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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FORCED EVICTION INVOLVES the forceful removal of people from their homes, often by the military, armed police and/or hired thugs, and with the explicit or implicit sanction of the state.
THIS IS A comprehensive and detailed report on the sudden and massive eviction and demolition programme undertaken by the government of Zimbabwe that began in May 2005, first in Harare and then in other centres.
THIS STUDY, CARRIED out by the NGO YUVA, highlights the effects of recurring riots in the slum settlements of Jogeshwari East in Bombay, where Muslims and Hindus have been living side by side for 40 years.
THROUGH A SERIES of case studies, this book documents the process of forced evictions in Asian cities. This is the second such report supported by the Eviction Watch programme of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR), and it focuses on evictions that occurred in 1996 and 1997.
THIS BOOK IS the outcome of a workshop on the Measurement of Hygiene Behaviour, which enabled a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which hygiene behaviour can best be studied in a range of cultural contexts.
THIS BOOK CONTAINS a selection of papers from two workshops held in Latin America (Santiago de Chile in 1997 and near Mexico City in 1999) that both sought to break new ground in discussing the political aspects of reducing poverty.
THIS REPORT WAS prepared in order to discuss the relevance of the human rights agenda to sustainable development within the framework of sustainable livelihoods. It was developed specifically for the World Bank but has a wider relevance to other development agencies.
THIS 1995 REPORT, the second in the series, looks at institutional violence in Argentina and analyzes in depth the causes of the problem in order to look at ways of solving it. Serious questions are considered concerning the present state of human rights in Argentina.
The United Nations Conference held in Tokyo on January 2000, entitled `On the Threshold of the New Millennium’ recognized a broad consensus that the future success of the United Nations systems will have to embrace new thinking and realistic reforms in the context of new and complex challenges.
This publication is part of a series that documents country experiences of designing and implementing affordable housing programmes, and seeks to provide up-to-date information on country specific housing programmes that address housing shortages, thus reducing slum formation and growth and impro