Book notes
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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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THE AUTHOR’S AIM is to show how the environment in Colombia can be protected by the intervention and participation of individual municipalities. Environmental problems, especially those concerning Colombian municipalities, are examined and the consequences of environmental degradation explored.
THIS BOOK IS about neighbourhoods, neighbourhood-based grassroots development efforts and the role that planning can and does play in strengthening neighbourhood development efforts.
This paper outlines a framework for adaptation to climate change for urban areas in low- and middle-income nations that enhances the capacity of low-income households and community organizations to contribute to such adaptation.
THIS COMPILATION VOLUME explores how African urban dwellers have had to find not only effective ways of pursuing their livelihoods and other aspirations within cities but also ways of managing their interactions with often more powerful economic and political interests that seek to impose particu
Social housing in Chile during the twentieth century is usually studied from separated sectoral perspectives (social, political, economic, legal and architectural, among others).
THIS CONTAINS THE papers presented at a meeting on "The Future of Community Participation in the Asian Economic Context" held in Fukuoka, Japan in March, 1998.
THIS VOLUME DOCUMENTS the informal settlements in and around Johannesburg. It begins with short statements from the Minister of Housing and the Head of Housing for the city of Johannesburg, together with an introduction to the information that follows.
?THIS BOOK IS based on research conducted during April and May 1999 using a participatory rural appraisal methodology, and is part of a wider initiative within the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Department, Latin America and Caribbean Region, the World Bank.
This report of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which focuses on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability) has just been published – and the full text is also available at no charge from http://www.ipcc-wg2.org/.
Urban informal settlements seem inherent to cities in low- and middle-income nations. Between 40 and 65 per cent of the urban population in Latin America live in informal dwellings with inadequate levels of urban development. In the case of Bolivia, there are historical reasons.