Environment & Urbanization

World leading environmental and urban studies journal

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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1999

THIS BOOK IS a collection of essays written by the author over a span of ten years, some of which were previously published elsewhere. The central argument is that the Western development model is at odds with both social justice and environmental concerns.

The authors of this book argue that urban poverty in China is not the result of institutional legacies but, rather, is driven by the decline of the state-owned sector and economic restructuring, changes in the welfare system, and both urbanization and rural–urban migration.

2012

Much of the world is in the midst of a global urban transition that, together with economic globalization, is shifting the economic loci of development.

1998

THE CENTRAL THEME of the book is the problem of governance of urbanization, the decisions different players will face in governing this development, and the role of markets and government policies.

2002

THIS BOOK EXPLORES how action for sustainability at a local level can move towards global action.

2000

?THIS REVISED MANUAL is based on field experience in many countries but especially on the approach used in Ismailia, Egypt, in the late 1970s, in designing and implementing the first upgrading and sites and service project to be formally undertaken in Egypt.

2006

This report describes current conditions and trends in urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa and discusses both the current and the potential role of such centres in economic growth and poverty reduction.

2006

The 2006/2007 edition of the State of the World’s Cities focuses mainly on cities, slums and the Millennium Development Goals. Following a five-page overview, it is divided into four parts.

2004

REDUCING URBAN POVERTY requires much more than economic growth. It requires an understanding of the manner in which the dynamics of city governance influence the urban poor, and the extent to which low-income residents possess the capacity to influence decision-making that affects their lives.

2013

This book emerged from the urban section of the Global Energy Assessment. It puts forward an elaborated systemic framework that allows a comparative analysis and assessment of urban energy use in its varied specificities and at its different scales.

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