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The chapters review the existing literature in the field, carrying out advanced econometric investigations to shed light on the implications of physical climate change and provide relevant policy advice. The contributors focus on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, providing detailed insight into green finance, sustainable investment and increasingly necessary ESG (environmental, social and governance) measures. They explore a range of key topics including the role of monetary and macroprudential policies, carbon taxes and allowances and improvements in national governance systems. They also compare strategies across global, local, public and corporate levels, identifying the most efficient methods of financing a sustainable green transition.

The Handbook of Climate Change and Financial Markets is a valuable resource for scholars and students of financial, macro, monetary, environmental and energy economics. It is also beneficial for investors requiring appropriate portfolio and risk management strategies, as well as authorities tasked with climate change policies.

The built environment contributes around 37% of total global carbon emissions, consuming concrete, steel, aluminium, glass, refrigerants and energy. Changes in the building design, construction and operations in rapidly urbanizing economies could have a significant impact on global carbon emissions but vary from building to building.

This book examines the case for sustainability in the built environment including the importance of cities to public and environmental health and the business case for the sector rapidly adopting sustainable practices. Retrofit, new development and operational case studies from around the world are discussed as examples for building owners in rapidly emerging economies to learn from. The case studies include sustainability lessons from other industries, is supported by evidence from interviewees and is suitable for practitioners in the real estate sector needing to know how to navigate sustainability not only in their own business but also in relation to conversations with investors, tenants, suppliers and other stakeholders.

Business executives from other industries will also find plenty to learn from the sustainability principles explained this book.

Identifying recurring themes, concepts and perspectives across disciplines, the book highlights best practice and provides actionable advice on how sustainable resource management can be more fully realised. Chapters on the commons, political ecology and governance illustrate how they have been informed by political science, public administration and geography and those on economics and mathematical modelling set out concepts and assumptions that have guided their analyses. Reflections on contributions from international development, anthropology and social psychology illuminate the relevance of local context and value orientation on the management of renewable natural resources. Finally, chapters on ecology and sustainability science reflect the need for holistic, integrated approaches.

Sustainable Natural Resource Management is an essential resource for scholars and students of ecology, environmental economics, sustainability science, anthropology, geography and international development. It is also beneficial for researchers in natural resource management looking to understand how other disciplines and fields of study can inform new research collaborations and projects.

This book presents real-life applications of data science, artificial intelligence, and big data for the Sustainable Development Goals. It includes a list of case studies from different states across India. The case studies in the book use both structured and unstructured data like numeric data, textual data, and video/image data across the various chapters for analysis. It explores various aspects of data science starting from on ground data collection to dashboard based reporting, unsupervised methods like clustering for grouping data points, use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning, search or information retrieval, time series forecasting, and optimization.

• It showcases data science decision-making processes, driving innovation, and solving complex problems in real-life scenarios across sectors like governance, education, healthcare agriculture and sanitation
• The SDGs provide a framework for societal development and well-being for all; the data science and big data interventions in this book are aligned towards mapping the various SDGs
• Most of the data science use cases and initiative projects covered in this book have been implemented by central or state governments across different states of India
• Shows how data science intervention can transform the social sector, potentially driving positive change and addressing critical societal challenges
• Explained the fundamentals of data science theories with case studies, including concepts like classification, regression, predictive analytics, optimization, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and time series forecasting for readers of different disciplines

It serves as a valuable reference for graduate students, researchers, and scholars seeking to deepen their knowledge and engage with real life applications of data science. It will also serve as a valuable resource for government officers and policy practitioners, providing a range of cases on the use of data-based methods for improving governance and policy making.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license funded by the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon Campus, Delhi NCR, India.

This book is a comprehensive study on how the national security sectors of China, India, Japan, Russia, and the United States have engaged the idea of climate change as an existential threat.

Climate Change, National Security and Geopolitics examines the respective ways in which the five states have framed the issue of climate change in relation to their larger national security construction. It investigates the extent to which these countries have engaged with climate change as a security challenge, and how this has informed their larger security policymaking and practice. The authors employ a conceptual framework that represents the complex relationship between geopolitics and the environment to grasp the nature of the threat and to assess the actions available to governments to manage it. The book also considers the interactions of the five states in the United Nations Security Council as they debate their different understandings on the climate-security nexus.

This volume offers real-world case studies by national scholars of environmental security and an analytical assessment of pathways and barriers to their nations' future cooperation. It will therefore be of great interest to security sector professionals, as well as to students, scholars, and researchers studying climate change, military studies, international security, and environmental peace and conflict studies.

