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

Burnham, Clint, Mari Ruti and Climate Change: From Grief to Creativity. (Essays in Psychological Humanities) 174 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <757-77>
ISBN 978-1-032-85594-3 hard ¥40,810.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00
ISBN 978-1-032-80703-4 paper ¥6,701.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99

In this illuminating book, Clint Burnham invites the reader to consider humanity's relationship with the world around us, using a unique blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, literary criticism and visual art to hold a mirror up to our own implications in the mounting climate crisis.Drawing upon the pioneering work of philosopher Mari Ruti, Burnham deftly interweaves examples from climate fiction - including works from Richard Power, Eleanor Catton and Jenni Fagan - 'trash art' and classic films from Alfred Hitchcock to help the reader explore the idea of and better understand what is now called climate grief. Focusing on sublimation and creativity, Burnham weighs up perspectives on both climate activism and climate denialism and uses these ideas to offer a form of respite from trauma or grief surrounding the climate crisis, providing both comfort and a bracing call to action.Mary Ruti and Climate Grief offers a novel and approachable perspective to both students and scholars interested in psychology, environmental studies, psychoanalysis and climate politics, as well as practitioners of the psychological and therapeutic professions who are encountering patients experiencing climate anxiety or other affects in their practice.

Adler, Ruth, Financing Climate Justice: The Green Climate Fund in a Changing World. (Elgar Studies in Climate Law) 304 pp. 2026:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-797>
ISBN 978-1-0353-6203-5 hard ¥32,065.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00

This timely book traces the evolution of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) since its establishment in 2010. Ruth Adler investigates whether it has the legitimacy necessary to substantially contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the Paris Agreement, including limiting the increase in global average temperature to less than 2 degreesC above pre-industrial levels.Adler conducts a comprehensive study of the performance of the GCF, and addresses gaps in the existing scholarship to analyse the Fund's effectiveness. Taking a deep dive into its portfolio, she determines whether the funded projects and programs have been effective, and if they have achieved outcomes consistent with the principles of justice and equity. Chapters draw on performance reporting and independent evaluations, as well as annual reports and financial information, which indicate implementation challenges and delays. Adler ultimately argues that the Fund's legitimacy could be enhanced through reforms to its governance and contributions from a broader range of donors.This book is a crucial read for scholars and students of climate change, environmental law and public international law. It is also beneficial for practitioners and policymakers in climate policy and finance, as well as NGOs, climate activists and investors in the field.

Ntovas, Alexandros X. M., Fisheries Compatibility Disputes: Agreeing to Disagree, Committed to Conserve. 368 pp. 2026:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-807>
ISBN 978-1-80037-860-5 hard ¥34,980.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

This book provides a fresh perspective on the enduring debate surrounding the sustainable regulation of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks. Alexandros Ntovas highlights how these vital fish stocks occupy a contested regulatory space where sovereignty, science and sustainability converge.Chapters explore the development of international fisheries law through key United Nations (UN) initiatives, including the 1958 UN Fishing and Conservation Convention, the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the 1995 UN Fish Stocks Agreement. Ntovas emphasizes the need for consistent interpretation of the law and examines the role of peaceful dispute settlements in fostering international cooperation and achieving ocean sustainability. Compulsory Settlement of Compatibility Fishery Disputes underscores the importance of resisting unilateralism and creeping jurisdictionalism, situating the analysis within the broader jurisprudence of treaty interpretation.This is a vital resource for students and academics of environmental law, public international law and environmental governance and regulation, particularly the law of the sea and international dispute resolution. Legal practitioners handling compatibility-related fishery disputes will also benefit from the author's rigorous analysis of the doctrinal complexities involved.

Sarkin, Jeremy, Climate Adaptation Through Environmental Justice: Comparative Approaches to Enhance the Resilience of Indigenous Peoples and Minority Groups. 310 pp. 2025:12 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-811>
ISBN 978-1-0353-6399-5 hard ¥33,522.- (税込) GB￡ 115.00

This interdisciplinary socio-legal book explores the effects of climate change on Indigenous People and minority groups. Jeremy Julian Sarkin argues that an integrated approach to deal with climate change, that also incorporates dealing with environmental justice matters, is needed. This is because dealing with environmental injustices must be prioritized in order to achieve the necessary climate change action goals and facilitate climate adaptation for the most vulnerable.The book investigates the challenges encountered by Indigenous People and minority groups, who face extensive discrimination and often live in deprived areas that are not adequately equipped to deal with the consequences of climate change. By examining the issues concerning climate change and environmental justice in the United States, South Africa and Canada, Sarkin presents various ways to enhance the resilience of those most vulnerable to climate change. By integrating knowledge and methods from a range of disciplines, including the social and natural sciences, Sarkin argues that addressing these issues concurrently and in a unified manner would better aid Indigenous People and minority groups facing these effects.Climate Adaptation Through Environmental Justice is an essential resource for students and scholars in the fields of law, environmental studies, and the social and natural sciences. It also provides helpful materials to assist law and policy makers, judicial officers, private sector actors, and civil society organisations in developing constructive policies regarding environmental justice and climate change issues.

Porto, Renan, An Indigenous Cosmopoetics of Justice: Law, Posthumanism and the Ecology of Cocoa. (Indigenous Peoples and the Law) 268 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <757-675>
ISBN 978-1-041-09978-9 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book examines cocoa farming in northeast Brazil to explore a fundamental question: can ecological relationships create their own form of law?Through the study of indigenous people and landless workers who use sustainable farming practices to restore damaged lands, the book analyses how humans and nature together create social and ecological systems that function as a kind of "viscous law", with flexible rules emerging from relationships with the land and its diverse lifeforms. Unlike rigid modern legal systems, this "viscous law" adapts to the realities of cocoa ecology and how it connects people, plants, and animals within global environmental systems. It addresses the practical needs of land rights struggles while recognising relationships that Western legal systems often ignore.An Indigenous Cosmopoetics of Justice is of interest to legal theorists, as well as those with interests in the areas of indigenous studies, postcolonial studies, and ecology.

Zhu, Xuemei / McCuskey Shepley, Mardelle et al. (eds.), Environmental Design for Health: A Framework and Visual Guide. 284 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <757-438>
ISBN 978-1-032-93900-1 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-93940-7 paper ¥11,656.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book provides a user-friendly guide to the impact of environmental design on individual and population health, as well as the relevant roles of social and behavioral factors. It explores how architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and urban planning can contribute to a healthier, more equitable, and more resilient society. Employing an evidence-based and solution-oriented approach, it provides a much-needed textbook for environmental designers and public health professionals.Written by a team of established experts, the book includes:An introduction to the concept of environmental design for health and the relevant roles of social and behavioral factors.An overview of important theories about human-environment relationships; environmental assessment, perception and cognition; and health behavior.Discussions of how to design for physical, mental, and social health, respectively, covering various design disciplines and environmental scales.Overviews of more specialized topics, such as design for healing, design for active living, design for environmental justice, and design across the lifespan.Case studies involving a range of physical environments including interiors and buildings (e.g., healthcare facilities, senior living environments, educational facilities), parks, urban spaces, and residential communities.A timely focus on emerging technology which affects design for health.An overview of integrating design and research for a healthier future.It is essential reading for all environmental designers and public health professionals.

