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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A definition of inclusive states might be governments that direct policies for addressing the needs of all, also respecting the rights of citizens to exercise voice and influence on which services are provided and how they are delivered.
In recent years, questions of equity and inequality have become more central in debates on development and poverty reduction, and even countries with high rates of growth experience stagnating or increasing inequality. Inequality can itself limit the poverty-reducing effects of growth.
Every year, worldwide, 2 million people die from diarrhoeal diseases – 1.7 million of these are children. This is 10 times the total number of people killed by wars in the world annually. It is also known that improving access to water and sanitation could save most of these lives.
The urban poor are particularly vulnerable to natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, windstorms, volcanic eruptions, wild fires, water surges and droughts, as their settlements are often located on marginal land and have sub-standard housing and infrastructure.
THIS RESEARCH REPORT builds on a longitudinal study on housing and urban community development which has been active since the 1960s.
The purpose of the research studies detailed in this publication is to examine what happened after fighting stopped after prolonged and intense conflict in Angola.