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.

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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.