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 GUIDE IS designed for both experienced and new trainers who have an interest in training others in the use of participatory methods, whether they are researchers, practitioners, policy makers, villagers or trainers. The guide:
Like many other low-income communities, the Greenpoint/Williamsburg neighbourhood in Brooklyn suffers more than its share of environmental problems, with a concentration of polluting facilities and elevated levels of localized air pollutants.
THIS REPORT REVIEWS 12 projects within the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) from the perspective of good practice in participatory approaches and methods for research and development.
PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IS an increasingly common phenomenon in Brazil, as in other Latin American countries and Europe as well.
Expériences outils et méthodes pour un Developpement urbain partagé: fiches d'expériences - Volume 1
This is one of two volumes that aim to share good working practices from individual countries in the field of urban development, providing a space for information and idea exchange and provoking reflection in this area.
The Pakistan NGO, the Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) is probably best known for the work of the OPP–Research and Training Institute, and its support for community-managed sanitation and other programmes to support better schools and better quality building in informal settlements (see the paper in th
THIS BOOK SUGGESTS that one of the key underpinnings of urban poverty is the failure of national governments and international agencies to support local organizations (governmental, non-governmental and grassroots) that can work with the urban poor to address their deprivations.
This book brings together papers that reflect on what NGOs have contributed to creating development alternatives.