Plant, Richard E., Spatial Data Analysis in Ecology and Agriculture Using R. 3rd ed. 520 pp. 2026:1 (CRC Pr., US) <757-297>
ISBN 978-1-032-93533-1 hard ¥67,045.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

Since the publication of the second edition of Richard Plant's bestselling textbook 'Spatial Data Analysis in Ecology and Agriculture Using R', the methodology of spatial data analysis and the suite of R tools for carrying out this analysis have evolved dramatically. This third edition thus explores both the leading software tools for the analysis of vector and raster data; the first based on sf and associated libraries, the second based on the terra package as it has evolved out of the earlier raster package.Further, within the methodology of spatial data analysis, the set of methods available has significantly expanded. This book adds several of the most popular and useful, including machine learning methods in spatial data analysis, the use of simulation methods in spatial data analysis, and a new chapter on the analysis of remotely sensed data. These methods are critically compared in the context of addressing the particular goals of the research project.The book's practical coverage of spatial statistics, real-world examples and user-friendly approach make this an essential textbook for ecology and agriculture graduate students. Using data sets from cultivated and uncultivated ecosystems, the book guides the reader through the analysis, including setting research objectives, designing the sampling plan, data quality control, exploratory and confirmatory data analysis, and drawing scientific conclusions.Additional material to accompany the book, including a review of mathematical concepts, the full data sets, and a brief introduction to geographic coordinate systems, can be accessed via the Instructor Resources link on www.routledge.com.

国連SDGs達成への経路と障害
Caldwell, Cam / Anderson, Verl / Jamali, Dima (eds.), Pathways and Barriers to Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Progress, Stagnation and Regression. 256 pp. 2025:12 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-301>
ISBN 978-1-0353-4691-2 hard ¥30,607.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

This comprehensive yet concise book analyses the current status of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN 2030 Agenda, assessing their progress and providing strategies for achieving them. The authors emphasise the need for urgent action and concerted collaborative efforts to deliver meaningful progress by 2030, as global political turmoil, the Covid-19 pandemic, and climate change have put the SDGs at risk.Pathways and Barriers to Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals explores the complex and multifaceted nature of the issues targeted by the SDGs. It highlights that the root causes of these challenges are often difficult to resolve in countries facing social, political and financial turmoil, conditions which can have cascading effects on food, nutrition, health, education, and the environment. With only 15 per cent of SDGs on track for 2030, this book puts forward suggestions on how collective action can overcome the challenges to get the remaining goals back on track.This book is a timely resource for students and academics in the fields of development studies, sustainability, and business and management. It is also an enlightening read for policymakers, NGOs, environmental activists, and those involved in pursuing the SDGs.

持続可能な開発への経路
Kakar, Narinder / Shostya, Anna (eds.), Pathways To Sustainable Development: Implementing the Pact for the Future. (Progressing the Sustainable Development Goals) 294 pp. 2025:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-303>
ISBN 978-1-0353-5633-1 hard ¥30,607.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

This prescient book explores global challenges in the field of sustainable development, examining the key factors identified by the UN Pact for the Future. Expert contributors discuss the commitments outlined in the UN Common Agenda and suggest future pathways towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.Leading and emerging international scholars reflect on the five areas highlighted in the Pact for the Future: sustainable development and financing for development, international peace and security, science and technology, youth and future generations, and transforming global governance. These areas are pertinent to a wide range of existential issues faced by the international community -- from multidimensional poverty to educational gaps, from environmental crisis to armed conflict and violence, from urban pressures to the rights of future generations. Chapters provide detailed case studies, including sustainable smart cities in India, the 2015 Well-being of Future Generations Act in Wales and environmental displacement in Mexico and Bangladesh. The book addresses the geopolitical shifts that threaten global progress towards sustainability and identifies emerging sustainable development concepts such as One Health, ecological civilization, environmental migration and the Anthropocene.Scholars and students of development economics, political science, environmental studies, and law will greatly benefit from this timely book. Presenting a multidisciplinary approach, the book is also an essential resource for practitioners and policymakers in urban policy and human rights, as well as those working for international organizations such as the UN and the World Bank.

Allen, Garth, Tourism, Development and South Africa: Culture, Equity and Climate Change in the Global South. 224 pp. 2025:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <757-324>
ISBN 978-1-350-44546-8 hard ¥24,777.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Drawing on his thirty years of consultancy experience with the World Bank, the UN Development Programme, the African Union, and UNICEF, leading tourism and development expert Garth Allen offers a deep dive into the socio-political dynamics that have shaped tourism in South Africa since its first democratic elections in 1994. In so doing, Allen engages a vast range of burgeoning debates on the potential and limits of sustainable socio-economic development in Africa and throughout the Global South. Bringing all this to bear on key tourism phenomena such as cultural tourism, eco-tourism, pro-poor tourism, event tourism, and medical tourism, Allen shows what varies according to local contexts, and at the same time, what remains consistent across Africa and other areas of the Global South, all of which brings into focus those forces within the international political economy that drive both tourism and development.For its broad theoretical coverage and its rich empirical detail drawing on the author's first-hand experience, this book is an essential resource for upper-level students and researchers interested in international tourism studies, political economics, international development, and the international political economics of Africa and the Global South.

Oriakhogba, Desmond Osaretin et al. (eds.), Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development Goals in Africa. 416 pp. 2025:12 (CRC Pr., US) <757-325>
ISBN 978-1-041-16002-1 hard ¥40,810.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

This volume provides a technical analysis of intellectual property (IP) rights in Africa, focusing on their intersection with sustainable development. Through case studies, it evaluates IP frameworks in agriculture, public health, innovation financing, and data protection, and so forth, emphasizing the need for context-sensitive systems tailored to Africa's unique challenges. The research highlights IP's contribution to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including food security, SME empowerment, and gender equality. It addresses critical issues such as AI-generated content, traditional knowledge, and access to medicine, advocating for balanced IP protection that stimulates innovation while ensuring equitable development.It featuresExplores the complex and evolving interface of IPRs and the sustainable development goals, especially SDGs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12,16 and 17 from an African perspective.Includes chapters having diverse sectoral focus like creative industries, agriculture, finance, AI and so forth.Emphasizes need for localised IP frameworks, capacity development, and policy reform.Reiterates a nuanced and balanced IP system tailored to Africa's socio-economic realities.Draws upon case studies from Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, Morocco, Tanzania, Egypt Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Gambia, Ghana, ARIPO and OAPIThis book is aimed at academics, researchers, legal practitioners and formulators within the innovation, IP and sustainable development context.

Bowman, Megan / Mai, Laura (eds.), A Research Agenda for Law, Finance and the Environment. (Elgar Research Agendas) 304 pp. 2026:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-332>
ISBN 978-1-0353-1386-0 hard ¥33,522.- (税込) GB￡ 115.00

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This timely Research Agenda presents a much-needed legal perspective on interdisciplinary sustainable finance discourse to inspire and inform decision-making in future research and practice. Experts in diverse jurisdictions across Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania provide practice-oriented and theoretical contributions that interweave normative themes of justice, responsibility, purpose, meaning, pluralism and diversity.Capturing the complexity of this emerging field, A Research Agenda for Law, Finance and the Environment addresses relevant financial instruments, institutions and legal interventions. Chapters cover key topics including the direct mobilization of green capital and facilitative modalities to enable systemic change and sustainable finance. The book also illuminates unconventional ideas and interventions that seek to disrupt established ways of approaching law, regulation and finance.This vital Research Agenda is a stimulating read for students and scholars of environmental law, finance and banking law, climate action and sustainability, as well as international practitioners and policymakers seeking to better understand the field and improve their critical thinking and decision-making.

