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 PAPER ANALYZES case studies from earlier research, which illustrate the implementation by community organizations and volunteer groups of innovative methods for combating grave urban problems. Two unifying themes run through the diverse case studies.
Comparing the historical trajectories of several advanced nations creates an original synthesis and alternative perspectives on growth strategies.
THE FOLLOW-UP to a paper prepared for the Fifth Stockholm Water Symposium in 1995, this is the first publication of the new Urban Environment Series.
THE APPROACH ADOPTED in developing the assessment technique presented in this report builds upon a study of household environmental problems in Accra in 1991 by the Department of Geography and Resource Development of the University of Ghana and the Stockholm Environment Institute.
THIS RESEARCH PAPER is a study of strategies adopted by the urban poor in Ecuador to reduce vulnerability and prevent impoverishment during periods of economic stress.
THIS STUDY OF household responses to poverty in a low-income community in Lusaka is part of a four-city study; details of the study in Guayaquil are given above, whilst the study in Manila was reviewed in the April 1998 issue of Environment&Urbanization.
THIS BOOK IS part of the Urban Management Series, and focuses on the impacts of demographic and economic changes in developing countries.
THIS BOOK IS part of the Urban Management Series, which focuses on impacts of demographic and economic changes in developing countries.
This book provides development and donor agencies, governments, academics and students and non-governmental organizations with a valuable opportunity to learn from the work of the UK charity, Homeless International, over the last 20 years.
Since one-sixth of world’s population live in “slums”, urban poverty deserves careful analyses focused on people’s mechanisms for surviving.