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

Lo, Kwai-Cheung / Li, Hung-chiung (eds.), Entangled Waterscapes in Asia. (African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities 1) 206 pp. 2025:2 (Brill, NE) <735-526>
ISBN 978-90-04-71916-3 hard ¥29,425.- (税込) EUR 125.00

This volume, edited by Kwai-Cheung Lo and Hung-chiung Li, explores the notion of entangled waterscape to reflect beyond the traditional continental perspectives. It understands Asia and beyond through the multifaceted interplay of history, economics, politics, culture, and ecological concerns. The conceptualization of waterscape echoes contemporary geopolitical tensions, economic interdependencies, military strategies, and historical-cultural dynamics, offering fresh viewpoints on rethinking cultural politics and engaging with Anthropocene concerns and ecological imperatives. The volume reverberates with the discourses of the Global South, complicating prevailing worldviews and ideological underpinnings, and thereby prompts a re-evaluation of the concept of "Asia."

Ferguson, Therese / Bramwell-Lalor, Sharon (eds.), Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in the English-Speaking Caribbean. 158 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-634>
ISBN 978-1-03-294779-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book offers readers a diversity of perspectives, experiences and practical examples from various facets of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) that can propel practice, further research and inform decision-making in the region, thus making for more cogent and effective ESE.The Caribbean region is comprised of what is said to be the largest number of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), together with the non-island nations of Belize, Guyana, and Suriname. Although diverse with respect to governance, size, topography, and income, the Caribbean region has a common set of geographic and socio-economic characteristics that make it vulnerable to environmental hazards, economic challenges and social instability. Further to these particular vulnerabilities are various phenomena that pose critical sustainability challenges, two of which are climate change and crime and violence. Consequently, responsive and relevant ESE is needed to address these issues through knowledge enhancement, attitudinal change, skills development and behaviour change. As we seek solutions, this text brings together various empirical and theoretical contributions focused primarily on the English-speaking Caribbean region, that explore a number of areas such as ESE pedagogy, teacher education, values education and progress evaluation. This volume will be a key resource for educators, policymakers, scholars and advanced students of ESE, as well as those interested in protecting our planet. It was originally published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research.

French, Jennifer L. (ed.), Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. 300 pp. 2024:12 (Vanderbilt U. Pr., US) <735-635>
ISBN 978-0-8265-0746-4 hard ¥21,549.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-0-8265-0745-7 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Changes in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book's eleven chapters, written by some of the leading voices in the field, invite readers to consider how the relationship between humans and nonhuman nature was fundamentally transformed during a period when new modes of capitalist production were emerging in the region and around the world. Jennifer L. French's introductory essay provides a historical and theoretical framework for the collection. Ranging from the immediate aftermath of the Spanish-American Wars of Independence (1810-1826) to the early twentieth century (1925), the volume's essays cover a wide variety of genres and forms of cultural production, from JosE HernAndez's epic poem MartIn Fierro to prose fiction, painting and photography, and the personal albums compiled by Spanish-American women. Individually and collectively, the essays engage with scientific writing as both a discourse of power and a source of potentially significant, even revelatory information about human and nonhuman nature. Changes in the Landscape enables readers to more fully understand the transition from colonial regimes to the ecocidal extractivism of the export boom (1870-1930) by drawing out and analyzing some of the cognitive resources and rhetorical strategies that were available to imagine, protest, or enact new norms and expectations regarding the relations between human and nonhuman life, be it the life of wildflowers, waterfalls, or Cuba's CiEnaga de Zapata.

Dovbischuk, Tetiana, Urban Green Space Usage and Nature Satisfaction: Across Life Course Phases and Socio-Economic Classes. 82 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <735-656>
ISBN 978-1-032-90098-8 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

This book provides an analysis of nature satisfaction, nature relatedness, and the motivations for using urban green spaces. It explores the use of spaces such as parks, waterfronts, wooded areas, and fields among different life course phases and socio-economic classes.Through a detailed analysis of primary data from two major German cities, Cologne and Hamburg, the book examines the availability, use, and satisfaction with urban green spaces and provides insights into the predictors of nature satisfaction in an urban context. The book also combines the subjective assessments of the respondents with objective data. It considers the varying reliance on urban green spaces due to the availability of private green spaces and individual nature relatedness. It provides insights on the needs of different population groups in cities, providing a scientific basis for improving or implementing green space planning approaches.This book will be of interest to researchers in sociology, urban studies, public health, environmental studies, and human geography.

