Abstract
Themes for Future Issues
Discounted Prices and Electronic Access to Environment and Urbanization
Medio Ambiente Y Urbanización (MAyU)
Urbanisation
Environment and Urbanization/Medio Ambiente Y Urbanización Pen Drive
Blogs
Urban Newsletter
Automated Submission System
Cities and Climate Change Science Conference
I. Themes for Future Issues
Capital investment is essential for urban development, urban prosperity and the wellbeing of urban citizens. Such investment is particularly needed for extending and improving infrastructure. Dense population concentrations require investment in essential public goods and services. But this is lacking for an estimated 1 billion who are living in informal settlements in towns and cities of the global South. In addition, economic growth requires investment to increase production economies and enterprise expansion. And household asset accumulation is an important security against income vulnerabilities, and helps to secure new opportunities for increased incomes as well as provide for household members’ needs.
An important question facing all of those concerned with urbanization and urban development is: Where and how can needed investment capital be secured and expanded at the multiple scales at which it is needed – from households to urban government? For this issue of Environment and Urbanization we are asking for contributions that reflect on the provision of finance for urban development. These may be papers that deal with the ways in which city governments’ investment capacity can be secured and expanded, or those that focus on the experiences of securing such capital. Contributions may also consider the ways in which development assistance is delivered and the lack of local control over the use and management of funds, or innovative approaches to addressing this problem. Contributions may also focus on strategies to reach civil society and local enterprises, either through micro-finance or through community finance – including local funds set up to support community initiatives. The last two decades have seen a considerable expansion in efforts to support savings and loan finance. What have we learned about how these services can ensure that towns and cities of the 21st century achieve the SDG mantra of “leave no one behind”?
The co-production of services and infrastructure by governments and citizens (both individually and collectively) has received increased attention in the last decade. This interest reflects a recognition of the historic significance of such activities for the provision of basic services in towns and cities of the global South. But it also reflects changing arrangements, as governments seek to respond to continuing deficits in services with – in most cases – little investment capacity, and citizens continue to struggle with the consequences of low levels of provision.
We are calling for papers that explore the co-production of urban space, urban services and infrastructure and the challenges that these face. We are interested in understanding how models of co-production are changing with respect to both changing roles and responsibilities and changing scales of co-production, including the micro level with project delivery. And on the production of the understandings and materialities of urbanization at the city scale. We are interested in new conceptualizations of co-production in terms, for example, of citizenship or changing political relations between city agencies and actors. We are interested in understanding changing urban identities as a result of co-production and their impact on the “production” of urban space and political outcomes, at both the municipal and national scales.
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://journals.sagepub.com/home/eau, and all but those published during the last two years are open access and so available electronically free of charge. 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://journals.sagepub.com/home/eau 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.unep.org/oare/).
III. Medio Ambiente y Urbanización (MAyU)
The last 25 issues of our sister journal are accessible at no charge at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iieal/meda.
The latest issue (86, May 2017) is on “La cuestión urbana post hábitat III” and includes the following papers:
“Reflexiones post Hábitat III” – Guarderas, Augusto Barrera; Cohen, Michael; Emanuelli, María Silvia; Bonilla, Luis; Duhalde, Juan Pablo; Rossbach, Anaclaudia
“De la gestión local de riesgos a la resiliencia: La experiencia de la Ciudad de Santa Fe” – Valsagna, Andrea; Mercedes, Tejedor María
“Fortaleciendo la interfaz entre conocimiento y política a través de la coproducción de un plan de adaptación al cambio climático: aprovechando oportunidades en el municipio de Bergrivier, Sudáfrica” – Ziervogel, Gina; Van Garderen, Emma Archer; Price, Penny
“Adaptación a nivel comunitario para minimizar la vulnerabilidad y aprovechar las oportunidades en los humedales de Kampala” – Bosco Isunju, John; Orachy, Christopher Garimoi; Kemp, Jaco
“La recuperación de la residencialidad en la ciudad global: Caso: Centro Histórico de Lima, Perú” – de los Ríos Bernardini, Silvia
“Gestión y planificación por proceso-proyecto para el mejoramiento de villas y asentamientos de gran escala: El caso de la Re-Urbanización de Villa 20 en la CABA” – Motta, Jorge Martína; Almansi, Florencia
“Acuerdo para la Urbanización de Villas: un proceso colectivo para la integración socio-urbana de los asentamientos informales” – Vitale, Pablo; Fassina, Rosario
“La Participación social en las políticas sociales: Una necesaria revision” – Clemente, Adriana
“Una mirada retrospectiva a las políticas y propuestas de atención habitacional en Ecuador” – Game, Roberto Carrión
IV. Urbanisation
Urbanisation is a new journal co-published by SAGE and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. It is edited by Aromar Revi, and available for free on registration.
The March 2018 issue is on Cities & Climate Change. This is to respond to identified gaps in knowledge on the role of cities and regions in limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The special issue aims to bring together a diverse set of scholars and practitioners to write about one of the most important scientific and policy challenges of our times – sustainable urbanization and climate change, in the context of the Paris Climate Agreement to limit global mean temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. The issue will also discuss Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the New Urban Agenda of Habitat III, and the Sendai agreement on disaster risk reduction.
For more details, see http://urbanisationjournal.com. For back issues, see http://journals.sagepub.com/home/urb.
V. Environment and Urbanization/Medio Ambiente Y Urbanización Pen Drive
Our pen drive has all papers from Environment and Urbanization from 1989 to 2013 and all papers from Medio Ambiente y Urbanización from 2008 to 2015. 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.
VI. Blogs
Recent Urban Matters blogs (http://www.iied.org/urban-matters):
Who can we trust to measure urban poverty? – Sarah Colenbrander
Bloomberg and public health: did he get it right? – David Satterthwaite and Sarah Colenbrander
Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities – Diane Archer
Reducing risks in urban centres: think ‘local, local, local’ – David Satterthwaite
Sustainable cities: the nexus between resilience and resource efficiency – Sarah Colenbrander
Addressing the needs of vulnerable groups in urban areas – David Satterthwaite
Urban risks: where are the top five biggest blind spots? – David Satterthwaite
Reframing food security for an urbanising world – Cecilia Tacoli
Refugee livelihoods in Ugandan cities: mind the gap between policy and practice – William Monteith
Cash transfers in urban crises: do they work for women? – Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed
How risk accumulates in African cities – and ways to break the cycle – David Dodman
VII. 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
VIII. Facebook
You can visit us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentandUrbanization.
IX. Urban Newsletter
The urban newsletter of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is e-mailed to subscribers every two months and provides updates on the Human Settlements Group’s activities and publications. To sign up to receive the newsletter, please visit http://www.iied.org/sign-up.
X. Automated Submission System
Paper submissions and peer reviews for Environment and Urbanization are now handled through SAGE Track, an online system based on ScholarOne Manuscripts. To submit your paper to Environment and Urbanization, please visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eauj. Feel free to contact the editorial team with any questions, or if you would like help with submitting your paper.
XI. Cities and Climate Change Science Conference
The Cities and Climate Change Science Conference is to take place in Edmonton, Canada between 5 and 7 March 2018. Co-sponsored by the City of Edmonton, Canada and the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this is to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the New Urban Agenda, and the Sustainable Development Goals.
It will bring together representatives from academia and scientific institutions, IPCC experts, national, regional and local government representatives, urban and climate change practitioners, and related networks. The conference will inspire global and regional research on cities and climate change over the next IPCC (sixth) assessment cycle and contribute to the preparation for the future IPCC Special Report on Cities and Climate Change.
More details are available at http://www.citiesipcc.org.