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

Wainwright, Joel, The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis. 272 pp. 2025:11 (Verso, UK) <746-86>
ISBN 978-1-80429-941-8 paper ¥5,628.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

Karl Marx wrote the most important critique of capitalism, Capital, in London during the 1860s, at the very moment that Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species had shattered humanity's conception of ourselves. In this path-breaking study, Joel Wainwright demonstrates that Capital was deeply influenced by Marx's reading Darwin's Origin of Species. Marx's thinking about history and nature changed, generating his distinctive ecological critique of capitalism as a social formation. This is why Marx called Capital a study of natural history and the book concludes, of all things, by proposing a new scientific law of human population.The End is not only a study in revolutionary 19th century thought. Wainwright applies Marx's natural historical approach to some of the great questions of our time: How did capitalism emerge? How should we grasp human nature? And how might we confront the planetary climate crisis?

Thaker, Jagadish, Corporate Communication about Climate Change: Villains, Victims, and White Knights. 160 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-480>
ISBN 978-1-032-81843-6 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-80400-2 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Embedded in the emerging field of climate change communication, Thaker provides a comprehensive analysis of enablers and barriers to corporate action on climate change, business role and influence on media coverage of climate change, and its impact on public opinion and the policy-making process.Focusing on extensive academic research, business reports, case studies, and best practices from around the world, this book offers a practical guide to effective strategies in corporate climate change communication, including leadership communication, rebuilding public trust amidst greenwashing scandals, and engaging stakeholders with business action on climate change. The book provides new directions on the role of social media influencers, artificial intelligence, and big data in enhancing transparency in business actions and effective communication with key stakeholders.An essential read for students, scholars, and professionals interested in the emerging fields of climate change communication, strategic communication, and related areas of sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) communication.

Arnold, Craig Anthony (Tony) / Powell, C. M. et al. (eds.), Racial Justice in American Land Use. 350 pp. 2025:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <746-520>
ISBN 978-1-108-47780-2 hard ¥29,568.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

Over a century after racial zoning was invalidated, American land use remains racially unjust. When racist tools were abolished, other facially neutral tools were created or adapted to maintain white power and wealth. Policies, practices, and laws evolved to embed racial inequality and white supremacy deeply into institutional structures and landscapes. Despite modest improvements since the early twentieth century, land use and neighborhood conditions for Black people and other people of color remain dramatically worse than for whites. Discrimination and segregation persist. This enduring and multi-faceted nature of racial injustice in the American land use system means that there is no one cause and no one solution. Instead, this book advocates for nuanced systemic change. Using cross-disciplinary analysis in social-movement history, legal theory, and public policy, the authors call for a racial-justice transformation that integrates grassroots racial-justice activism, newly revitalized anti-subordination legal theories, and many different public policy reforms.

Biswas, Prana Krishna / Dygas, Robert (eds.), Global Environmental, Social and Governance Policy: Towards A Universal Model. (Routledge Studies in the Economics of Business and Industry) 202 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-391>
ISBN 978-1-032-94541-5 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book sheds light on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policy principles, practice, and the implications of integrating ESG factors into business operations, investment strategies, and corporate governance frameworks, across both developed and developing countries (Europe, Asia and the US). This is the first book which brings together academics from different continents to share their views and knowledge on this subject, with a focus on regional perspectives. The book argues that exhaustive research has been done on ESG integration for financial performance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement in developed countries and the research shows a positive correlation between ESG performance and value creation. Furthermore, transparency and accountability in ESG disclosures by companies have played a critical role in the firm's performance and market value. This is also supported by the regulatory initiatives taken by the government in promoting industry standards for ESG practices. On the contrary, developing countries face several challenges in the adoption and implementation of sustainable practices. The book underscores the importance of maintaining a harmonious balance between economic development and environmental and societal factors. The book examines the norms and standards which constitute ESG in Asia, Europe, US, it analyses whether ESG supports business management and GDP growth and looks at the main barriers to implementing ESG Policy by companies in the selected regions. It includes a comprehensive set of case studies from each region and across various sectors to demonstrate how ESG policy is implemented around the world. Researchers, scholars and students who specialize in sustainable development, development economics, and international business management will be interested in this book.

