The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, the largest single day of protest in history, brought 20 million people together. Join us as we honor the legacy of environmental activism with a curated collection of books, journal articles and blog posts – all freely available until April 30!

De Gruyter promotes the knowledge and ideas that address the climate crisis. From sustainable fashion and the circular economy to debates on ‘degrowth’ and studies of the Anthropocene, we gladly present outstanding scholarship in celebration of Earth Day 2024. Browse our multidisciplinary collection, including cutting-edge science on this year’s Earth Day theme, Planet vs. Plastics.

Let’s deepen our understanding and commitment to building a sustainable future.

*Free access will be granted until April 30. Open access titles will remain accessible thereafter. 

 












 

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aNTHROPOCENE & planetary health

Changing Seasonality

The Book:



"Changing Seasonality: How Communities are Revising their Seasons"






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Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds

Part 2: "World without Humans, Humans without World: Apocalyptic Passions in the Anthropocene"



From the Book: "Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds"



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Umwelten und Welten im Anthropozän Zum Verhältnis zwischen Ökologie und Philosophischer Anthropologie

"Umwelten und Welten im Anthropozän
Zum Verhältnis zwischen Ökologie und Philosophischer Anthropologie"

The Journal: Internationales Jahrbuch Für Philosophische Anthropologie

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Environment and Infrastructure

Overview: "Provocations to Environmental History and History of Technology: The Anthropocene"


From the Book: "Environment and Infrastructure"



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Environmental Justice and Catastrophe

Introduction





From the Book: "Environmental Justice and Catastrophe"




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Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics

Chapter: "Toxicity" by Gisela Heffes

From the Book: "Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics"
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Kann Das Anthropozän gelingen

Chapter: "Kann das Anthropozän gelingen?"

From the Book: "Kann das Anthropozän gelingen?"


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Playing the Petrocene: Toxicity and Intoxication in Leigh Fondakowski’s Spill and Ella Hickson’s Oil

Article: "Playing the Petrocene: Toxicity and Intoxication in Leigh Fondakowski’s Spill and Ella Hickson’s Oil"



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Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality

Introduction


From the Book: "Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality"

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The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change

Chapter 1:"The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change between the Disciplines"

From the Book: "The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change"
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ECOLOGY

De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth

Introduction: "Degrowth: Swimming Against the Ideological Tide"

From the Book: "De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth"


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Arbeit und Umwelt? - Journal Article

"Arbeit durch Unwelt, oder: Die Grenzen der ökologischen Erneuerung einer Volkspartei in der Krise"

From the Book: "Arbeit und Umwelt?"

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Karl Marx unde die Okologische Krise

Einleitung



From the Book: "Karl Marx und die Okologische Krise"


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Journal of World Languages

Article: "Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecological discourse analysis of news reports on the adventures of China’s wandering elephants"


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Asymmetric Ecologies in Europe and South America around 1800

Introduction


From the Book: "Asymmetric Ecologies in Europe around 1800"



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Etruscan and Italic Studies

"Environmental and Archaeobotanical Studies Etruscan Archaeology"

From the Journal: "Etruscan and Italic Studies"


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Fluide Mediale

"Wie aus einer 'amerikanischen Schönheit' ein Albtraum wurde"



From the Book: "Fluide Mediale" 

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Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology

Chapter 14: "From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures"

From the "Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology"


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De Gruyter Conversation - Tiger Conservation Blog Post

"Save the Planet, Grow the Economy! Lessons from Tiger Conservation"

From "De Gruyter Conversations"
BLOG POST

The Sea Walnut - Blog Post

"The Sea Walnut: Unwanted but Not Unloved"

From "De Gruyter Conversations"

BLOG POST

Cities Drive Global Warming, But Change is Possible - blog post

"Cities Drive Global Warming, But Change is Possible"

From "De Gruyter Conversations"

BLOG POST

Degrowth: An Idea Whose Time Has Come - blog post

"Degrowth: An Idea Whose Time Has Come"

From "De Gruyter Conversations"

BLOG POST

 

Environment in history & culture

The Power of Urban Water

The Book:

"The Power of Urban Water: Studies in Premodern Urbanism"


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Art and Protest

Introduction


From the Book: "Art and Protest"


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Meteorological Disasters in Medieval Britain (AD 1000-1500)

The Book:

"Meteorological Disasters in Medieval Britain (AD 1000-1500)"


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A Mist Connection

The Book:

"A Mist Connection: An Environmental History of the Laki Eruption of 1783 and its Legacy."

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The Concept of Environment in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Epilogue

From the Book: "The Concept of Environment in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam"

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Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet

Chapter 4: "New Concepts of Urbanisation Processes"



From the Book: "Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet"

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Loz Papers in Pragmatics

"Animals are the homeless: A portrayal of sea ice dependent animals losing their natural habitat"

From the Journal: "Lodz Paper in Pragmatics"

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The Crisis of the 14th Century: Teleconnections between Environmental and Societal Change?

The Book:

"The Crisis of the 14th Century: Teleconnections between Environmental and Societal Change?"


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Environmental Justice Poetics

Chapter 3: "Narratives of Social Environmentalism"


From the Book: "Environmental Justice Poetics"

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Deathworlds to Lifeworlds

Chapter 1: "From Deathworlds to Lifeworlds Through Collaborative Transformative Phenomenology"

From the Book: "Deathworlds to Lifeworlds"


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Literatura y ecologismo en Homero Aridjis

Capítulo 5: "Las batallas ecologistas"


From the Book: "Literatura y ecologismo en Homero Aridjis"


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Gefährdung städtischer Infrastruktur durch Hochwasser

Chapter 1: Einleitung




From the Book: "Gefährdung städtischer Infrastruktur durch Hochwasser"

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Women Philosophers on Economics, Technologiy, Environment, and Gender History - Introduction

Introduction: "Reshaping the Future - Rethinking the Past"


From the Book: "Women Philosophers on Economics, Technology, Environment, and Gender History"

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Environmental Policy & Law

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy

"Pay as You Throw Threshold Tariff: Evidence on the Incentive to Recycle"

From the Journal: "The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy"

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Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature

"Island-ness: A 'New Province' of Cross-Disciplinary Research"

From the Book: "Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature"


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Greening Europe

The Book: "Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century"





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Berbau und Umwelt in DDR und BRD

The Book: "Bergbau und Umwelt in DDR und BRD"





 
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Wem gehört das Meer?

Kapitel 3: "Die Globalisierung des Seerechts im Spiegel maritimer Ressourcenkonflikte"

From the Book: "Wem gehört das Meer?"

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Schadet Umweltpolitik der Wirtschaft?

"Schadet Umweltpolitik der Wirtschaft?"

From the Journal: "Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte"


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Praxishandbuch Energiekartellrecht

Kapitel 1: "Einführung in die Energiewirtschaft"

From the Book: "Praxishandbuch Energiekartellrecht"


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Kapitel 1: Rechtsrahmen und Überblick

Kapitel 1: "Rechtsrahmen und Überblick"

From the Book: "Praxishandbuch der Konzessionsverträge und der Konzessionsabgaben"

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Handbook of Energy Law in the Low-Carbon Transition, Introduction

Introduction: "Comparing Low-Carbon Transitions"



From the Book: "Handbook of Energy Law in the Low-Carbon Transition"

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Internationales Umweltrecht

Kapitel 1: "Gegenstand, Entwicklung, Quellen und Akteure des internationalen Umweltrechts"

From the Book: "Internationales Umweltrecht"


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Moral Reasoning in the Climate Crisis, from the Journal Moral Philosophy in Politics

"Moral Reasoning in the Climate Crisis: A Personal Guide"


From the Journal: "Moral Philosophy and Politics"


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Coping with Urban Climates

The Book:

"Coping with Urban Climates: Comparative Perspectives on Architecture and Thermal Governance"



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Journal of World Languages-Article

"Positive discourse analysis of Aoretoara New Zealand Foreign Minister's speeches"

From the "Journal of World Languages"

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City, Climate, and Architecture  

The Book:

"City, Climate, and Architecture: A Theory of Collective Practice"


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Climate Justice, a blog post on De Gruyter Conversations

"Climate Justice: Why Developed Countries Should Pay for Past Emissions"

From "De Gruyter Conversations"

BLOG POST

Ecocide in Ukraine, a blog post

"Ecocide in Ukraine: How Russia's War Will Poison the Country (and Europe) for Decades to Come"

From "De Gruyter Conversations"
BLOG POST

 

Plastics & Planet

Plastics in the Circular Economy

Chapter 1: "Towards a circular economy"


From the Book: “Plastics in the Circular Economy”



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Emerging Contaminants

Chapter 8: "Recent endeavors in microbial remediation of micro- and nanoplastics"

From the Book: "Emerging Contaminants"

