in India and the social concerns and challenges which come in the way of environmental policy and governance in India. It is a meaningful intervention in unearthing significant socio-political and economic processes which are critical to the environmental governance in India. The book will not only be helpful in studying the state of policy, administration, and politics of environmental discourse in India, but also guide the policy makers to explore the sustainable ways of environmental governance in South Asia.Insightful and lucid, this book will be useful to the students, researchers and faculty working in the field of political science, public administration, Public Policy, political sociology, political economy, and governance studies. It will also be an invaluable and interesting reading for those interested in South Asian studies.

Samuel, Mercy S / Warsi, Asad, Transforming Waste Management: Challenges and Success of an Indian City. 108 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-683>
ISBN 978-1-03-225665-8 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Waste management has become a great challenge for cities and urban areas, especially in countries with a high population density. This book looks at the waste management apparatus of the city of Indore, India to see how the city overhauled its waste management practices and strategies to become one of the cleanest cities in the country.The volume highlights the challenges that the city faced and their use of innovative business models, technology, and infrastructure as well as instituting sweeping policy and process changes to bring change. It examines the city's successful efforts to bring informal waste management systems to the mainstream and other interventions to close the gaps between government institutions, sanitation workers and the general public. It further throws light on the use of technological interventions that the city government adopted for streamlining waste management and developing a sustainable business model for waste and emission reduction leading to achieve carbon credits and net zero goals.This book will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers of urban planning and management, urban sociology, urban geography, waste management and environmental studies. It will also be useful to policymakers and professionals working in the field of city management planning and governance.

Conz, Christopher R., Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho: The Poverty of Progress. 256 pp. 2024:7 (J. Currey, UK) <723-705>
ISBN 978-1-84701-330-9 hard ¥21,615.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00

Shows that a fraught historical process was at work in which Basotho drew on local and global sources of knowledge and how this small nation surrounded by South Africa can serve as a valuable case-study for wider conversations about 'progress' and 'modernization' in the Global South. Both place-based environmental history and global intellectual history, this book explores the politics of environment, agriculture, poverty, development, and science in Lesotho. Drawing on diverse experiences with this landlocked, mountainous nation, and based on bilingual archival and oral history research in Sesotho and English, the book examines how Basotho intellectuals, farmers, migrant workers, chiefs, experts, and politicians formed vernacular ideas of tsoelopele (progress) amid the structural violence of colonialism and capitalism in southern Africa. Rather than a unidirectional flow of 'enlightened' knowledge from Europe to Africa, the study shows that a fraught historical process was at work in which Basotho drew on local and global sources of knowledge, from ancestral agricultural practices to colonial soil science and from African American missionaries to African nationalists in Ghana. Basotho ideas about tsoelopele, it is argued, informed the many political, social, and environmental innovations that enabled survival within a sea of white supremacy and that underpin approaches to development in independent Lesotho. Throughout, the book shows how this small nation surrounded by South Africa can serve as a valuable case-study for wider conversations about 'progress' and 'modernization' in the Global South.

Inogwabini, Bila-Isia, Climate Perspectives from the Congo Basin. (Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability) 152 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <723-711>
ISBN 978-1-03-279763-2 hard ¥14,118.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99 *

This book considers the global question of climate change from local perspectives in the context of Central Africa.Bila-Isia Inogwabini examines attempts made by the international community to respond to the global challenges posed by climate change in the Congo Basin and highlights that these attempts have so far produced limited results. Abject poverty and the lack of academic, technical, institutional and governance capacities have made it difficult for these solutions to take root in local conditions. Taking a novel perspective, Inogwabini argues that what is needed is not austerity in the use of natural resources but rather increased material affluence for these communities, which will enable individuals to create their own ways to survive through the tides of climate change. He considers factors including social inertia, climate skepticism and lack of political structure and presents a climate change action plan that is targeted at the local level in the Congo Basin.Overall, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, global development and African studies more broadly.

