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

Koren, Ore / Urtuzuastigui, Jerry, Climate Adaptation and Conflict Mitigation: The Case of South Sudan. (Organizational Response to Climate Change: Businesses, Governments) 75 pp. 2025:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <745-797>
ISBN 978-1-009-51076-9 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-51073-8 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

As climate change intensifies, conflict-prone tropical regions face heightened vulnerabilities, yet little is known about how climate adaptation and food security efforts affect conflict dynamics. Using South Sudan - a country highly susceptible to climate stress and conflict - as a test case, this Element analyzes how international nongovernmental organizations' (INGO) climate adaptation interventions influence civil war and local social conflicts. It develops a theoretical framework linking climate adaptation to conflict, positing both positive and negative externalities. Drawing on original high-resolution data on INGO-driven adaptation and food security efforts, alongside climate, conflict, and development data, findings are substantiated with interviews from policy workers in South Sudan. The results indicate that while adaptation generally does not reduce conflict, interventions that promote preparedness and are implemented during periods of high climate stress can mitigate social conflicts between militias, pastoralists, and farmers. These insights provide guidance for designing climate adaptation strategies that reduce conflict risks.

Herva, Vesa-Pekka / Hakonen, Aki / Norum, Roger et al., Weirding Landscapes: Arctic Glacier Extinction and Monsters of the Anthropocene. (Arctic Encounters) 138 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-824>
ISBN 978-3-031-85015-8 hard ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book investigates human-environment relations in the context of the anthropocenic Arctic. Through an archaeological and anthropological study of landscape, it wields "weirding" - a creative mode of engagement with the world - as a means of coming to terms with the stranger, experiential dimensions of a planet populated by diverse non-human entities often bearing monstrous characteristics. Such entities are exemplified by climate change itself, at once human-induced and a force of its own volition that maintains an elusive "presence" as a co-inhabitant of the Anthropocene. The book focuses on the landscape of Ritnicohkka, a fjell in Sapmi, Finnish Lapland. Ritnicohkka is erstwhile home to a diminutive "glacier", whose "weird", anomalous characteristics crowned the fjell until it several years ago melted into history. Taking a broadly autoethnographic approach, it considers perceptions of, and affective experiences in, this rough and relatively remote, "otherworldly" environment, discussing diverse ways of encountering and relating to the Arctic in the context of scientific fieldwork.

Nogueira, Leticia Antunes / Sandersen, H. T. et al. (eds.), Recycling Institutions: How Waste Becomes an Urban Mine. 196 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <745-829>
ISBN 978-3-031-81753-3 hard ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book investigates the phenomenon of recycling institutions in urban mining using social sciences lenses on the empirical context of waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), landfills as a potential resource pool and the recycling of building materials in Norway. There is a dual meaning to the term 'recycling institutions', and this book has the ambition to explore both. The first refers to institutions that recycle, i.e., the institutional infrastructure that facilitates material recycling. From household attitudes and practices to the laws and regulations that govern waste management, there is an institutional apparatus that recycling relies upon, which gains increased importance as the sustainability agenda develops. The second meaning refers to the recycling of institutions, in the sense that the institutional setup itself is being repurposed and transformed. This more metaphorical meaning points to the way in which emerging societal ambitions (such as the circular economy) stretch and bend existing institutions by imposing new functions upon them. Institutions are conservative and backward-looking and tend to resist rapid and radical changes that are incompatible with the ideas and practices they are built on. So, whereas the first is about designing new institutions for circularity, the second is about modifying and "recycling" existing institutions to meet the challenges circularity may entail. The central premise is that relevant, supportive and well-functioning institutional environments are crucial in the transition to a greener society that encourages industries, businesses, households and citizens to act in more sustainable ways, and it identify both possibilities and obstacles in the emergence of institutions that support urban mining. This book integrates a range of disciplines in the social sciences to investigate the phenomenon of recycling institutions. By examining the case of urban mining in Norway, with a special focus on how existing structures developed for waste management can be repurposed to facilitate this new function, the book provides insight into a scenario where material sourcing from anthropogenic sources is dissociated from natural resource scarcity and is instead linked to political ambitions and an attempt to stay at the forefront of sustainability transitions.

批判的環境正義とは何か？　第2版
Pellow, David Naguib, What is Critical Environmental Justice? 2nd ed. 216 pp. 2025:5 (Polity Pr., UK) <745-830>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6004-2 hard ¥15,004.- (税込) US$ 69.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-6005-9 paper ¥5,351.- (税込) US$ 24.95

Human societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today those relationships are witnessing greater frictions, tensions, and harms than ever before. These dynamics mirror those experienced by marginalized communities across the planet, but they also provide a foundation for transformative thinking and action to address these challenges. In this updated edition of his innovative contribution, David Naguib Pellow introduces a new framework for critically analyzing Environmental Justice scholarship and activism. In doing so he extends the field's focus to topics not usually associated with environmental justice, including policing, incarceration, the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the Black Lives Matter movement. In doing so he reveals that ecological violence is first and foremost a form of social violence, driven by and legitimated by social structures and discourses. He enriches this radical approach to Environmental Justice by drawing on Indigenous Studies, the Black Radical Tradition, Disability Studies, Queer and Transgender Studies, and Multi-Species Justice, among others. Those already familiar with the discipline will find themselves invited to think about the subject in entirely new ways. This book is a vital resource for students, scholars, and policy makers interested in innovative approaches to one of the greatest challenges facing humanity and the planet.