International Migration and Sustainable Development. 196 pp. 2025:4 (UN, US) <746-202>
ISBN 978-92-1-003053-3 paper ¥15,015.- (税込) US$ 70.00

International Migration and Sustainable Development examines the linkages between international migration and the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. It discusses how international migration is defined and measured, examines levels and trends in international migration at the global and regional level and by income group, explores the growing scope and impact of international migration and reviews its relevance for achieving internationally agreed sustainable development Goals and targets. The report also offers policy recommendations focusing on the social, economic and environmental causes and consequences of international migration. The report is part of a series on major demographic trends being prepared by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Other reports in the series have investigated the linkages between population growth, social and economic development and environmental change and analyzed population ageing. The main purpose of the series is to provide informed analysis of population patterns and trends in the context of sustainable development in a manner that is accessible to a general audience and that can help to guide the policymaking of Member States and the deliberations of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development.

SDG Pulse 2024: The Pulse of Progress Towards the Sustainable Development Goals. 43 pp. 2025:4 (UN, US) <746-203>
ISBN 978-92-1-003130-1 paper ¥6,435.- (税込) US$ 30.00

The SDG Pulse Series is UNCTAD's annual statistical publication reporting on developments relating to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The purpose of this series is to: provide an update on the evolution of a selection of official SDG indicators and complementary data and statistics; provide progress reports on the development of new concepts and methodologies for UNCTAD custodian indicators. This series aims to showcase, beyond the perspective of the formal SDG indicators, how UNCTAD is contributing to the implementation of 2030 Agenda. Released annually, each version of the SDG Pulse highlights a thematic issue of immediate relevance to the 2030 Agenda.

持続可能な開発目標報告　2024年
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2024. (The Sustainable Development Goals Report) 51 pp. 2024:9 (UN, US) <746-206>
ISBN 978-92-1-003135-6 paper ¥9,652.- (税込) US$ 45.00

This year's report presents how far we have come towards reaching the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It warns that with just 6 years remaining to the 2030 deadline, and nearly a year from reaffirmed commitments at the SDG Summit, current progress falls far short of what is required to meet the targets outlined in the 2030 Agenda. The scarring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, escalating conflicts, geopolitical tensions, and growing climate chaos are hitting SDG progress hard. The report reveals that only 17 per cent of the SDG targets are on track, with nearly half showing minimal or moderate progress, and over one-third stalling or regressing. The report documents increasing global inequalities, with an additional 23 million people pushed into extreme poverty and over 100 million more suffering from hunger in 2022 compared to 2019. For the first time this century, per-capita GDP growth in half of the world's most vulnerable nations is slower than that in advanced economies. Overall global health progress has decelerated alarmingly since 2015. Many countries have experienced declines in student math and reading skills. Wars are upending millions of lives. The number of forcibly displaced people has reached an unprecedented level, nearly 120 million by May 2024 and civilian casualties spiked by 72 per cent between 2022 and 2023. 2023 was the warmest year on record, with global temperatures nearing the critical 1.5 degreesC threshold. Greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric CO2 concentrations continue to reach new highs.

持続可能な開発目標報告　2025年
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025. 52 pp. 2025:6 (UN, US) <746-207>
ISBN 978-92-1-003475-3 paper ¥9,652.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Orosz, Adele, Inside the Sustainable Development Goals: From Fighting Poverty to Saving the World. (Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development) 178 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-211>
ISBN 978-1-032-70264-3 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-70261-2 paper ¥10,134.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came with bold promises: ending poverty, saving the planet and making this world a better place by 2030. But being in the second halftime, there is too little progress and too many setbacks. Drawing on the expertise of an author who has been actively involved in negotiating and later implementing the SDGs, this book offers a unique insider view into the behind-the-scenes processes. It relates the SDGs and their aims of fighting poverty and achieving sustainability to the bigger picture of politics, economics and vested interests, breaking down dependencies and alliances, expectations and motives. It uncovers and dissects the politics and interests that shaped the SDGs from the very beginning, as well as the drivers behind propelling or curtailing sustainable development.This book is an indispensable and comprehensive guide to the SDGs. It outlines where they came from, the main lessons learned so far and what to conclude for the years ahead. As the deadline of 2030 is close, and discussions about what should come after the SDGs are imminent, this book is among the first to draw conclusions for the post-2030 era, what to expect and what to demand from a potential successor agenda.This book addresses policy-makers, practitioners, researchers, and students alike, anyone interested in poverty, environment and sustainability. Written in a highly accessible style, this book also breaks down the United Nations and its processes, setting the frame, enabling but also limiting the SDGs and the sustainability agenda in general.