The exploration and settlement of the Pacific Island world is one of the most remarkable achievements of humanity. Early seafarers, skilled in navigation, discovered diverse habitats and biotas extending across a third of the globe. In this "sea of islands," they established thriving communities where they lived for thousands of years. Today, although island ecosystems and cultures are facing great change, Pacific Island peoples remain resilient.

This new edition of a popular text reviews the diverse landforms, climates, ecosystems, societies, and cultures of the Pacific region. Seventy-five contributors-including numerous Indigenous scholars-address two key themes: (1) environmental dilemmas and possibilities, and (2) demographic, economic, and political challenges facing the people of the region.

New chapters highlight hydrology, ecosystem disturbance, conservation, Indigenous origins and activism, social media, ethnography, kava, contemporary dance, theater, and the cultural impact of globalization.

Other noteworthy chapters are significantly updated: biogeographical dynamics, prehistory of Near and Remote Oceania, fisheries and aquaculture, the fluidity of gender, mobility and urbanization, tourism as encounter, island economies, shifts in literary trends, Pacific music, water and development, and a new overview of land, marine, and water tenure.

The book concludes with a reflective essay. Pacific Island societies have been coping with environmental and demographic challenges for millennia; surviving societies have much to teach us about sustainable living, social justice, and reconciliation.

Policy makers, educators, students, and the general public will find this book an indispensable resource for understanding the region's past, present, and future.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential concepts of environmental conflict and peacebuilding by compiling and explaining key terms in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format.

Over the past 80 years, scholarly interest in war and peace has flourished, resulting in the institutionalization of disciplines such as international relations, security studies, and peace and conflict studies. Since at least the 1970s, research has also investigated the planetary effects of global environmental change. Environmental peacebuilding emerged at the intersection of environment, conflict, and peace, weaving together several related threads that address both environmental risks of conflict and environmental opportunities for peace. The language used to describe, explain, predict, teach, negotiate, and form policy in the arena of environmental peacebuilding is often nuanced, evolving, and contested. This book fills a gap in the literature by providing a consistent understanding and approach to key aspects of environmental peacebuilding. The book begins with a thematic introduction to contextualize the topic, written by a team of world-leading scholars. The book then follows an A-Z format, with over 150 entries from experts in the field describing and explaining key concepts and providing examples of how different terms are applied within this growing discipline.

This comprehensive A-Z guide will be useful for students, academics, professionals, and policymakers seeking a wider understanding of environmental peacebuilding. The book will also be useful for those studying security studies, peace and conflict studies, environmental studies, and environmental law.

This book explores a series of Australian 'shadow places' that manifest complex stories of colonised Australia in the throes of environmental crisis. These are places-from nuclear testing grounds, to extractivist landscapes, to the frontiers of colonial violence-that bear the heaviest burdens of capitalist colonial culture, but are routinely considered out of sight and out of mind. Engaging with a range of shadow places across southern Australia via literary, cultural, and critical sources, Shadow Country argues that these places are with us all the time, threaded into the imaginative and material worlds that compose our homes. Through localised stories of environmental disaster, colonial violence and profound injustice, shadow places connect to the most pressing issues facing human society-environmental futures, social justice and the imperative of decolonisation.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars with an interest in the intersection of environmental crisis and colonial legacies, and the complexity of living in a time of reckoning with these.

This book argues that, beyond the apparent fracture between humans and nature that defines the Anthropocene crisis, there exists a shared cultural foundation in legal traditions, converging on the recognition of the intrinsic value of Nature and of the ecosystem interconnections between human and non-human life. The legal innovations explored here-particularly from Latin America-embody a holistic, integrated view coherent with the ecosystem approach. It is proposed that these ideas offer potential not only within their own legal systems but also as models for Western legal frameworks. Divided into five parts, the book maintains a balance between theoretical and empirical, combining foundational legal and philosophical discussions with practical case studies and applications. Part 1 establishes the theoretical foundation, setting the conceptual framework of the volume. Part 2 builds on this by addressing the methodological implications and laying the groundwork for a transition from anthropocentric to ecocentric governance. Parts 3 and 4 bridge theory with practice, exploring participatory tools, bottom-up initiatives, and challenges to traditional environmental law, illustrating how theoretical advancements are applied in specific legal and policy contexts. Part 5 focuses on jurisprudence and the role of the judiciary, providing an empirical analysis of how legal principles are interpreted and enforced in judicial settings. This progression ensures that the book effectively integrates theory with empirical research, underscoring its interdisciplinary and practical significance. The volume will be of interest to those working in the areas of Legal Philosophy, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, Human Rights, Anthropology and Environmental Studies.