Lacan, Lea, Forest Politics in Kenya's Tugen Hills: Conservation Beyond Natural Resources in the Katimok Forest. (Future Rural Africa) 300 pp. 2024:7 (J. Currey, UK) <723-714>
ISBN 978-1-84701-381-1 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

Forests are a changing environment, impacted as much by people and politics as by the species-rich diversity they contain. This book explores human-sylvan relations in the Katimok forest, Baringo highlands, Kenya, and asks us to rethink the forest beyond questions of access and control of natural resources, as a habitat where forest politics and human lives are inextricably intertwined. Tracing the development of the Katimok forest from colonial times to the present day, the author shows how - as with many forests in Africa - it has become constructed as a category and territory of nature under state control: an area both to be protected and turned into exploitable resources. For those living within and on the boundaries of the forest, this social-ecological transformation has had a significant impact. Despite now being settled outside Katimok itself, dispossessed by administrators heedless of local management practices, many former residents continue to maintain a close connection with the forest, not only to sustain their livelihoods, but also to maintain their intimate links with ancestral lands, where their stories and memories are materially inscribed and powerfully invoked. Intimate connections to the forest are revealed to be as political as the use of its resources, culminating in local claims for redress of historical dispossessions.

Arruda, Gisele M. (ed.), Polar and Climate Change Education: Citizen Science and Sustainability. (Research and Teaching in Environmental Studies) 176 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-748>
ISBN 978-1-03-278243-0 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book presents ideas for strengthening the foundations for transformational change, polar and global education leadership in all stages of the education process.Despite being an established concept endorsed by UNESCO, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is still not in the educational mainstream but is vital in mitigating against the intensifying impacts of global change and adapting to the shifts that have already occurred. Drawing on examples from real world projects in the US, Germany, Mexico, Japan, Machu Picchu and Greenland, this book assesses the new educational strategies, pedagogies and technologies which have been adopted by polar educators to stimulate students' interests in sustainability and re-orient education to global citizenship science. The experiential nature of the pedagogies shown in the case studies and educational activities builds background knowledge of cutting-edge research and empowers participants to communicate authentic research practices and show how data collection in the polar region is applicable in other parts of the globe.Highlighting the many ways in which educators for global citizenship can have a decisive role in transforming individuals and society, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, education and Arctic studies. It will also be a valuable resource for professional educators working in Education for Sustainable Development.

Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Yildiz / Hossaert-McKey, Martine, Fig Trees and Humans: Ficus Ecology and Mutualisms across Cultures. (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology 32) 170 pp. 2024:2 (Berghahn, US) <723-749>
ISBN 978-1-80539-266-8 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

Humans and figs form hybrid communities within the context of anthropogenic landscapes, supported by biocultural mutualisms driven by traits of Ficus species and people's imagination and practices, and where humans also positively influence Ficus species ecology. Fig Trees and Humans examines the interactions between the biology and ecology of the genus Ficus and how humans use and think of Ficus species across the tropics and in the Mediterranean region. It demonstrates a high level of convergence of material and symbolic uses of human-fig interactions that affect various aspects of human culture, as well as the ecology of wild or cultivated Ficus species.

Bartmann, Marius / Halsband, Aurelie / Schapper, Andrea, Climate Justice: Ethical Aspects and Policy Aspects. (Ethik in den Biowissenschaften - Sachstandsberichte des DRZE 26) 136 S. 2023:12 (Nomos, GW) <723-75>
ISBN 978-3-495-99378-1 paper ¥9,480.- (税込) EUR 39.00 *