Gibson, Lydia / Sauma, Julia (eds.), The Ethics of Participation in Environmental Field Research: Inclusion, Collaboration and Transformation. (Research and Teaching in Environmental Studies) 256 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-23>
ISBN 978-1-032-34377-8 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-34375-4 paper ¥10,134.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This book provokes important new discussions about ethical participation in environmental field research by bringing to the fore the fluid nature of both ethics and participation.Local participation is increasingly seen as a central and ethical part of environmental research; as such, many environmental efforts are becoming increasingly participatory. Participation, as a string of literature has shown, has many political, economic, social, and epistemic consequences, and ethics is fluid, polyvalent, and contextual. "Right is right, wrong is wrong" is dangerous rhetoric that centres western experiences and forecloses the myriad realities and relations bundled within and forced upon marginalised experiences. Both participation and ethics - as concepts and praxis - cast decades-long shadows over field research (particularly in anthropology), yet much of these discussions are left at the threshold of interdisciplinary spaces, where participation, traditional and Indigenous knowledge, co-production are brought in to sanitise and legitimise environmental actions. Where are our lessons learned and what ought we to make of their absence? The first half of this volume offers ethnographic examples that allow us to begin to ask whether participation (in the capitalist machinery and colonial legacies of academic knowledge) is ever even ethical. The second half of the book is dedicated to anti-solutions: refusals to define problems and approaches in fixed, closed terms from which equations, calculations, and solutions can be derived.This book will be of great interest to all students and researchers across natural and social sciences whose fieldwork includes engagement with local communities and stakeholders, as well as conservation policymakers and practitioners who consult and work with local communities.

アジア太平洋地域の持続可能な開発目標の進展報告　2024年
Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report 2024: Showcasing Transformative Actions. (Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Goals Progress Report) 95 pp. 2024:4 (UN, US) <746-232>
ISBN 978-92-1-003058-8 paper ¥9,652.- (税込) US$ 45.00

The Asia and the-Pacific SDG Progress Report 2024 is one of the annual flagship publications of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). It provides an overview of SDG Progress in the region which serves as a foundation for many other activities conducted by ESCAP and our partners. This year, the report shines the spotlight on success stories and trends, and the unique challenges faced in the different parts of the region. It draws out the priorities and opportunities for enhancing data availability on SDG indicators, especially for the most vulnerable population groups, which could help shape more equitable and inclusive development pathways strategies.

The United Nations World Water Development Report 2024: Water for Prosperity and Peace. (The United Nations World Water Development Report) 176 pp. 2024:6 (UN, US) <746-285>
ISBN 978-92-3-100657-9 paper ¥16,087.- (税込) US$ 75.00

Water nurtures prosperity by meeting basic human needs, supporting health, livelihoods and economic development, underpinning food and energy security, and defending environmental integrity. Water influences the economy in many ways, and global trade dynamics and market adaptations can have direct repercussions on the water use of regional and local economies. The water-related impacts of conflict are multi-faceted and often indirect, such as those linked to forced migration and increased exposure to health threats. Climate change, geopolitical unrest, pandemics, mass migration, hyperinflation and other crises can exacerbate water access inequalities. In nearly all cases, the poorest and most vulnerable groups are those that suffer the greatest risks to their well-being. The 2024 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report (UN WWDR) calls attention to the complex and interlinked relationships between water, prosperity and peace, describing how progress in one dimension can have positive, often essential, repercussions on the others.

Das, Rames Chandra (ed.), Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture and Environmental Sustainability: A Global Perspective. 288 pp. 2025:10 (Emerald, UK) <746-295>
ISBN 978-1-83662-571-1 hard ¥23,595.- (税込) US$ 110.00