Porter, Charles R., Jr., Water Rights in the United States: A Guide through the Maze. 2nd ed. 220 pp. 2026:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <757-355>
ISBN 979-88-920508-9-0 paper ¥20,988.- (税込) GB￡ 72.00

In our rapidly changing world, with the drastic impact of climate change, water policy is the one policy that we must get right. The completely updated second edition of Water Rights in the United States: A Guide through the Maze provides a concise one-stop resource providing state-by-state analysis of water ownership, regulatory agencies, and water polices. No other book explains the complicated relationships between state water policies along with providing an analysis of federal water policies.

Bachheti, Archana / Bachheti, R. K. / Husen, A. (eds.), Sustainable Solutions for Agricultural Waste: Applications, Challenges, and Management. 320 pp. 2026:2 (CRC Pr., US) <757-358>
ISBN 978-1-032-72620-5 hard ¥55,385.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00

As global agricultural activities continue to grow, so does the generation of significant amounts of organic waste. Sustainable Solutions for Agricultural Waste: Applications, Challenges, and Management delves into sustainable agricultural waste management, highlighting its critical role in environmental protection, resource efficiency, and economic growth.Spanning eighteen chapters, the book explores various agricultural residues such as bagasse, rice and wheat straw, palm waste, maize husks, and coconut shells. It examines their applications in sectors like bioenergy, bioplastics, pulp and paper, and biotechnology, offering practical solutions for effective waste valorization. Key topics discussed include cutting-edge innovations in nanoparticle synthesis, biochar production, and the use of biosorbents for wastewater treatment, alongside biological waste management techniques such as vermicomposting. These advancements align with sustainability objectives by reducing environmental impact and optimizing resource utilization.This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, professionals, and policymakers, bridging the gap between theory and practice. It encourages further innovation in the sustainable utilization of agricultural waste, helping to drive progress toward global sustainability goals and fostering more efficient waste management practices.

Greenwood, Davydd J. / Ravn, Johan E. / Bartels, Koen P. R., A Call to Action Research: Confronting the Social and Environmental Sustainability Crises. 352 pp. 2025:12 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-36>
ISBN 978-1-0353-0826-2 hard ¥33,522.- (税込) GB￡ 115.00

This groundbreaking book issues an urgent call to confront the global social and ecological crises that are destabilizing societies everywhere. Business as usual in social science and governance is no longer sustainable. A Call to Action Research urges academic researchers, citizens, third sector workers, public officials, and businesspeople to join forces for global social justice and ecological sustainability.Expert action researchers Davydd J. Greenwood, Johan E. Ravn, and Koen P.R. Bartels demonstrate how action research and solidary social action can lead to a sustainable, just, and democratic future. They shed light on the scope and promise of action research, exposing how and why current higher education and political-economic systems are incapable of providing solutions to our global crises. Chapters provide an overview of how diverse approaches to action research can be used to confront ecological collapse, harmful capitalism, social inequalities and ill-equipped governance. The book uniquely covers a wide range of frameworks and methods necessary for the practice of action research, illuminated by many case studies from across the globe.This book offers a timely appeal and concrete guidance to tackle our collective crises. Scholars and students from across the social sciences will learn how to do action research in collaboration with diverse participants. It is also a valuable resource for policymakers and government, third sector, and business practitioners committed to sustainability, social justice, and democracy.

Feltrin, Lorenzo, Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within. 240 pp. 2026:6 (Verso, UK) <757-388>
ISBN 978-1-80429-782-7 paper ¥5,243.- (税込) GB￡ 17.99

We are in the ecological crisis, and not just as victims of an environmental devastation that is unequally distributed along intersecting hierarchies of class, 'race' and gender. We are part of the crisis because, in our society, the vast majority of us rely on work to pay for the things we need to survive. This means we also depend on the infinite growth of commodity production that defines capitalism and drives the ecological crisis. Nonetheless, workers' insertion in capital accumulation also has an antagonistic face, rooted in their very separation from the means of production. Therefore, labour is also a crucial collective actor against the ecological crisis.This book explores the relationship between workers and nature by bringing Italian operaismo into a dialogue with a broad range of traditions, from dependency theory to ecofeminism. Drawing on sustained research in both the Global South - Tunisia and Chile - and the Global North - the UK and Italy - it tackles four timely issues in relation to the ecological crisis: automation and deindustrialisation, employment precarity, imperialism and war, and social reproduction.

Ro, Johannes Unsok / Chau, K. / Joerstad, M. et al. (eds.), Perspectives on Nature and Environmental Ethics in the Hebrew Bible. (Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe 165) 320 S. 2025:11 (Mohr, GW) <757-246>
ISBN 978-3-16-164338-5 paper ¥24,829.- (税込) EUR 99.00

Die Beitraeger dieses Bandes bringen internationale und interdisziplinaere Perspektiven auf die Hebraeische Bibel mit aktuellen Fragen der Umweltethik ins Gespraech. Sie setzen sich mit der seit Lynn White Jr. kontrovers diskutierten These auseinander, der zufolge die juedisch-christliche Tradition eine zentrale Rolle im Anthropozentrismus der Moderne spiele, und untersuchen einschlaegige biblische Texte unter Einbezug oekologischer Hermeneutik, kulturwissenschaftlicher Erinnerungstheorie und vergleichender Theologie. In drei thematischen Teilen - Memory Studies, Comparative Studies und Case Studies - analysieren sie Texte von Genesis bis zu den Propheten, beleuchten das Verhaeltnis zur altorientalischen, griechisch-roemischen und fruehchristlichen Umwelt und heben oft uebersehene oekologische Motive hervor. Die Beitraeger diskutieren unter anderem Bundeskonzepte, die die Erde mit einschliessen, die Wirksamkeit nichtmenschlicher Akteure sowie Spannungsverhaeltnisse zwischen Schoepfung und Herrschaft. Neben theozentrischen und geozentrischen Deutungen werden auch animistische und posthumanistische Ansaetze fruchtbar gemacht. Als Beitrag zur oekologischen Bibelhermeneutik wird aufgezeigt, wie altorientalische Vorstellungen von Natur und Verantwortung in die gegenwaertige Debatte um Nachhaltigkeit hineinwirken koennen.

ユダヤ教、歴史、環境－気候変動と自然災害
Bell, Dean Phillip, Judaism, History, and the Environment: Climate Change and Natural Disasters. 264 pp. 2025:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <757-166>
ISBN 978-1-350-46320-2 hard ¥18,947.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-350-46321-9 paper ¥6,409.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99

Engaging creatively with Jewish texts and history, this book explores the interplay between history, Judaism, and the environment through the prism of natural disasters. Historical case studies include earthquakes in Georgian England, floods and fires in 18th-century Germany, plague in 17th-century Italy, and natural disasters experienced by Jews living in the Ottoman Empire. Rather than seeing religion as a stumbling block or as a cause of environmental degradation, these historical cases are instead brought into conversation with related classical Jewish texts and contemporary Jewish thought. Unlike studies that interpret religious texts through traditional hermeneutical lenses, this book is distinctly interdisciplinary, contributing significantly to the fields of Jewish studies, religious studies, ecology, and environmental humanities. Chapters explore new ways to think about contemporary environmental concerns, discussing the Anthropocene, causality and temporality, global and local contexts, and proscription. Dean Phillip Bell's timely and important argument demonstrates how a new engagement with Jewish history and thought may help us to grapple with the environmental challenges of today and the future.