Eubanks, Georgann, The Fabulous Ordinary: Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South. 288 pp. 2025:4 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <735-657>
ISBN 978-1-4696-8592-2 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Hollsten, Laura / Latva, Otto et al. (eds.), Human-Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks. (Brill's Series in the History of the Environment 8) 280 pp. 2024:12 (Brill, NE) <735-662>
ISBN 978-90-04-68060-9 hard ¥35,074.- (税込) EUR 149.00

While providing a basis for all ecosystems, bugs such as insects and arachnids also destroy crops and indirectly kill humans and other animals by the millions. This book illuminates the many ways in which human lives affect and are affected by bugs as part of a wider network of species. 14 chapters reveal how knowledge, ideas, and emotions related to bugs are historically and culturally formed. With many bug populations in free fall, how can humans and bugs coexist? This book examines this question and offers a new ethics for this coexistence. Contributors are Michaela Fenske, Minna Santaoja, Concepcion Cortes Zulueta, Heidi Mikkola, Laura Hollsten, Sophie FitzMaurice, Otto Latva, Marianne Maekelin, Taina Syrjaemaa, Suvi Rytty, Sanna Lillbroaenda-Annala, Emily Webster, Karine Aasgaard Jansen, Heta Laehdesmaeki, and Tuomas Raesaenen.

Lawson, Benjamin A., A Cultural History of Waste Disposal: Environmental Policy and Park Redevelopments. (Routledge Environmental History) 200 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-665>
ISBN 978-1-03-256071-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book offers a historical analysis of the landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies to emphasize the international and global scale of issues concerning waste disposal and park redevelopments. New York, Toronto, and Tel Aviv are currently redeveloping giant landfills into parks, with much booster fanfare. The park redevelopments may be seen as an attempt to erase or assuage the decades of problematic waste-disposal policy that led to the creation of such large landfills. Booster rhetoric underscores this point-such as promoting how the parks will be a "green lung" for the city. This book contextualises these redevelopments by offering a historical analysis, providing the context from which to better understand recent, current, and potential issues and developments. The book goes on to analyse the rhetoric and media coverage surrounding former-waste sites becoming park-redevelopments, including how cities use art to promote their image and gain cultural relevance. By engaging with both the works of waste historians and literature on waste and discard studies, this book provides theoretical models for analysing the role of power in municipal systems, as well as human and ecological impacts on waste. The book concludes with analysis of the features necessary for landfill-parks to be successful. This book will be useful for scholars, researchers and academics studying waste studies, the environment, cities, and sustainable development, as well as for policymakers and environmental/eco artists.

Morseau, Blaire, Mapping Neshnabe Futurity: Celestial Currents of Sovereignty in Potawatomi Skies, Lands, and Waters. (Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies) 232 pp. 2025:5 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <735-668>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5314-3 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5313-6 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Mueller, Simone M. / Schmidt, M. / Twelbeck, K. (eds.), Ecological Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities. (Routledge Environmental Humanities) 260 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <735-669>
ISBN 978-1-03-262794-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book provides a systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the conflicts, issues and tensions associated with today's ecological transformation processes from an environmental humanities perspective. It explores the notion of ecological ambivalence, where conflicting reactions, beliefs, or feelings towards public policies or private practices for 'saving planet Earth' threaten to produce a stalemate.Under the umbrella of the environmental humanities, the book brings together scholars from fields such as environmental history, ecological economics, human geography, and ecocriticism. Contributions investigate the dissonances, or ambivalences, wound up with processes of environmental transformation both conceptually and empirically. Case studies range from wind farms in India to green mineral mines in Mexico, and from chemical contamination in Denmark to Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, USA. Additionally, with a focus on creative environmental communication - as in Philippe Squarzoni's graphic novel Climate Changed or G'Ebinyo Ogbowei's poetry - contributions also present possible pathways for overcoming ambivalences, managing them creatively, or critiquing the concept as whole. The volume highlights how the humanities, the arts, and the social sciences can work together to help humanity develop and cultivate the skills to overcome paralysis and engage in practical action, and in doing so, puts forth ambivalence as an approach for being in today's world.This book will be of interest to researchers, academics and students studying environmental humanities, the social sciences and environment sciences. It will also be useful for decision makers, think tanks, NGOs and activists.

Paterson, Eddie / Stevens, Lara, Performing Climates. (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies) 192 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <735-670>
ISBN 978-1-03-222556-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Performing Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance's relationship with more-than-human elements at a time of climate emergency.This book argues that Western performance - how we conceive of it, as well as how we train and educate people in and about it - needs to reorient its ways of making and thinking about itself to reconsider patterns of breakdown, decay and renewal happening on and off stage in a literal play of cells and particles. This book examines live performance as a uniquely compostable artform, formed by sonic vibrations and movements of air and matter, more-than-human elements, composition and decomposition.This book will appeal to undergraduate audiences, postgraduate scholars and performance studies colleagues, offering exciting possibilities for reconsidering theatre and performing in an age of crisis.

Russell, Constance / Chandler, Patrick / Dillon, J. (eds.), Humour and Environmental Education. 150 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-672>
ISBN 978-1-03-294873-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book illustrates how humour can be a powerful tool for environmental education. Hailing from eight different countries, the authors' inquiries are grounded in a range of sites of learning and focus on different comedic forms, offering a variety of perspectives on the ways humour features, or could feature, in environmental education.The chapters adopt an array of methodological approaches and theoretical frames, drawing not only on environmental education research and humour studies, but also scholarship in affect theory, anti-racist and Indigenous education, climate change communication, critical pedagogy, ecocriticism and language arts education, feminist theory, human-animal relations, media studies, new materialisms, philosophy, psychology, public pedagogy, science education, and social movement studies. Many of the topics discussed in this volume necessitated multi- or interdisciplinary inquiries and pedagogies.Delving into humour led the authors to push beyond the boundaries of their own disciplines and, for some, to form creative collaborations that took them not only into new academic fields but also outside their professions to work with actors, cartoonists, comedians, and game developers. This book was originally published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research.

Schuparra, Kurt, How the California Electricity Crisis Generated a Green Wave: An Insider's Account. (Routledge Environmental History) 232 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-673>
ISBN 978-1-03-284321-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book provides the definitive account of a decade-long transformation of energy policy in California with rippling consequences. The author, a state government "insider" during much of this period, tells a story informed by personal experience, access to the key actors of the time (both then and now), and extensive research.California's risky experiment in deregulating the state's electricity market in the 1990s, resulting in manipulation from unscrupulous energy providers and necessitating government action, laid the foundation for a greener grid and greater energy efficiency in the early 2000s and beyond. The book follows the state's energy journey through Democratic governor Gray Davis's administration and his Republican successor Arnold Schwarzenegger's time in office, providing a detailed behind-the-scenes account. It highlights how this period influenced broader discussions of energy policy in the US, culminating in President Barack Obama pledging bold action and securing $90 billion for clean energy programs in the 2009 "stimulus" bill, the largest single "green" investment in history at that point in time. The energy crisis provided a springboard for green growth by discrediting deregulation, elevating public support, and establishing a political pathway for a growing array of sustainable energy advocates.This book engagingly balances policy considerations and political drama to reveal the untold details of how the electricity crisis paved the way for key climate and clean energy policies, and offers unprecedented access to archival material from the Davis administration era. It will be a must-read for energy policy makers, researchers, and environmental historians.

Scott, James C., In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings. (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) 248 pp. 2025:2 (Yale U. Pr., US) <735-674>
ISBN 978-0-300-27849-1 hard ¥6,036.- (税込) US$ 28.00

James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they can teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered. It is the annual flood pulse-the brief time when the river occupies the floodplain-that gives a river its vitality, but it is human engineering that kills it, suppressing the flood pulse with dams, irrigation, siltation, dikes, and levees. In demonstrating these threats to the riverine world, award-winning author James C. Scott examines the life history of a particular river, the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) of Burma, the heartland and superhighway of Burman culture. Scott opens our understanding of rivers to encompass their entirety-tributaries, wetlands, floodplains, backwaters, eddies, periodic marshlands, and the assemblage of life forms dependent on rivers for their existence and well-being. For anyone interested in the Anthropocene and the Great Acceleration, rivers offer a striking example of the consequences of human intervention in trying to control and domesticate a natural process, the complexity and variability of which we barely understand.