Islam, Rafiq / Rahman, AHM Mustafizur et al. (eds.), Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation to Improve Food Security in South Asia. 368 pp. 2025:6 (CRC Pr., US) <746-298>
ISBN 978-1-032-62849-3 hard ¥36,608.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Both food security and agriculture contribute to, and are affected by, global climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that food production systems account for up to 37% of global greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, these systems are increasingly vulnerable to climate change, with extreme weather events such as rising temperatures, flooding, drought, secondary salinity, and land degradation threatening food security in South Asia. Additionally, the spread of weeds, pests, and diseases due to shifting climates exacerbates these challenges. The strain on agriculture and food security from accelerated climate change is further worsening by rapid population growth. Globally, more than 820 million people suffer from hunger, and by 2050, food production will need to double to meet global demands. This intensification of farming, combined with climate change, will lead to greater reliance on reactive chemicals, water, and energy inputs-potentially damaging agroecosystem services and becoming increasingly difficult to manage. South Asia, with its high population growth, is particularly vulnerable to climate impacts such as flooding, salinity, droughts, and solar dimming. Rising sea levels and coastal erosion could result in the loss of 17% of land surface and 30% of food production by 2050.Agriculture and food systems must undergo innovative transformations to address these challenges. A comprehensive Climate Change Adaption Framework is essential for fostering a supportive policy environment, sharing information on climate impacts, and adapting climate-smart agriculture to enhance food security in South Asia. This book, based on the outcomes of the 2022 International Conference on Climate Change and Food security in South Asia, held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, explores key challenges and innovative solutions for mitigating and adapting to the impact of climate change on food security.

Pahnke, Anthony, From "Climate-Smart" to "Climate-Just Agriculture": International Institutions and Challenging False Solutions to our Ongoing Climate Crisis. (Bridges to Another World) 188 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-299>
ISBN 978-1-032-77215-8 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-76037-7 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Combining innovative social theory with ongoing policy discussions on climate change, this book analyzes past and present efforts at challenging global poverty through reforming the dynamics of worldwide agricultural production.Focusing on the efforts of the World Bank and CGIAR research centers, particularly through research and projects that have been launched by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), "Climate-Smart" to "Climate-Just" exposes how neoliberal principles of limited government and individual entrepreneurship have expanded through the development of "Climate-Smart Agriculture." At the same, an alternative - "Climate-Just Agriculture" - is becoming possible as rightwing populists have disrupted international free trade orthodoxy, and social movement demands for food sovereignty gain traction in key international spaces. As Pahnke explains in this innovative account, "Climate-Just Agriculture" includes structural changes to free trade agreements that would build from local and regional food systems to make them resilient in the face of the adverse effects of climate change. This resiliency, moreover, allows marginalized groups the capacity to create and participate in markets that allow for greater self-sufficiency as they push back on colonialism and imperialism.Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will be essential reading to students and scholars of sociology, environmental studies, and politics, as well as policymakers and professionals involved with climate change policy and the agriculture and food industry.

Gupta, Dipti, Framing India's Low Carbon Development Pathways. 200 pp. 2025:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <746-1067>
ISBN 978-1-009-58233-9 hard ¥21,120.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00
ISBN 978-1-009-58231-5 paper ¥6,755.- (税込) GB￡ 23.99

In the context of a developing country such as India and of the global commitment to limit the temperature rise, this book provides a comprehensive and novel approach on framing the low carbon development pathways. Data plays a critical role in accurate assessment so it gives a stepwise detail on reconciling national accounting statistics with energy balance data. Further, it explains the setting up of technology optimization and economy-wide macroeconomic framing models. These models have limitations when used in isolation so the book further elaborates on the soft coupling process to overcome the limitations of using individual models. Detailed examples using case studies illustrate the application of structured approach to determine net zero pathways and business decarbonisation scenarios. Future applications for important development questions related to net zero analysis are also enumerated.

Joshi, Girija, Resilient Communities: Household, State, and Ecology in Southern Panjab, c.1750-1900. 343 pp. 2025:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <746-1071>
ISBN 978-1-009-51251-0 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

This book offers a historical perspective on the relationship between community, subsistence, and governance in north-western India. Focusing on Panjab, it explores the continuities in kinship and caste practices of rural Panjabi populations from the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries. Working from the household outwards, it studies how agropastoral lineages formed, and how some of these managed during the eighteenth century to establish autonomous states or riyasats of their own. From the early nineteenth century onwards, this riyasati order was systematically dismantled by the colonial state. Nevertheless, this book suggests that colonial attempts to settle and reform rural society, by changing both its relationship to the environment and by imposing new definitions of 'community' upon it were met with uneven success. Colonial subjects in rural Panjab continued to forge bonds of kinship beyond the legal limits imposed by the state.

