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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Uganda’s capital Kampala has grown rapidly, but without a comparable expansion in the formal, planned housing stock.
This booklet is the first of a new series of Quick Housing Policy Guides that seek to present in an easy to read format concepts, policy approaches, tools and recommendations to help governments address housing issues.
This booklet is also in the Quick Housing Policy Guides series. It focuses on what an enabling shelter strategy actually is for a government and how to design and implement one.
THIS REPORT IS a product of a workshop which was part of a consultative process undertaken by the Norwegian government’s Ministry of the Environment, with the objective of encouraging pioneers in sustainable consumption to develop a shared understanding of sustainable consumption priorities.
THIS IS A summary of the proceedings from a workshop held in Nairobi in 1998 on urban food production in East and Southern Africa that was attended by researchers, policy makers and practitioners from six countries in the region (Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and Zimbabwe).
THERE IS A revolution underway in development approaches, ranging from self-help to self-finance. This edited volume charts the development of micro-finance as part of the solution to inadequate shelter in low- and middle-income countries. It is organized into three sections.