Certoma, Chiara / Iapaolo, Fabio / Martellozzo, F. (eds.), Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls. (Routledge Studies in Sustainability) 208 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-753>
ISBN 978-1-03-257854-5 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-257851-4 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This book critically examines the interplay between digitalisation and sustainability. Amid escalating environmental crises, some of which are now irreversible, there is a noticeable commitment within both international and domestic policy agendas to employ digital technologies in pursuit of sustainability goals.This collection gathers a multitude of voices interrogating the premise that increased digitalisation automatically contributes to greater sustainability. By exploring the planetary links underpinning the global digital economy, the book exposes the extractive logics ingrained within digital capitalism and introduces alternatives like digital degrowth and the circular economy as viable, sustainable paths for the digital era. Through a combination of theoretical reflections and detailed contextual analyses from Italy, New Zealand, and the UK-including initiatives in participatory planning and technology co-design-it articulates the dual role of digital technology: its potential to support socio-economic and environmental sustainability, while also generating conflicts and impasses that undermine these very objectives. Offering fresh insights into power disparities, exclusionary tactics, and systemic injustices that digital solutionism fails to address, this volume also serves as a reminder that sustainability extends beyond climate-related issues, underscoring the inseparability of environmental discourse from wider social justice considerations.Aimed at a diverse readership, this volume will prove valuable for students, researchers, and practitioners across various fields, including Geography, Urban Studies, Sustainability Studies, Environmental Media Studies, Critical AI Studies, Innovation Studies, and the Digital Humanities.

Edwards, Ferne / Alexandra Popartan, Lucia et al. (eds.), Urban Natures: Living the More-than-Human City. (Urban Anthropology Unbound 1) 356 pp. 2023:9 (Berghahn, US) <723-756>
ISBN 978-1-80539-082-4 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

Efforts to create greener urban spaces have historically taken many forms, often disorganized and undisciplined. Recently, however, the push towards greener cities has evolved into a more cohesive movement. Drawing from multidisciplinary case studies, Urban Natures examines the possibilities of an ethical lively multi-species city with the understanding that humanity's relationship to nature is politically constructed. Covering a wide range of sectors, cities, and urban spaces, as well as topics ranging from edible cities to issues of power, and more-than-human methodologies, this volume pushes our imagination of a green urban future.

Evtuhov, Catherine / Lajus, Julia / Moon, David (eds.), Thinking Russia's History Environmentally. (Environment in History: International Perspectives 25) 344 pp. 2023:7 (Berghahn, US) <723-757>
ISBN 978-1-80539-027-5 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

Historians of Russia were relative latecomers to the field of environmental history. Yet, in the past decade, the exploration of Russian environmental history has burgeoned. Thinking Russia's History Environmentally showcases collaboration amongst an international set of scholars who focus on the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. Through discerning analysis of natural resources, the environment as a factor in historical processes such as industrialization, and more recent human-animal interactions, this volume challenges stereotypes of Russian history and in so doing, highlights the unexpected importance of Russian environments across a time frame well beyond the ecological catastrophes of the Soviet period.

中世の豚
Jorgensen, Dolly, The Medieval Pig. (Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages) 130 pp. 2024:4 (Boydell, UK) <723-765>
ISBN 978-1-83765-142-9 hard ¥14,410.- (税込) GB￡ 50.00 *
ISBN 978-1-83765-168-9 paper ¥5,760.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99 *

Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources. The pig was a common sight in the Middle Ages. They might be eating under an oak tree, or out in a field. They might be in the street, with the swineherd close behind at their heels. They might be dismembered, for sale by a butcher. They might be represented on misericords, in a church or cathedral, dancing, playing the bagpipes, or suckling people. Pigs were in all these places. But what was the pig's place? This book considers pigs in medieval Europe from a number of angles: whether part of the countryside, the cityscape, on the plate or in the mind. Drawing on a rich wealth of sources, both textual and material, it examines in particular the paradoxes that the pig presented: both good and bad, fecund/fornicator, noble/filthy. It uncovers the pig's numerous roles in medieval society, how pigs shaped human life, and how humans shaped theirs.

Keskitalo, E. C. H., Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations: We Were Never Western. (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies) 202 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <723-767>
ISBN 978-1-03-273840-6 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a compelling critique of 'frontier thinking' and demonstrates its pernicious amplification in contemporary human affairs.This book systematically identifies the ways in which images of nature and society are formed by historically developed frontier-oriented narratives. It illustrates how these narratives have underpinned much Anglo-American and Anglocentric thought, and have even come to form our assumptions about social and environmental organisation - in ways that are relevant not least to the present environmental crisis. The book confronts these conceptions at large, showing that they never held empirically, and contrasts them with the situation in northern Europe, where diverging assumptions are integral to this day. Through this juxtaposition, the book illustrates not only the pervasiveness of structures of understanding in steering policy, but also the varying traditions in different countries regarding how understandings of the environment can be formed.The study highlights how historical thought patterns, formed for very different reasons than exist today, continue to shape our assumptions - about nature, the relation between urban and rural areas, and our understanding of ourselves in relation to the environmental crisis. The book will be of wide interest to a range of academics and students in the fields of geography, anthropology, environmental studies, sociology, political science and development studies, amongst others.

