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

Wakild, Emily, A Moderating Force: Conserving Nature in National Parks in Patagonia and Amazonia. 256 pp. 2026:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <756-842>
ISBN 978-0-19-765401-9 hard ¥32,010.- (税込) US$ 150.00
ISBN 978-0-19-765402-6 paper ¥7,469.- (税込) US$ 35.00

ElZein, Zeina / Negm, Abdelazim (eds.), Recent Approaches of Sustainable Architecture in Arid and Semi-arid Cities: Best Practices for Materials, Water, Energy and Urban Greening in Challenging Climates. (Urban Sustainability) 444 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-850>
ISBN 978-981-9516-44-5 hard ¥40,124.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book provides a collection of the latest sustainable architecture and urban practices in arid and semi-arid cities and communities. It discusses the concept of resilience in architecture, discussing resilient socio-ecological systems in the Arab Region and using urban agriculture practices for designing resilient spaces. The book addresses sustainable building materials within the contexts of indoor spaces, climate change, and economic viability. It also addresses waste management and the concept of zero waste. The book highlights sustainable water management systems in buildings and cities, in addition to learned lessons from indigenous water management methods. It focuses on urban greening using haloculture for combating global warming effects and discusses the impact of green roofs as a type of urban greening in improving the thermal performance of buildings. The book delves into heat wave hazards and geospatial analysis in urban settings, using cyber-physical systems in smart cities and carbon-neutral urban developments. The book is useful to researchers, professionals, practitioners, post-graduates, and undergraduates who are interested in the field of environmental architecture engineering.

Goudie, Andrew, Landscape Heritage of the World with Google Earth. 201 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <756-852>
ISBN 978-3-031-95554-9 hard ¥35,108.- (税込) EUR 139.99

The rationale of this book is to provide carefully selected images from Google Earth, to discuss what they show, and to provide references to the heritage sites portrayed so that readers can go deeper if they wish. Taking examples from all over the world, this book aims to demonstrate their value for understanding heritage landscapes and for appreciating their aesthetics. It is organised around different types of landscape and the processes that created them, rather than regionally or on the basis of age. It includes a large number of archaeological sites that have been designated as UNESC0 World Heritage Sites. Google Earth has proved to be important for demonstrating some of the threats that major sites have been exposed to, including during recent wars in the Middle East. The landscapes discussed are those of Water Management, Agricultural Management, War, Burial, Mines, Quarries and Salterns, Cities and Settlements, Tells, Theatres, Amphitheatres, and Hippodromes, Churches, Temples, Pagodas, and Mosques, and Geoglyphs.

Huntjens, Patrick / Mohamed, Najma / Hujo, K. et al. (eds.), Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures: Mobilising Collective Power to Deal with the 21st Century Polycrisis. 447 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <756-853>
ISBN 978-3-031-99108-0 hard ¥12,536.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This groundbreaking open access volume introduces eco-social contracts as a bold and actionable vision for addressing the major, interconnected crises of our time-climate change, biodiversity loss, rising inequality, and the erosion of public trust and democratic legitimacy. At its heart lies a fundamental realization that can no longer be ignored: the social contract has been broken for billions of people. As a result, the bonds between people, planet, and power must be rewoven. Increasingly recognized by the UN, global assessments such as the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment, and by a growing international community of civil society leaders, youth movements, and NGOs, eco-social contracts call for renewed solidarity, systemic equity across generations and communities, inclusive governance, and a fundamental transformation of economic systems. They challenge dominant economic paradigms and present a holistic and compelling alternative-one that rebalances our relationships with nature, institutions, and one another. This book captures that momentum, blending visionary thinking and grounded inspiration with hard-won lessons on unlocking and mobilising collective agency. Rooted in diverse knowledge systems-from Indigenous cosmologies and feminist and care-based economics to regenerative development and post-growth thought-it brings together contributions from leading scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists across the globe. Bridging theory and practice, it offers vital insights into how regenerative, inclusive, and just futures can be co-created. For changemakers, students, and all those seeking hope, direction, and clarity in a time of global uncertainty, this book is both a call to action and a guide for transformation-inviting readers to imagine and co-create sustainable and just futures our hearts and minds know are possible. Selected Endorsements Inger Andersen - Executive Director, UNEP: "This volume is a progressive and constructive contribution to building societies in harmony with nature." Mary Robinson - The Elders, and Former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner: "This book makes clear that a new eco-social contract must be built on structural justice, intergenerational equity, and inclusive governance." Jayati Ghosh - Club of Rome, and UN High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs: "An incredibly timely and significant book that could not be more relevant for our current planetary emergency. Some light in the seeming darkness!" Kumi Naidoo - President, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative: "This book convincingly shows why and how we must transition from systems that devalue life to economies that cherish well-being and shared prosperity." Karen O'Brien - Co-Chair, IPBES Transformative Change Assessment: "This book shows how we can recognize ourselves as agents of change. When we do, new realities become thinkable and actionable." Daan Zieren, Chair Youth Climate Movement (The Netherlands), part of the We Are Tomorrow Global Partnership (WAT-GP): "Young people feel the urgency of the climate crisis, but they lack the perspective of a structural solution. For a shared vision of the future, we need new forms of involvement. The eco-social contract offers an inspiring example of how we can build a sustainable future together."

