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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Chinese City and Regional Planning Systems

Li Yu, 2014, 306 pages. Published by Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, ISBN: 9780754674993.

The Housing Challenge: Avoiding the Ozymandias Syndrome

The Rockefeller Foundation and The New School, 2015, 114 pages.

The short guide to urban policy

Claire Edwards and Rob Imrie, 2015, 176 pages. Published by Policy Press, Bristol, ISBN: 9781447308003.

Nextland: Contemporary Landscape Architecture in Austria - Zeitgenössische Landschaftsarchitektur in Österreich

Lilli Li ka and Karl Grimm (editors), 2015, 496 pages. Published by Birkhäuser, Basel, ISBN:

9783035604061.

Another city is possible! Alternatives to the city as a commodity

Yves Cabannes and Cecilia Delgado, 2015, 229 pages. Published under Creative Commons, ISBN:

9789892055619.

The Political Economy of Aid and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Budget Support in Tanzania

Helen Tilley, 2014, 168 pages. Published by Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, ISBN: 9781409464426.

21st Century Garden Cities of To-Morrow. A Manifesto

Philip Ross and Yves Cabannes, 2014, 210 pages. Published by New Garden City Movement, ISBN: 9781291478273.

Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective

Kirsteen Paton, 2014, 236 pages. Published by Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, ISBN: 9781472418500.

Public Space and Relational Perspectives: New Challenges for Architecture and Planning

Chiara Tornaghi and Sabine Knierbein (editors), 2014, 240 pages. Published by Routledge, London and New York, ISBN: 9780415821575.

Down and out in Los Angeles and Berlin: The Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People

Jürgen von Mahs, 2015, 208 pages. Published by Temple University Press, Philadelphia, ISBN: 9781439908273.

Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Beijing, China

Ran Liu, 2015, 303 pages. Published by Springer, ISBN: 9783319147383.

Mobility, Modernity and the Slum: The real and virtual journeys of Slumdog Millionaire

Rodanthi Tzanelli, 2016, 254 pages. Published by Routledge, Abingdon and New York, ISBN: 9781138909359.

Contested Powers: The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America

John-Andrew McNeish, Axel Borchgrevink and Owen Logan (editors), 2015, 336 pages. Published by Zed Books, London, ISBN: 9781783600922.

Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto

Eric Tang, 2015, 234 pages. Published by Temple University Press, Philadelphia, ISBN: 9781439911655.

Take Back the Land! The Social Function of Land and Housing, Resistances & Alternatives

Charlotte Mathivet (coordinator–editor), 2014, 95 pages. Passerelle Collection No 10.

Published by AITEC, Paris.

Child Street Life: An Inside View of Hazards and Expectations of Street Children in Peru

G K Lieten and Talinay Strehl, 2015, 59 pages. Published by Springer, ISBN: 9783319117225.

Global Poverty: Global governance and poor people in the post-2015 era (2nd edition)

David Hulme, 2015, 318 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781138826823.

Responsible Living: Concepts, Education and Future Perspectives

Victoria W Thoresen, Robert J Didham, Jørgen Klein and Declan Doyle (editors), 2015, 283 pages. Published by Springer, ISBN: 9783319153056.

Responding to the transport crisis in Karachi

The Urban Resource Centre, Arif Hasan and Mansoor Raza, 2015, 49 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784311957.

How can Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments best impact policy and planning?: Lessons from Indonesia

John Taylor and Jonatan Lassa, 2015, 33 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 22, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312176.

Climate change and migrant workers in India: from vulnerability to adaptation

Sunil Santha, 2015, 4 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience policy brief, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312466.

Can urban regeneration improve health resilience in a changing climate?

Rukuh Setiadi and Johanna Nalau, 2015, 46 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 23, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312183.

Common Good(s) – Redefining the public interest and the common good

Anna Minton, 2013, 15 pages. Published by How to Work Together.

Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas

T Elmqvist, H Setälä, S N Handel, S van der Ploeg, J Aronson, J N Blignaut, E Gómez-Baggethun, D J Nowak, J Kronenberg and R de Groot, June 2015, 8 pages. Published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Vol 14.

Urban Opportunities: Perspectives on Climate Change, Resilience, Inclusion, and the Informal Economy. A New Generation of Ideas

Allison M Garland (editor), 2015, 181 pages. Published by the Wilson Center, Washington, DC.

Local planning for climate adaptation: Vietnam’s experience

Nguyen Phuong Nam, Tran Thi Thu Trang, Stephen Tyler, Nguyen Quynh Anh, Bach Tan Sinh, Nguyen Ngoc Huy, Pham Khanh and Dang Thi Huong, 2015, 38 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 24, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312114.

Urban climate resilience, water and sanitation: Improving multi-stakeholder collaboration in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sarder Shafiqul Alam, A T M Jahangir Alam and Sowmen Rahman, 2015, 55 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 25, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312534.

Flood-induced economic loss and damage to the textile industry in Surat City, India

Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati, Umamaheshwaran Rajasekar, Akash Acharya and Mehul Patel, 2015, 43 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 26, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312541.

