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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AS THE AUTHOR points out in the introduction, both the terms “environment” and “planning” are capable of expansion to the point of meaninglessness. Planning may be seen as a generic activity of purposeful anticipation of, and provision for, the future.
ESTABLISHED IN 1990, the Metropolitan Environmental Improvement Program (MEIP) aims to assist Asian urban areas tackle their rapidly growing environmental problems in an integrated and cross-sectoral fashion.
This is a detailed description of everyday environmental hazards and disaster risks for Greater Accra based on data collected in more than 200 residential areas.
THIS REPORT CONTAINS the results of the Ecoriesgo project undertaken in 1996 and 1997 as part of USAID/Peru and the National Environmental Council of Peru's Sustainable Management of the Environment and Natural Resources project.
THIS VOLUME DESCRIBES the key global environmental issues and critically reviews the international negotiations and institutions that are seeking to address these – but from the perspective of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and focusing especially on the concerns of their poorer cit
THIS BOOK COMES out of a research project in 2002–03 by the “Urban Environment Thematic Group” (an affiliation of World Bank staff working on the urban environment), which evaluated the Bank’s commitment to urban sustainability in cities of client countries.
This book considers the full range of urban environmental burdens, from the very local to the inherently global.
THIS COLLECTION OF papers, drawn from a 1996 conference, is a response to the paucity of research and knowledge on environmental realities in urban areas in the South.
These three volumes bring together a selection of the writings of Anil Agarwal, the remarkable environmental writer and activist, journalist and founder of the Centre for Science and Environment in Delhi – who died in early 2002 after a long battle with cancer.