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Giving Living Beings their Due
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As the biodiversity crisis deepens, Anna Wienhues sets out radical environmental thinking and action to respond to the threat of mass species extinction.

The book conceptualises large-scale injustice endangering non-humans, and signposts new approaches to the conservation of a shared planet. Developing principles of distributive ecological justice, it builds towards a bold vision of just conservation that can inform the work of policy makers and activists.

This is a timely, original and compelling investigation into ethics in the natural world during the Anthropocene, and a call for biocentric ecological justice before it is too late.

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Security in the 21st Century
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What does it mean to be secure in the 21st century?

Mark Beeson argues that some of the most influential ideas about national and even global security reflect untenable, anachronistic strategic views that are simply no longer appropriate for contemporary international circumstances.

At a time when climate change poses an existential threat to the continuation of life itself, Beeson argues that there is an urgent need to rethink security priorities while we still can. Providing an explanation of the failures and dangers of the conventional wisdom, he outlines the case for a new approach that takes issues like environmental and human security seriously.

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for a variety of community perspectives to feed into decision making, with an emphasis on the participation of groups that are vulnerable to both climate impacts and to the impacts of climate policies themselves. This will require, as a minimum, vulnerability, and risk assessments to be conducted for communities across the city to assess the projected impacts, feeding in the lived experiences of individuals from these groups. Civil society groups in Bristol, including the Black and Green Ambassadors and the Bristol Disability Equality Forum, are already working to

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, Cambridge : Open Book Publishers . Lankester , E.R. ( 1880 ) Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism , London : Macmillan . Marttinen , T.L. ( 2022 ) Eugenics, admixture, and multiculturalism in Twentieth-century northern Sweden: contesting disability and Sámi genocide , Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies , 1 ( 2 ): 233 – 61 . doi: 10.5070/C81258341 McLaren , A. ( 1990 ) Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885–1945 , Oxford : Oxford University Press . Merivirta , R. , Koivunen , L. and Särkkä , T. (eds) ( 2021 ) Finnish Colonial

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