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 new edition of the World Development Report will be of particular interest to those working on urban issues. Its main theme is the spatial aspects of economic development, including the importance of place (where a person is born or lives or moves to) for people’s welfare.
ON 20 DECEMBER 2001, the four-year recession in Argentina culminated in the resignation of President de la Rúa, following political demonstrations, police violence and the deaths of 29 people.
THIS BOOK IS a practical explanation of how to integrate ecological values and concepts into planning and development practices.
THIS BOOK IS an assessment of the state of knowledge on the links between the environment and the health of women and children.
THE SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY of cities is defined in this book as: “Development (and/or growth) that is compatible with the harmonious evolution of civil society, fostering an environment conducive to the compatible cohabitation of culturally and socially diverse groups while at the same time
IN THIS BOOK, the author considers the human relationship with disease since the beginning of recorded time. He contrasts two perspectives on disease.
URBAN AREAS IN low-income countries around the world increasingly appear to be affected by environmental disasters, which can be especially catastrophic in places that are densely occupied.
THE WORLD DISASTERS Report is an annual publication which combines the latest information on disasters with chapters on particular themes. The 1998 edition focuses on "Meeting the challenge of urban disasters".