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 BOOK’S AIM is to make environmental information on the region (which consists of the member countries of the Southern African Development Community) more accessible, in order to inform and motivate southern Africans who are making decisions about or concerning the use of their environment.
NAIROBI’S ENVIRONMENT, AS the title suggests, is an overview of the environmental problems and issues facing Nairobi today with a view to planning and management recommendations for the future.
THIS EDITED VOLUME brings together literature on environment and development, human rights, social justice and workers rights, combining them to offer a discussion of “environmental justice”.
REMITTANCES FROM INTERNATIONAL migration are an important source of foreign currency for many indebted countries. In 1993, remittances sent through official banking systems were equivalent to over 70 per cent of Morocco’s overall trade deficit and for almost 25 per cent of Tunisia’s.
This provides a detailed review of energy supply and consumption in cities in South Africa – focusing on 15 cities and towns, including the six largest metropolitan centres, industrial towns, inland, coastal and “more rural” towns.
Although the connections between energy use, urban growth and environmental issues are intuitively obvious, they are too deeply embedded to be easily analyzed. This explains why they have received little attention compared to other urban or environmental issues.
THE AIM OF the African Energy Policy Research Network is to promote research relating to the formulation and implementation of appropriate energy policies for countries of East, Central and Southern Africa.
THE SECTOR-WIDE approach for international donor support to the South has become more common as a result of criticism during the past two decades levelled at previous project-focused approaches.
THIS VOLUME WAS prepared by the Conditions and Trends Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.