Book Notes

Book Notes give short descriptions of recently published books, papers and reports on all subjects relevant to the environment and development. Priority is given to items produced by research groups and NGOs in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This section also includes short descriptions of newsletters and journals. Send us a copy of any publication you would like included; we produce Book Notes of publications in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese.

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Urban Disaster Resilience: New Dimensions from International Practice in the Built Environment

David Sanderson, Jerold S Kayden and Julia Leis, 2016, 216 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781138849631.

Gender, Asset Accumulation and Just Cities: Pathways to Transformation

Caroline O N Moser (editor), 2016, 208 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781138193536.

Saving the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Organizational Dynamics and Effectiveness of NGOs in Cameroon

William T Markham and Lotsmart Fonjong, 2015, 274 pages. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 9781137507181.

Food consumption, urbanisation and rural transformation: the trade dimensions

Bill Vorley and Frédéric Lançon, 2016, 15 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN 9781784312916.

Building a resilient city for whom? Exploring the gendered processes of adaptation to change: a case study of street vendors in Hanoi

Nozomi Kawarazuka, 2016, 37 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 34, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313548.

Scaling up of climate resilient housing in Gorakhpur

Dilip Singh and Bijay Singh, 2016, 30 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 36, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313524.

Slumming It: The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty

Fabian Frenzel, 2016, 191 pages. Published by Zed Books, ISBN: 9781783604449.

Development in Crisis: Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North

Ray Lesser Blumberg and Samuel Cohn (editors), 2015, 231 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN:

9781138778368.

Cities on a Finite Planet: Towards transformative responses to climate change

Sheridan Bartlett and David Satterthwaite (editors), 2016, 272 pages. Published by Earthscan,

ISBN: 9781138184107.

In the Public’s Interest: Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi

Gautam Bhan, 2016, 304 pages. Published by Orient BlackSwan, ISBN: 9788125062325.

Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India

Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala, Guy Standing and Soumya Kapoor Mehta, 2015, 248 pages. Published by Bloomsbury, ISBN: 9781472583116.

Risky Change? Vulnerability and adaptation between climate change and transformation dynamics in Can Tho City, Vietnam

Matthias Garschagen, 2014, 432 pages. Published by Franz Steiner Verlag, ISBN: 9783515108768.

Eco-Homes: People, Place and Politics

Jenny Pickerill, 2016, 224 pages. Published by Zed Books, ISBN: 9781780325309.

Violence and Resilience in Latin American Cities

Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt (editors), 2015, 224 pages. Published by Zed Books, ISBN: 9781780324562.

A Great Perhaps? Colombia: Conflict and Convergence

Greg Mills, David Kilcullen, Dickie Davis and David Spencer, 2015, 288 pages. Published by Hurst, ISBN: 9781849046282.

The Politics of Slums in the Global South: Urban informality in Brazil, India, South Africa and Peru

Véronique Dupont, David Jordhus-Lier, Catherine Sutherland and Einar Braathen (editors), 2015, 248 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781138839816.

Gender Roles in Urban Climate Resilience: lessons from Hue, Vietnam

My Pham Thi Dieu, 2016, 4 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience policy brief, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313487.

Building Climate Resilience to Noapara Town: A Coastal Urban Centre of Bangladesh

Sarder Shafiqul Alam, A T M Jahangir Alam, M Feisal Rahman, Sowmen Rahman and Niaz Rahman, 2016, 35 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 32, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313463.

African Urbanisation and Urbanism: Implications for risk accumulation and reduction

David Dodman, Hayley Leck, Maria Rusca and Sarah Colenbrander, 2016, 34 pages. Urban Africa Risk Knowledge Working Paper 10.

A political economy of urbanisation and climate risk in Vietnam

Michael DiGregorio, Tran Van Giai Phong, Matthias Garschagen and Stephen Tyler, 2016, 54 pages.

Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 40, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313685.

Mainstreaming gender in climate change adaptation: a case study from Cirebon, Indonesia

Nila Ardhyarini H Pratiwi, Yovi Dzulhijjah Rahmawati and Ivo Setiono, 2016, 52 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 39, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313708.

Climate change vulnerability assessments in Indonesia: Where are the women’s perspectives?

Sarah Dougherty, John Taylor, Rizqa Hidayani and Dati Fatimah, 2016, 40 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 37, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313494.

Adaptación y Mitigación Urbana del Cambio Climático en México

Gian Carlo Delgado Ramos, Ana De Luca Zuria and Verónica Vásquez Zentella, 2015, 278 pages. Published by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, ISBN: 9786070270925.

Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination

Sandy Isenstadt, Margaret Maile Petty, Dietrich Neumann, 2015, 216 pages. Published by Routledge,

ISBN: 9781138813922.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Nine years of scale and innovation in Bangladesh

BRAC, 2015, 55 pages.

Uprooted: The growing crisis for migrant and refugee children

UNICEF, 2016, 134 pages. ISBN: 9789280648478.

Gender analysis in building climate resilience in Da Nang: challenges and solutions

Tran Tuan Anh, Tran Van Giai Phong, Nguyen Thi Kim Ha and Dinh Quang Cuong, 2016, 44 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 35, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313517.

Bridge the Gap! Modes of action and cooperation of transnational networks of local communities and their influence on the urban development in the Global South

Beate Ginzel, 2015, 332 pages. Published by LIT Verlag, ISBN: 9783643905338.

The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil

Erika Robb Larkins, 2015, 238 pages. Published by University of California Press, ISBN: 9780520282773.

Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development

Rob Vos and Diana Alarcón (editors), 2015, 256 pages. Published by Bloomsbury, ISBN: 9781472580788.

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond, 2016, 418 pages. Published by Allen Lane, ISBN: 9780241260852.

Emergence of community toilets as a public good: The sanitation work of Mahila Milan, NSDF and SPARC in India

Sheela Patel, 2016, 111 pages. Published by SHARE Consortium.

The economic impact of floods and waterlogging on low-income households: lessons from Indore, India

Pritee Sharma, Anup Karanth, Megha Burvey and Amit Dubey, 2016, 35 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 35, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313678.

Humanitarian responses by local actors: Lessons learned from managing the transit of migrants and refugees through Croatia

Maren Larsen, Elma Demir and Maja Horvat, 2016, 40 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313845.

Men, Masculinities and Disaster

Elaine Enarson and Bob Pease (editors), 2016, 246 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781138934177.

The City in the Making

Marcel Hénaff, 2016, 131 pages. Published by Rowman and Littlefield International, ISBN: 9781783485277.

Food and Urbanism: The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future

Susan Parham, 2016, 362 pages. Published by Bloomsbury, ISBN: 9780857854537.

Tacloban after Haiyan: working together towards recovery

Gerald Paragas, Amillah Rodil and Lysandre Pelingon, 2016, 56 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313876.

Responding to the Syrian crisis in Lebanon: collaboration between aid agencies and local governance structures

Marwa Boustani, Estella Carpi, Hayat Gebara and Yara Mourad, 2016, 44 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313883.

Cities as engines of economic growth: the case for providing basic infrastructure and services in urban areas

Sarah Colenbrander, 2016, 31 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784314057.

Local and international collaboration in urban humanitarian responses: Perspectives from the Philippines, Colombia and South Sudan

Tilly Alcayna and Furat Al- Murani, 2016, 35 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784314064.

A review of needs assessment tools, response analysis frameworks, and targeting guidance for urban humanitarian response

Lili Mohiddin and Gabrielle Smith, 2016, 72 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313852.

Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Turn

Oscar Hemer and Thomas Tufte (editors), 2016, 266 pages. Published by Nordicom, ISBN: 9789187957321.

A review of context analysis tools for urban humanitarian response

Andrew Meaux and Wale Osofisan, 2016, 32 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313869.