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 VOLUME INCLUDES papers from a conference on children’s participation in community development, which was initiated and sponsored by Plan International’s China Programme. The conference itself was coordinated by the College of Rural Development of China Agricultural University in Beijing.
THIS BOOK DISCUSSES practical measures for meeting the rights and requirements of urban children in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the context of rapid social change, limited resources and multiple challenges to health and well-being.
For more than half the world's children, their health and often their lives are constantly threatened by environment hazards - in their home and its surrounds and in the places they play and work.
THIS IS A long-awaited account of an international research project which has explored the relationship of children and their urban neighbourhoods, and has looked at ways of drawing on children’s creativity and engagement in improving these
neighbourhoods.
THIS REPORT PRESENTS the findings of research on the role of girl and boy children in household livelihood (or survival) strategies and how this has altered with social and environmental changes.
THE INTRODUCTORY SECTION discusses the human right to a clean environment and some of the practical and philosophical issues surrounding this issue, together with the description of a case in the Philippines which broke new ground in environmental litigation and the concept of inter-
THE MAIN PURPOSE of this book is to raise awareness about the problems faced by deprived urban children and their families and communities in trying to cope with scarcity, neglect and discrimination.
THIS HANDBOOK REDEFINES Plan International's aims and objectives in a “child-centred” approach to their habitat programmes. The Introduction gives a background to Plan's approach and strategy in the Habitat of the Child Programme, and the historical formulation of those objectives.
CONSIDERABLE STRIDES HAVE been made over the last 30 years in reducing child malnutrition but the situation is still grim.
THIS BOOK EXAMINES the issues and problems facing low-income groups living in city centres in Latin America.