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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Crime prevention discourse and practice have rarely incorporated a gender perspective.
THE AIM OF this edited collection is to show the diversity of the relationships which link (or ‘de-link’) urban centres and rural areas in a number of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, but also to identify common approaches which go beyond the usual division along geographical and cult
THE PAPERS IN this edited collection describe various aspects of the North American (United States and Canada) rural-urban fringe. This is defined as the ever-growing and evolving territory lying within 40 to 50 miles of every major urban concentration.
There is a growing interest in rural–urban linkages among researchers, practitioners and national and international agencies.
This edited collection brings together case studies conducted in Ghana, Vietnam, Thailand and Tanzania as part of a research programme funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Consultative Research Committee for Development Research.
THIS EDITED COLLECTION is the latest addition to the series of publications emerging from the Scandinavian Institute of African Affairs' research programme on Urban Development in Rural Context in Africa.
As the introduction to this book observes, there is a long tradition of distinguishing between rural and urban people.
THE AIM OF this collection is to examine the potential of small and intermediate centres in more peripheral areas of Latin America. The main issues, discussed in the introductory chapter, are:
THIS BOOK CONTAINS the main papers presented at a conference organized by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) for its natural resources advisors to produce guidance on how to best promote improved and sustainable livelihoods for rural communities.
Revealing Risk, Redefining Development: The 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
This follows on from the 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate that was the first overview and analysis of disaster risks from the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR).