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
(For a searchable database of papers in Environment and Urbanization, go to http://eau.sagepub.com/)
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This evidence into action brief summarizes the state of research on the topic of urban air pollution in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and its impacts on children.
Aditya V Bahadur and Thomas Tanner consider many current practices for managing climate risks to be insufficiently ambitious and even irrelevant, in li
This evidence into action brief summarizes the state of research on the topic of urban children and COVID-19, and proposes ideas for action.
The problems faced by the residents of India’s informal settlements are widely discussed.
This evidence into action brief summarizes the state of research on the topic of urban children and malnutrition, and proposes ideas for action.
This edited volume grew out of the African Urban Research Initiative (AURI) at the University of Cape Town.
Child poverty and the violation of children’s rights are increasingly urban phenomena. An estimated billion people live in overcrowded, inadequate housing without basic services or secure tenure.
This issue paper proposes a novel framework to support a transformative recovery in cities of the global South. COVID-19 has created a critical juncture in the development of cities in the global South.
Sleep does not appear much in discussions on development or basic needs; there is no SDG on sleep.