Matless, David, England's Green: Nature and Culture since the 1960s. 352 pp. 2024:7 (Reaktion Books, UK) <723-769>
ISBN 978-1-78914-921-0 hard ¥5,764.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00

England's Green explores how environmental concerns have shaped and reflected English national identity since the 1960s. David Matless covers themes including agriculture, nature, leisure, climate change, the Anthropocene, the folkloric, the archaeological and the mystical. He also shows how national environmental affairs connect to the local, the regional, the global and the postcolonial. Moving across a breadth of source material from government policy to popular music, ecological polemic to television comedy, England's Green shows the richness and complexity of English environmental culture. Matless uncovers the genealogies of today's debates over climate and nature, land and culture, showing how twenty-first century concerns and anxieties have been moulded by events over the past sixty years.

Peemot, Victoria Soyan, The Horse in My Blood: Multispecies Kinship in the Altai and Saian Mountains. (Interspecies Encounters) 210 pp. 2024:3 (Berghahn, US) <723-771>
ISBN 978-1-80539-295-8 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

A fascinating interspecies relationship can be seen among the horse breeding pastoralists in the Altai and Saian Mountains of Inner Asia. Victoria Soyan Peemot herself grew up in a community with close human-horse relationships and uses her knowledge of the local language and horsemanship practices. Building upon Indigenous research epistemologies, she engages with the study of how the human-horse relationships interact with each other, experience injustices and develop resilience strategies as multispecies unions.

J.リフキン著　水惑星－宇宙における我らの故郷を再考する
Rifkin, Jeremy, Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe. 360 pp. 2024:9 (Polity Pr., UK) <723-772>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6373-9 hard ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we'd been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is now. Our planetary hydrosphere, which animates all of life on Earth, is rebelling in the wake of a global warming climate, spurring biblical spring floods, devastating summer droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires and powerful autumn hurricanes and typhoons, wreaking havoc on ecosystems and society. For too long we have misjudged the very nature of our existence and to what we owe our lifeline. We have come to believe that we live on a land planet when the reality is that we live on a water planet, and now the Earth's hydrosphere is rewilding in the throes of a changing climate, taking our species and our fellow creatures into a mass extinction event as it searches for a new equilibrium. Jeremy Rifkin calls on us to rethink our place in the universe and realize that we live on Planet Aqua. He takes us on a new journey into the future where we will need to reassess every aspect of the way we live - how we engage nature, govern society, conceptualize economic life, educate our children, and even orient ourselves in time and space. The next stage in the human journey is to rebrand our home Planet Aqua and learn how to readapt to the waters of life. Underpinned by robust research, this major new work by one of the world's leading public intellectuals aims to redefine the very core of our existence on Planet Aqua.

Satpathy, Suneeta / Mahapatra, Satyasundara et al. (eds.), AI for Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability. (Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Engineering and Management) 192 pp. 2024:8 (CRC Pr., US) <723-774>
ISBN 978-1-03-258906-0 hard ¥31,702.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00

This book discusses the adverse effects of climatic changes on our planet. It examines AI-based tools and technologies and how they can assist in identifying energy emission reductions, CO2 removal, and support the development of greener transportation networks, monitoring deforestation, and forecasting extreme weather events.AI for Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability identifies and discusses in detail the importance of environmental sustainability based on accomplishment of the UN's 17 Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDGs). It presents the various AI-based possibilities for accelerating international efforts to safeguard the environment and conserve natural resources. The authors offer a comprehensive analysis of the emerging field of climate change in relation to Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning. The book discusses AI developments, applications, and best practices that will help us transition to a low-carbon future on both a regional and global scale. It provides case studies with analytical results pertinent to climate change and weather prediction and includes chapters with a research-oriented approach, which can encourage new developments in the field of sustainable climate and green environment.The book can be used as a primary textbook for graduate and postgraduate students in technology and science, as well as a reference for researchers, academics, and IT professionals working on climate change and sustainability initiatives.

Shpolberg, Masha / Brasiskis, Lukas (eds.), Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe: From Communism to Capitalism. 321 pp. 2023:10 (Berghahn, US) <723-775>
ISBN 978-1-80539-105-0 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

The annexation of Eastern Europe to the Soviet sphere after World War II dramatically reshaped popular understandings of the natural environment. With an eco-critical approach, Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe breaks new ground in documenting how filmmakers increasingly saw cinema as a tool to critique the social and environmental damage of large-scale projects from socialist regimes and newly forming capitalist presences. New and established scholars with backgrounds across Europe, the United States, and Australia come together to reflect on how the cultural sphere has, and can still, play a role in redefining our relationship to nature.

Wagner, Peter, Carbon Societies: The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels. 288 pp. 2024:6 (Polity Pr., UK) <723-776>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5708-0 hard ¥15,695.- (税込) US$ 69.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-5709-7 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95

The climate crisis is humanmade. Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels. To combat climate change, we have to understand how we arrived at where we are. This book explores the reasons why human societies have embarked on the trajectory of ever-increasing use of fossil fuels.Population growth, desire for freedom from want and profit-seeking all played major roles in shaping human history, but there has been no inevitable drive towards heating up the atmosphere in the pursuit of social objectives. To sustain a growing population, more natural resources are required, but their use does not need to generate climate change. No logic of modernity links freedom with a kind of material abundance that requires the burning of fossil fuels. No logic of capital necessarily ties the search for profit to the extraction of fossil resources.Examining the critical junctures in human history when resource regimes changed, this book identifies the social problems that were meant to be solved by burning fossil fuels and the power hierarchies that shaped the decisions to use them. Wagner argues that the key choices that led to the climate emergency were made relatively recently, during the second half of the 20th century: they are close enough in time for us to undo the prevailing social logic of fossil fuels. By redefining the key problems that humankind is facing and reshaping the existing mechanisms of power, we can take the decisive action needed to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and avert the worst consequences of climate change.

Zhang, Zihao, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment: Design Between Nature and Technology. 296 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-778>
ISBN 978-1-03-234174-3 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-234175-0 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering a transdisciplinary examination of the ramifications of cybernetics on the constructed environment. Cybernetics, or the study of communication and control in animals and machines, has grown increasingly relevant nearly 80 years after its inception. Cyber-physical systems, sensing networks, and spatial computing-algorithms and intelligent machines create endless feedback loops with human and non-human actors, co-producing a cybernetic environment. Yet, when an ecosystem is meticulously managed by intelligent machines, can we still call it wild nature? Posthumanism ideas, such as new materialism, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology, have become increasingly popular among design disciplines, including landscape architecture, and may have provided transformative frameworks to understand this entangled reality. However, design still entails a sense of intentionality and an urge to control. How do we, then, address the tension between the designer's intentionality and the co-produced reality of more-than-human agents in the cybernetic environment? Is posthumanism enough to develop a framework to think beyond our all-too-human ways of thinking? For researchers, scholars, practitioners, and students in environmental design and engineering disciplines, this book maps out a paradigm of environmentalism and ecological design rooted in non-communication and uncontrollability, and puts a speculative turn on cybernetics.

Hartmann, Heinrich / Tischler, Julia (eds.), Planting Seeds of Knowledge: Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century. (Environment in History: International Perspectives 24) 366 pp. 2023:6 (Berghahn, US) <723-261>
ISBN 978-1-80539-010-7 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural changes and knowledge-making through a transnational lens. Spanning exchanges between different parts of Europe, North and South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa, the wide-reaching contributions to this volume reform current historiography to show how local experiences redefined global practice.

