Book notes
Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability, by Roanne van Voorst, examines the concept of risk behaviour and explores why – if people share the same risks – they express such heterogeneity in their responses.
It’s clear that NGOs have proliferated in recent decades. A 2003 estimate is that “close to 90 per cent of all non-governmental organisations have been formed since 1970” (page 2). Their power has also grown and diversified, at least for international NGOs (INGOs) at the top.
GrEEEn Solutions for Livable Cities proposes an integrated approach to addressing the challenges of sustainable development, combining the 3Es of economy, environment and equity.
Plenty has been written about Detroit as a cautionary tale of urban decay – from its industrial manufacturing heyday to its persistent problems with racism, poverty and mass flight to the suburbs.
Cash transfers can offer value-for-money in humanitarian responses, and cash transfer programming (CTP) has the potential to transform humanitarian architecture.
Seen as a valuable resource for cities and towns, green infrastructure holds the “potential to mitigate many of the challenges facing urban environments, including biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and health inequalities”, as well as adaptation to climate change and food secu
Cities Interrupted brings together researchers in architecture, geography, urban planning, photography and art to explore some of the ways that visual culture responds to, intervenes in, decelerates and critiques global conditions of urban speed and mobility.
Ken Conca, the author of An Unfinished Foundation, acknowledges that his writing to date has been generally informed by three aspects: being sceptical about formal political processes, looking beyond the state for institutional politics, and believing that good things happen when margina
El artículo propone una reflexión sobre la importancia de un enfoque cultural para la comprensión de la pobreza, a partir de nuevas concepciones sobre ésta y desde la mirada de los pobres, recalcando la importancia de la adecuada comprensión de los contextos y las culturas.
Cities that work is the title of Issue 18 of UNIDO’s quarterly magazine.