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Sustainability of Polymeric Materials

Chapter 1: "Feasibility of the circular economy and plastic pollution"

From the Book: "Sustainability of Polymeric Materials"


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Textile Chemistry

Chapter 16: "Circularity, recycling and disposal"


From the Book: "Textile Chemistry"



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Handbook of Biodegradable Polymers

Chapter 1: "Methods for evaluating the biodegradability of environmentally degradable polymers"

From the Book: "Handbook of Biodegradable Polymers"
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Recycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate

Chapter 1: "Introduction to polyethylene terephthalate recycling"

From the Book: "Recycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate"


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Circular Plastics Technologies

Chapter 4: "Circular plastics technologies: open loop recycling of waste plastics into new chemicals"

From the Book: "Circular Plastics Technologies"

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Handbook of the Circular Economy

Chapter 17: "Plastic futures: mobilizing circular economy contexts to address the plastic crisis"

From the Book: "Handbook of the Circular Economy"

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Plastic Ocean: Art and Science Responses to Marine Pollution

"Who Lives in the Plastisphere? Art and Science Responses to Plastic Pollution"

From the Book: "Plastic Ocean: Art and Science Responses to Marine Pollution"

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Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen

"Recycling und Kreislaufwirtschaft"

From the Journal: "Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen"

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Tackling Plastics Pollution with Chemical Recycling

"Tackling Plastics Pollution with Chemical Recycling: An Interview with Katrina Knauer"

From "De Gruyter Conversations"

BLOG POST

 

Sustainability

BioProtopia

Chapter: "Reimagining the Lived Space"


From the Book: "BioProtopia"



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Nanocellulose-Reinforce Thermoplastic Starch Composites

Chapter 1: "Introduction to bio-based packaging materials"

From the Book: "Nanocellulose-Reinforced Thermoplastic Starch Composites"

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Chapter 10: An Applied Example of Expanding the Business Canvas in Plastics

Chapter 10: "An Applied Example of Expanding the Business Canvas in Plastics"

From the Book: "Sustainable Business Model Innovation"


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Chapter 1: Burn Box Case Study, from the book Smart Villages

Chapter 1: "Burn box case study"


From the Book:"Smart Villages"


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Chapter 4: Co-gasification and waste-to-energy conversion, from Gasification

Chapter 4:"Co-gasification and waste-to-energy conversion"


From the Book: "Gasification"


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Science, Engineering, and Sustainable Development

Chapter 4: "The Road Less Travelled"

From the Book: "Science, Engineering, and Sustainable Development"

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Chapter: Wissen wird uberbewertet

Chapter 8: "Wissen wird uberbewertet"

From the Book: "Zur Kulturellen Dimension Der Nachhaltigkeits-Debatte"

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Reconstructing the Future

The Book:

"Reconstructing the future: Cities as Carbon Sinks"



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Growing Architecture: Chapter 6

Chapter 6: "Designing with Trees and Time"


From the Book: "Growing Architecture"


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Building with Paper, Chapter 6

Chapter 6: "Case Studies"


From the Book: "Building with Paper"



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Fashion and Environmental Sustainability

Chapter 21: "An Environmental Sustainability Model for Ghanaian Clothing"

From the Book: "Fashion and Environmental Sustainability"


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Sustainable Tourism Dialogues in Africa

Chapter 13: "Sustainable Tourism Growth and Climate Change Impacts"


From the Book: "Sustainable Tourism Dialogues in Africa"

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Extended Urbanization: Chapter 3, Losing Sea

Chapter 3: "Losing Sea"

From the Book: "Extended Urbanisation: Tracing Planetary Struggles"


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Talking About Sustaibility: What's New in the "Green" Lexicon?

"Talking About Sustainability: What's New in the "Green" Lexicon?"

From "De Gruyter Conversations"

BLOG POST

6 ways to make your library greener, De G blog

"6 Ways to Make Your Library Greener"


From "De Gruyter Conversations"

BLOG POST

"Libraries Exist to Serve the Sustainable Development Goals" Interview with Barbara Lison, De G Blog

"Library Exist to Serve the Sustainable Development Goals": An Interview with Barbara Lison"

From "De Gruyter Conversations"
BLOG POST

 

CONTACT US

Do you have an idea for a book on environmental or ecological issues past or present? Are you currently researching something on a topic related to sustainability?  If you’re looking to publish, we would like to hear about your project. Get in touch with our book editors here or our journal management team here. 
 
 

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