宗教と環境ハンドブック
Bratton, Susan Power / Boddie, S. C. et al. (eds.), Handbook on Religion and the Environment. (Elgar Handbooks in Energy, the Environment and Climate Change) 384 pp. 2026:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-170>
ISBN 978-1-0353-2186-5 hard ¥58,300.- (税込) GB￡ 200.00

This interdisciplinary Handbook examines the relationship between environmental problem solving and religion, addressing how environmental planning often neglects the cultural influences and organizational resources of the world's religions. It explores global faiths such as Islam and Buddhism, as well as Indigenous and emerging religions.Expert contributors from a breadth of disciplines including anthropology, ecology, education and theology use the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a unifying framework to examine multiple facets of religious practice and expression. The Handbook explores key topics including conservation, education, leadership, ecojustice, social ethics, religion's functions in civil society, and faith-based participation in resolving environmental conflicts. They advocate for future action and research in this field, emphasizing the importance of incorporating religion as a crucial component of environmental management and problem solving.The Handbook on Religion and the Environment is an essential reference for students and academics in the fields of environmental studies, environmental science, religious studies, and political science. It is also an enlightening read for policymakers, religious leaders, ecologists, and professionals working in international development, and urban and environmental planning.

Crawford, Neil J. W. / Nanduddu, Susan et al. (eds.), Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa. 312 pp. 2025:12 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <757-1363>
ISBN 978-1-350-51643-4 hard ¥24,777.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa considers the interconnections between climate change and a number of intersecting socio-economic and political factors in one of the world's most climate vulnerable regions. The book's focus on Eastern Africa provides an important and timely opportunity to look at the diversity of lived realities of the climate crisis today, offering a key place to learn from and explore questions relating to the inherent structural inequalities of climate change globally.Over seventeen chapters, the book examines issues including diverse and gendered experiences of flash floods in Somalia and South Sudan, displacement, conflict and land rights in Burundi, energy poverty in Malawi, experimental fiction and urban soundscapes in Uganda, and Indigenous rights and knowledges in Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and from across the region. Throughout, it centres the complex politics of knowledge production, foregrounding frequently marginalized voices and embracing creative methodologies and expression. The book brings together a community of researchers, activists, and creatives, with the majority based in the region, thus making an important contribution to decolonizing climate literature and foregrounding African knowledges on global challenges.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Ramutsindela, Maano, Political Ecology of African Peace Parks. (Routledge Contemporary Africa) 160 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <757-1384>
ISBN 978-0-8153-5829-9 hard ¥15,446.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

Peace parks are imagined landscapes and seascapes created through narratives and science. This book uses a political ecology framework to explore the colonial and uneven geography of peace parks in post-independence Africa. It illuminates the regional milieus impacting these parks and the consequent socioecological and political dynamics.This book curates a space for multiple voices and knowledges of peace parks and highlights the limits to truth claims. It presents peace parks as a milieu that enables the assemblage of underexamined concepts in political ecology. The book advances four arguments. The first is that critical scholarship on the peace parks initiative in Africa and elsewhere has been crowded out by a dominant and well-sponsored narrative of these parks. Second, the ideology of peace parks capitalises on societal aspirations and challenges to wage the 'war of the mind'. Third, peace parks are a geographical expression of coloniality. The fourth argument is that the regional dynamics account for the uneven geography of peace parks in Africa. These dynamics reveal the symbiotic relations between politics and ecology. The founding of peace parks animates resource politics but also depoliticises the resource question.Situated in the ongoing debates on protecting the planet in an unequal world and the pathways for a just society, this book will be of interest to researchers of African studies, political ecology, human geography, sociology, environmental studies, and political science.

気候の移動性
Ahmed, Bayes / Mallick, Bishawjit (eds.), Handbook on Climate Mobility. 624 pp. 2026:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-1404>
ISBN 978-1-0353-2992-2 hard ¥74,332.- (税込) GB￡ 255.00

This insightful Handbook explores the pervasive effects of climate change on homes across the globe, examining the difficult choice between staying in increasingly uninhabitable places, or relocating and seeking refuge elsewhere. Leading international scholars investigate the motivations and deterrents of climate migration, outlining how governments and communities can respond more effectively.As extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and long-term environmental changes intensify, the Handbook sheds light on the urgent need for fair policies, stronger international support and recognition of those already affected. It calls for key changes to advance climate justice, including strengthening legal protections, establishing clear definitions for terms such as 'climate migrant' and 'climate refugee', and increased funding to support vulnerable populations in resettling or adapting with dignity. Contributing authors from diverse disciplines address climate mobility case studies from Africa, Latin America, the Pacific Islands, and South Asia, providing actionable guidance for adaptation strategies.This Handbook is a vital resource for scholars and students of environmental studies, migration and refugee studies, and international law. Policymakers and humanitarian practitioners working on disaster risk reduction and international protection frameworks will also find the Handbook beneficial.

批判的海洋研究
Foley, Paul / Silver, Jennifer J. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Critical Ocean Studies. 286 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <757-1419>
ISBN 978-1-032-32471-5 hard ¥67,045.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

This handbook provides a path-breaking overview of the rapidly developing field of critical ocean studies. It is the first cross-disciplinary and in-depth account of critical ocean studies. While the academic application of critical analysis to ocean, coastal and island studies has been expanding in recent decades, studies are fragmented across disciplines and publishing venues. This Handbook brings together perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, arts and other ways of knowing to identify key insights from the diverse and dynamic field of critical ocean studies. Organized into three sections covering themes of concepts, criticisms and agency, it examines ways in which researchers enhance understanding of environmental and social relationships and injustices in and around the ocean. The Handbook will invite critical analysis and shape research agendas to meet the demands of new knowledge and a changing world.Routledge Handbook of Critical Ocean Studies will be of interest to scholars from across disciplines. By engaging a wide range of perspectives on critical ocean studies, it will serve as an excellent resource for graduate students, interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners. The Handbook identifies emerging research opportunities in critical ocean studies and encourages students and researchers to apply insights from this field to better understand and address environmental and social problems.

Gaitanidis, Anastasios / Bainbridge, Alan / Mighetto, I., Wilderness and Ecopsychology: From Anthropocentrism to Ecological Awareness. (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies) 182 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <757-1420>
ISBN 978-1-032-70283-4 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Offering a radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, and drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom, this volume diagnoses the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while delineating pathways toward regenerative forms of being.The book begins by deconstructing wilderness as both geographical reality and psychological construct, tracing its evolution from Enlightenment instrumentality through Romantic idealisation to contemporary relational understandings. In doing so, it examines how dominant narratives illuminate our ambivalent encounter with wilderness as both threat and salvation. The book then moves on to explore concrete alternatives to extractive agriculture, positioning reciprocal land stewardship and agroecological practices as embodiments of interspecies ethics. The culminating vision articulates a "wild psychology" that advocates for collective liberation through practices of deep attention, material engagement, and transformative empathy offering not solutions but threshold experiences for reimagining human-earth relationships beyond the ruins of modernity.Wilderness and Ecopsychology is a valuable resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in environmental humanities, critical psychology, ecotherapy, and posthumanist therapeutic approaches seeking to understand psychological distress as inherently ecological and political. It is also designed to aid therapeutic practitioners, health professionals and clinicians in thinking more radically about human and planetary health, and to encourage them to incorporate ecological thinking and nature-based/wilderness experience into their clinical practice.

