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.

To allow our readers to get news of new publications more quickly, we now post Book Notes on the web at https://www.environmentandurbanization.org/book-notes. These are open access, so you do not need a subscription to access them. The publications for which Book Notes have been posted since the October 2019 issue of Environment and Urbanization are listed below.

Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.

Amanda Huron, 2018, 224 pages. Published by University of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 9781517901974.

Dismantling barriers to health and wellbeing for Nairobi’s refugees

Kanyiva Muindi, Blessing Mberu and Alice Sverdlik, 2019, 4 pages. IIED briefing, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784317041.

Citizenship and Infrastructure: Practices and Identities of Citizens and the State

Charlotte Lemanski (editor), 2019, 132 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9780815385974.

Community Resilience under the Impact of Urbanisation and Climate Change: Cases and Experiences from Zimbabwe

Innocent Chirisa and Christopher Mabeza (editors), 2019, 252 pages. Published by Langaa RPCIG, ISBN: 9789956550050.

Urban Safety and Peacebuilding: New Perspectives on Sustaining Peace in the City

Achim Wennmann and Oliver Jütersonke (editors), 2019, 200 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781138554726.

Megacity Seoul: Urbanization and the Development of Modern South Korea

Yu-Min Joo, 2019, 142 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781138242531.

A Gender Perspective of Municipal Solid Waste Generation and Management in the City of Bamenda, Cameroon

Akum Hedwig Kien, 2019, 290 pages. Published by Langaa RPCIG, ISBN: 9789956550630.

The Next Generation of Scientists in Africa

Catherine Beaudry, Johann Mouton and Heidi Prozesky (editors), 2018, 204 pages. Published by African Minds, ISBN: 9781928331933.

Reversing Urban Inequality in Johannesburg

Melissa Tandiwe Myambo (editor), 2019, 168 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781138320444.

For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers

Hiba Bou Akar, 2018, 243 pages. Published by Stanford University Press, ISBN: 9781503605602.

India’s Contemporary Urban Conundrum

Sujata Patel and Omita Goyal (editors), 2019, 304 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781138326804.

Beijing Garbage: A City Besieged by Waste

Stefan Landsberger, 2019, 232 pages. Published by Amsterdam University Press, ISBN: 9789463720304.

Heatwave Guide for Cities

R Singh, J Arrighi, E Jjemba, K Strachan, M Spires and A Kadihasanoglu, 2019, 92 pages. Published by the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.

Organic Food and Farming in China: Top-down and Bottom-up Ecological Initiatives

Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas and Aijuan Chen, 2019, 236 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781138573000.

Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South: Towards Safe and Inclusive Cities

Jennifer Erin Salahub, Markus Gottsbacher, John de Boer and Mayssam D Zaaroura, 2019, 246 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9780815368427.

Towards holistic solutions to Nairobi’s affordable housing crisis

Baraka Mwau, Alice Sverdlik and Jack Makau, 2019, 4 pages. Published by the International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784317379.

Shelter for all: towards more inclusive housing in Mogadishu

Erik Bryld, Charlotte Bonnet and Christine Kamau, 2019, 4 pages. Published by the International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784317126.