Jha, Kaushalendra Kumar / Campbell, Michael O'Neal (eds.), Intersections of Conservation Biogeography and Wildlife Management: Navigating the Anthropocene Era. 454 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-854>
ISBN 978-981-9501-20-5 hard ¥37,616.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book offers a novel approach to the new science of conservation biogeography, for the more effective assessment and management of human-animal relationships, supported by natural and social science perspectives and technological developments. Conservation biogeography offers a deeper understanding of the modern context of rapid environmental change, politicized and polarized opinions on conservation, and the role for computational technology. Conservation biogeography includes individual perspectives within conservation psychology and group-based issues in broad social, economic, and political contexts. Concepts examined include intersections between wildlife charisma and conservation, perspectives on trophy hunting and human-environment relationships, environmental applications of geomatics, and computerization. This book contributes to the interests of academic researchers, students, practitioners and policymakers, and general readers.

Kennedy, Melissa / O'Donnell, Erin (eds.), People, Place and Nature in Indigenous-Settler Relations: Recentring the More-than-Human World. (Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World 10) 274 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-855>
ISBN 978-3-032-03599-8 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This edited collection is an essential resource for understanding contemporary Indigenous-settler relations across three major settler colonial contexts, bringing together First Nations and settler scholars, practitioners, artists and community organisations from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the USA. The book provides students and researchers with critical frameworks for analysing how colonial power relations shape contemporary injustices while exploring Indigenous-led pathways toward transformation. Organised into three sections - Words of the Land, Unmaking Extraction, and Restoring Country, Restoring Justice - the collection demonstrates how relationships between people, place, and the more-than-human world are articulated through Indigenous water governance, cultural restoration projects, decolonial museum practices, traditional ecological knowledge, and community-controlled care systems. Chapters engage theoretical rigor with practical case studies, offering concrete examples of how Indigenous knowledge systems provide solutions to environmental and social challenges. Featuring majority Indigenous authorship and innovative cross-cultural collaborations, this collection models meaningful scholarly engagement while centring Indigenous perspectives. Essential for scholarships in Indigenous studies, environmental justice, colonialism, and social justice, this volume contains critical insights in envisioning more just futures grounded in relationality and care.

Kuppinger, Petra (ed.), Second-Hand Cultures and Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing, and Care. 290 pp. 2025:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-856>
ISBN 978-3-031-99874-4 hard ¥35,108.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores activities in the global landscape of second-hand cultures and economies of reuse, repair, sharing and care. Individual chapters provide ethnographic studies of how ordinary people live, revive, create, and refine practices of reuse, repair, sharing and care as they seek to prolong the lifespan of goods, contribute to planetary health, make a living, and create communities. The authors introduce practices like children's clothes swapping, repair of appliances, or reuse of domestic fabrics, and analyze how people exchange and share goods (farmers' market), buy used items in different venues, reuse or recycle materials (tires), repair items for resale (TVs), or avoid purchasing new goods (free stores). The volume examines activities in different settings across North America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and Asia, and analyzes specific economic, gendered, social and cultural contexts, material conditions, and motivations. The authors theorize global second-hand circuits and economies and the potential of ordinary people and small projects in the making of a more sustainable and equitable world. This book will be of interest to readers in environmental anthropology or sociology, environmental studies, sustainability studies, consumer studies, and material and popular culture studies.

