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 THE CITY of Luanda, 75 per cent of the population live in informal settlements known as musseques, under extremely unhealthy conditions with little or no services and few income opportunities.
THIS REPORT PRESENTS the findings of the fourth assessment undertaken by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP).
This World Development Movement report features sections by managers of, or advisors to, successful public water utilities in the global South.
THIS EDITED COLLECTION describes the situation of low-income residents in South Africa who face the loss of services due to their incapacity to pay their bills.
THIS REPORT LOOKS at a beneficiary assessment of two water and sanitation programmes in Luanda which are being implemented by the government of Angola and the World Bank: the Emergency Programme and the Urban Environment and Sanitation Project.
THIS BOOK OFFERS an inter-disciplinary reflection on water provision issues in sub-Saharan Africa.
THIS BOOK DESCRIBES the progress of an emerging Blue Revolution: new plans, strategies and designs for land use and all water-related developments based on new understandings of the relationship between land use and water, and drawing on the ideals and concepts identified at the United Nations Co
AFTER THE UN Commission for Sustainable Development called for a comprehensive assessment of the freshwater resources of the world in 1994, this paper was commissioned and presented by the Steering Committee to the Commission and the UN General Assembly Special Session in June 1997.
THIS COMPREHENSIVE AND well-illustrated presentation of India’s ancient water-harvesting systems highlights their potential for contributing to contemporary India’s development, especially with regard to irrigation and drinking water supply.
WATER PROBLEMS – OF supply, contamination and waste – are critical indicators of the limits to urban growth and of flaws in urban development.