産業エコロジー入門
Kennedy, Christopher, Advanced Introduction to Industrial Ecology. (Elgar Advanced Introductions) 194 pp. 2025:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-1424>
ISBN 978-1-0353-2055-4 hard ¥24,777.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00
ISBN 978-1-0353-2057-8 paper ¥4,794.- (税込) GB￡ 16.45

In this Advanced Introduction, Christopher Kennedy demonstrates how industrial ecology provides a crucial analytical response to the triple planetary crisis of pollution, climate change and the destruction of biodiversity. He presents the fundamental concepts of industrial ecology, including essential phenomena, relationships and systems terminology. The climate crisis is addressed through six high-level strategies for deep decarbonization integrated into a biophysical economic framework, underlining their necessity for creating a low carbon future.Key Features:Investigates global environmental challenges through examination of the physical functioning of societyIncludes studies of anthropogenic element cycles and business models for slowing, closing and narrowing resource loopsProvides an overview of reducing pollution and waste through a circular economy and the requisite technical challengesSummarizes cutting-edge research on protecting biodiversity in the context of global supply chains, food systems, aquatic environments and citiesAnalyzing energy and material flows in industrial society with a view to reducing environmental impacts, this Advanced Introduction to Industrial Ecology is a vital read for scholars and students of environmental studies, environmental and industrial economics, engineering, and environmental politics and policy. Policymakers in the field will also benefit from its valuable insights.

Le Billon, Philippe, The Great Green Grab: Climate Extractivism and the New Resource Imperialism. 280 pp. 2026:4 (Hurst, UK) <757-1425>
ISBN 978-1-80526-571-9 hard ¥7,287.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00

A powerful critique of the Global North's resource-hungry 'green transition', calling for a fundamental overhaul of our profit-driven, exploitative world order. The spiralling climate crisis demands a rapid shift away from fossil fuels. But most current approaches to decarbonisation rely on a dramatic expansion of resource extraction--exacerbating environmental degradation and deepening global inequalities. This is the paradox of the so-called green transition. Philippe Le Billon offers a critical examination of the material and political underpinnings of climate change mitigation. Drawing on insights from political ecology, critical geography and environmental justice, he interrogates the rise of 'climate extractivism': the opening up of new resource frontiers and the construction of infrastructure megaprojects in the name of sustainability. From artisanal cobalt mining in the DRC to rare-earth geopolitics, and from biofuel plantations to deep-sea and space mining, he reveals how green growth agendas frequently reproduce colonial structures, social injustice and patterns of dispossession. Scrutinising proposed solutions such as geoengineering, carbon offsets, circular economy schemes and degrowth, Le Billon shows that many climate adaptation strategies remain tethered to considerations of economic growth and geopolitical competition. Rather than rejecting the urgency of climate transition, The Great Green Grab calls for a fairer, post-extractive future-- one that wholly reshapes how we produce and consume energy, and fosters a more democratic, cooperative relationship with the earth.

Mehan, Asma, Decolonizing Industrial Heritage: Adaptive Reuse, Community Engagement, and Climate Resilience. (Decolonizing Research) 208 pp. 2026:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-1428>
ISBN 978-1-0353-7098-6 hard ¥26,235.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

This timely book explores the adaptive reuse of industrial heritage through the lenses of decolonization and climate resilience. Author Asma Mehan presents a critical framework for understanding and reinvigorating industrial remains as evolving infrastructures that foster ecological and social transformation.Chapters highlight the need for new models of reuse that advance circular economies, inclusive governance and spatial equality. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from grain silos to oil towns, Mehan connects digital technologies like Geographic Information System and AI with community-driven approaches, proposing adaptive reuse as a core strategy for climate response and urban regeneration. The book provides a roadmap for revitalizing post-industrial spaces and entities with care, culture and accountability.Decolonizing Industrial Heritage is a key resource for students and scholars in heritage studies, planning, architecture and urban studies. It is also beneficial for heritage, development and indigenous rights practitioners, as well as professionals in international development agencies and NGOs.

持続可能性とガバナンス研究ハンドブック
Mena, Sebastien / Inoue, Cristina Yumie Aoki et al. (eds.), Handbook of Research on Sustainability and Governance. 448 pp. 2026:3 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-1429>
ISBN 978-1-0353-2803-1 hard ¥62,672.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00

This informative Handbook presents diverse perspectives on the inherent tensions and contradictions in governing sustainability challenges. Its conceptual and contextual chapters explore the dichotomy between stability and change, refocusing the need for sustainability efforts not only by states and consumer markets, but also by corporations and the global economy.Underlining the contested nature of sustainability, this Handbook provides an overview of the various definitions and perspectives through which sustainability governance can be studied. Contributors analyse governance at different levels, such as national, industry or organizational levels, covering key issues across a range of industries including garment, oceans, mining, energy and finance. This Handbook emphasises underrepresented viewpoints, such as feminist and Indigenous, fostering both conceptual advancements and practical applications for the governance of sustainability challenges.The Handbook of Research on Sustainability and Governance is a valuable resource for scholars and students of sustainability, environmental politics, political economy, regulation and governance, and organizational sustainability.

Mitchell, Timothy, The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow. 400 pp. 2026:3 (Verso, UK) <757-1430>
ISBN 978-1-83674-227-2 hard ¥7,287.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00

We live in an age in which extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from unfathomable sources, such as when tech firms that have never made a profit are valued at billions of dollars. While seeming extraordinary, this mode of acquiring unearned wealth is, in fact, commonplace. It is a key to understanding how capitalism came into being and a clue to grasping why the catastrophe of climate collapse has come upon us. The value is created by consuming the future.The Alibi of Capital asks how we came to organize collective life on the principle of capturing the future, explores the development of this principle in the imperial expansion of the West, and examines how lives today are encumbered by the repayment of earlier extractions. The book identifies the forms of capitalisation, credit, and coercion that turn prospective assets into present income. Rejecting the common idea that claims on the future create only financial or fictitious capital, it traces the terraforming projects-the destruction of rivers, the colonizing of territory, the expansion of infrastructures, and the burning of carbon-through which consuming the future has operated. Arguing that terms like finance, technology, the economy and its growth provide alibis that conceal this mode of extraction, it develops a new approach for understanding how the impoverishment operates.

Moulton, Alex A. / Harris, Dylan M. (eds.), Political Ecologies of Futurity: Storytelling Plantation Afterlives, Climate Erasures, and Socioecological Justice. (Environment and Society) 240 pp. 2026:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <757-1431>
ISBN 978-1-6669-7181-1 hard ¥23,320.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

Political Ecologies of Futurity: Storytelling Plantation Afterlives, Climate Erasures, and Socioecological Justice-examines the entanglements of memory, place, and nature in the face of global socioecological transformation. Speaking from a range of disciplinary perspectives and drawing on different epistemological and methodological approaches, the chapters examine the plurality of climate change geographies. As painful as they are, the erasure of landscapes that are artefacts of coloniality, racial capitalism, and environmental injustice does not herald placid futures. Erasure can make the present sterile, allowing for apolitical visions of the future to manifest, futures in which marginalized communities are not present. This diminishes prospects for climate justice or any sense of equitable futurity.With ten chapters-featuring case studies from five countries and three distinct regions of the United States-along with an Introduction and Conclusion by the editors, 2 original poems, artistic sketch, and an Afterword from Mimi Sheller, this volume creatively demonstrates the potential of storytelling for making sense of climate change and the ecological politics of futures beyond the plantationocene. That is to say, the role storytelling can play in helping us understand the complex temporalities of socioecological transformation.

