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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Why Women will Save the Planet is a product of Friends of the Earth’s three-year “Big Ideas” project, which asked the question: “Could women’s empowerment transform the chances of achieving environmental sustainability?”.
It has long been known that poverty makes people more vulnerable to climate change. Shock Waves sets out to empirically assess the relationship.
The intention of this book is to explore “untamed” urban forms that are rarely acknowledged or recognized as productive, to rethink what makes cities conduits of social and environmental justice.
This collection originated as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The chapters cover topics including diversity and urban street markets, anti-immigrant sentiments, migrant integration, and understandings of ethnic identity.
By “remittance landscape”, Sarah Lynn Lopez is referring to the shaping of the built environment in rural Mexico by migration to US cities and remittances sent from there.
Ghana’s most recent census, in 2010, was its 5th since independence in 1957.
Sidewalk City is devoted to a part of the urban landscape that is often overlooked. Its author, Annette Miae Kim, teaches public policy and directs the Spatial Analysis Lab at the University of Southern California.
This paper examines the linkages between decentralization and urban climate governance through a literature review, supported by two city case studies: Saint-Louis in Senegal and Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso.
This study examines the institutional networks required to link processes of community-level deliberation to city- and national-level processes of decision-making and implementation.
Paratransit in African Cities synthesizes findings from an academic research programme supported by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations.