This twice-yearly journal focuses on urban and environmental issues and their interconnections, with a particular emphasis on Africa, Asia and Latin America (where most of world's urban population now lives). Founded in 1989 by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), from 2006, it has been published by Sage, in association with IIED.
Each issue of the journal focuses on a particular theme and includes between 9 and 15 papers on that theme, papers responding to the themes of previous issues and a Book Notes section with details of new publications. Examples of themes include: city governance and citizen action; ecological urbanization; globalization and cities; chronic poverty; meeting the Millennium Development Goals in urban areas; participatory governance; violence and security; water and sanitation; sustainable cities; and rural-urban linkages. Many issues of the journal include profiles of innovative organizations; some include papers on participatory tools and methods. Since 2006, most issues have had one or more paper on climate change and cities. Each issue has between 250 and 300 pages.
Discounted rates are available for charities and individuals, institutions and students in middle and low- income countries. This includes all nations in Africa, Latin America, Caribbean and Asia with the exception of Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore. Please contact subscriptions@sagepub.co.uk +44 (0) 20 7324 8701 for more information.
The themes for issues planned for 2009 and 2010 are City governance and citizen action (April 2009); Securing land for housing and urban development (October 2009), Migration and mobility and the implications for local governance and local development (April 2010) and Addressing youth issues with a particular focus on un-employment (October 2010). Each of these issues will also have one or more paper on global warming and its implications for urban populations.
For a list of the themes of recent and forthcoming issues, see http:/www.environmentandurbanization.org/themes.html
The full text of all issues of the journal (starting with Vol 1 No 1 in April 1989) are available at http:/eau.sagepub.com/; there is also a comprehensive search facility here that allows searches by (for instance) author, nation, city and subject. A web-based database with summaries and keywords for all papers published in Environment and Urbanization and summaries of other published works reviewed in the journal is available at http:/eandu.poptel.org.uk/
Environment and Urbanization Briefs: Five-page summaries of each issue of the journal are available in print and electronically; these are primarily for the staff of government departments, city authorities and development assistance agencies. These can be accessed at no charge at:
http:/www.environmentandurbanization.org/eandu_briefs.html
Read what others have to say about Environment and Urbanization . . .
"A magnificent, thorough, and well edited journal that has no peer" - Len Duhl, Professor of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley
"The only journal that I don't push to the side of my desk when it arrives. I eagerly check its contents and before I know it the journal is on the desk of a colleague or postgrad. It is uncannily relevant. Probably because it is rooted in the real policy debates of our day. And because it takes cities seriously." - Peter Newman, Professor of City Policy, Murdoch University, and Director of Sustainability Policy Unit, Western Australian Government
"I use Environment and Urbanization constantly for teaching and research. It is the most reliable source for how conditions are changing and how people are helping shape the new settlements of an urbanising world. I have learnt a huge amount from it." - Professor Anne Power, London School of Economics
"Environment and Urbanization is where I go to find out what's happening in urban development. As the sole journal which provides a platform for the public sector, the academic community, the corporate world and the non-government, it's a one-stop shop and essential reading for anyone involved in the field." - Tova Solo, The World Bank
"What I especially appreciate about this journal is that (a) it contains many pieces from our colleagues in Asia, Africa and Latin America; and (b) that it taps NGO work, academic work, agency work -- in short the very wide range of sources that we need, in order to understand the extremely diverse and changing nature of this very important subject." - Richard Stren, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
"An essential resource for anyone interested in reducing urban poverty and improving urban livelihoods. It provides a unique international meeting place for the sharing of experiences, resources, and research-based information. It bridges the gap between research and practice in ways that no other publication does." - James Garrett, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
"By far the best, most accessible journal for policy and applied research on the 'brown agenda' of the environment of cities." - Mike Douglass, Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Hawaii
"An important contribution to the kind of authoritative exchange of information and experience that all those involved in the field, particularly in respect of the Third World, will find useful" - Maurice Strong, Secretary General, UN Earth Summit (1992), and UN Conference on the Human Environment (1972)
"In this journal, more than any other, urban theory and research gets to meet urban policy and practice - and the party is very lively! Its particularly strong in its analysis of governance and civic participation at the community level." - Roger Hart, Children's Environments Research Group, New York
JCR Impact Factor
2008 Ranking:
7/32 in Urban Studies
16/58 in Environmental Studies
2008 Impact Factor: 1.304
Electronic access:
Environment and Urbanization is available electronically on SAGE Journals Online at http://eandu.sagepub.com
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This journal is included in the Urban Studies & Planning: SAGE Full-Text Collection. Visit www.sagefulltext.com for more information.