This book transforms the way ESG management is approached by prioritising interconnectedness over isolated efforts. It explores the evolution from mere compliance to delivering measurable outcomes that stakeholders increasingly demand, emphasising the amplified impact of managing material ESG topics collectively. Through real-world case studies and in-depth analyses, it offers practical strategies to unlock ESG opportunities while mitigating associated risks. Each chapter delivers actionable insights, illustrating how progress in one area can accelerate advancements across others. The book includes discussion prompts alongside case studies, making it ideal for classroom and training applications.

* Integrates material ESG issues with sustainability themes and global development goals.
* Introduces an innovative KPI framework, including a layered KPI approach.
* Focuses on developing economies, an often-overlooked dimension in ESG literature.
* Provides solutions to overcome organisational silos for effective ESG nexus implementation.
* Features practical frameworks, actionable guidance, and case studies from both developed and emerging markets.

It is intended for sustainability professionals, environmental managers, and climate risk specialists.

This book examines the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in optimizing environmental management, mitigating carbon footprints, and accelerating the transition to a sustainable low-carbon economy.

Progressing from discussion of fundamental concepts to specific applications of AI in various sectors, this book highlights how AI can assist companies and sectors in achieving internationally transferable mitigation outcomes (ITMO) and complying with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria. Sectors and applications discussed include e-commerce, finance, urban planning and conservation, among others. The book also addresses the ethical considerations and challenges of deploying AI technology and the need for robust regulatory frameworks.

Cutting across the disciplines of technology, engineering, and social sciences, this book will interest a broad range of researchers including those focused on sustainable development, ESG and net zero transition.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of pastoralism, combining major theoretical debates with an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on pastoral systems across the world.

Approaching pastoralism as a social-ecological system, this volume synthesizes current knowledge about how pastoralists make a living and organize social life while managing herds in diverse and often highly variable environments. Understanding pastoralism in this holistic way requires an approach that bridges disciplines: not only anthropology but also rangeland ecology, animal science, agricultural economics, veterinary epidemiology, and related fields. This handbook's chapters are organized into eight parts that examine the emergence of pastoralism; its biophysical foundations; the economics of pastoral production; adaptive strategies; social and political organization; new methodological and analytical approaches; development and policy perspectives; and possible futures for pastoral systems. Together, these contributions advance the field by offering both a state-of-the-art guide and a source of inspiration for future research. This volume is designed to serve as a reference for scholars seeking to launch innovative, impactful studies, as well as for policymakers and practitioners working to design effective interventions that support pastoral livelihoods.

This handbook is an indispensable resource on pastoralism for students, researchers, and professionals.

Chapters 1, 3, 7, 13, 17, 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Resource and learning tool presenting the synergies of water and food trends, environmental ecosystems, and social and economic dimensions

The Global Nexus Handbook presents the synergies of water and food trends, environmental ecosystems, and social and economic dimensions, focusing on nature-based, clean energy, and global nexus trend solutions in the ecosystem, particularly in urban and coastal areas. This three-volume collection helps readers consider and understand the interrelationships between components of nature to strive towards a secure and sustainable future.

The Global Nexus Handbook includes information on:

• The interaction in ecosystem environment between water, hydroponics, aquaculture, food policy and security, land, biomass, biodiversity, conflict, infrastructure, and socio-ecological dynamics
• Economical aspects including peace, democracy, investment, gender, migration, poverty, and terrorism
• Nexus problems and issues generally applicable to the realm of the biosphere
• How various nexuses examine, assess, and deconstruct the social-economic realities of development

The Global Nexus Handbook is an essential reference for researchers in related fields and students in programs of study focusing on environment science and engineering, ecology, environment science and engineering, and food science. Government policy makers and engineering consultants will also find the text valuable.

As agricultural systems bear the brunt of global population growth, the world faces an unprecedented challenge: meeting rising food demands while mitigating environmental degradation and climate change. The agricultural intensification methods pioneered since the 1960s have exacted a significant environmental toll in the form of diminishing biodiversity, reducing carbon storage capacity, depleting water resources, degrading soil quality, and increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

This comprehensive monograph presents innovative solutions for transforming agroecosystems from environmental liabilities into powerful climate mitigation tools. The authors examine cutting-edge agrotechnical treatments, environmental engineering technologies, and circular economy principles that enable agricultural waste to serve as effective soil improvers and fertilizers. Particular emphasis is placed on the physicochemical properties of biochar and its critical role in carbon sequestration, offering readers both theoretical foundations and practical applications.

