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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A steadily growing awareness of urban agriculture on the international development agenda since the early 1980s has led to a growing collaboration by the United Nations funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
THIS BOOK IS part of a series of books on social development issues published by Argentina’s largest university, which are written both for an academic readership and for a wider public.
THIS REPORT WAS prepared for the 1996 World Disaster Reduction Day (9 October 1996), along with a poster and a special issue of Stop Disasters magazine on “disaster reduction in urban systems”.
This book is a collection of edited papers presented at an international workshop on “Cities of the Future – Bringing Blue Water to Green Cities” held in July 2006.
This overview and analysis of disaster risks represents the first biennial report of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (IDSR).
Spatial indicators of “inequality”, rather than simply “poverty”, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are two essential tools for today’s urban policy makers and planners.
THIS BOOK PRESENTS a set of principles for the sustainable planning and management of cities as they have been developed during the past decade under the umbrella of Local Agenda 21.
THIS BOOK FOCUSES on the role of NGOs in the implementation of Local Agenda 21, five years after the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) included a small section on Local Agenda 21s within its agreed action programme.
THIS REPORT, SUPPORTED by Help Age International, covers many of the issues of development and how they are experienced by older people.
“Shelter and living in Hanoi” is the first book of a collection of three, “Housing and land in Hanoi” and “Popular housing in Hanoi”.