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 the third step in an exploration which started with vector borne diseases and rural water development, and continued with a general look at all development activities and their health impacts.
THIS STUDY IS based on research carried out in four illegal settlements on the periphery of Mexico City and focuses on the relationship between living conditions and health status in poor communities, in which housing has a primary role.
AS A CONTRIBUTION by the World Health Organization (WHO) to Habitat II, this book is a collection of 28 papers drawn from the International Healthy and Ecological Cities Congress – Our City, Our Future held in Madrid in March 1995.
THIS BOOK EMERGES from the first Healthy Cities Conference in Nigeria, held in Ibadan in June 1993 with support from the World Health Organization.
THIS EDITED VOLUME on urban health issues includes contributions from Latin America, Asia and Africa, with most chapters focusing on a specific city and, in some cases, on a specific health issue.
THIS BOOK DISCUSSES the potential health consequences of global change: shifts in the geography of vector-borne infectious diseases due to the anticipated changes in regional climatic conditions; alterations in exposure to thermal stress in urban populations under conditions of climate change; an
THIS EDITED VOLUME looks at trends in urban health development policy since the late 1980s and outlines the activities of multilateral and bilateral organizations and NGOs in this area. Chapter one summarizes recent policy developments in health and in urban development.
While new environmental health risks dominate the world’s headlines, this report indicates that old diseases dominate the health statistics of countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP).
City hawkers are street retailers who carry their wares on carts or display them in ways that allow them to be mobile on the streets. They occupy pavements and even road space, preferably around low-income areas or next to public transport facilities.