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 reviews the state of Asian cities, with a particular interest in their economic role, the scale and nature of their poverty and the state of the urban environment – and links with climate change. The report is also a reminder of the scale and importance of urbanization in Asia.
THIS BOOK BRINGS together leading scholars from the so-called “South” and “North” to provide a truly international and interdisciplinary overview of the major issues surrounding development theory and practice in the twenty-first century.
This is the authors’ second volume on the topic of urban poverty.
THE ABSENCE OF a philosophical base threatens the viability of successful implementation of current environmental policies. Despite the escalation of sustainability-based initiatives, the situation is not necessarily improving.
The present generation will probably be the last generation that will have the opportunity to make fundamental choices about the future of our people and our planet.
This book explains the double bind in which humanity now finds itself – an environmental crisis that is escalating year on year, and a growing human and social crisis of poverty and inequality. The book demonstrates how these twin crises share the same historical roots.
This book tackles urban sustainability: the issues, approaches and challenges, from an Australian perspective.
Oslo claims to be one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the world (it is also one of the most expensive) and has set itself the impressive goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 100 per cent by 2050 compared to 1990 levels (as a point of comparison, Oslo’s current per capit
THE BOOK'S TITLE contains its main point: that wealth can be doubled while also halving resource use.