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 BOOK OFFERS an inter-disciplinary reflection on water provision issues in sub-Saharan Africa.
This book examines the social history of water-related conflicts in the Basin of Mexico, where Mexico City is located. It illustrates how and why the struggles over water are linked to struggles for citizenship.
THIS BOOK CONSISTS OF TWO PARTS, “key findings” and “field notes”. Part I starts with some general background information describing the low status of waste pickers, usually (but not exclusively) young boys aged between seven and 14.
THIS IS A practical guide for those involved in urban waste management in Africa. It succinctly summarizes the main steps of the pilot project entitled “Involvement in waste management actions by poor populations in Commune IV within Bamako district”.
IN MANY CITIES in low-income countries, the private sector is becoming increasingly involved in the mounting problem of solid waste management. This book considers one area of private sector involvement, namely the smallest operations, known as “microenterprises” and “small enterprises” (MSEs).
THIS BOOK PRESENTS the findings from a project examining the development of micro-enterprise in primary waste collection and examines these in a context of private solutions to solid waste management.
THIS BOOK PRESENTS the findings of the project “Appropriate Landfilling of Solid Waste” funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and aims to provide broad guidance for the selection of adequate options for solid waste disposal in cities in low-income countries.
Putting Integrated Sustainable Waste Management into Practice: Using the ISWM Assessment Methodology
THE INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE Waste Management (ISWM) framework presented in this book is an accessible framework for implementing bottom-up, participatory processes devised to develop urban waste management in developing and transitional nations.
THIS STUDY WAS carried out in late 1995 as a contribution to the design of the Jamaican Social Investment Fund.
THIS EDITED VOLUME looks at the issue of violence against women in countries as diverse as Tibet, Pakistan, Argentina, Chile, the former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, France and Australia and, in so doing, points to the universality of the phenomenon.