This is a valuable resource for agricultural scientists, environmental engineers, sustainability professionals, policymakers, graduate students in environmental sciences, and anyone committed to understanding and addressing the intersection of food security and climate change.

Indian and South African Labor Responses to the International Labor Organization's Green Initiatives: Through the Eyes of the Colonized explores the differences in attitudes of developing states to the International Labor Organization (ILO) green initiatives, such as sustainable development, green jobs, and just transition, through a comparative case study of India and South Africa. As noble and urgent as they seem, not all countries are on board with green initiatives. Some developing states are wary on the grounds that they continue the interventionist legacies of their colonizers. India is one of these countries less open to these initiatives, in contrast to South Africa, which has embedded the initiatives in their green labor programs. This book shows how postcolonial theories such as Said's Orientalism and Bhabha's mimicry can be helpful in making sense of these discrepancies in attitudes. By providing a comparative study of these two powerful BRICS countries, it fills an important gap in our understanding of postcolonial responses of developing states, and expands the fields of comparative politics, history, postcolonial studies, and environmental policies. The book concludes by exploring the distinct ways in which India resists these green initiatives and how South Africa offers resistance by mimicking Western green initiatives in their policy line-up. Indian and South African Labor Responses to the International Labor Organization's Green Initiatives: Through the Eyes Initiatives will be of great interest to students and scholars of Postcolonial Politics and History, and International Relations.

Taking North America as its focus, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of humanity's evolving relationship with energy.

As humans have sought to live and develop the North American continent, energy from Earth's basic elements has served as the raw material for living. Through its chronological approach and critical case studies, the volume examines how the search for and harvest and use of energy have shaped human history, from colonial empire-building to contemporary debates on sustainability and climate change. By analyzing diverse energy sources, including sail power, coal, crude oil, wind, solar, electricity, and nuclear power, the book reveals how industrialization transformed energy consumption and demand, driving political, social, and environmental change. It connects energy history to major political and environmental themes, such as water politics, post-1990s Alberta pipeline debates, the war in Ukraine, and climate change, highlighting how energy has been both a unifying force and a source of division among diverse peoples, shaping global power dynamics and regional histories.

Designed for students of environmental history and energy studies, this text synthesizes this important history whilst offering insights into the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century.

Addressing the big questions to advance the debate on good governance for sustainable development, this book asks: what is governance for sustainable development? What makes governance 'good'? And what are the factors that inhibit good governance?

With contributions from experts in Development Studies, Economics, Geography, Management, Environmental Science, Politics, and Public Policy, this interdisciplinary volume critically engages with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) whilst reflecting on the inherently political nature of good governance. Chapters draw on cases from a range of geographical contexts (local, national, supranational, and global) and diverse policy areas, including global environmental and labour governance, gender equality, decolonial governance in the Coral Triangle, supranational governance in the EU, and resource governance in the car industry. By doing so, this book provides an overview of the current challenges and possibilities for achieving good governance and sustainable development, and calls for a return to the critical spirit of the original concept of good governance, to reclaim it as the radical idea it was intended to be.

This book will act as an insightful and valuable guide for academics, scholars, and students of Development Studies, Economics, Politics, Environmental Science, Geography, and Management, as well as policymakers and practitioners working in sustainable development.

This book discusses the sustainability challenges of small-scale fisheries in the Sundarbans, examining the socioecological dynamics and management approaches in this complex transboundary ecosystem shared between India and Bangladesh. Integrating oceanographic, ecological, and socioeconomic perspectives, it provides a multiscale analysis of artisanal fisheries in deltaic environments under anthropogenic climate stress.

Employing multidimensional vulnerability frameworks, the work analyzes ecological risks-climatic threats, oceanographic shifts, pollution dynamics-alongside the gender-disaggregated livelihood in fishing communities and the socioeconomic constraints creating poverty traps. The narrative moves beyond the Sundarbans to explore mangrove fisheries across Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America, identifying cross-regional sustainability patterns and innovative solutions. Resilience-based adaptive management frameworks are presented to help combat these issues, and the authors explore policy innovation and governance design frameworks for empowering small-scale fisheries at the intersection of ecological stewardship and socioeconomic equity.

This book is beneficial for postgraduates, undergraduates, professionals, researchers, fishery managers, policy makers, and academic scholars in fisheries science, environmental engineering, environmental management, sustainable development, and social ecology.

