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 draws on case studies from six Indonesian cities to highlight how local urban development approaches have contributed to reducing vulnerability to climate change, although these were not designed with climate change adaptation in mind.
This paper looks at how outdoor workers in the city of Da Nang in Vietnam are affected by working in conditions of heat exposure, and also their understanding of the risks of heat stress and how it can be addressed.
THIS PAPER DISCUSSES the most important areas for action to improve health and the environment in cities. It begins by describing how, with "good governance", cities can be among the healthiest places to live, work and visit but that without it, they can be among the most dangerous.
This paper discusses the possibilities for adaptation to climate change in urban areas in low- and middle-income nations.
THIS BOOK, IN Spanish, examines urban policy and management in the city of Buenos Aires.
This report, one of the Building Issues series, addresses the fundamental need for effective urban transport in low income countries.
CALCUTTA, WITH A population of over 11 million, is one of the world’s largest cities, and roughly one-third of its population lives in "slums”.
THIS VOLUME COMPRISES 42 papers grouped into five sections, the first of which concerns conservation policies and strategies.
THIS BOOK IS a collection of 14 papers reviewing the urban research that has been conducted in Bangladesh since the 1960s, and arises from a sub-regional workshop that took place in Dhaka in 1991 as part of the Global Urban Research Initiative (GURI).