Nelson, Sophie / Morgan, Lewis / Hoath, Leigh, Climate Education and Sustainability in the Primary Classroom: Our World Their Future. 140 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <757-1432>
ISBN 978-1-041-19630-3 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-916925-14-4 paper ¥5,826.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

This engaging guide will empower primary school teachers to incorporate climate change and sustainability into their curriculum, enabling them to feel confident and competent in navigating this pressing global issue, without adding to teacher workload.Many teachers recognise the urgency of climate change and the need for pupils to engage with it but are unsure about how this should be approached in practice. Through a multi-disciplinary approach, this book provides the tools for teachers to educate and motivate their pupils to become active contributors to their school communities and beyond. It outlines how trainees, teachers and school leaders can embed climate change and sustainability into their practice, across the primary curriculum, providing the required knowledge, understanding and ideas for practice.This guide; explores the fundamentals of climate change, debunks misconceptions, addresses climate anxiety, and explains how to introduce sustainability from the early years upwards and through a range of subject areas. Packed with research-informed case studies and reflective questions, teachers can equip young minds to tackle the challenges of our fragile world and become proactive agents of change.

環境のコンプライアンスと施行のための研究アジェンダ
Paddock, Lee / Holley, Cameron et al. (eds.), A Research Agenda for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement. (Elgar Research Agendas) 240 pp. 2026:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-1435>
ISBN 978-1-0353-2279-4 hard ¥30,607.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This incisive book examines cutting edge issues in environmental compliance and enforcement law. It highlights critical research needs in the field, and explains how their realisation would enhance the efforts of governments, citizens and regulated entities in ensuring compliance and enforcement.Taking a comprehensive view of the field, expert authors address research questions beginning with detection of environmental harms and continuing through to judicial resolution. Chapters focus on key areas of research, including the structure of environmental enforcement programs, the role of behaviour in compliance, measuring outcomes, inspections and auditing, monitoring, emerging regulatory technologies, citizen law suits, as well as judicial remedies and sanctions. The book also analyzes the challenges of environmental enforcement in countries with limited enforcement resources through case studies involving Columbia and Peru, and the growing role of the private sector in environmental compliance.With a spotlight on enhancing ecofriendly outcomes, this book is a valuable resource for scholars and students in environmental law, as well as criminal law and justice. It is also beneficial to environmental agency staff interested in identifying ways to improve their practices, and those involved in environmental research projects.

Pinheiro, Romulo / Misra, Debananda / Cai, Yuzhuo (eds.), Higher Education and Green Transitions: Capabilities for a Sustainable World. 288 pp. 2026:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-1436>
ISBN 978-1-0353-4803-9 hard ¥33,522.- (税込) GB￡ 115.00

This book explores the multifaceted roles of universities in driving green transitions, with a particular emphasis on the teaching and learning missions alongside third mission roles. It argues that universities are uniquely positioned to address urgent sustainability challenges, such as climate change and resource depletion, but that key challenges remain.International in scope, this book demonstrates how universities are proactively shaping green transitions by endorsing sustainability competencies, engaging with local and global challenges, and innovating research and community partnerships. Looking beyond the curriculum, contributing authors highlight non-academic approaches to fostering green transitions, including the importance of socialisation, strategy and strategic partnerships, and societal engagement on a systemic level. They outline crucial challenges and dilemmas across diverse case studies with a particular focus on Asia and the Global South, proposing novel solutions and future pathways for policy, practice, and research.Higher Education and Green Transitions is a valuable resource for scholars and students of public policy and management studies. It is also beneficial to university administrators and academic leaders tasked with designing university-wide initiatives on green transitions.

Raymond, Anjanette / Shackelford, Scott J. et al. (eds.), The Environmental Knowledge Commons: Cases and Lessons for Knowledge Sharing. (Cambridge Studies on Governing Knowledge Commons) 300 pp. 2026:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <757-1441>
ISBN 978-1-009-48216-5 hard ¥29,150.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00
ISBN 978-1-009-48214-1 paper ¥8,741.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99

Our natural environment constitutes a complex and dynamic global ecosystem that provides essential resources for well-being and survival. Yet the environment is also subject to unprecedented threats from human activities, such as climate change, pollution, habitat loss, biodiversity decline, and the overexploitation of natural resources. This volume argues that such complex, multidimensional challenges demand equally complex, multi-dimensional solutions and calls for coordinated, multi-stakeholder action at all scales, including governments, civil society, the private sector, and individuals. To meet the moment effectively, such interventions require both scientific knowledge about how the environment functions and social and institutional knowledge about the actors involved in environmental governance and management. Chapters include case studies of environmental knowledge collection, management, and sharing to explore how data and knowledge sharing can inform effective, multi-stakeholder action to combat global threats to our environment. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

環境コミュニケーション入門
Rings, Guido / Rasinger, Sebastian M., Introducing Environmental Communication. 318 pp. 2026:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <757-1442>
ISBN 978-1-009-57283-5 hard ¥23,320.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-009-57281-1 paper ¥8,741.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99

Slaev, Aleksandar D. / Shahab, Sina, A Theory of Complex Property Rights: Institutions for Governing Natural and Built Environments. (Elgar Studies in Planning Theory, Policy and Practice) 206 pp. 2026:1 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-1445>
ISBN 978-1-0353-2831-4 hard ¥26,235.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

This insightful book examines property rights as complex institutional rule-systems that enable cooperation and shape the governance of resources such as land, water, and housing. It challenges the conventional private-public binary by highlighting the prevalence of hybrid private-common property rights in contemporary governance.Aleksandar D. Slaev and Sina Shahab offer practical insights for improving resource management by recognising the institutional complexity of property rights and encouraging innovation in their design. They propose a threefold classification of entitlements, i.e., rights to use, rights to manage, and responsibilities for provision and maintenance, and develop a multi-layered framework for analysing how property rights operate and evolve across institutional levels. Bridging theory and practice with a focus on sustainability, the book demonstrates how property rights shape the governance of both natural and built environments.A Theory of Complex Property Rights is an essential resource for scholars and students in planning and urban studies, environmental policy and sustainability, human geography, and institutional economics, as well as for practitioners and specialists engaged in resource governance.

The Zetkin Collective, The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Climate Collapse and the Inverted Crisis. (Salvage Editions) 192 pp. 2026:8 (Verso, UK) <757-1446>
ISBN 978-1-83674-097-1 paper ¥3,203.- (税込) GB￡ 10.99

Since the pandemic, there has been a growth of conspiracies that centre on the so-called 'war on cars'. The far right argue that government measures to reduce fossil fuels are a stealth attack on ordinary people's individual liberty, the nuclear family, the 'energy-secure' nation, and 'the people'. And they have come out both online and the streets, in opposition to urbanist policies such as the '15-Minute City', ULEZ [Ultra Low Emission Zones] and LTN [Low Traffic Neighbourhoods], alongside rural movements across Europe that feel that they have been ignored in favour of the city. Such protests also fold in attacks on the family, gender and reinforce paranoia around 'the Great Replacement'. In The Great Driving Right Show, the Zetkin Collective unpacks the origins of these conflicts and shows how, as the climate crisis worsens, the political right has inverted the narrative, treating solutions as more threatening than the crisis itself. This eventually evolves in attacks on Electric Vehicles, increased oil production and attacks on minorities.

