| Short Statement: |
We should not displace and resettle people involuntarily unless we can provide them at least the living conditions they enjoyed prior to displacement or better. |
| Publications: |
Rodrigo, Milan L. 1991. "Resources and Livelihood: Differential Response to Change and Planned Development: A Case from the Mahaweli Irrigation Project in Sri Lanka." Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Lin-Rodrigo, Milan L. 2000. Book Review of "Relocated Lives: Displacement and Resettlement within the Mahaweli Project, Sri Lanka," Amsterdam: YU University Press. 1996. by Brigitte Refslund Sorensen. The Eastern Anthropologist (Special Resettlement Number), 53:1-2:315-19.
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| Accomplishments: |
-Field research in two resettlement schemes in Sri Lanka: Gal Oya Rehabilitation project and Mahaweli Resettlement project.
-Consultant to the World Bank Compiling bibliographic materials on resettlement assisting publications on resettlement.
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| Highest Degree: |
Ph.D. Cornell University 1991.
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