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 1982 THE State of India’s Environment: a Citizen’s Report produced by the Centre for Science and Environment in Delhi in collaboration with a large network of groups from all over India, set new standards in terms of comprehensiveness, coverage, detail and quality of presentation.
THIS BOOK UNTANGLES the romance from the reality of the automobile in order to expose dependency and serve as a practical guide for the establishment of a car-free, or car-light, life.
THIS VOLUME INCLUDES the conference proceedings and results of a number of activities, including an electronic dialogue, which addressed the specific constraints in achieving compliance with, and enforcement of, environmental legislation, standards and regulations in Latin America.
THIS BOOK BRINGS together ten studies of central issues in the African development and environment debate, by authors from a variety of disciplines. The topics covered include desertification, deforestation, depletion of wildlife bio-diversity, range land management and soil degradation.
THIS STUDY CONSIDERS the automobile industry in India and its environmental performance. Nine chapters cover various aspects of the industry in extremely thorough technical detail, illustrated by many charts, tables and graphs which give the results of all the factors tested.
WHEN CONSIDERING ENVIRONMENT and development, many people do not think of health impacts. This book fulfils the important role of linking environment, development and health, and discusses these within the wider context of sustainable development.
This book (in Spanish and English) is rather unusual in that it describes and discusses in detail a partnership between a local NGO, the municipal government and community organizations.
THE AIM OF this book is to examine the problems of urban planning and management from an environmental perspective.
THIS BOOK EXAMINES the importance of the environmental dimension in housing issues for rapidly growing cities in Africa, Latin America and Asia and reflects a concern for the complex interactions between people and their environments.