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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UNICEF calls this the first report to compile comprehensive global data about displaced and migrant children. Its findings starkly show the disproportionate effects of conflict and migration on children.
This document reports on the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme in rural Bangladesh between 2006 and 2015.
This book is claimed to be “the first global survey of urban lighting” (page xxi). As a survey, it sweeps across time (from the advent of lighting technology to the present day), space (with snapshots of over 20 cities), and theme (including art, service provision, and ideology).
This Spanish-language text brings together a large body of literature on climate change adaptation and mitigation at the municipal level in Mexico.
Indonesian cities are increasingly invested in efforts to build urban resilience, and finding means of resisting, absorbing and recovering from climate change hazards.
Climate change is not only affecting geophysical systems through events such as floods, droughts, and sea level rise, but also human systems, including livelihoods, health, economies and cultures. In Indonesia, climate change greatly affects many aspects of the economy, society and environment.
This report uses a problem-driven political economy approach to analyse how the leaders of three mid-sized cities in Vietnam – Can Tho, Quy Nhon and Da Nang – are trying to pursue their urban growth ambitions with increasing awareness of climate change risks.
The purpose of this background paper is to describe recent trends in African urban centres, review potential future trajectories of these, and examine their possible implications for risk accumulation and risk reduction.
This working paper attempts to identify ways to make the town of Noapara, a coastal urban centre in the Jessore district in Bangladesh, resilient to the impacts of climate change, with a specific focus on the water and sanitation sectors.
There is growing awareness in Southeast Asia about the significance of gender norms and roles in climate resilience.