Environmental Performance Review: Armenia: Second Review. 447 pp. 2024:11 (UN, US) <746-1140>
ISBN 978-92-1-002894-3 paper ¥18,232.- (税込) US$ 85.00

The present publication contains the second EPR of Armenia. It takes stock of progress made by Armenia in the management of its environment since it was reviewed for the second time in 2011. It covers legal and policy frameworks and environmental compliance assurance mechanisms and addresses the topics of greening the economy, environmental monitoring, public participation and education. Furthermore, it addresses issues of specific importance to the country related to air protection, biodiversity and protected areas, soil conservation and water, waste and chemicals management. It also examines the efforts of the country to integrate environmental considerations into its policies in the agriculture, energy, industry, transport and health sectors. It includes a substantive analysis of the country's participation in and commitments to international environmental agreements, as well as its climate change adaptation and mitigation measures. It includes an assessment of relevant targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and provides recommendations related to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. The publication is aimed at officials and experts working for public authorities responsible for environmental policy, representatives of civil society, the business community, academia and the media.

Beuret, Nicholas, Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition. 224 pp. 2025:9 (Verso, UK) <746-1147>
ISBN 978-1-80429-985-2 paper ¥3,094.- (税込) GB￡ 10.99

Or Something Worse exposes the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Greening the economy has become a one-sided war, as governments and businesses squeeze the living standards of ordinary people. We need to seize control of the transition in order to reshape it to equitable ends.Existing policies won't limit global heating to anything close to a safe level. Claims of sustainability disguise a zero-sum battle where the powerful profit and everyone else foots the bill. Green growth was supposed to bring increased wealth for all. Instead, work has been degraded, energy bills have soared, and the most basic necessities have become expensive and scarce.We need to disrupt green capitalism. Nicholas Beuret follows those already fighting back through 'don't pay' campaigns, blockades of fossil-fuel infrastructure, and community counter-planning. He shows we have the tools not only to stop climate change but to build a fairer future.

Biermann, Frank / Hickmann, T. / Kang, Y. H. et al. (eds.), Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: An A-Z Guide. (A-Z Guides for Environment and Sustainability) 244 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <746-1148>
ISBN 978-1-032-85725-1 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-84169-4 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book provides a highly accessible and easy-to-navigate overview of the essential concepts and terms related to the current global endeavour to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.With the first decade of the 15-years timespan of the 2030 Agenda now past, the SDGs show limited progress and several goals are even regressing. It is imperative that SDG implementation is accelerated until 2030 and beyond to foster transformations and set the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. The book starts with a thematic introduction to contextualize the topic and set the stage for the individual entries. It then follows an A-Z format, with over 100 entries which describe an important concept or term, using practical examples to illustrate how it connects to the overall debate about sustainable development. It offers swift introductions to key concepts and terms that are discussed and explained by scholarly and policy experts from around the world in a concise and user-friendly way.The guide is comprehensive in scope, practically oriented, and focused on political and societal processes to drive change on a larger scale. With cross-references to related terms in the entries, this book will be a highly valuable resource for students and practitioners engaged with the SDGs and sustainable development more broadly.

den Outer, Jessica, The Forest Fights Back: A Global Movement for the Rights of Nature. 192 pp. 2026:2 (Pluto Pr., UK) <746-1151>
ISBN 978-0-7453-5148-3 paper ¥4,220.- (税込) GB￡ 14.99

As the world grapples with the escalating climate crisis, ecosystems are collapsing, and the planet's future hangs in the balance. For centuries, our legal systems have treated nature as something to be owned and exploited, but a bold new movement is challenging this paradigm. In The Forest Fights Back, Jessica den Outer explores a groundbreaking global movement-Rights of Nature-taking on the legal system to recognise the rights of rivers, forests, and mountains to exist, flourish, and sustain their ecological balance. From the fight for the Whanganui River in New Zealand to the battle for Spain's Mar Menor lagoon, den Outer highlights the campaigns led by grassroots communities, telling stories of determination and legal ingenuity. This movement goes beyond law - it represents a cultural shift that could reshape how we live, think, co-exist and advocate for nature.

