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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The goal attempted in this book is to develop a single framework, applicable to both rich countries and developing economies, for understanding and acting on urban water issues, despite the manifold shifts and transitions underway.
THIS PRESENTS A concise review of HIV in pregnancy, the management of HIV-positive pregnant women and infection control measures.
This paper is a scoping exercise to explore options for research on urban poverty in low- and middle-income countries.
This paper reviews the trends in official development assistance for urban development. First, the paper documents the stagnation in the share of aid going into urban projects and programmes.
This paper focuses on several dimensions of urban infrastructure finance: finance for major infrastructure improvements in major economic centres; finance for expansion of basic municipal services in secondary cities and towns; and intergovernmental systems for financing investments with impacts
This book is a collection of papers presented by experts and practitioners at a forum on urban youth, poverty and conflict, sponsored by the Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and focused on giving youth greater priority on the policy agenda.
This is the first in a series of papers that consider the appropriateness of poverty lines for urban populations in particular regions, nations and cities.
IN 1993, PRIOR to democratic elections in South Africa, the Stutterheim municipality contracted Aqua Gold (now WSSA, a joint venture between Northumbrian-Lyonnaise International and a local company) to manage, operate and maintain water and sanitation services in the municipality.
IN 1995, THE municipality of Cartagena formed a joint venture with Aguas de Barcelona to provide water and sanitation services to the city. The new company, Aguas de Cartagena, signed a 26-year contract for operating and maintaining the services.
This begins by describing the work of the Pakistan NGO, Orangi Pilot Project-Research and Training Institute (OPP-RTI), in supporting improved provision for sanitation and other services in Orangi and other informal settlements in Karachi and in other cities and smaller urban centres in Pakistan.