アイルランドの海洋漁業　1400～1600年－経済学、環境、エコロジー
Hayes, Patrick W, Ireland's Sea Fisheries, 1400-1600: Economics, Environment and Ecology. (Irish Historical Monographs) 330 pp. 2023:12 (Boydell, UK) <723-262>
ISBN 978-1-78327-706-3 hard ¥25,938.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This book examines the environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland's marine fisheries from 1400 to 1600. It combines a wide range of historical sources with innovative digital research methods to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview. Government letters and court documents highlight the diverse range of fishing fleets from across Europe that visited Irish waters in the early sixteenth century, bringing wealth and cultural influence to the native Irish, who developed complex systems to protect and tax the visitors. Furthermore, trade records illustrate that fish was Ireland's premier export in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. However, a range of factors led to the industry's collapse by the end of the sixteenth century: the Tudor conquest which disrupted fishing operations and fundamentally altered who controlled fishing resources; the destabilization of Irish waters resulting from the terrestrial conflict, which allowed pirates to thrive; an influx of cheap cod from the newly exploited fisheries in Newfoundland which changed consumption patterns in Ireland and across Europe; and shifting climatic conditions and decades of over-exploitation which meant fewer fish and poorer catches. Overall, the book reveals that fisheries form a vital part of the broader environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland.

Contreras-Medina, David Israel et al. (eds.), Ecocentrism for Knowledge Management and Sustainability: Theoretical and Practical Studies in the Post-industrial Era. (Citizenship and Sustainability in Organizations) 262 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-289>
ISBN 978-1-03-273170-4 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Through theoretical studies, this book explains the foundational concepts of ecocentrism, knowledge management, and sustainability and advances the understanding of how eco-centric paradigms can be leverage for the process of knowledge management and knowledge creation, showcasing various applications of this practice and illustrating advantages and disadvantages of adopting an eco-centric approach. With a focus on the three themes of sustainability, knowledge management and ecocentrism, this edited volume presents practical case studies from various organizational contexts, illustrating how sustainability-related practices make use of knowledge management to meet their business objectives from an ecocentric perspective and highlighting the transversal application of this approach to various types of contexts. The book also addresses cases on how post-industrial organizations of the 21st century are using knowledge management in advancing the sustainable development goals with reflections of ecocentrism. There is practical, theoretical, and methodological content, making this valuable to researchers, academics, and advanced students in the fields of knowledge management, sustainability, organizational studies, and strategic management.

自然環境保全地域におけるツーリズムと貧困削減－日本とベトナムの比較研究
Hoang, Nguyen Van, Tourism and Poverty Alleviation in Nature Conservation Areas: A Comparative Study Between Japan and Vietnam. (Routledge Insights in Tourism Series) 144 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <723-373>
ISBN 978-1-03-280412-5 hard ¥14,118.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99 *

This timely book delves into the intricate relationship between tourism and poverty with a specific focus on nature conservation areas, using case studies of island economies in a developed country, Japan, and a developing one, Vietnam. The volume asserts that although the concept of pro-poor tourism has often linked tourism with poverty, limited research has examined this link from diverse perspectives, including those of developed and developing countries where poverty can understand in absolute or relative forms. Notably, the book considers the voices of local residents in these areas, particularly the impoverished living in tourist destinations in Vietnam. This is essential for influencing conservation efforts and making poverty alleviation more achievable. Readers, therefore, gain an understanding of why tourism and poverty alleviation are crucial for every economy within the context of nature conservation areas.This volume is a pivotal resource for scholars in tourism, particularly those focused on teaching and researching tourism geographies and sustainable development. It holds particular significance for scholars examining emerging nations across Asia.

Bhat, Sairam, Environmental Law and Governance in India. (Routledge Research in International Environmental Law) 272 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-414>
ISBN 978-1-03-269252-4 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book provides an insightful, holistic up-to-date perspective of the constitutional governance and legal framework in India with regard to environmental protection.Covering the foundational principles of environmental law, the book details the current status of international environmental law in the face of complex environmental challenges including climate change. The topics covered include water resource governance, and coastal regulation, with a particular focus on the growing significance of the National Green Tribunal. It also covers the wide range of policies that have been introduced over the past fifty years and the impact these have had.The book will be of interest to researchers, legal practitioners, and scholars in the field of environmental law and governance as well as international law.