岸上伸啓他編　生存捕鯨－過去の歴史と現代の諸問題
Savelle, James M. / Kishigami, Nobuhiro / Monks, G. (eds.), Subsistence Whaling: Past History and Contemporary Issues. 300 pp. 2025:6 (Springer, GW) <745-831>
ISBN 978-981-9632-79-4 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

Meijer, Eva, Multispecies Dialogues: Doing Philosophy with Animals, Children, the Sea and Others. 200 pp. 2025:2 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <745-60>
ISBN 978-90-485-6441-5 hard ¥30,131.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

In Multispecies Dialogues Eva Meijer develops a new understanding of the concept 'dialogue', which includes embodied, material and spatial interaction. Meijer does not do this alone: each chapter of the book is devoted to a dialogue, or set of dialogues - with street dog Olli, a community of former lab mice, amphibian neighbours, the North Sea, and many other beings. Taking multispecies dialogues seriously is a way to do justice to more-than-human agency and to become more worldly in a time dominated by humans. Rethinking the model of the dialogue also opens up new ways of doing philosophy in multispecies world, which is urgently needed to address the ecological, political and philosophical problems of our time.

Welzel, Christian / Kruse, Stefan / Brunkert, L. et al., The Cool Water Effect: The Geo-Climatic Source of Western Exceptionalism. (Palgrave Studies in Maritime Politics and Security) 348 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-682>
ISBN 978-3-031-81860-8 hard ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book unravels the geo-climatic source of the West's emancipatory struggles and why the spirit of these struggles is about to spread around the world beyond its original geo-climatic root-which we describe as the Cool Water (CW-) Condition: that is, the combination of mostly cool seasons with steady rain in coastal proximity. What is so special about the CW-Condition? In a nutshell, the CW-Condition makes water and its derivative resources (i.e., land usable for hunting, fishery, forestry, crop cultivation and cattle herding) so diffuse that any emerging economy only functions with decentral management of water, land and labor. Decentral management infuses local autonomies into the social fabric, so much that evolving forms of social organization-be it family households, religious orders, business corporations or civic associations-mature under self-governance. Experience in self-governance equips social groups with two essential skills: resource mobilization and coalition building. In combination, these skills generate the power to organize grassroots resistance against top-down impositions, such as over-taxation and related forms of resource extraction. As a consequence, the state-building process begins slowly and proceeds as a conflictual affair between rulers' authority ambitions and bottom-up opposition. This conflict steers state formation towards contractual institutional arrangements in which elected assemblies check the executive power of central rulers. Under these checks, government action navigates towards an indiscriminate pursuit of the common good.

Wolfberg, Adrian, Climate Security Intelligence: From Knowledge Transfer to Co-Creation. (Professional Practice in Governance and Public Organizations) 419 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <745-709>
ISBN 978-3-031-86258-8 hard ¥25,527.- (税込) EUR 109.99

Climate security intelligence is the capacity to warn national and sub-national security organizations of the physical effects of climate change that can have a negative societal effect on nations, governments, and their populations. This book discusses the uniqueness of climate security intelligence, the maturity of its development as a knowledge domain, and its possible future. Written by an intelligence analyst with over forty years of experience, this book centers upon the challenges that organizations may face when analysts, their managers, and their organizations are given the task of warning policymakers and decision-makers about threats to climate security. Taking a necessarily transdisciplinary approach, this book will be of interest to a wide audience of students, researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers concerned with how the impacts of climate change affect the social, cultural, political, and economic stability of national interests.

気候変動－グローバル・サウスにおける介入戦略と持続可能な開発
Joseph, Debra D. / Mthembu, Maud / Huggins, Camille (eds.), Climate Change: Intervention Strategies and Sustainable Development in the Global South. 356 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-715>
ISBN 978-3-031-83036-5 hard ¥37,132.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book highlights the challenges with respect to climate change in the Global South. It demonstrates what has been happening in varying countries in this geographic location and how sustainable adaptation interventions could be used to alleviate these challenges. Most countries in the Global South are extremely vulnerable and unprepared for the present and future impact of climate change. Some climate change events that are presently plaguing these locations are extreme weather events such as flooding, food insecurity, disasters and droughts. The book provides case studies and interventions that can be a source to others who are seeking to find solutions to these adverse climate change events.

