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1. Readers' recommendations for new publications

We welcome readers' recommendations for new books, papers, journals, newsletters, videos, web-pages or any other printed or audio-visual material that readers can obtain. These suggestions will be printed on our web-page (within Environment and Urbanization News) and in the printed journal.

Guidelines for recommendations:

• The recommended item must be available to other readers; please include details of how it can be obtained and, where relevant, its price and the publisher's address.
• Give as much detail as possible about the item, including its title, the names of all the authors, the publisher or institution that published it and, if not published by a commercial publisher, the address from which it can be obtained. If it is a commercial publication, please include ISBN number (if available).
• The name and e-mail address of the person recommending the item.

For obvious reasons, authors and institutions should not recommend their own works.

2. Readers' recommendations for themes for future issues of Environment&Urbanization

We welcome suggestions for themes for future issues of the journal. Send us suggestions and these will be included in the next reader questionnaire. The April 2003 issue had a report on readers’ preferences for themes for future issues and how these have influenced the themes chosen for the next two and a half years (see report below). We also welcome comments and suggestions on any other aspects of the journal. Write to us at eandu@iied.org or simply fill in the feedback form below.

Below are the themes that were listed in the questionnaire (which drew on readers’ suggestions in a previous questionnaire). They are listed by their overall score – with an additional column giving the scores based on the favourite theme of each person who returned a questionnaire. (Readers were asked to choose their favourite theme among the ten themes listed below and to mark all other themes that they found interesting. In the overall score, the favourite theme was given three points, all other themes marked as “interesting” one point.)

Please note that issues are planned on the three top-scoring themes in the next two and a half years.

Here is a summary of the themes suggested by readers for future issues of the journal:

• Building design in different climates
• Conflict management in urban areas
• Counter-urbanization
• Crime and violence in the city (this is planned for 2004)
• Disaster mitigation in vulnerable cities
• Education, unemployment and environment
• Energy and cities
• Food, water and conservation
• Industrialization, port cities and urban health
• Information technology
• Landscape mosaics from rural to downtown ecotones
• Large cities versus small towns; pros and cons
• Medium-size cities (in part covered in April 2003)
• Monitoring of urban development projects
• Need for new themes to reflect urbanization trends in Africa
• New education for cities
• NGOs and the city

One issue devoted to comparative studies between metropolitan areas in Latin America; themes – ecological effects of privatization, growth in the last 20 years and environmental changes, rural poverty and urban migration, greening strategies for the last ten years

• Participatory urban planning
• Participatory urban poverty assessments
• Policies and prospects in an urbanizing world
• Preservation of ancient monuments in cities
• Problems of city transport and traffic regulation
• Rental housing in low-income countries
• Rural–urban interactions in different eco-regions
• Rural-urban migration
• Upgrading programmes and poverty reduction (to be covered by the special issue on the Millennium Development Goals in 2005)
• Urban agriculture; reintegrating agriculture in the city
• Urban infrastructure provision
• Urban planning and rehabilitation
• Urban planning in different climates
• Urban poverty reduction
• Urban segregation
• Urban water supply; privatization or private partnership (covered in Vol 15 No 2, October 2003)
• Urbanization – effects on land-use change
• Urbanization in villages and ruralization in cities (in part covered in April 2003 issue)
• Urban–rural interactions (covered in April 2003 issue)