Bhat, Sairam, Environmental Law and Policy in India. (Routledge Research in International Environmental Law) 272 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-415>
ISBN 978-1-03-269259-3 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book focuses on administrative regulation in environmental law. It also focuses on climate change, and the push for sustainability. Covering the regulation of forest conservation, wildlife protection, water pollution, air pollution, and noise pollution, the book looks into the practical application of environmental legislation. These include responses to international environmental agreements within India and the economic impact. It also discusses historical jurisprudence, and the administrative frameworks existing as a result of this.Focusing on contemporary issues within the legal landscape, the book aims to provide a solid foundation for researchers, legal practitioners, and scholars in the field of environmental law and policymaking.

Zerunyan, Frank V. / Duzert, Yann, Advancing and Negotiating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Practical Toolkit. 200 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-167>
ISBN 978-1-03-280492-7 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-276913-4 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Advancing and Negotiating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) presents a negotiation framework based on the principles of network/collaborative governance in implementing UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Trialled in the classroom and workplace, the practical toolkit gives you the tools necessary for facilitating future collaboration and knowledge transfer to all those working to strengthen the formulation, implementation, and achievement of SDG-oriented policies. Advancing and Negotiating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is essential reading for all those interested in a better and more sustainable future for all.

Jatav, Hanuman Singh / Minkina, Tatiana et al. (eds.), Environmental Nexus for Resource Management. (Environmental Nexus in Waste Management) 488 pp. 2024:8 (CRC Pr., US) <723-202>
ISBN 978-1-03-241453-9 hard ¥40,348.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

This book gives detailed information about how soil, water and wastes can be managed to overcome the various global issues via possible nexus thinking. The emphasis is on the environmental resource perspective of the global climate change related issues. It provides stepwise information on climate change and adaption strategies; urbanization and its impact and management strategies; environmental nexus approaches to cope up global challenges and recourses conservation; and ecological approach to restore the damaged ecosystem. Features:Compiles the possible nexus approaches that contribute to manage the atmospheric environmental variables in sustainable ways.Focusses on environmental resources perspective of the global change.Covers how soil, water and waste may be managed in a nexus.Explains modern strategies to manage present environmental situation that are feasible and safe to the environment.Discusses environmental nexus for judicious resource management.This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in environmental sciences and engineering, and sustainable development.

Forney, Jeremie / Bentia, Dana / Dwiartama, Angga, Everyday Agri-Environmental Governance: The Emergence of Sustainability through Assemblage Thinking. (Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability) 144 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <723-210>
ISBN 978-1-03-222132-8 hard ¥14,118.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99

Revitalising the way the social sciences question agri-environmental governance, this book introduces 'the everyday governance approach' as a means to improving the sustainability of agriculture and food systems.The everyday refers to localised practices, specific networks and practical norms that emerge in a process of interaction, translation and reinterpretation. The authors build this approach on assemblage thinking and theory, which focuses on the collective production of the social through complex sets of connections. For this reason, assemblage thinking becomes a particularly productive guide in exploring how everyday governance is co-produced in the interaction between numerous social processes involving a diversity of actors and instruments. The authors navigate between original and contrasting case studies from Switzerland, Indonesia and the European Union in order to reorient attention to the transformative nature of governance, which they locate along four different dimensions of the everyday: (1) the interdependence of instruments within a wider governance assemblage; (2) the uncertainty and unpredictability of effects in agri-environmental governance; (3) the distributed nature of agency and its implication for power relations; (4) the importance of capacities in the transformation of agrifood systems. This book calls for a redesigning of agri-environmental governance that should move away from the setting of fix and precise objectives and solutions, and rather aim for a consolidation of sound foundations on which desirable futures can emerge.The book will be an essential read for students and scholars interested in sustainable agriculture and food systems, governance modes and approaches and sustainability more broadly.