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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THE SOUTH IS becoming increasingly powerless to negotiate conditions for climate change, given the strength of protection for the economic interests of the North.
This UNFPA–IIED publication on population dynamics and climate change provides an overview of a controversial topic. Both population dynamics and climate change are interpreted broadly.
This 700-page report is accessible for non-specialists – and the various sections or the whole volume can be accessed on the web or downloaded at no charge (see above for details). It is divided into five parts.
This is an unusual document in that it assesses the performance of London with regard to greenhouse gas emissions from a consumption perspective rather than the more conventional production perspective.
THIS PUBLICATION PRESENTS the findings, conclusions and recommendations of a four-person joint fact-finding mission undertaken by COHRE and ACHR to Dhaka, Bangladesh in August 2000, to investigate reports of large-scale forced evictions.
THIS IS THE first report of the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (AGFE) to the Executive Director of UN–Habitat. This group was established in 2004 following Resolution 19/5 on improving the lives of slum dwellers that was adopted by UN–HABITAT during its 19th Session (2003).
“It was around 9 o’clock in the morning on 9 March 2005 … they got there in three or four trucks, not only police forces but also armed civilians. The children were very afraid and we women were on our own with the men out at work.
Vaquier’s monograph assesses an unusual, large-scale slum resettlement in Mumbai, analyzing employment outcomes, access to basic infrastructure and tenure security.
With thought-provoking and interdisciplinary analysis, this volume helps uncover key assumptions and power dynamics that have undergirded responses to epidemics.
Rapid growth in urbanisation and industrialisation in low- and middle-income nations brings about deterioration in the environmental status of the urban centres.