Multistakeholder collaboration for urban climate change resilience in Bangladesh

Sarder Shafiqul Alam, A T M Jahangir Alam and Sowmen Rahman, 2015, 4 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience policy brief, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312558.

Towards establishing water security and urban resilience in the city of Baguio

Alejandro Ciencia, Lorelei Crisologo Mendoza, Gladys Cruz, Nimreh Calde, Michael Cabalfin and Maileenita Peñalba, 2015, 75 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 27, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312602.

What We Think about When We Try Not to Think about Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action

Per Espen Stoknes, 2015, 320 pages. Published by Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, ISBN: 9781603585842.

Understanding and Managing Urban Water in Transition

Quentin Grafton, Katherine A Daniell, Céline Nauges, Jean-Daniel Rinaudo and Noel Wai Wah Chan (editors), 2015, 641 pages. Published by Springer Netherlands, ISBN: 9789401798013

Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities: Strategies for Engagement, Readiness and Adaptation

Lawrence Susskind, Danya Rumore, Carri Hulet and Patrick Field, 2015, 451 pages. Published by Anthem Press, London and New York, ISBN: 9781783084890

Planning and LGBTQ Communities: The Need for Inclusive Queer Spaces

Petra L Doan, 2015, 280 pages. Published by Routledge, New York and Abingdon, ISBN: 9781138798168.

Unless we act now: The impact of climate change on children

UNICEF, 2015, 81 pages. Published by UNICEF, New York, ISBN: 9789280648263.

Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction

Juha I Uitto and Rajib Shaw (editors), 2016, 287 pages. Published by Springer Japan,

ISBN: 9784431550785.

Urbanisation and rural development in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: revisiting livelihood transformations in three fruit-growing settlements, 2006-2015

Hoang Xuan Thanh, Dinh Thi Thu Phuong, Dang Thi Thanh Hoa and Le Dinh Lap, 2015, 60 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312565.

Rights on the edge of the city: the right to water and the peri-urban water committees of Cochabamba

Anna Walnycki, 2015, 28 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312718.

Public and private control and contestation of public space amid violent conflict in Karachi

Noman Ahmed, Donald Brown, Bushra Owais Siddiqui, Dure Shahwar Khalil, Sana Tajuddin and Gordon McGranahan, 2015, 45 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312589.

A review of evidence of humanitarian cash transfer programming in urban areas

Gabrielle Smith and Lili Mohiddin, 2015, 64 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312732.

Urbanisation, rural transformations and food security: the view from China

Jennifer Holdaway, 2015, 44 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312596.

Making the invisible visible: generating data on ‘slums’ at local, city and global scales

Anni Beukes, 2015, 24 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312701.

A recipe for trade-offs: the evolving landscape of food security in China

Jennifer Holdaway, 2015, 4 pages. IIED briefing, International Institute for Environment and Development, London.

Creating a new menu for food security policy

Cecilia Tacoli, 2015, 4 pages. IIED briefing, International Institute for Environment and Development, London.

Fruitful change: rural-urban transformation in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

Hoang Xuan Thanh, Dinh Thi Thu Phuong, Dang Thi Thanh Hoa and Le Dinh Lap, 2015, 4 pages. IIED briefing, International Institute for Environment and Development, London.

Institutional challenges for peri-urban water supply in Can Tho, Vietnam

Nguyen Ngoc Huy, Tran Van Giai Phong and Stephen Tyler, 2015, 33 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 28, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312695.

Rationalising peri-urban water supply in Can Tho, Vietnam

Nguyen Ngc Huy, Tran Van Giai Phong, Stephen Tyler, So La Sen and Le Hong Y, 2015, 4 pages.

Asian Cities Climate Resilience policy brief, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312756.

Rebuilding Community after Katrina: Transformative Education in the New Orleans Planning Initiative

Ken Reardon and John Forester (editors), 2016, 296 pages. Published by Temple University Press, Philadelphia, ISBN: 9781439911006.

Assessing the Social Impact of Development Projects: Experience in India and Other Asian Countries

Hari Mohan Mathur (editor), 2016, 252 pages. Published by Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 9783319191171.

The Urban Climate Challenge: Rethinking the Role of Cities in the Global Climate Regime

Craig Johnson, Noah Toly and Heike Schroeder (editors), 2015, 258 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781138776883.

Karachi: The Land Issue

Arif Hasan, Noman Ahmed, Mansoor Raza, Asiya Sadiq-Polack, Saeed Uddin Ahmed and Moizza B Sarwar, 2015, 380 pages. Published by Oxford University Press Pakistan, ISBN: 9780199402083.

The Art of Public Space: Curating and Re-imagining the Ephemeral City

Kim Gurney, 2015, 216 pages. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 9781137436894.

Why Are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change

Nicholas Stern, 2015, 406 pages. Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, ISBN: 9780262029186.

Protecting the Health of the Poor: Social Movements in the South

Abraar Karan and Geeta Sodhi (editors), 2015, 312 pages. Published by Zed Books, London, ISBN: 9781783605521.