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 Association for Nature and Sustainable Development (ANDES) is an indigenous NGO that seeks to defend indigenous rights to genetic resources, traditional knowledge and landscape character in Peru.
The Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC) is a community-based organization established in 1997 in Tanzania. It was founded to promote the development of Maasai pastoralist women and children by facilitating their access to education, health, social services and economic empowerment.
Casa Pueblo began as a grassroots citizens’ group formed to oppose the Puerto Rican government’s plan to allow large-scale open-pit mining by international corporations in the central region in 1980.
This has also been published in Environment and Urbanization Vol 19, No 1, April 2007.
For several decades, central Santiago experienced depopulation and urban decline, a situation much worsened by the 1985 earthquake, one of the most destructive in the city’s history.
This paper revisits the cholera epidemic that South Africa suffered during 2000–2001, which killed 265 people and infected a further 117,147. The paper begins with a brief, comprehensive summary of the epidemic and then sets out the objectives, conclusions and recommendations of the research.
City governments in low- and middle-income countries are realizing the limited effectiveness of the international aid programmes and managerial policies based on western approaches.
THIS RESEARCH REPORT looks at part of the rural-urban fringe of Delhi, and at the problems and possibilities that confront its residents when faced with environmental and socio-economic change in urbanizing villages.
Given the lack of adequate universal social welfare for those unable to find jobs in the salaried formal sector, the livelihoods and well-being of most poor people depend heavily on their asset base.