Skjerven, Astrid / Berg, Lisbeth Lovbak et al. (eds.), Mediating Sustainability in the Consumer Society. (Routledge Studies in Sustainability) 240 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-675>
ISBN 978-1-03-249219-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book sheds light on the role and impact of sustainability mediation, an effective tool for political authorities and business enterprises to persuade consumers of the integrity of their actions, products, and services.In this era of ecological and societal crises fuelled by increasing consumption, sustainability has become a key buzzword and target to attain. Governments around the world argue that they will meet their sustainability goals through environmental actions, by enabling consumers to make better choices and expecting brands to respond accordingly. At the same time, consumers are overwhelmed by the messaging conveyed in sustainability marketing campaigns, often featuring misleading greenwashing, with political authorities, organisations, and business enterprises all having conflicting interests. In this complex scenario, mediation has become a crucial issue. This book offers a critical and multidisciplinary view of sustainability mediation from experts in the fields of philosophy, consumption research, media studies, fashion, design, and citizenship, offering a unique, holistic view. Each chapter highlights different and problematic aspects of the cultural narratives being communicated, for example the necessity of growth and the notion of a green economy. They present current theories, methods, indicators, and strategies used to assess and measure the relation between mediation, behaviour, and sustainable development.The book is of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in all subject fields concerned with sustainability, including design, visual communication, fashion, consumption, media and journalism, and sustainable development.

Volkmer, Ingrid / Mutsvairo, B. / Bebawi, S. et al. (eds.), Ecologies of Global Risk Journalism: Conceptualizing Local Journalism in an Era of Deep Disruptions. (Routledge Research in Journalism) 352 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-677>
ISBN 978-1-03-255572-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This volume investigates the practice and challenges of journalism addressing globalized risk from various world regions.With chapters written by members of the Global Risk Journalism Hub, an international research network of leading scholars from the Global North and Global South, this collection brings together international journalism researchers from a wide range of theoretical and methodological backgrounds to uncover key issues of 'global risk journalism' within their regional contexts. Using the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic as a point of departure, the book explores the effect of digital platforms on news production, how the reporting of these transnational emergencies affects the misinformation ecosystem, the power relations between global and local news sources, and the ethics of conducting research in the face of globalized crises.This truly international and comparative volume will interest researchers and students of global and local journalism, risk journalism, journalism practice, media and communication studies, intercultural communication, political science and sociology.

Glass, Tamie / Graham, Lindsay (eds.), People and Spaces: Experiences, Ethics, and Intent. 254 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-70>
ISBN 978-0-367-43617-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-0-367-43616-2 paper ¥12,532.- (税込) GB￡ 43.99

People and Spaces explores our relationship with our environments, unveiling the unique ways that built environments and human behavior interact in today's rapidly evolving world and climate.Co-edited by a designer and a psychologist, this book brings together diverse perspectives and voices working at this intersection to reveal how built environments influence our daily lives from, the ways we express ourselves, to the structure of our societies, and even global landscape. By showcasing a range of viewpoints, case studies, and innovative research, People and Spaces equips readers in any discipline with knowledge to enhance human-centric spaces in meaningful ways. Through a blend of essays and expert insights, readers will explore the significance of intentional and interdisciplinary approaches to design and research and gain practical guidance for creating supportive and sustainable environments. This book is relevant to a broad audience, including scholars, professionals, and students in architecture, interior design, psychology, and related fields, as well as industry practitioners interested in the intersection of built environments and human experience. It is an essential resource for those seeking to understand and influence the dynamic relationship between people and space.

