Book notes
Engaging our readers in preparing book notes
Our Book Notes section has short descriptions of books, papers and reports that we have prepared on all subjects relevant to urban issues. These are summaries rather than reviews. These go into the Book Notes online database that contains all Book Notes since our 1993 editions. It has facilities for searching by author, title, key word, city or country.
As an experiment, we are opening this to our readers so it can draw on a wider pool of knowledge. So we invite you to send us short summaries of new publications you have read that you found interesting – and relevant to urban issues. Authors may submit summaries too, but not promotional material. We welcome your submission on relevant publications published within the last two years. This includes English-language Book Notes and English summaries of publications in Spanish, French or Portuguese. You will be listed as the author of the summary.
If you would like to submit a Book Note, please search the database on this page to ensure that the publication has not already been covered. Please specify the title, author, publisher, year of publication, number of pages, and ISBN (if applicable). For the description, between one and six paragraphs is sufficient. Book Notes can be sent to Jenny.Peebles@iied.org
(For a searchable database of papers in Environment and Urbanization, go to http://eau.sagepub.com/)
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THIS BOOK IS a result of a programme funded by the Dutch National Foundation for Scientific Research, which is conducting interdisciplinary environmental research on the vital yet relatively poorly studied household sector.
Recognizing the imbalance in resources and attention paid to promoting sustainable development in urban areas as opposed to rural regions, this book presents nine case studies that address the diverse challenges to achieving urban sustainability in cities of the Global South, and offers relevant
This reader brings togther contributions from 24 different authors on how urban development can meet human needs and ensure ecological sustainability. It includes
THIS BOOK IS aimed at people working on urban and environmental studies, public administration and planning, and community development.
AT ONE LEVEL, this is a book about the challenge of improving environmental health conditions in poor urban settlements. At another level, it is about the challenge of sustainable urban development in a globalizing world.
THIS PRESENTS A carefully woven description and longitudinal analysis of a case of community mobilization to occupy land designated as an ecological reserve on the south-western fringe of Mexico City – considered from the local, metropolitan, regional and global perspectives.
THIS BOOK IS designed to meet the needs of both academics and professionals.
This report summarises the pilot phase of the Sustainable Penang Initiative, designed to identify issues of sustainable development and recommend policies and strategies.
THIS BOOK, ABOUT sustainable urban environments in low and middle-income countries, is an update on a former book Sustainability, the Environment and Urbanization written in 1996.