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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THROUGH MULTIPLE CASE studies, this volume illustrates successful and progressive examples of practices with regard to housing and sustainable urban development.
Groundwater, Self-supply and Poor Urban Dwellers: A Review with Case Studies of Bangalore and Lusaka
An estimated 800 million urban dwellers lack access to safe and adequate drinking water. Most live in unplanned, low-income areas and slums.
Groundwater, Self-supply and Poor Urban Dwellers: A Review with Case Studies of Bangalore and Lusaka
An estimated 800 million urban dwellers lack access to safe and adequate drinking water. Most live in unplanned, low-income areas and slums.
THIS PUBLICATION IS a compilation of papers presented at a workshop on Urban Governance in Major World Cities, organized by the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in December, 2000.
THIS BOOK BRINGS together a wide range of work from different authors concerned with the phenomenon of migration in Africa.
THIS BOOK IS the result of a study concluded in 1995 but instigated by research undertaken in 1991 of 2,671 pavement dwellers in Dhaka.
The focus of this book is circular migration, defined as a temporary move from the normal place of residence for the purpose of employment.
OVER THE LAST few years, there has been a growing appreciation of the need for more information about complex humanitarian emergencies in order to develop an understanding of such events and and more effective reactions to them.
LIBERALIZATION AND THE social and economic changes that accompany it, along with the devastating Aids pandemic, have had profound effects on the lives, livelihoods and survival strategies of the poor in sub-Saharan Africa.
International migration has long been an important feature of Senegalese society, and migrants’ remittances play a significant role in the livelihoods of rural households and the growth of small and intermediate urban centres.