Huan, Tzung-Cheng (TC) / Wai Leong, A. M. / Ma, Tao (eds.), Ecotourism Essentials: Principles, Challenges, and Practices for a Sustainable Future. 157 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-310>
ISBN 978-1-03-286266-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This comprehensive book, Ecotourism Essentials: Principles, Challenges, and Practices for a Sustainable Future, delves into the intricate dynamics of ecotourism sustainability and effective communication, offering insights from global analyses and scholarly research. Divided into three parts, the book covers a wide range of topics relevant to both researchers and practitioners.The book navigates through three distinct parts. Part I illuminates the foundations of ecotourism sustainability and communication, examining how these principles shape the industry's ethos and operations. Part II delves into the challenges and critiques faced by the tourism industry, while Part III offers insights into ecotourism practices and perspectives, including discussions on animal-centred debates and the adoption of sustainability principles by leading ecolodges.Ecotourism Essentials is an essential resource for anyone interested in understanding and promoting sustainable travel practices. Whether you're a researcher, practitioner, or simply passionate about ecotourism, this book offers valuable perspectives and insights into the evolving landscape of responsible travel.The chapters in this book were originally published in Tourism Recreation Research.

Huan, Tzung-Cheng (TC) / Wai Leong, A. M. / Ma, Tao (eds.), Ecotourism Horizons: From Community Empowerment to Global Perspectives. 138 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-311>
ISBN 978-1-03-286273-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book invites readers on a captivating journey through the complexities of ecotourism around the world. Ecotourism Horizons: From Community Empowerment to Global Perspectives offers a comprehensive exploration of the diverse landscapes and issues within the realm of ecotourism, divided into two insightful parts.Part I unveils community-based ecotourism's transformative potential, from homestays in the Himalayas to empowerment in Malaysian Borneo and Cambodia. Gender dynamics are explored alongside community empowerment in this enlightening section, shedding light on the nuanced relationships between tourism, society, and environment. In Part II, explore global insights on ecotourism, spanning destinations like China, India, Iran, and Sub-Saharan Africa. From outbound Chinese tourists' experiences to challenges faced by ecolodges, diverse perspectives illuminate ecotourism's multifaceted landscape, addressing local initiatives and broader issues.A must-read for enthusiasts and scholars alike, Ecotourism Horizons: From Community Empowerment to Global Perspectives offers invaluable insights into the complexities and potentials of ecotourism worldwide. Discover how communities, tourists, and environments interact in this dynamic and evolving field.The chapters in this book were originally published in Tourism Recreation Research.

環境哲学－入門
Casetta, Elena, Philosophy of the Environment: An Introduction. 202 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-34>
ISBN 978-1-03-276690-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-276687-4 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This textbook offers a reasoned and accessible introduction to the philosophy of the environment and the current environmental crisis, designed for scholars and students in both philosophy and the natural and environmental sciences.This volume addresses the history and meanings of the concept of "environment", provides a theory of the relation between living beings and their environments, and tackles a wide spectrum of key philosophical issues related to the environment and the environmental crisis in a straightforward framework and accessible style. The book's unique approach to environmental philosophy addresses the environment of all living beings and extends beyond environmental ethics to include conceptual history and analysis together with insights from evolutionary and developmental biology, ecology, and environmental and conservation sciences. The book consists of five chapters, each built around a specific thesis drawing upon philosophers and concepts including George Canguilhem, Rachel Carson, Donna Haraway, Lamarck's evolutionary theory and Humboldt's theory of nature, and the Gaia Hypothesis. The final chapter introduces topics such as environmental denialism and post-natural environmentalism as conceptual tools for better understanding the current ecological crisis.Targeted at students and scholars in both philosophy and the environmental and life sciences, the book distinguishes itself through its approachable style and choice of topics, which are also well suited to junior researchers who seek to better understand the current environmental crisis.

