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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THIS BOOK DRAWS on a wide range of sources to provide an insight into modern India. It is not just a compilation of facts but also an analysis of problems and issues.
IN BOTH LATIN America and Eastern Europe, up to the 1980s moderate prosperity was linked to the role of the state in national economies.
THE FACT THAT the world’s population is likely to stop growing within the next few decades, and that it is likely to stabilize at around 9 billion (so there is no longer a future “doubling time”), still goes unrecognized in many environmental and development discussions.
THIS REFERENCE MANUAL highlights the potential contribution of sound urban management to both environmental and developmental goals.
THIS COLLECTION OF thematic papers from the journal Development in Practice looks at the role of civil society in working to promote, through constructive engagement, the interests of the poor in the face of a global system that leaves them increasingly marginalized.
THIS IS ONE of the clearest and most thoughtful discussions of how to develop a framework for sustainable development indicators. It also includes many examples and helpful diagrams.
THIS STUDY BRINGS together figures on the incidence of poverty for 120 nations. Most of the volume is taken up with two sections. The first is a table which lists the incidence of poverty for the 120 countries for all available dates.
THIS CONTAINS AN edited selection of papers originally presented at a conference on The Challenge of Environmental Management in Metropolitan Areas, jointly organized by the Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, in 1997.
This paper examines the standards for, and process of, developing climate-resilient, post-disaster housing by comparing self-built homes with donor-driven homes, to understand what leads to resilient housing in a typhoon-prone area of central Vietnam.