湿地ハンドブック
Dixon, Alan / Maddock, Ian (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Wetlands. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 578 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-1152>
ISBN 978-1-032-11381-4 hard ¥64,768.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

This handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the place, value and significance of wetlands, presenting perspectives from across the environmental and social sciences.Recent decades have witnessed unprecedented global interest in wetlands and the critical role they play in supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services such as carbon storage, flood mitigation, as well as their direct benefits for people and society that include the provision of food, clean water and a range of cultural services. This Routledge Handbook of Wetlands brings together a wide range of perspectives from social and environmental disciplines, and voices from different wetland stakeholders from the global north and south, to present an assessment of our current understanding of wetlands, their environmental significance, and their place in society and policy. A recurring theme of the book is an exploration of how our current knowledge of wetlands, that is often fragmented along traditional disciplinary lines, can be brought together to enable a more integrated, interdisciplinary and social-ecological conceptualisation that aligns more closely with real-world complex challenges, and which offers new directions in wetland management for sustainable development.This handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars of wetland management, environmental science, water resource management, conservation ecology and sustainable development.

R.A.フォーク著　地球への愛国心－人道的グローバル・ガバナンスの探求
Falk, Richard A., Patriotism to the Earth: A Quest for Humane Global Governance. 348 pp. 2025:4 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <746-1153>
ISBN 978-1-5381-9687-8 hard ¥22,522.- (税込) US$ 105.00
ISBN 978-1-5381-9688-5 paper ¥7,507.- (税込) US$ 35.00

前近代における社会、環境、危機－W.レーゼナー生誕80周年記念論集
Fey, Carola / Kersken, Norbert / Stadelmaier, C. (Hrsg.), Gesellschaft - Umwelt - Krisen in der Vormoderne: Festschrift fuer Werner Roesener zum 80. Geburtstag. (Geschichtswissenschaftliche Studien 12) 322 S. 2024:12 (Kovac, GW) <746-1154>
ISBN 978-3-339-13908-5 paper ¥22,002.- (税込) EUR 94.80 *

Der Band anlaesslich des 80. Geburtstags des Mittelalterhistorikers Werner Roesener, der lange in Goettingen und Giessen gewirkt hat, greift Themen auf, mit denen er in die sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche und in die landesgeschichtliche Mediaevistik gewirkt hat. Im Einzelnen geht es um gesellschaftliche Krisensituationen wie Krankheitsepidemien (Pest), Klimaentwicklung und Unwetter, die Bewaeltigung von Naturkatastrophen, Fragen der Nachhaltigkeit von Fischerei, Produktions- und Distributionsaspekte, mittelalterliche Keramik sowie das Erkenntnispotential des Konzepts der Grundherrschaft fuer vormoderne laendliche Lebenswelten. Des Weiteren werden kloesterliche Lebenswelten mit Blick auf die Zisterzienserkloester Guenterstal bei Freiburg, Eberbach im Rheingau und Himmerod in der Eifel illustriert. Fragen der Hof- und Adelskultur werden mit Blick auf die Pfalz Hagenau, die Wallfahrtspraxis wittelsbachischer Fuerstinnen, die fuerstliche Jagd, heraldische Selbstdarstellung auf Burg Runkelstein in Suedtirol und die dynastiegeschichtliche Erinnerungskultur im 19. Jahrhundert angesprochen.

グローバルな環境ガバナンス再考
Godek, Wendy / Kuetting, Gabriela, Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance: Coloniality, Extractivism, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice. (Transforming Environmental Politics and Policy) 242 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-1156>
ISBN 978-1-032-88638-1 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance: Coloniality, Extractivism, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice employs the concept of coloniality to examine the relationship between global environmental governance and environmental justice.Global environmental governance is perceived to be the natural solution for global environmental problems; however, its liberal emphasis reproduces colonial hierarchies at the expense of marginalized groups in the Global North and South alike. To develop this argument, this book draws on case studies that elucidate multiple expressions of coloniality in instances of socio-environmental conflict. With a focus on extractivism, the authors explore case studies in Greece and Honduras to illustrate the impact of existing global environmental governance institutions on marginalized groups and local communities as well as case studies of gender and multi-species justice to highlight the opportunities and limitations of efforts to challenge liberal governance institutions and provide new pathways for enhancing environmental justice.Overall, the book aims to initiate a debate on how to decolonize global environmental politics and will be of particular interest to teachers, researchers, and students of environmental studies, global governance, development studies, political ecology, international political economy, and critical theory, as well as policymakers and civil society specialists.

