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 includes interviews with the Ministers for Urban Affairs in the European Union on the urban developments in their countries in recent years, including what were the most important developments and actions, what models of urban innovation have been imported or exported, what kinds of partner
This includes overview papers and case studies of 15 cities including Perugia, Rhodes, Dessau, Alicante, Freiburg, Siena, Toledo and Galway.
THIS DISCUSSION PAPER addresses the lack of attention given to the question of urban food security and nutrition in the cities of sub-Saharan Africa, despite the renewed debate surrounding issues of urban development.
HOMELESSNESS IN THE European Union contributes to the perception and understanding of housing exclusion and homelessness as serious social problems in the prosperous economies of the European Union.
The contents of this book will be familiar to regular readers of Environment and Urbanization because it brings together 15 papers on adaptation and cities published in the journal between 2007 and 2009 (although with updating by some authors).
The 2011 edition of the biennial Global Report on Human Settlements is on cities and climate change.
This book explores some of the fundamental concepts and responses to climate change.
In this report, a team of independent experts find major shortcomings in past estimates of the costs of adaptation to climate change.
THIS BOOK EXPLORES the growing importance of civil society in Africa. Case studies from 16 countries provide evidence of the growing role of associational life in Africa. Rather than concentrating on a specific city, country or region, this book argues that the trend is continental.