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 PUBLICATION PUTS forward an alternative sanitation called “ecological sanitation” (eco-san). It is based on an ecosystem approach and treats human urine and faeces as a valuable resource to be recycled.
THIS STUDY DEVELOPED from research undertaken by the Mazingira Institute in Nairobi regarding the place of women within the issues of environment and development.
THIS BOOK IS a manual for project workers involved with homeless and working children, and draws on 15 years experience to offer ideas and examples of methods employed in a variety of child development contexts.
This book assesses how the new Development Control Code 1995 is applied and followed with particular regard to its “relaxed capacity” in low-income residential areas in Gaborone and Francistown, Botswana.
Between January and February 2001, two major earthquakes hit El Salvador in Central America. Hundreds lost their lives and thousands lost their dwellings, especially among low-income families who lived in rural areas or beside motorways or on the fringes of the cities.
THIS BOOK BRINGS together specialists on various aspects of urban development, and their contributions are divided into six sections.
THE MAIN CONCERN of this book is to highlight the problems faced by the majority of urban inhabitants and so identify the need for new approaches to community management in terms of both governance and access to justice.
This extends an earlier overview of urban innovations to improve the environment and sustainability within the European Union, to include Austria, Sweden and Finland, who joined the European Union in 1995.