Leal Filho, Walter / Sari, R. F. / Viera Trevisan, L. (eds.), Green Metric in Higher Education - Measuring and Reporting on Sustainability Initiatives at Higher Education Institutions. (World Sustainability Series) 1394 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-857>
ISBN 978-3-032-00360-7 hard ¥55,172.- (税込) EUR 219.99

The need for green metrics, or environmental metrics, stems from the growing awareness and urgency to address environmental issues. Green metrics help in quantifying the impact of human activities on the environment. This includes measuring carbon footprints, water usage, waste generation, and pollution levels. By providing tangible data, these metrics guide individuals, businesses, and governments in making more sustainable decisions. They highlight areas where environmental impact can be reduced. Also, green metrics are crucial for tracking progress towards environmental goals, such as those set by the Paris Agreement or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Against this backdrop and in order to facilitate a broad discussion on the contribution of universities towards sustainability, this book is being produced. The book gathers inputs from universities and research organisations working on matters related to sustainable development and green metrics, in a variety of contexts. It also provides a platform for the dissemination of information on the latest initiatives.Furthermore, the book intends to provide a fertile basis upon which universities may cooperate more closely in this key area. Last but not least, a further aim of the book is to present methodological approaches and experiences deriving from case studies and projects, which aim to show how green metrics may be incorporated as part of university programmes.

Majumdar, Parijata / Nag, Aniruddha et al. (eds.), Harnessing the Potential of Artificial Intelligence to Promote Environmental Sustainability. 288 pp. 2026:1 (Emerald, UK) <756-858>
ISBN 978-1-83662-997-9 hard ¥23,474.- (税込) US$ 110.00

Harnessing the Potential of Artificial Intelligence to Promote Environmental Sustainability provides a comprehensive examination of how AI is transforming environmental conservation and sustainability efforts. This scholarly work delves into cutting-edge AI technologies-such as automation, data analytics, and machine learning-and explores their potential to address pressing environmental challenges. Through in-depth analysis and practical case studies, the book demonstrates how AI can enhance resource management, support sustainable practices, and improve environmental monitoring. Beyond technical solutions, the authors engage with the ethical considerations and potential risks of deploying AI in environmental contexts. Issues such as fairness, transparency, and accountability in AI systems are explored, along with the need for regulatory frameworks to mitigate negative impacts. An essential resource for researchers, professionals, policymakers, and anyone interested in the intersection of technology and environmental stewardship, this contributed work offers a roadmap for leveraging AI to foster a sustainable future, emphasising the crucial role of advanced technologies in addressing global environmental challenges.

Martinez, Diane / Virtue, Drew, Strategies for Effective Environmental Communication: A Beginner's Guide to Writing and Content Creation. (Palgrave Practical Guides in Communication) 245 pp. 2025:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-859>
ISBN 978-3-032-04791-5 paper ¥18,806.- (税込) EUR 74.99

This book is an informative and how-to guide for writing about the environment. Part One focuses on issues of environmental writing that writers must be aware of before they begin writing, such as environmental ideologies, affordances and constraints of various genres, considerations for audience, and social and political issues that influence environmental communication. Part Two is the how-to part of the guide with eight chapters that introduce readers to various writing strategies like how to write in narrative form, sensory writing, incorporating research, the use of visuals, and more.

Ripoll, Thierry, Human Psychology and the Destruction of the Planet. (Anthropocene - Humanities and Social Sciences) 223 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <756-861>
ISBN 978-3-032-02079-6 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book sheds light on the reasons for our inaction in matters of the environmental crisis and presents solutions to address the crisis. The work draws on numerous disciplinary fields, such as psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, biology, philosophy, sociology, economics, ethology. The author argues that it is not possible to correctly understand the current environmental crisis in the light of a single discipline and emphasizes the importance of cognitive sciences to address the environmental crisis. He shows that the reasons for human inaction relate as much to the characteristics of our psyche/brain as to those of the consumption society that we invented and have lived in at least since the Neolithic. The analysis presented stresses the need to regulate individual behavior and to call into question our consumption patterns. Without questioning the characteristics of both modern society, and the way our brains work, will make it impossible to resolve the environmental crisis. This book proposes a revolutionary change of the way we live and act to preserve the planet.

