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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THIS VOLUME CHRONICLES human settlement conditions and trends since the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) in June 1996 with a particular focus on globalization. Today, the trend of urbanization continues apace although entwined with globalization.
This is a much expanded, revised and updated version of these authors’ 1992 book on Environmental Problems in Third World Cities. It describes the scale and range of environmental problems in urban areas from the largest metropolitan agglomerations to small towns.
THIS BOOK FOCUSES on the phenomenon of urbanization in Brazilian Amazonia, a significant trend that has been little recognized or researched as most work on the region comes from a natural or rural perspective.
THE FIRST PART of this volume deals with frameworks for eco-partnerships. It analyzes the dynamics, processes and difficulties of urban eco-partnerships at a number of levels.
PACIFIC ASIA IS recognized as the fastest growing region in the world. Its cities are critically important to both its economic and its social development.
THE CHRONIC POVERTY report is the first of its kind. It was produced by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, which seeks to promote a more nuanced understanding of poverty, and to emphasize that there is a group of the poor who remain in poverty, year after year.
CHINA’S LARGE POPULATION has caused huge environmental pressures resulting in pollution and irreversible damage to various ecosystems.
THIS IS THE companion volume to Growing up in an Urbanizing World, which was reviewed in the April 2002 issue of Environment&Urbanization.
This edited volume is on child poverty worldwide and offers new data and analysis of the scale and nature of child poverty through a series of national and regional case studies.
THIS BOOK ADDRESSES the conceptual issues, processes and methods for involving children and early adolescents in research, planning, design, management and monitoring of the environment.