Thomas, Mariko Oyama / Parks, Melissa M., Storying Plant Communication: More-than-Human Relationships in New Mexico. (Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene) 160 pp. 2025:10 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <757-1447>
ISBN 978-1-6669-2651-4 hard ¥21,862.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00

Embedded in vibrant and richly textured New Mexican landscapes, Storying Plant Communication: More-than-Human Relationships in New Mexico explores the narrative accounts of southwestern herbalists, healers, teachers, farmers, and other plant enthusiasts who maintain deep and reciprocal relationships with the local flora. Reflecting on plant relationships, place-making practices, and a breadth of other topics, the storytellers describe their transformative perspectives that frame plants as intelligent, relational, and communicative. The Land of Enchantment is steeped in stories, and narratives captured here show how attitudes and practices related to plants can trouble dominant, often harmful beliefs of human exceptionalism, and gesture toward more ecocentric pathways in an era of environmental uncertainty. Employing auto/ethnographic methods that put storytellers' experiences in conversation with a range of interdisciplinary literature, Thomas and Parks highlight ways in which plant studies offer a rich and timely direction for communication research. Ultimately, the co-authors argue that story-based methodologies offer a fertile starting point for scholars and students in the humanities and social sciences to venture into the realm of plant communication.

ライフサイクル持続性評価百科事典
Traverso, Marzia / Backes, Jana G. (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment. (Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences) 400 pp. 2026:1 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-15>
ISBN 978-1-0353-0988-7 hard ¥64,130.- (税込) GB￡ 220.00

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment provides concise and authoritative information on the methods, standards, and best practices in sustainability assessment.The Encyclopedia promotes the use of standardized language in order to ensure the successful interdisciplinary implementation of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). It systematically defines both fundamental and advanced terms, including sustainable development goals, characterization factors, and photochemical ozone creation potential, addressing the challenges of consistent application and interdisciplinary communication within sustainability assessment frameworks. Entries enable terms, indicators, and methods to be uniformly understood and applied across sectors, regions, and disciplines to ensure transparency and comparability in the field.This work is an essential resource for scholars and students of economics, geography, and sociology, particularly those interested in sustainability and the environment. It is also highly beneficial for practitioners and policymakers seeking a harmonized understanding of life cycle sustainability assessment.Key Features:Includes 195 entries from leading international authorsPresents information in an accessible and engaging mannerProvides thematic depth and further reading for subject expertsRepresents an important milestone for defining and referencing terms in the sustainability assessment of product lifecycles

Wang, Alex L., Chinese Global Environmentalism. (Elements in Global China) 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <757-1273>
ISBN 978-1-009-57176-0 hard ¥16,032.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-36401-0 paper ¥5,247.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

This Element examines China's embrace of green development on the global stage, or 'Chinese global environmentalism.' It traces Chinese global environmentalism's historical evolution and motivations and analyzes its deployment through the governance tools of green ideology, diplomacy, economic statecraft, and international development cooperation. It conceives of Chinese global environmentalism as a wide-ranging economic and political strategy used to unsettle traditional views of China and bolster the legitimacy of Chinese power at home and abroad. This Element argues that Chinese global environmentalism, while not without its fits and starts, is enabling China to make inroads internationally with implications for China's rise and the natural environment that are only beginning to be appreciated. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Al-Sarihi, Aisha / Mason, Michael (eds.), Climate Policy and Politics in the Middle East: Environmental, Economic and Political Challenges. 264 pp. 2025:11 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <757-1316>
ISBN 978-0-7556-5611-0 hard ¥24,777.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

The Middle East region is one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This book assesses the extent to which there is political and economic space for Middle Eastern states to transition into a sustainable, just and climate resilient future. The book offers a regional political economy perspective, comparing the hydrocarbon-rich Gulf States with those Arab states in the Mashreq (Levant) and Maghreb (North Africa) lacking matching resources to undertake investments in low-carbon growth and societal-wide climate change adaptation. While recent scholarship has focused on the impact of the energy sector on climate policy, this book covers other key issues including climate finance, food security, water security, Arab 'climate urbanism', and more immediate threats to human security such as conflict and political instability. It concludes that uneven economic development and major variations in governing capacity are more important determinants of climate mitigation and adaptation policy than exposure to the biophysical impacts of climate change. Through a comprehensive analysis of the Middle East, authors in the volume explore the challenges and opportunities to advance alternative development pathways in a post-oil era. The wide-ranging and perceptive chapters are written by leading scholars, featuring mostly researchers from the region.

エコロジカルなマルクス主義の発見
Cukier, Alexis / Guillibert, Paul, Decouvrir le marxisme ecologique. (Les propedeutiques) 192 p. 2025:8 (Ed. sociales, FR) <757-133>
ISBN 978-2-35367-122-9 paper ¥3,009.- (税込) EUR 12.00

Massimi, Michela / Brown, Abbe E. L. / Jaspars, M. (eds.), Ways of World Knowing: Local Knowledge, Coastal Communities, and Equitable Ocean Governance. 216 pp. 2026:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <757-125>
ISBN 978-0-19-781533-5 hard ¥22,407.- (税込) US$ 105.00

After decades of long and thorny negotiations, the United Nations agreed to a High Seas Treaty in 2023 that is designed to protect marine biodiversity in areas Beyond National Jurisdictions (BBNJ Agreement). This treaty is just one of many policy documents that have been introduced as a part of global policy efforts to protect oceans amid a climate crisis that is having devastating effects on marine life. Despite the prevalence of ocean knowledge in coastal communities around the world, local ways of knowing have often been marginalised in scientific narratives and legal provisions. Historically, local knowledge has often either been pitted against scientific knowledge or appropriated, blended and integrated with scientific knowledge by diluting the situated nature and cultural identity of local knowledge. Both approaches perpetuate patterns of power imbalances and epistemic injustices. Ways of World Knowing brings together philosophers of science, marine scientists, and lawyers to discuss the role and importance of local coastal community knowledge in order to better represent their voices in ocean governance. By analyzing the epistemic value of varieties of local knowledges, this volume brings vital marginalized perspectives to the forefront and overcomes the dichotomy often found in legal documents between marine scientific research and local knowledge. Here, the contributors use the term 'local knowledge' (rather than 'traditional knowledge') deliberately to refer to varieties of ways of knowing more broadly understood-spanning coastal communities from Scotland to Canada, from Brazil to New Zealand-whose distinctive features include their being non-written, artisanal and experiential in nature, and intergenerationally transmitted. Topics include the knowledge of Brazilian fishing communities and of past Hebridean kelpmakers, the cultural significance of herring spawning for Squamish Peoples in Canada, the Indigenous People's knowledge in Australia legal provisions, and arts-based research and practice in international governance spaces, among others. These cross-disciplinary essays explore the importance and nature of varieties of local knowledge for coastal communities as well as (historical and current) epistemic injustices they face. They also propose participatory approaches that effectively embed these local ways of knowing into policy and ocean governance. By bringing a situated knowledge approach to ongoing, timely and thorny governance questions about the ocean, this volume is an innovative contribution not just for the 'blue humanities' but for environmental studies at large and for transdisciplinary approaches to philosophy of science.