Sandoval-Diaz, Jose / Mardones Barrera, Rodolfo E. (eds.), Community Environmental Psychology and Community Resilience. 307 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-862>
ISBN 978-3-032-02677-4 hard ¥35,108.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book presents a particular kind of environmental psychology that has emerged in Latin America: community environmental psychology. Different grom mainstream environmental psychology developed in the Global Norh - which usually focuses on individual differences, often disconnected from historical, social and political contexts - community environmental psychology is a situated approach aimed at social change and in articulation with community psychology, developed to study interactions between people and communities in relation to the natural and/or built space. This contributed volume is organized into two complementary parts. Chapters in the first part articulate conceptual frameworks that nourish community environmental psychology and methodological approaches that help to understand, analyze and transform dynamics between communities and their environments from a situated, critical perspective committed to socio-environmental justice. Chapters of the second part present studies of community resilience in environmental psychology based on case studies carried out in six Latin American countries. These works reveal the applicability of diverse conceptual and methodological frameworks for an empirical approach to community resilience in specific psycho-environmental contexts. Situated in territories marked by socio-natural disasters, unequal urbanization, extractive economies and environmental conflicts, the studies show how communities develop and deploy response, resistance and territorial transformation capacities when faced with contexts marked by social injustice and persistent exclusion. Community Environmental Psychology and Community Resilience aims to position community environmental psychology as a field of scientific and applied development committed to social transformation. Based on the theoretical and methodological approaches presented in the first part and the empirical studies included in the second, the book proposes an approach that situates community as the central axis of the analysis and allows expanding the traditional frameworks of environmental psychology by integrating structural vulnerability, collective agency and power, understood as procedural and contextual dynamics that configure our communal lives as constitutive dimensions of the person-environment relationship.

Sedrez, Maycon / Pitts, Gregory (eds.), Artificial Intelligence-Aided Design for Sustainability. (Urban Sustainability) 230 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-864>
ISBN 978-981-9513-48-2 hard ¥40,124.- (税込) EUR 159.99

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the architecture and design disciplines, transforming how we design, think, and teach. This volume explores how AI is becoming not just a powerful digital tool but an active partner in the creation of more sustainable, adaptive, and forward-thinking design processes. Focusing on the intersection of design, sustainability, and emerging technologies, this book investigates how AI contributes to the resilience of the architectural profession, supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and drives educational innovation aligned with the UNESCO 2019 Beijing Consensus. Across the book chapters, leading researchers explore new workflows where AI enhances design development, enables complex analysis, and redefines creative roles. The book also examines hybrid analogue-digital practices and the adoption of computational concepts in design, revealing how architects are adapting to a deeply digitised future. Organised around three central themes-AI for sustainable design, the evolving role of the architect, and innovation in education-this volume is essential reading for designers, educators, and researchers navigating the shifting landscape of architecture in the age of intelligent systems. Part of Springer's Urban Sustainability series, AI-Aided Design for Sustainability offers critical insight into the tools, mindsets, and methods shaping contemporary architecture.

Giblett, Rod, The Politics of Nature and Environmental Writing: Political Ecocriticism. (Transdisciplinary Environmental Humanities 1) 254 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK)
ISBN 978-3-032-04426-6 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book defines nature writing as the creative practice of tracing the bodily and sensory enjoyment of nature-in the broad sense of the processes and places of land, air, and water-in prose poetry and poetic prose. In so doing, it celebrates the creative practice of selected nature and environmental writing, as well as related cultural critique. Giblett draws on the work of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Mikhail Bakhtin to establish what nature writing is and on Michel Foucault to distinguish what it is not. He discusses Aboriginal storytelling as well as the work of "classic" nature writers, including Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and John Muir. He also considers writing on environmental conservation and politics, as well as "the new nature writing" found in the work of authors such as Richard Mabey, Robert Macfarlane, Caroline Crampton, and Rachel Lichenstein. Through all of this contemplation, the book invites readers to love their local places, plants, and animals through creative practice.