Guillibert, Paul, Anthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster. Tr. by M. Reeck. 192 pp. 2025:10 (Verso, UK) <746-1157>
ISBN 978-1-80429-638-7 hard ¥4,783.- (税込) GB￡ 16.99

In the age of climate change, is the communist hypothesis still relevant? Only a renewed communism, a communism for life - or a "biocommunism" - will enable us to move beyond the ecological crisis of late capitalism. Based on an original reading of founding texts of Marxism, the author launches a critique of the "ontological turn" in ecology. Against Bruno Latour or Donna Haraway, he develops a philosophy for green Marxism based on the centrality of land ownership. The history of societies and the history of nature are intertwined precisely because they have singular trajectories. In a new reading of Karl Marx's exchanges with the populist 'terrorists' in Russia, the cultural studies of Raymond Williams and the Marxism of Jose Carlos Mariategui's and Ernst Bloch's attachment to the land, the author develops a philosophical naturalism in which human belonging to the Earth is transformed by the ways in which societies appropriate nature. A political strategy is derived from this new philosophy of history: ecological dual power, "ecological soviets", is the communist strategy for getting out of the Anthropocene. Communism must become environmentalism, and political ecology can only become truly revolutionary if it becomes communist.

Heron, Kai / Milburn, Keir / Russell, Bertie, Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future. 240 pp. 2025:9 (Pluto Pr., UK) <746-1159>
ISBN 978-0-7453-5135-3 paper ¥4,783.- (税込) GB￡ 16.99

Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don't need and too little of what we truly do. This hollow pursuit, achieved at the expense of both people and the planet, has forced us to confront ecological limits we can no longer ignore. Transitioning beyond our ecocidal capitalist system has emerged as the defining challenge of our time. Radical Abundance presents a roadmap or transitioning beyond capitalism, offering a bold vision grounded in Marxist thought and real-world socialist experiments. This book blends theory with hands-on experience to provide a concrete path forward for creating a just and sustainable future. The co-authors propose Public-Common Partnerships (PCPs) as a model for communities to partner with public bodies, gaining control over the resources that affect their lives. This approach fosters self-expanding, radical democratic governance, shifting focus from individual assets to building a broader democratic economy-a "Community Wealth Building gone viral." A world of radical abundance is still possible, but only through democratic economic planning and worker control.

Kumar Ghosh, Sadhan / Trong Nhuan, Mai et al. (eds.), Green Transformation in the Context of Global Change: Proceedings of the International Conference on Green Transformation in the Context of Global Change (GREEN 2024), October 24th - 25th 2024, Hanoi, Vietnam. 530 pp. 2025:6 (CRC Pr., US) <746-1163>
ISBN 978-1-032-99212-9 hard ¥39,424.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

The book captures the essence of the International Conference on Green Transformation in the Context of Global Change (GREEN 2024), organized by the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Each of the 8 sections in this volume offers an interdisciplinary forum to exchange valuable information and knowledge on green transformation.It emphasizes the need for new, flexible, and creative solutions to tackle the enormous challenges of global change such as geopolitical conflicts, climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, clean water and food shortage, economic instability, poverty, and social inequality It touches upon several crucial topics:Green Transformation in the Digital Transformation ContextEmission Reduction and Energy TransitionAgro-ecology and Sustainable Food SystemsThis will be a valuable read for researchers and practitioners of waste management, green manufacturing, sustainable development and climate change.

Malm, Andreas / Carton, Wim, The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It's Too Late. 640 pp. 2025:10 (Verso, UK) <746-1164>
ISBN 978-1-83674-030-8 hard ¥9,856.- (税込) GB￡ 35.00

Warming is about to hit one and a half degrees, perhaps two degrees soon after. What do we do then? In the overshoot era, schemes abound for muscular adaptation or for turning the heat down at a later date, by means of technologies for removing CO2 from the air or blocking sunlight. Such technologies are by no means safe: they come with immense risks. Like magical promises of future redemption, they provide reasons for continuing emissions in the present. But do they also hold some potentials? Can the catastrophe be reversed, masked or simply adapted to, once it is a fact? Or will any such roundabout measure rather make things worse? This book maps the new frontlines in the struggle for a liveable planet and insists on the climate revolution long overdue. In the end, no technologies can absolve us of its tasks.