Gong, Weila, Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities. (Studies in Comparative Energy and Environmental Politics) 168 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <745-731>
ISBN 978-0-19-775742-0 hard ¥21,235.- (税込) US$ 99.00

Alam, Meredian, The Social Life of Biogas: Biogas Users and Their Innovations in Indonesia. 140 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <745-748>
ISBN 978-981-9632-99-2 hard ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

累積する環境問題のグローバルな法と政策の解決策
Nelson, Rebecca, Regulating a Thousand Cuts: Global Law and Policy Solutions to Cumulative Environmental Problems. 309 pp. 2025:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <745-445>
ISBN 978-1-316-51510-5 hard ¥28,160.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00

Cumulative environmental problems are complex, insidious, slow-motion tragedies that are all too common, from biodiversity loss, to urban air pollution, to environmental injustice. Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative and applied approach, this book offers a new framework for designing solutions using four integrated regulatory functions: Conceptualization, Information, Regulatory intervention and Coordination (the CIRCle Framework). Rules that deliver these functions can help us to clarify what we care about, reveal the cumulative threats to it and do something about those threats - together. Examples from around the world illustrate diverse legal approaches to each function and three major case studies from California, Australia and Italy provide deeper insights. Regulating a Thousand Cuts offers an optimistic, solution-oriented resource and a step-by-step guide to analysis for researchers, policymakers, regulators, law reformers and advocates. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Brisman, Avi, Direct Action as Conceptual Art?: An Examination of the Role of the Communique for Ecodefense. (Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture) 148 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-482>
ISBN 978-3-031-76633-6 hard ¥8,120.- (税込) EUR 34.99

This book offers an avenue for understanding the parameters, scope, meanings, and impacts of environmental protest. Focusing on ecodefense, it explores the significance of the communique (the written explanation of the reasons for an act of ecodefense), comparing the communique to written texts in Conceptual art. It presents and seeks to evaluate the following analogy: act of ecodefense : communique :: work of conceptual art : written declaration/statement. By considering the communique in this light, this book helps us better comprehend the rationales for "radical environmentalism" undertaken for the purposes of reducing environmental harms, natural resource exploitation, and animal abuse.

Biggs, Timothy, Mining: Why It's Essential for a Sustainable Future. 224 pp. 2025:6 (Polity Pr., UK) <745-200>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6749-2 hard ¥13,931.- (税込) US$ 64.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-6750-8 paper ¥4,922.- (税込) US$ 22.95

Mining has a poor public image. It is often associated with environmental degradation, human rights violations and the unacceptable excesses of capitalism. But might it also be the key to ensuring a more sustainable future? Leading industry expert Timothy Biggs argues that modern life is simply unthinkable without mining on a huge scale. From the mobile phone in your pocket to the building you're standing in, the minerals and metals extracted by the mining industry make modern life possible. This fact will become more significant in the context of the environmental challenges we face. Tackling climate change will require technologies ranging from electric cars to solar panels, all of which require immense - and increasing - amounts of copper, iron ore, lithium and other metals. This makes it vital that states and societies respond constructively to the practical needs of the mining industry, and that mining companies address the very real problems associated with their operations. Anyone who wants to understand the stark realities of how our economies will have to change in the context of contemporary environmental problems cannot afford to miss this brilliantly clear account from someone who understands this most vital - and misunderstood - of industries from the inside.

泥炭とロシアの化石経済の忘れれられた余白
Bruisch, Katja, Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy. (Studies in Environment and History) 300 pp. 2025:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <745-201>
ISBN 978-1-009-60308-9 hard ¥26,752.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

This groundbreaking environmental history recounts the story of Russia's fossil economy from its margins. Unpacking the forgotten history of how peat fuelled manufacturing industries and power plants in late Imperial and Soviet Russia, Katja Bruisch provides a corrective to more familiar historical narratives dominated by coal, oil, and gas. Attentive to the intertwined histories of matter and labor during a century of industrial peat extraction, she offers a fresh perspective on the modern Russian economy that moves beyond the socialism/capitalism binary. By identifying peat extraction in modern Russia as a crucial chapter in the degradation of the world's peatlands, Bruisch makes a compelling case for paying attention to seemingly marginal places, people, and resources as we tell the histories of the planetary emergency.

人間の健康とプラネタリーヘルスの人類学
Singer, Merrill, The Anthropology of Human and Planetary Health: An Ecosyndemic Approach. (Springer Texts in Social Sciences) 209 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <745-249>
ISBN 978-3-031-83673-2 paper ¥16,243.- (税込) EUR 69.99

This text introduces undergraduate and graduate students in health or environment-related classes to the mounting crisis of syndemics through the lens of planetary health. The concept of syndemics, developed by the author and now in wide use across multiple health-related disciplines, focuses attention on the adverse synergistic interaction of two or more diseases or other health conditions promoted or facilitated by social and/or environmental conditions. The planetary health framework is an emerging holistic medical rethinking of our understanding of health. It seeks to identify the safe environmental limits within which humanity and other species can flourish on our increasingly imperiled planet. This book offers useful conceptual tools and frameworks for developing a comprehensive understanding of approaches needed to address the health risks of our changing world. The unique coverage of this book is its careful examination of ecosyndemics around the world in light of the growing recognition that on a heavily disrupted planet, a narrow focus on human health is inadequate. Under these circumstances, a comprehensive planetary health framework is needed. This approach seriously considers the interconnected nature of human health, animal and plant health, and the health of the world's ecosystems. Highly descriptive, with numerous cases of the planetary health crisis, the textbook is written in a student-friendly and accessible way and is an important resource for coursework across environment and health-related subjects.