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 examines the work and roles of non-governmental organizations in development, and considers the criticisms that their increased profile and role in development have attracted.
THIS BOOK OFFERS an overview of the situation faced by NGOs in the North and the South in the mid-1990s from the personal perspective of one of the best-known international NGO practitioners and authors.
This is a new, updated edition of a book first published in 2001. It has particular relevance to a world where international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have increasing roles in fighting poverty, and are seen as important within civil society.
THIS PAPER CONSIDERS the role of NGOs and the state in Latin America, discussing the dramatic changes that these groups have undergone, the present crisis in which they find themselves and their potential future role.
IN RECENT YEARS, the NGO sector working on development issues has been through considerable changes, and this book seeks to guide NGOs in formulating their strategies and approaches.
THE CONCEPT OF new towns or satellite towns is a familiar issue in the discourse on urban development. The difficulties associated with the creation of such towns has been well documented and rigorously studied.
This book is an economic manifesto. Its central argument is that conventional economics is in crisis because it is blind to the ecological, social and spiritual effects that mainstream economic policies create as they mistake GDP growth for wealth.
This volume is designed to support professionals and others interested in collaborative management initiatives towards a better understanding of co-management of natural resources for conservation, livelihoods, and development purposes.
INTERNATIONAL DONORS HAVE supported innumerable environmental projects and programmes in Africa over the last 25 years.
THIS BOOK IS one of the outcomes of a research project funded by the UK's Department for International Development. The project began in 1996 and focused on two medium-sized city-regions, namely, Kumasi in Ghana and Hubli-Dharwad in Karnataka State, south-west India.