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
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This provides a clear, thoughtful analysis of approaches to regularizing Latin America’s informal settlements. It examines two main paradigms by comparing the cases of Peru and Brazil, and the author offers policy recommendations to improve regularization programmes across the region.
This report, one of a series supported by Sida and produced by HDM at Lund University, is drawn primarily from the author’s experience as both a planner and builder in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya and Jerusalem.
Neo-liberal perspectives of development planning, promoted through the 1996 Habitat Agenda and the Environmental Planning and Management (EPM) approach, are becoming evident in the national policies of various low-income nations, including Tanzania.
THIS BOOK IS based on the experience of a range of national and international NGOs in exploring the interdependency between poverty and environmental change.
This book describes and discusses a methodology of assessment and planning under the paradigm of sustainable development for medium-sized cities in Latin America (the author has also published two papers in Environment&Urbanization – in Vol 10, No 2 (October 1998) on environmental planning an
With more than half of the world’s population living in urban areas, Ng argues for high density cities for sustainability and also for a re-thinking of high density development.
WHILE THE EXTENSIVE involvement of the urban poor in waste recycling is commonly cited in discussions of livelihoods, their involvement in reducing quantities of organic, valueless waste through composting activities has been comparatively overlooked.
Providing an accessible introduction to sustainable development in cities, Yvonne Rydin highlights the role of learning in local governance and the need to utilize various policy tools.
THIS CONTAINS THE papers and workshop reports from the conference held in Oslo, Norway in 1997 to mark the tenth anniversary of the Brundtland Commission’s report Our Common Future.