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The human costs of economic development have become a contemporary issue of great importance. A particularly contentious aspect of this debate is the direct negative impact on people of large-scale development projects. However, both sides of the divide are united by a concern for the fate of people who are forced to relocate, leaving behind forever their homes, lands and communities. This book looks at the Indian experience of resettlement and the recent ...
The international public debate on development-caused displacement and resettlement is intensifying. Social science research is feeding into these debates new empirical findings and recommendations for reforming the economic foundations and legal norms of resettlement policies. Critical of government as well as private sector projects that impoverish those forcibly relocated, this volume rejects the long-held key thesis that compensation is in itself enough to ...
In India, development projects displace people in large numbers every year. Such displacement not only puts the affected people at grave impoverishment risk, but also sets back the entire poverty reduction effort. The resettlement of these people with access to proper living conditions and adequate livelihood opportunities constitute one of the country's most significant developmental challenges. In spite of this, the management skills to address resettlement ...