The Economics of Involuntary Resettlement

The Economics of Involuntary Resettlement
Author: Michael M. Cernea
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821337981

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Involuntary Resettlement Sourcebook

Involuntary Resettlement Sourcebook
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Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780821355763

Involuntary Resettlement Sourcebook: Planning and Implementation in Development Projects clarifies many policy and technical issues that confront resettlement policymakers and practitioners. It provides guidance on resettlement design, implementation, and monitoring, and it discusses resettlement issues particular to development projects in different sectors, such as urban development, natural resource management, and the building of dams. The sourcebook will be useful to a wide range of stakeholders. Its primary audience is resettlement practitioners, who have a role in the actual design, implementation, and evaluation of resettlement programs. The sourcebook will also be of interest to policymakers and project decision makers.

Risks and Reconstruction

Risks and Reconstruction
Author: Michael M. Cernea
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780821344446

This book offers a multidimensional comparative analysis of two large groups of the world's displaced populations : resettlers uprooted by development and refugees fleeing military conflicts or natural calamities. The authors explore common central issues: the condition of being "displaced," the risks of impoverishment and destitu-tion, the rights and entitlements of those uprooted, and, most important, the means of reconstruction of their livelihoods. (Adapté de l'Introduction).

Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement

Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement
Author: Bogumil Terminski
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 613
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3838267230

This book explores the issue of development-induced resettlement, with a particular emphasis on the humanitarian, legal, and social aspects of this problem. Today, so-called 'development-induced displacement and resettlement' (DIDR) is one of the dominant causes of internal spatial mobility worldwide. Each year over 15 million people are forced to abandon their homes to make space for economic development infrastructure. The construction of dams and irrigation projects, the expansion of communication networks, urbanization and re-urbanization, the extraction and transportation of mineral resources, forced evictions in urban areas, and population redistribution schemes count among the many possible causes.Terminski aims to present the issue of development-caused displacement as a highly diverse, global social problem occurring in all regions of the world. As a human rights issue it poses a challenge to public international law and to institutions providing humanitarian assistance. A significant part of this book is devoted to the current dynamics of development-caused resettlement in Europe, which has been neglected in the academic literature so far.

Urban Resettlements in the Global South

Urban Resettlements in the Global South
Author: Raffael Beier
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000434303

Urban Resettlements in the Global South provides new perspectives on resettlement through an urban studies lens. To date, resettlement has been theorised through development studies and refugee studies, but urban resettlement is also a major dimension of urban development in the Global South and may help to rethink contemporary urban dynamics between spectacular new town developments and rising incidences of eviction and displacement. Conceptualising resettlement as a binding notion between production/regeneration and destruction/demolition of urban space helps to illuminate interdependencies and to underline significant ambiguities within affected people’s perspectives towards resettlement projects. This volume will offer an interesting selection of ten different case studies with rich empirical data from Latin America, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, focused on each stage of resettlement (before, during, after relocation) through different timescales. By offering a frame for analysing and rethinking resettlement within urban studies, it will support any scholar or expert dealing with resettlement, displacement, and housing in an urban context, seeking to improve housing and planning policies in and for the city.

Sociology, Anthropology, and Development

Sociology, Anthropology, and Development
Author: Michael M. Cernea
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780821327814

Environmentally Sustainable Development Studies and Monograph Series No. 3. A listing of works published by World Bank sociologists and anthropologists, this bibliography serves as a vehicle for exchanging experiences and promoting interdisciplinar

Lose to Gain

Lose to Gain
Author: Jayantha Perera
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9292543563

A crucial issue that confronts development in South Asia is how to build a better life for people displaced by infrastructure development projects. This book comprises recent displacement and resettlement case studies conducted by eight anthropologists in South Asia. Each contributor wrote around the key theme of the book: Is involuntary resettlement a development opportunity for those displaced by development interventions? In this book, "resettlement" carries a broader meaning to include physical and economic displacement, restricted access to public land such as forests and parks, relocation, income rehabilitation, and self-relocation. The book demonstrates that despite significant progress in national policies, laws, and regulations, their application still requires more commitment, adequate resources, and better supervision.

Social Development in the World Bank

Social Development in the World Bank
Author: Maritta Koch-Weser
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2021-04-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030574261

This open access book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and extending his arguments for "putting people first.” Cernea led a community of social scientists in formulating and promoting a comprehensive set of innovative and original social policies on development issues, which the World Bank adopted and implemented. This book includes globally significant work on urban and rural development, the epistemology of using social science knowledge in national and international development, methodologies for using social organization for more effective poverty reduction, and the experience of crafting social policies to become normative frameworks for purposive collective social action. And by including contributions from senior policy makers in the World Bank who helped shepherd social science's entry into development policy and practice, it provides a unique look at how organizational change can happen.

Forcible Displacement Throughout the Ages

Forcible Displacement Throughout the Ages
Author: Grant Dawson
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2012-07-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004220542

This book analyses the anthropological, historical, and legal contours of the crime of forcible displacement and proposes specific measures that the international community can adopt in order to prevent and/or punish the perpetration of the crime in the future.