E.G.Carayannis他編　民主主義、環境、技術－AIと核融合エネルギーの事例
Carayannis, Elias G. / Erokhin, Vasilii (eds.), Democracy, Environment, and Technology: The Cases of AI and Fusion Energy. (Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology) 430 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <756-651>
ISBN 978-3-032-03126-6 hard ¥10,028.- (税込) EUR 39.99

The 21st century is witnessing an unprecedented convergence of transformative technologies that promise to reshape global energy systems, governance, and societal well-being. Among these, Public Interest Technology (PIT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Fusion Energy stand out as critical domains with the potential to drive sustainable development, economic growth, and equitable progress. This book explores the concepts of PIT, AI, and Fusion, in ten chapters. It begins by tracing the evolution of PIT, emphasizing its role in addressing global challenges through socio-technical frameworks. Key themes include the ethical and practical challenges of PIT, such as data privacy, algorithmic bias, and funding barriers, as well as its potential to drive equitable solutions. The importance of stakeholder inclusion, particularly from the Global South, and frameworks to manage uncertainties in technology investments are highlighted. Case studies illustrate successful PIT implementations, such as AI-driven sustainability projects and fusion energy initiatives, while underscoring the need for interdisciplinary collaboration and adaptive governance. The later chapters focus on fusion energy as a PIT advocating for open science, international cooperation, and flexible investment strategies to overcome technical and financial hurdles. In these chapters, ideas that fusion energy, if developed inclusively, could revolutionize global energy systems and combat climate change are discussed, and governance models, such as international commissions and public-private partnerships, to ensure equitable access and ethical development are proposed. Similarly, discussions on AI stress its dual potential to either exacerbate inequality or democratize opportunities, depending on policy and implementation.

Wejnert, Barbara (ed.), Democracy in Retreat and the Climate Crisis: Challenges and Strategies for Adaptation in an Evolving Political Landscape. (Springer Studies on Populism, Identity Politics and Social Justice) 320 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-654>
ISBN 978-3-032-02880-8 hard ¥35,108.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This volume sheds light on the complex global landscape of autocracy's ascent and its profound impact on climate change response. Split into three sections, the book discusses pathways leading to the global rise of autocracies. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, the first section presents the conceptual framework surrounding the surge of autocracy and the erosion of democracy. It investigates diverse facets such as dictatorship, authoritarianism, populist movements, and the nuances of 'restricted' and 'good' democracies. In the second section, the focus shifts to the root causes and the worldwide propagation of autocracy and democracy backsliding. It analyzes the challenges these trends pose for a sustainable future, a topic rarely explored from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book engages with critical discussions on green authoritarianism, the erosion of social capital through political entrepreneurship, and the authoritarian politics of climate change. The third section examines the impact of eroding democracy on the natural environment and the sustainability concerns during the climate change era as viewed through a humanities lens. For scholars, students, policymakers, and activists in fields such as autocracy, democracy, political sociology, international relations, and sustainability, this book provides invaluable insights into our evolving world. It presents strategies to navigate climate change adaptation in a changing, less democratic world.

Seibel, Wolfgang / Butt, Andrew / Buxton, M. (eds.), Natural Hazards and Public Management: Governing Climate Adaptation. 270 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-666>
ISBN 978-3-031-98256-9 hard ¥12,536.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book examines how policymakers respond to natural hazards in the wake of global climate change. Through a series of five case studies it assesses how changing patterns of natural hazards collide with established patterns of spatial planning, and how alternative strategies could be operationalised in local policy practice. Due to global warming, wildfires and floods are occurring in regions where they had previously been virtually unknown. Yet local public policy for immediate protection against natural hazards has remained at the margins of both public and scholarly attention. The book argues that when it comes to the containment and mitigation of natural hazards as the consequence of climate change, effective prevention requires accurate anticipation of impacts, appropriate policy settings, and the mobilization of administrative skill.

