Abstract
THEMES FOR FUTURE ISSUES
DISCOUNTED PRICES AND ELECTRONIC ACCESS TO ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION
MEDIO AMBIENTE Y URBANIZACIÓN
ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION PEN DRIVE
BLOGS
INFOGRAPHICS
READER SURVEY
ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION REFERENCING STYLE
BOOK NOTES DATABASE READY
I. Themes for Future Issues
This issue is being developed in collaboration with WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing), which is a global action–research–policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor in the informal economy, especially women.
We encourage papers that give insight and detail into the risks that low-income groups face at home and at work, in their daily lives and in relation to regular or occasional disasters – and now also in relation to climate change. Also papers on how they seek to reduce risks. There is a substantial literature on risk in relation to livelihoods and to disasters and a less substantial one on everyday (mostly preventable) health burdens. There is a growing literature on climate change risk. But there has been far too little attention to understanding the full range of risks facing low-income women, men and children and their relative importance in relation to premature death, illness, injury and impoverishment. Within this, little attention has been given to the health risks (and resulting health burdens) faced by those who live in informal settlements and the implications for their employment and incomes.
This issue will be developed with the network of institutions engaged in a research programme on Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK). This is working in cities in Senegal, Nigeria, Malawi, Kenya and Niger to better understand the nature and scale of risks, especially for those in low-income areas. For more details, see www.urbanark.org.
Humanitarian crises of various kinds – from natural disasters to conflict – are increasingly played out in urban areas. Responses by the humanitarian sector can have a role in meeting the needs of both displaced populations and host communities, for facilitating recovery of affected households, and for promoting longer-term self-reliance of populations. However, there is increasing recognition of the challenges facing the humanitarian sector in responding effectively in the complex urban environment, with high population densities, formal and informal land tenure systems, and multiple stakeholders all operating within close spatial proximity.
We welcome submissions that explore different facets of humanitarian response in urban contexts and help to document good practice. Also, to draw lessons learnt in responses to urban humanitarian crises, whether these are natural or human-induced, protracted or short term. We also encourage papers that look at different approaches to humanitarian programming, and how these contribute to longer-term pro-poor urban development.
II. Discounted Prices and Electronic Access to Environment and Urbanization
All papers published in Environment and Urbanization since its first issue in 1989 are available at http://eau.sagepub.com, and all but those published during the last two years are open access and so available electronically free of charge. Printed subscriptions to the journal are also available at no charge to libraries or resource centres of universities or teaching or training institutions in low- and middle-income nations.
In addition, the publisher of Environment and Urbanization, SAGE Publications, offers large discounts on subscription prices to charities and students and to all subscribers from low- and middle-income nations − see http://eau.sagepub.com and click on “Subscribe”. With regard to electronic access, there are schemes that allow access to Environment and Urbanization for universities and research centres in low- and middle-income nations − see Research4Life (http://www.research4life.org). This includes Online Access to Research on the Environment (OARE), which has research journals on the environment, including Environment and Urbanization (http://www.oaresciences.org/en).
III. Medio Ambiente y Urbanización (MAyU)
The last 24 issues of our sister journal are accessible at no charge at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iieal/meda. The latest issue (83, November 2015) is on
“Desarrollo Progresivo Inclusión y Conectividad Urbana”.
IV. Environment and Urbanization Pen Drive
We have a new edition of our pen drive with all papers from Environment and Urbanization from 1989 to 2013 and all the working papers published by IIED’s Human Settlements Group. Do contact us if you would like one of these (also providing your postal address); these are available at no charge. All the items on this pen drive are available open access online – but this pen drive will be useful for those with difficult, limited or slow internet access.
V. Blogs
We have a new webpage called Urban Matters (http://www.iied.org/urban-matters), which brings together all blogs relating to urban development. We are also developing a new sub-site of this on “urban myths”.
Recent Urban Matters blogs:
Indonesian civil society discusses its urban future – John Taylor
Nourishing livelihoods: the food vendors sustaining Nairobi’s slums – Alice Sverdlik
Comparing approaches to riverbank vulnerability in Indonesia – John Taylor
Making sure Fort Portal’s ‘modernisation’ plan feeds the poor – Paolo Cravero
Workers in informal economy need say in global environmental agendas – Donald Brown
Barricading Karachi: how private security contributes to dividing the city – Donald Brown
Wanted: more inclusive, resilient, sustainable cities – Jorgelina Hardoy
Ten urban planning principles every humanitarian should know – Samer Saliba
Building trust through dialogue with street-food vendors – Paolo Cravero
VI. Infographics
IIED has produced three interactive data visuals. The latest was produced in July 2015 and is on
http://www.iied.org/files/kiln/architecture-of-aid.html
http://www.environmentandurbanization.org/cities-interactive-data-visual
VII. Reader Survey
In our 2015 Environment and Urbanization reader survey, the following themes for future issues were the most popular:
Infrastructure that meets ecological, environmental and social needs (59% of top picks)
Greening the city (56%)
What can urban research contribute to policy and practice? (50%)
Urban innovation and technology (43%)
Protest and change driven by urban movements (43%)
If you would like to suggest themes for future issues, please contact the editorial team at
VIII. Environment and Urbanization Referencing Style
For authors who wish to submit papers to the journal, the customized Environment and Urbanization referencing style can now be found in RefWorks and Mendeley. The EndNote style will follow. Please contact the editorial team if you use different reference management software and would benefit from a tailored Environment and Urbanization referencing style.
IX. Twitter
To receive news about Environment and Urbanization and urban issues in general, including updates when new Book Notes are available, please follow editor David Satterthwaite on Twitter: @Dsatterthwaite
X. Book Notes Database Ready
You can now use the database of all publications that have been included in Book Notes since 1989. This is searchable by author, title, keyword, date, country and city. The database has been integrated with the online Book Notes section at http://www.environmentandurbanization.org/browse-book-notes.