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 EDITED COLLECTION of papers presents the results of a gender-oriented research programme on issues of urbanization, planning, housing and everyday life in Southern Africa.
THIS EDITED COLLECTION of papers presents the results of a gender oriented research programme on issues of urbanization, planning, housing and everyday life in Southern Africa.
THIS WORKING PAPER outlines the main components of a recently developed gender audit methodology, specifically designed to assess the implementation of gender policies, strategies, programmes and projects.
Despite the substantial literature on both urban studies and gender theory, there have been relatively few attempts to create a coherent synthesis of the intersections between these two subject areas.
THE FOCUS OF this paper is on recent experiences with loan finance for the provision of water supply and sanitation. In addition to a review and analysis, a separate section provides a summary of ten examples of projects in which credit has been provided for this purpose.
MUCH HAS BEEN written about the central importance of woodfuel in low-income nations. However, there are still glaring gaps in our understanding of the factors affecting procurement and use of wood and other fuels.
THIS REPORT IS the eighth in COHRE’s Global Survey series on forced evictions, aimed at increasing awareness of the often unknown scale of this practice.
Food influences virtually every aspect of life and can be defined as a “total social phenomenon”. Until the 1950s, food tended to appear in historical work only in relation to other topics.
Labelling is a paradoxical concept. Although in development and public policy spheres labelling is crucial, as it represents a challenge for accountability, researchers note that it is also a mechanism for both policy focusing and social exclusion.