ジェンダーと気候変動　第2版
Nagel, Joane, Gender and Climate Change: Impacts, Science, Policy. 2nd ed. 162 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-1165>
ISBN 978-1-032-72009-8 hard ¥39,424.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00
ISBN 978-1-032-70901-7 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Does gender matter in global climate change? This timely and provocative book takes readers on a guided tour of basic climate science, then holds up a gender lens to find out what has been overlooked in popular discussion, research, and policy debates. We see that, around the world, more women than men die in climate-related natural disasters; the history of science and war are intimately interwoven masculine occupations and preoccupations; and conservative men and their interests drive the climate change denial machine. We also see that climate policymakers who embrace big science approaches and solutions to climate change are predominantly male with an ideology of perpetual economic growth, and an agenda that marginalizes the interests of women and developing economies. The book uses vivid case studies to highlight the often surprising, gendered impacts of climate changes.This new edition is a thorough update that includes revised and new chapters and new material that takes account of the significant advances in climate research, environmental and social theory, and the many political and social challenges posed in the wake of US elections, Covid-19 pandemic, and rapidly changing climate and environment. The new edition also takes account of important social and cultural movements that resist challenges to women's rights and advocate for gender, sexuality, and racial justice. This book will appeal to students, researchers, and academicians interested in environmental studies and gender studies. It also will be of interest to policymakers, activists, and others involved with environmental policy and governance.

Slovic, Scott / Ghosh, Joyjit / Maiti, Samit Kumar (eds.), Imagining Ecocatastrophe: Reading Literary and Cultural Texts in the Global Context. 260 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-1168>
ISBN 978-1-032-72419-5 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This volume examines scholarly perspectives on eco-imaginaries, focusing in particular on how eco-catastrophes have been represented in literature and different visual forms including film, television and cartoons among other cultural media. It draws on literary genres such as science fiction, climate fiction, speculative fiction, petrofiction, post-apocalyptic narratives, and nuclear fiction to examine the role that literature plays in the dissemination of information about environmental crisis in the Anthropocene and in preparing mankind for a better and sustainable future. Deeply embedded in theoretical conceptualizations, the essays in this volume address issues of natural disaster, deforestation, nuclear disaster and pandemic, among others, which constitute the core subjects of environmental humanities.A seminal study on the literary and cultural representations of ecodisaster in the global context, and with contributions from across the world, this book, truly interdisciplinary in nature, will be an invaluable read for students, academicians, and researchers in literature, film studies, climate change studies, disaster studies, gender studies and cultural studies.

Tilley, Lisa, Liberation Ecology: Against the Racial Capitalist World System. 224 pp. 2026:1 (Pluto Pr., UK) <746-1170>
ISBN 978-0-7453-5011-0 paper ¥5,628.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

Our planetary systems are in crisis and dominant capitalist solutions are largely making things worse. Across the world system, communities are rising up with revolutionary alternatives, but these are too often overlooked by mainstream environmental governance spheres and Global North climate movements. Liberation Ecology argues that to confront socioecological crises, we must understand racial capitalism as a world ecological system-one that shapes how environmental destruction is experienced and resisted across continents. By linking the struggles of Indigenous frontiers, Third World peripheries, and Global North core spaces, the book explores the immense power of socioecological solidarity. Urgent and uncompromising, Liberation Ecology reveals why we cannot solve the climate crisis with frameworks that centre the North or ignore racial structures of oppression. We must build a politics of solidarity to create ecologies of liberation.

Watkins, Charles, Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation. 256 pp. 2025:10 (Reaktion Books, UK) <746-1172>
ISBN 978-1-83639-118-0 hard ¥7,040.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00

Jiahua, Pan / Guiyang, Zhuang (eds.), Ecological Conservation and Environmental Protection in China, 1978-2018. 274 pp. 2025:1 (P. Lang, SZ) <746-1047>
ISBN 978-1-63667-853-5 hard ¥25,039.- (税込) SFR 103.00

China's sustained and rapid economic growth since 1978 has meant increasing importance of ecological conservation and environmental protection. This book reviews the history of China's experience in ecological conservation and environmental protection in China under reform and opening-up, identifies lessons learned, examines obstacles and challenges the country is facing, and offers suggestions for addressing them. Written by some of the most prominent experts in their respective fields, the chapters cover such topics as environmental planning and policies, the rule of law, sustainable development, circular economy, climate change, and ecological civilization. The volume shows that China's environmental objectives are consistent with the country's long-term development goals and that a prosperous and beautiful China must be one and the same.

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.