Delatin Rodrigues, Daniel, Climate Change and Political Action in Italy. 186 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-682>
ISBN 978-3-031-98770-0 hard ¥30,092.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book presents how the climate and ecological crisis is lived, experienced and confronted in the contextual conditions of a particular area. The growing concern in the academic and non-academic debate about climate change, as well as the persistent campaign of disinformation and opposition to climate policy, demonstrate that the analysis of the challenges, limits and potential for responding to these events must take into account local socio-material and cultural circumstances. In this book we will follow the different levels at which the climate crisis is confronted (urban policies, everyday practices, collective action), with particular attention to the types of responses that have been formulated, as well as the emergence of new codes of conduct and practices of personal and collective reproduction that seek to translate global phenomena into transformative actions, both materially and subjectively. The analysis of the friction between global and local, agents of transition and fossil fuel incumbents is at the core of this book.

Datta, Ranjan, Decolonizing Climate Adaptation: Indigenous Land-based Perspectives in Bangladesh. 159 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <756-779>
ISBN 978-981-9691-39-5 hard ¥30,092.- (税込) EUR 119.99

地球科学・環境科学の歴史記述ハンドブック
Aronova, Elena / Sepkoski, David / Tamborini, Marco (eds.), Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences. (Historiographies of Science) 513 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <756-42>
ISBN 978-3-031-40798-7 hard ¥57,680.- (税込) EUR 229.99

This open access handbook aims to provide a definitive assessment of the historiography and the future of major themes and approaches within the history of the earth sciences, understood broadly. The volume is intended for a broad range of readers, including graduate students, other scholars, and scientists, both familiar with and new to the history of the earth and environmental sciences. Essays in the collection reflect on various problems in the study of the history of the earth sciences emphasizing crosscutting themes (such as economics, technology, politics, gender, etc.) and featuring innovative ways of framing historiographic perspectives. Since scholarship in the history of science is increasingly becoming entangled with environmental, economic and bureaucratic, political, gender, and other historical approaches, the volume as a whole emphasizes the breadth and diversity of scholarship on the earth and environmental sciences.

Quirico, Ottavio / Baber, Walter F. / Adams, M. A. (eds.), Implementing Climate Change Policy: From Engagement to Enforcement? (Contemporary Environmental Law and Policy) 230 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-525>
ISBN 978-981-9506-06-4 hard ¥42,632.- (税込) EUR 169.99

Over a time lapse of only about 170 years, the trajectory of greenhouse gas (GHG) in the atmosphere has exceeded the 1.5 degreesC security level established in the Paris Agreement. States and international organisations have thus far addressed global warming primarily by means of policy-making and law-making-that is, from the standpoint of 'primary' rules, but convergence is still limited. Climate science indeed warns that the timely achievement of carbon neutrality by 2050 currently necessitates drastic cuts in GHG emissions on a yearly basis. Can therefore a progressive implementation of 'secondary' norms, that is, sanctions and ensuing enforcement procedures, meaningfully contribute to fostering a fast transition to a low-carbon economy based on renewables and, possibly, nuclear energy and further innovative technologies, including corresponding adaptation measures? 'Hard' and 'soft' mechanisms, both 'public' and 'private' in nature, whereby enforceable sanctions integrate goal setting, pledges and a variety of behavioural incentives, disclose a fragmented 'enforcement deficit', which compels case-by-case decentralised solutions, whereby the threshold is by now set at a 2 degreesC temperature increase above pre-industrial levels, with fast-approaching tipping points.

アフリカとアジェンダ2030
Silander, Daniel (ed.), South Africa and Agenda 2030: Critical Perspectives on Delivering Sustainable Democracy and Development. 232 pp. 2025:11 (Emerald, UK) <756-164>
ISBN 978-1-80592-037-3 hard ¥22,407.- (税込) US$ 105.00

As the world pursues the UN's Agenda 2030, nations face challenges in balancing economic growth, social equity, and sustainability. South Africa, a symbol of democracy since 1994, grapples with political instability, economic inequality, and environmental concerns. Assessing its progress in achieving Agenda 2030 offers insights into the broader challenges faced by developing democracies. In South Africa and Agenda 2030: Critical Perspectives on Delivering Sustainable Democracy and Development, editor Daniel Silander brings together a comprehensive collection of analyses examining South Africa's commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This volume explores key dimensions of sustainable democracy and development, with a particular focus on SDG 16, which emphasizes peace, justice, and strong institutions. Authors in this collected work delve into critical aspects of political governance, judicial integrity, media freedom, and public accountability; all factors essential for fostering a stable and democratic society. Additionally, the analyses extend beyond governance, addressing economic and environmental sustainability through chapters on industrial policy, labour rights, poverty reduction, and climate change. By integrating theoretical perspectives with empirical findings, this work provides a nuanced assessment of South Africa's successes and persistent challenges in meeting the Agenda 2030 targets. Providing a multidimensional analysis of South Africa's sustainable development, this volume is invaluable for academics, students, policymakers, and anyone invested in democracy, governance, and global development. Offering critical perspectives and policy recommendations, it serves as both a reference and a call to action for fostering a more sustainable and equitable future.

