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 is about the huge toll that disasters take in urban areas in Africa and about the possibilities for reducing this toll. It covers the whole spectrum of disasters, and case studies include the following:
THIS BOOK IS a collection of papers drawn from presentations made to a conference on “Disasters: Vulnerability and Response” and it “...explores the institutional and managerial problems of coping with disasters within a social science framework, with first hand, research based case studies on th
THIS BOOK IS the result of collaboration between the Fundación Nacional para el Desarrollo and La Red de Estudios Sociales en la Prevención de Desastres en América Latina.
HUMANITARIAN DISASTERS TRIGGERED by natural hazards appear to be growing in severity and frequency of impact.
This book draws on a wealth of knowledge that has been generated about participatory processes in seven different cities in the world, the information for which has been collected through city auditing and process-mapping research.
THIS SERIES OF 13 handbooks, focused on training for local government officials or councillors, has been produced by the UN–Habitat in response to an urgent need for capacity building in many municipalities.
THIS BOOK PROVIDES an overview of existing governance approaches for dealing with environmental challenges in East Asia. Three sectors are chosen for deeper analysis, namely pesticide management, water quality and resources management, and air pollution management.
CITIES CANNOT BE successful – economically, politically or culturally – if the divisions between rich and poor continue to widen.