Grant, Richard H., Applying Local Climate Effects to Homicide Investigations. 208 pp. 2025:2 (CRC Pr., US) <735-388>
ISBN 978-1-03-278187-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-278185-3 paper ¥15,096.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

Applying Local Climate Effects to Homicide Investigation presents the concepts behind using local climate and weather records to enhance understanding of criminal cases. While sources of such local climate and weather information varies by country and regions, weather conditions are typically measured at airports or grassy areas as part of a national, regional, or state-wide networks using many different instruments.The information derived from such instruments and weather reporting services and agencies can inform and impact investigations, especially in the case of natural death or homicide cases. The determination of post-mortem interval (PMI) in homicide cases is often based on entomological or anthropological evidence in combination with local climate estimations. Determining the local climate conditions typically requires knowledge of the environmental conditions where the body is found and the conditions where the measurement record was made. Most people recognize that cities are hotter than the surrounding countryside and that lake and coastal shorelines are cooler than fields: all of these comprise local climates. The local climate where a corpse is discovered usually differs from where temperature and humidity measurements are made. Consequently, many investigators and forensic pathologists do not realize the influence that such local temperatures and humidity can have on post-mortem interval determinations.The book focuses on local climate conditions associated with the determination of post-mortem interval (PMI) and gives concepts behind adjusting climate information for local climates at the corpse. In addition, the book will present guidelines for crime scene investigators and lawyers to determine whether or not expert consultation is needed, and whether or not on-site measurements are needed. Most importantly, Applying Local Climate Effects to Homicide Investigation presents tools (data sources and modelling approaches) to guide forensic climatologists conducting forensic climatology work. It offers a basic, working understanding of the influence of the local environment on the local climate for forensic entomologists, forensic anthropologists, crime scene investigators, and lawyers. Numerous case studies are included throughout to show approaches, illustration decision points, and provide an understanding of the various impacts of regional and micro-climates upon decedents and their remains.

気候緩和とEU－欲望と喜びのラカン的考察
Tolis, Valeria, Climate Mitigation and the European Union: A Lacanian Exploration of Desire and Enjoyment. (Interventions) 174 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <735-504>
ISBN 978-1-03-245677-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book focuses on the European Union's (EU) climate change mitigation actions, developing a critical framework to the 2030 clean energy package and the 2050 long-term decarbonization strategy.Reflecting on the possibility of real change and transition, the author develops a Lacanian-based discourse analysis which reflects on agentic capacities and assesses both the status quo and changes in the discourse. Informed by extensive fieldwork in Brussels and at the UN Framework Conventions on Climate Change, this interdisciplinary book spans global environmental politics, international relations, EU studies, and discourse theories/analysis.It will be of particular interest to those working in critical theory, subjectivity, language, materiality and intersects with a wide range of disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, geography, linguistics, and psychology.

Peterson, Nicole D., Net Values: Environmental, Economic, and Social Entanglements in the Gulf of California. 208 pp. 2025:4 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <735-204>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5518-5 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5479-9 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00

脱炭素化する世界における液化天然ガスの将来
Al-Kuwari, Omran, The Future of Liquified Natural Gas in a Decarbonising World. (Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies) 216 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-217>
ISBN 978-1-03-289890-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book analyses the role of liquified natural gas in a decarbonising world, and presents the most significant energy transition options and implications for the liquified natural gas industry.Major investments and developments in technology have been made in recent years in an attempt to meet global demand, but energy systems require radical new pathways to meet climate goals in line with the Paris Agreement. This book explores the role of liquified natural gas in the context of the global energy transition, arguing that liquified natural gas has a role to play in terms of resources, the gas market, energy transition dynamics/regime status, and geo-political powers. Using a bespoke meta-framework grounded in institutional theory and case studies, the book examines how institutional, political, and resource characteristics affect liquified natural gas use. The book also explores implications for liquified natural gas exporters in the context of the energy transition and analyses the characteristics of liquified natural gas compared with pipeline gas. The multiple case study approach examines the role of natural gas in Japan, the UK, and China, three countries in different stages of the energy transition, to determine potential pathways for exporters. Utilising a multi-method procedure for data collection, including data analysis, in-depth interviews, and direct observations, the book concludes with findings on the potential role of liquified natural gas in various future stages of the energy transition.Written by an industry expert, this book will be of value to students, researchers and academics interested in energy studies, decarbonisation studies and environmental studies more broadly.

McClanahan, Alyssa S., Zimmer: The Movement That Defeated a Nuclear Power Plant. 224 pp. 2025:4 (U. Pr. Kentucky, US) <735-220>
ISBN 978-1-9859-0246-6 hard ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95