原子力のエコロジー－ポスト3.11の日本における芸術とコラボレーション
Deichert, Theresa, Nuclear Ecologies: Art and Collaboration in Post-3.11 Japan. (Visual and Media Histories) 306 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <757-1253>
ISBN 978-1-032-96802-5 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011 left Japan grappling with profound social, political, and environmental consequences. Yet, in its wake, art emerged as a powerful response: artists turned to collaborative and ecological practices to make sense of the crisis, challenging official narratives and responding to the slow violence of radioactive contamination. This book examines how contemporary Japanese artists-among them Chim?Pom, Kyun-Chome, Akira Takayama, Dokuyama Bontaro, Ei Arakawa-Nash, and others-have adopted strategies of collaboration that extend beyond the human, engaging with animals, plants, and even radioactivity itself as active agents in the artistic process.Bringing ecological thought into conversation with transcultural art history, Nuclear Ecologies reconsiders collaboration not simply as a method of shared authorship, but as a distributed process shaped by complex networks of human and nonhuman agencies. Through close analysis of post-3.11 artworks, including site-specific projects within the Fukushima exclusion zone to participatory installations in Tokyo, the book explores how artists respond to, and are shaped by, local ecologies and the post-disaster politics of visibility and expression. Five in-depth case studies trace how artistic collaborations confront pressing post-disaster concerns: from radioactive contamination and structural inequalities to the lived realities of both human and nonhuman disaster victims.Situating post-3.11 artistic practices within wider trajectories of socially engaged art and global art systems, this book - part of the Visual Media Histories series - challenges persistent boundaries between nature and culture, aesthetics and politics. It will be of interest to scholars and students in art history, Japanese studies, transcultural studies, environmental humanities, and those working across eco-aesthetics, posthumanism, and disaster studies.

戦争とエコロジー
Esteve, Adrien, War and Ecology: Defence, Climate Change and Environmental Impact. 240 pp. 2026:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-1218>
ISBN 978-1-0353-5909-7 hard ¥27,692.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

The book examines the connections between energy, the environment, climate change, and security, from a military perspective and in the context of ongoing international conflicts. Adrien Esteve compares the cases of France and the United States, two nuclear powers and two of the largest militaries in the world to understand the security aspects of global ecological upheavals and the energy transition.Drawing on insights from political science, international relations, history and philosophy, Esteve puts forward an innovative historical perspective on the environmental practices and discourses of the military. Chapters explore how, over the last decade, the civilian and military heads of defense organizations have been issuing a series of statements calling for armed forces to take greater account of environmental issues. He discusses this in light of the repeated denunciations of the ecological footprint of military activities and the environmental consequences of armed conflicts, revealing how climate issues have been problematized within the defence sector.This book is an essential resource for students and scholars of environmental studies, international relations, security studies, and politics. It is also an important read for journalists, activists and policymakers interested in the environmental cost of war and the militarization of the environment.

北極の安全保障と環境変動
Arruda, Gisele, Arctic Security and Environmental Change: Climate Science, Peace and Defence. (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research) 208 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <757-1214>
ISBN 978-1-032-99453-6 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book examines the nexus of environmental change and defence in the Arctic as a national and global security issue.In an era dominated by a new range of threats and priorities, Gisele Arruda discusses the militarisation process in the High North and explores how climate change is impacting the maritime, infrastructure and defence systems dynamics. Contextualizing the Arctic region as part of a global security geo-space, the book has a particular emphasis on the security and geopolitical implications to societies, the northern territories, coastal communities, and maritime routes of Arctic states. It analyses recent NATO initiatives to build up strategies in defence and the implementation of technology and innovation to advance regional and international cooperation. The final chapters present trends around environmental multilateralism and consolidate the analysis of all risk-factors related to the climate geopolitics. They also include a focused discussion on the development of new nuclear systems in the region and preparedness in case of a nuclear emergency.This book will be of great interest to students, academics and researchers studying international relations, climate change, security and strategic studies, political geography, and environmental studies more broadly.

持続可能性の地政学ハンドブック
Linner, Bjoern-Ola / Bennich, Therese / Carlsen, H. (eds.), Handbook on the Geopolitics of Sustainability. 400 pp. 2026:3 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-1186>
ISBN 978-1-0353-4253-2 hard ¥59,757.- (税込) GB￡ 205.00

This timely Handbook brings together more than 60 leading researchers from diverse disciplines to examine the complex and evolving intersection between geopolitics and sustainability. It explores how sustainability challenges are reshaping geopolitics and how geopolitics, in turn, shape the prospects for just and effective sustainability transformations.Addressing sustainability and geopolitics in tandem, the contributing authors analyse topics such as climate change, energy transitions, demographic shifts, digital governance and planetary equity - identifying critical risks as well as opportunities for positive change. They also present approaches, methodologies, and tools for navigating uncertainty and advancing integrated perspectives, including from systems thinking, risk science, AI-based modelling, critical security studies, and scenario analysis.In doing so, the Handbook contributes to the emergence of geopolitics of sustainability as a field in its own right - distinct from traditional geopolitical analysis and sustainability science - with dedicated methodologies, conceptual frameworks, empirical focus, institutional spaces, and communities of practice.An essential resource for students and scholars in environmental studies, sustainability studies, geopolitics, security studies, international relations, political science, geography and science and technology studies, the Handbook also offers valuable insights for policymakers and practitioners looking to better understand and navigate the complex dynamics shaping our planetary future.

石井美保、藤原辰史編　日本における自然、災害、アニミズム
Ishii, Miho / Fujihara, Tatsushi (eds.), Nature, Disaster, and Animism in Japan: Anima Philosophica. 296 pp. 2025:12 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <757-1132>
ISBN 978-1-350-50684-8 hard ¥24,777.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

This open access book argues that existing scholarship on animism, with its focus on harmony, often overlooks a fundamental tension: that the same forces that sustain collective life also demand individual sacrifice. Rather than treating disasters as discrete events, the authors examine how vital forces flow between human communities and natural environments. They introduce the concept of anima, a force that is both generative and destructive, flowing from the wild into human communities.In Japan, the relationship between humanity and nature has been irreversibly altered. In the age of catastrophic modernity, from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the Fukushima nuclear accident, the environment can no longer be understood through traditional frameworks. This is not the unspoiled wilderness of the past, nor is it the ancient landscape of traditional animism.Drawing on detailed case studies from Japan's transformed landscapes, polluted seas, contaminated forests, and post-disaster zones, this open access volume re-examines the work of influential Japanese thinkers such as Minakata Kumagusu and Isozaki Arata. The contributors explore how contemporary artists, activists, and communities develop animic thoughts and practices that emerge not from pristine nature but from environments bearing the scars of industrial development and disaster. Moving beyond simple critiques of modernity, the book proposes an anima philosophica: a new framework for understanding how communities engage with environmental forces that transcend human control yet demand ongoing negotiation.The book reveals how animic forces operate in contexts ranging from wartime memorial practices to environmental disasters, from artistic interventions to community rituals. It offers new tools for navigating our precarious relationship with a world where nature, technology, and humanity are deeply and dangerously intertwined.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.