With a chapter devoted to each of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this edited book explores the evidence that corruption is a strong impediment to achieving the SDGs and that strong anti-corruption policy is essential if any are to be achieved. For some of the goals, there is much existing theory and evidence which will be summarized and made accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. For example, studies strongly suggest that corruption is associated with greater poverty (SDG 1) and lower growth rates (SDG 8). Furthermore, there is considerable research on the effects of corruption on the scope for decent work and growth (SDG 8) and an established connection between corruption and industry, innovation, and infrastructure (SDG 9). In other areas, the research is more scant. For example, there is limited work on how corruption can be a contributing factor to food insecurity and famine (SDG 2). There has been little work specifically on corruption and sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11) and responsible consumption and production (SDG 12). Similarly, more work is needed on the effects of corruption on climate action (SDG 13), life below water (SDG 14), and life on land (SDG15). In these areas the chapter surveys the research that does exist and motivates further study.

This book will be an essential research and reference guide to readers interested in political economy, sustainable development, social issues, politics and development studies.

This book examines the role of cooperatives in the sustainable management and governance of natural resources, drawing on a range of case studies from across Africa.

Cooperatives play a pivotal role in natural resource management, especially in the face of a changing climate. Their collaborative nature and focus on sustainability make them effective vehicles for adapting to and mitigating the increasing pressure on natural resources. This role is particularly important in Africa, where millions of livelihoods are dependent on a healthy, functioning natural resources. The proper governance of these valuable natural resources is critical in building resilience. This volume evaluates the potential cooperatives hold in the sustainable management and governance of natural resources, bringing together both theoretical contributions and real-world examples and providing practical guidance and policy recommendations. Drawing on detailed case studies from Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and South Africa, chapters examine the roles played by cooperatives involved in the management and governance of water, energy, forests, fisheries and agricultural resources. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, integrating insights from economics, sociology and development studies, the volume showcases how cooperative models can be leveraged to effectively manage natural resources. It situates the African case studies within the wider, global context of the sustainable management and governance of natural resources, addressing key themes of conflict, depletion, and environmental conservation.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource management, sustainable development, and African studies.

This book analyzes transparency as a primary requirement for successful corporate governance and emphasizes its importance in all activities. It also examines how transparency finds expression in communication processes in external relationships.

The volume demonstrates how external communication can be executed in a transparent and reliable way; for instance, a disclosure should enhance the stakeholders' trust in the firm's ability to satisfy their needs and improve their assent to the firm's mission. The book discusses the aims of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) toward contributing to a sustainable global economy through "integrating thinking," thereby acquainting resource providers with the connections among the most significant components of the firm and external stakeholders. It showcases the value of integrated reporting in the relationships between financial and nonfinancial performance, which is sometimes underestimated by directors and managers. It also provides guidelines on carrying out an integrated reporting process that breaks down long-term value-creation strategies into day-to-day operational activities, with potential impacts-positive or negative-on stakeholders.

The book will be an important resource for academics and practitioners interested in the contents, modification, and dissemination of corporate communication. It will also be useful to students, researchers, and teachers in the fields of business administration, journalism and mass communication, public administration and governance, digital and online media, and communication technology. Additionally, the volume will appeal to professionals in the fields of marketing, advertising, corporate communication, media and public relations agencies, event management, and promotion.

This book places an emphasis upon statistical methodology, data interpretation, and futureproofing with the intention of advancing statistics for the environment, ecology, and environmental health, in addition to environmental theory and practice, via the application of reliable statistics.

With a focus on advances in statistical methodology and application within the environmental sciences, the overarching purpose of this volume is to illuminate current trends, stimulate a focus on, and connect multidisciplinary domains originating from and within statistical analysis, development, and research. Given that the contributions consist of current improvements and new innovations in climate and environmental science research that are based on statistical theory, researchers can derive inspiration for future advancements or similar analyses on other environmental data.

Authored by internationally renowned scholars, this book is organized into three parts: Part I on Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Part II on Directional Statistics, and Part III on Spatial and Temporal Modeling. Primarily intended as a reference book for academic researchers and graduate-level students in statistics as well as multidisciplinary domains, the chapters reflect a shared commitment to advancing methodological rigor while addressing real-world environmental concerns. They illustrate how environmental complexity drives the evolution of statistical thinking-and how statistical insight, in turn, informs meaningful action.