Beran, Ondrej, Ecological Emotions: Understanding Life at the End of Times. 410 pp. 2025:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-19>
ISBN 978-3-032-03074-0 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

In this book, Ondrej Beran explores the various emotions that arise in response to the perceived and observed climate crisis. He provides a focused philosophical overview of ecological emotions (mostly negative ones, such as grief) and reflects on some of their characteristics. He also addresses the nature of their interconnection, and their status as potentially lucid and justified recognitions of a compromised value. In general, Beran's interest is in thinking of these emotions as peculiar forms of understanding, and in exploring what these forms of understanding show us about living in a world that we see as seriously damaged or under serious risk. He argues that these forms of understanding are cultivated and expressed in various ways and can take very diverse, even idiosyncratic shapes. Ultimately, he highlights the important role played by the reflective distance in many of our emotional responses to the climate crisis, as they also incorporate and shape how we understand our individual lives. Special attention is paid here to "light-heartedly pessimistic" takes on one life, in relation to the climate crisis, and to a critical reflection of the problematic aspects of this reflection, especially its enabling conditions (which would represent natural openings for further discussions, whether post-colonial, Marxist, feminist, or general political critiques). The book is, methodologically, seated primarily in the tradition of post-Wittgensteinian philosophy (ethics), building upon previous theoretical work on examples in philosophy. But it relies on other resources as well: cognitivist approaches to emotion (Solomon, Nussbaum, Rorty), existential phenomenology (Ratcliffe), or Adornoian dialectics.

Topic-Rutherford, Martina / Zeman, M. G. (eds.), Food and Sustainability: Communication, PR, and the Culture of Responsibility. 308 pp. 2026:2 (Emerald, UK) <756-220>
ISBN 978-1-83708-039-7 hard ¥23,474.- (税込) US$ 110.00

Schulze, Kai, Partisan Politics, Interest Groups and International Commitment: The Ratification of Environmental and Labour Treaties. (Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series) 292 pp. 2025:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-237>
ISBN 978-3-031-99941-3 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

International treaties and regulations have flourished over the past century. But why are some states more likely to ratify international treaties than others? And does domestic politics influence international commitments? This book seeks to answer these questions by examining the patterns and determinants of international treaty ratification in the areas of environmental and labour policy from the early twentieth century to the present. The book argues that partisan politics and interest groups play a significant role in explaining differences in international treaty ratification. It also demonstrates that the international commitments of industrialised democracies are heavily influenced by their domestic politico-economic characteristics rather than by their international linkages and interdependencies alone. These findings have important implications, as they highlight the ongoing importance of domestic constituencies in shaping international policy responses. The book will appeal to all those interested in international and comparative politics, sustainable development, and environmental and labour policy.

アフリカにおけるビジネス、人権、環境ハンドブック
Ashukem, Jean-Claude N. (ed.), Handbook on Business, Human Rights, and the Environment in Africa. 940 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-290>
ISBN 978-3-032-03260-7 hard ¥57,680.- (税込) EUR 229.99

This handbook provides an essential reference to the pivotal and dynamic field of business and human rights from an African perspective. Grounded in human rights frameworks, it presents the status quo of the prevailing fundamental and intersectional issues related to business and human rights regulation in Africa. The handbook covers topics such as land and institutional governance, corporate social responsibility, and gender issues as some of the main themes and offers practical regulatory solutions based on doctrinal, empirical, and comparative methods. Exploring the intersection of business and human rights deepens our understanding of the legal, policy, and regulatory challenges involved and clarifies how and to what extent human rights concerns are addressed in Africa, a continent often marked by human rights violations by multinational corporations. It is hoped that the solutions provided here will help advance policy, regulatory, and legal developments related to business and human rights in Africa.