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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In May 2006, the exploratory search for natural gas deposits in the Sidoarjo area of Indonesia by Indonesian corporation PT Lapindo Brantas led to a devastating mud volcano that displaced thousands of people and ruined farmland, roads and other infrastructure.
In 2006, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter scale hit the outskirts of the
The NGO Uplink Banda Aceh was established shortly after the tsunami largely destroyed the infrastructure and a large proportion of the population of Banda Aceh province in Indonesia.
Asset-based approaches rooted in the international poverty alleviation/reduction debate of the early 1990s have been heavily influenced by Amartya Sen’s work on famines and entitlements. This paper provides an introduction to asset-based approaches to poverty reduction in a globalized context.
THIS COLLECTION OF papers comprises the first phase of outputs under the Gender Research on Urbanization, Planning, Housing and Everyday Life (GRUPHEL) Programme.
This is a special issue of the Housing by People in Asia newsletter on the funds that poor communities put together and manage themselves – and why these are so central to development (and within this to poverty reduction).
SOCIAL EXCLUSION ONLY became part of the policy discourse in Britain during the 1990s and was placed at the top of the social policy agenda with the change of government in 1997, with their development of a Social Exclusion Unit.
This paper makes use of the latest set of urban data from the United Nations Population Division and a review of data from recent censuses to describe the scale and nature of urban change.
The world's urban population multiplied ten fold during the 20th century and most of the world's growth in population between 2000 and 2020 is expected to be in urban areas. However, the world was less urbanized and less dominated by large cities by 2000 than had been expected.