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 REPORT DESCRIBES the key role of micro-enterprises, small enterprises and cooperatives in solid waste collection and management in Latin American cities.
THE FIRST PART of this book demonstrates briefly how to use success and sustainability indicators, and the second part is a case study of Khulna, Bangladesh.
THIS BOOK DEALS with “formal” and “informal” handling of organic and inorganic solid waste in the Indian city of Bangalore, analyzing both municipal services and the conditions and activities of people who make a living from waste.
Since 1968, Arif Hasan has been working with rural and urban communities in Pakistan. This fascinating book brings together extracts from various reports, field notes, articles for the press and personal diaries written over a period of two decades.
THIS MANUAL CAN be used in short courses, workshops or seminars to train policy makers and planners on how to assess the social impact of structural adjustment programmes and how to incorporate social concerns into general policy-making.
This is a valuable and timely collection of papers, perhaps most especially for the papers that review the experience with cash transfers, since these are now widely seen as a critical component of poverty reduction.
THIS BOOK EMERGED in a climate of political change in Mexico City, during the transition towards a democratically elected government in the capital, with greater public participation in the political process.
At the end of 2001, Argentina faced one of its worse crises in history. The economic crisis led to massive protests, looting, repression and deaths throughout the country, and two presidents were overthrown in under a month. This crisis had political and economic roots.
THIS REPORT PRESENTS the results of research conducted in 1997, investigating the problems associated with the nature and quality of housing and social infrastructure provision in the Granby/Toxteth neighbourhood of Liverpool.
This book documents and analyzes shifting forms of social collaboration between individuals within a changing society, and the impact this has had on the development of African cities.