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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IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL, race and ethnic symbols are omnipresent in daily language, street life, during Carnival, in advertising, etc. Despite this, there are no signs of racial tensions or hatred as often seen elsewhere.
THIS EDITED COLLECTION tackles the complex issue of securing land for housing in urban areas and offers guidance for understanding the concepts and practicalities in using public-private partnership approaches.
This book is part of a DFID funded series undertaken by WEDC, discussing issues of partnership in different sectoral and thematic contexts.
This book is based largely on a series of papers from a conference at Lahore University in 2004 on Comparing Urban Landscapes. It presents a comparative analysis of the everyday dynamics of contemporary urban spaces (and experiences of men and women) in the South Asia and Middle East regions.
There have been many volumes on urban poverty but none (that I know of) that have tracked the lives of a small number of households over 30 years.
THIS VOLUME SUMMARIZES the initial findings of a research project on social exclusion that is intended to serve as a reference point for policy makers, practitioners and academics in answering the “challenges posed by economic transformation for social equity, political stability and democratic c
FOLLOWING THE 1995 World Social Summit, UNDP launched the Poverty Strategies Initiative with the aim of leveraging pro-poor changes in national policy across countries in the South. A wide range of programmes and activities were undertaken
THIS BOOK WAS commissioned by the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID) to discuss the application of the sustainable livelihoods perspective to the urban context. Recently, there has been significant focus on developing a livelihoods approach to development.
MANY RESEARCHERS WILL know some of the previous work of this author on disease burdens and their economic costs in Khulna (Bangladesh), especially to low-income households (a summary of this work was published in Environment and Urbanization Vol 5, No 2, 1993).
THIS BOOK CONSIDERS how political change can contribute to pro-poor environmental outcomes on the ground, and centres on ten case studies: seven rural or regional and three urban.