Key Features

• Emphasizes the ongoing necessity to progress basic statistical theory and explores its relevance to environmental research
• Employs multidisciplinary approaches and applications, appealing to a broader audience beyond solely theoretical statistics
• Enhances the collective understanding of the ecosystem's diverse perspectives to ensure the welfare of present and future generations
• Written by renowned subject matter experts and researchers, making it appealing to scholars from diverse fields
• The statistical framework is not limited to a single methodology based on data complexity but promotes different techniques

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world. As a part of the new series Biodiversity Hotspots of the World, which highlights the 36 hotspot regions of the world, this new book covers the Eastern Afromontane, encompassing regions of Africa and Arabia. This series is our humble attempt to document the various hotspots around the world as a conservation and preservation measure.

The concise volumes in this series focus on the most interesting and important properties of these hotspots, covering physiography and climatology; vegetation and forest types; amphibian and reptile biodiversity; genetic diversity of crops, plants, fishes, butterflies, insects, birds, mammals, angiosperms, and gymnosperms; and much more. And of course, the unique threats and conservation efforts for the areas are addressed as well.

Biodiversity Hotspot of the Eastern Afromontane covers extensive areas in Africa and Arabia, starting from some of its highest peaks and mountain regions to large plateaus. The hotspot is home to a diverse ecosystem of bamboo forests, grasslands, and high-altitude wetlands. It is also home to some of the world most extraordinary lakes, with a thriving marine life featuring a vast amount of freshwater fish diversity. Nearly 1,300 bird species are found in the hotspot, as well as over 500 mammal species.

The book first provides an overview of the ecological features of the land, covering its geography, climate, and vegetation. It then goes on to cover diversity in its various lifeforms including lichens, pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. It also delves into the diversity of amphibians and mammals residing in the hotspot. The book covers the negative impact of climate change on the hotspot and the subsequent dangers it poses. It also throws light on various other threats to the biodiversity in the region. The book details the various conservation efforts currently taken as well as steps that can be taken to improve these efforts.

This volume, Biodiversity Hotspot of the Eastern Afromontane, as well as the other volumes in this series, will be essential resources for researchers and practitioners in the fields of conservation biology, ecology, and evolution as the series concisely records the existing biodiversity of these hotspots of the world.

Problematising Water: An Experiment on the Edges of Interdisciplinarity is a manifestation of thinking with water across a range of disciplines including human geography, sociology, anthropology, science and technology studies, and ethnomethodology.
In this book, Vitellone reveals the alliances between Michel Foucault's concept of problematisation and a new methodological approach for water- focused research, as seen through her study of London's #OneLess refill water fountain pilot, an intervention to reduce plastic bottled water. Situating the refill water fountain as a problematic space for collaborating with marine scientists, marine conservationists, systems change practitioners, and publics engaged in the making and doing of refill, the book discusses how Foucault's notion of problematisation forces a re- thinking of knowledge making practices in environmental research on water. It also synthesises a large body of literature by key thinkers, including Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, Andrea Ballestero, Astrida Neimanis, Noortge Marres, Gay Hawkins, Andrew Barry, Mike Michael, and others, and links to current debates across a variety of disciplines.
Problematising Water: An Experiment on the Edges of Interdisciplinarity is a timely and provocative contribution to debates around the climate crisis and environmental interventions and the role that different research methods and objects play within them. It will be of value to science and technology scholars, social scientists, natural scientists, and academics interested in the environmental humanities.

During the colonization of Africa, European colonists set about creating game reserves in Africa, convinced that they would find in Africa a nature that no longer existed in Europe. After independence, and with the help of UNESCO and the WWF, African leaders continued to 'protect' the same nature, a nature that the whole world wanted to be pristine, wild and without humans - a timeless Garden of Eden. The consequences of this story are well known: millions of Africans were expelled from the land on which they had lived for generations.

But how did this happen? Who organized this continuity between the colonial era and the era of independence? Guillaume Blanc answers these questions by immersing himself at the heart of a strange global ecological mission, launched in 1961: the 'African Special Project'. He tells the story of this project by bringing to life four worlds: the world of gentleman experts who saw Africa as the world's last natural refuge; the world of East African colonists who were retraining as international experts; the world of African leaders who sought to control their peoples while satisfying the demands of their Western partners; and finally, the world of local farmers and their families living on the land who were forced to adapt or abandon their homes. These men do not speak of the same nature, but step by step, their worlds draw closer together until they meet - and this is where violence erupts.

This impressive book lays bare the violence inherent in the creation of African game reserves and national parks and documents a hidden dimension of colonialism and its legacies.