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| Occupation: | Professor Emeritus of Anthropology |
| Company: | California Institute of Technology |
| Address: | 228-77 Caltech |
| City: | Pasadena |
| State: | California |
| Zip Code: | 91125 |
| Country: | USA |
| Phone #: | 1-626-395-4207 |
| Fax #: | 1-626-405-9841 |
| Short Statement: | Impacts of Large-Scale River Basin Development Projects on Local Populations Resettlement policies must require that the majority improve their living standards in an environmentally, economically, institutionally and culturally sustainable fashion during implementation since restoration can be expected to further impoverish what already tend to be poor people. A successful resettlement process involves participation of, and development opportunities for, resettlers as well as institutional capacity, funding, and political will on the part of planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation agencies. Close attention need be paid to such other critical issues as the complexity of the resettlement process (Scudder 1981; Scudder and Colson 1982) and the adverse effect on resettlers of immigrants and unexpected events. Where dams are involved impacts on downstream communities must be assessed with appropriate development plans implemented. |
| Displacement Experience: | Research: Longterm research with Elizabeth Colson on Kariba Dam resettlement 1956 to present; member American University of Cairo’s Nubian Project in connection with the Aswan High Dam (1961-62); comparative analysis of development-induced involuntary community resettlement and of land settlement schemes involving voluntary and involuntary settlers. Consultant: Including Nigeria’s Kainji Dam (Ford Foundation and FAO); Zambia’s Kariba (FAO, World Bank) and Kafue Dams (FAO); Ivory Coast’s Bandama Dam (UNDP); Ghana’s Volta Dam at Akosombo (WHO); Sri Lanka’s Mahaweli Project (USAID); Mali’s Manantali Project (USAID); India’ Sardar Sarovar Project (World Bank); China’s Three Gorges Project (Canadian Yangtze Joint Venture). Chair/Team Leader: Juba Valley Somalia Study Panel (US National Research Council-National Academy of Science); Review Panel on University of Michigan coordinated Gambia River Basin Studies (US National Science Foundation); Review of Botswana’s Southern Okavango Integrated Water Development Project (IUCN). Member Advisory Panel on Environmental and Resettlement Issues: Lesotho Highlands Water Project; China’s Longtan Project; Quebec Province’s Great Whale Project; Swaziland’s Maguga Project; and Laos’ Nam Theun 2 Project Commissioner: World Commission on Dams (1998-2000). |
| Publications: | 1981: “What It Means to be Dammed: The Anthropology of Large-Scale Development Projects in the Tropics and Subtropics.” Engineering and Science 54 (4), pp. 9-15. 1982: With Elizabeth Colson. “From Welfare to Development: A Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of Dislocated People.” In Involuntary Migration and Resettlement: The Problems and Responses of Dislocated People, edited by A. Hansen and A. Oliver-Smith. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1984: The Development Potential of New Lands Settlement in the Tropics and Subtropics: A Global State-Of-The-Art-Evaluation with Specific Emphasis on Policy Implications, Executive Summary. U.S. Agency for International Development Program Evaluation Discussion Paper No. 21. Washington, D.C.: U.S. AID. 1985: With the assistance of Gottfried Ablasser. The Experience of the World Bank with Government-Sponsored Land Settlement. Report No. 5625. Washington: World Bank (Operations Evaluation Department). 1985: “A Sociological Framework for the Analysis of New Lands Settlements.” In Putting People First: Sociological Variables in Rural Development, edited by Michael M. Cernea. London: Oxford University Press for the World Bank. 1991: “The Need and Justification for Maintaining Transboundary Flood Regimes: The Africa Case.” Special Issue of Natural Resources Journal on the International Law of the Hydrologic Cycle, Vol. 31, (1), pp. 75-107. 1993: “Monitoring a Large-Scale Resettlement Program with Repeated Household Interviews.” In Rapid Appraisal Methods edited by Krishna Kumar. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank. 1993: “Development-induced Relocation and Refugee Studies: 37 Years of Change and Continuity among Zambia's Gwembe Tonga.” Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 6, (2), pp. 123-152. Oxford: Oxford of University Press. 1997: Chapters on “Social Impacts” (pp. 623-665) and “Resettlement” (pp. 667- 710) Water Resources: Environmental Planning, Management and Development, edited by Asit K. Biswas, New York: McGraw Hill. 2000: The World Commission on Dams and the Need for a New Development Paradigm.” International Journal of Water Resources Development. Vol. 17, No. 3: 329-341. |
| Accomplishments: | President, International Society of Applied Anthropology, 1985-1987. Chair, International Network on Displacement and Resettlement. |
| Highest Degree: | Ph.D. Harvard University, 1960 |
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