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Involuntary Population Displacement and the Evolving Policy Response Workshop
9 October 2007, 2:15 PM at the Metropolis Conference Venue, Sofitel, Hotel Melbourne. This workshop will be held as part of the 12th International Metropolis Conference, Migration, Economic Growth, and Social Cohesion. Themes include: 1) The challenge of achieving good international standards on involuntary resettlement for both public and private sector projects., 2) population movement, with concomitant economic and social impacts of displacement, and 3) case studies on resettlement planning and impoverishment risk management. |
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Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting
Memphis, Tennessee, USA. March 25-28, 2008. In celebration of its 7th birthday, the International Network on Displacement and Resettlement hosted a very special conclave of involuntary resettlement and displacement specialists at the 2008 meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. March 25-28, 2008. (Info about annual meeting is on www.SfAA.net). The SfAA theme, "The Public Sphere and Engaged Scholarship: Opportunities and Challenges for Applied Anthropology" -- was perfectly suited to examining the current "hot issues," growing in importance worldwide, in the anthropology of displacement and resettlement. |
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IAPS/Bibalex Conference on Environment, Health and Sustainable Development
Global Environment Issues and Sustainable Development
Population Resettlement and Environmental Risks
Alexandria, Egypt, 11-16 September 2006
Call for Papers
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (The Library of Alexandria) will host a special session on ‘Global Environment Issues and Sustainable Development: Population Resettlement and Environmental Risks’ as part the International Association for People-Environment Studies/Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference on Environment, Health and Sustainable Development, at Alexandria, Egypt, from 11 to 16 September 2006.
This special session will address a wide spectrum of issues related to social and environmental risks, inherent in the development process, that are affecting peoples around the world. The particular focus will be on exploring planning strategies to contain them. Development projects are often at the root of many risks to environment. Mining development projects, for example, are notorious for their devastating impact on surrounding natural environments. The World Commission on Dams emphasized the negative impacts on ecosystem as one of the most serious failings of existing dams. Environmental deterioration is, however, a direct consequence not only of the main project, but also of pressure exerted on the fragile local ecosystem from the resettlement of large population groups displaced by projects in other places. Conflict becomes unavoidable in host communities even where people are not overtly hostile towards resettlers, simply because now more people compete for the same limited land base, natural resources and employment opportunities. Moreover, much traditional ecological knowledge is lost when people are forced to relocate and in the process get detached from their natural environment.
The large majority of those resettled faces grave risks of social and economic impoverishment including, landlessness, joblessness, homelessness, marginalization, food insecurity, morbidity, social disarticulation, and loss of access to common property resources. The establishment of national parks and other conservation-related development activities disconnect the indigenous peoples from natural resources that they have relied on for their livelihoods for centuries. On relocation, these people face serious impoverishment risks as, lacking education and ignorant of laws and their rights, they are in no position to protect their interests. Urban environmental improvement programmes, especially those aimed at keeping a city clean and green, target slums and impoverish the most vulnerable people. Villages and farming communities in close proximity of growing cities often get displaced by their expansion plans, becoming more impoverished than before.
The following themes tjat were identified for discussion:
Social and Environmental Impacts of Development Projects
New Research on Involuntary Resettlement and Impoverishment Risks Issues
Impoverishment Risks in Conservation-related Displacements
Urban Environmental Improvement Projects and Population Resettlement
Impoverishment Risks from Environmental Damage
Displacement Risks from Mining Projects
Large Projects and Indigenous Peoples
Gender Concerns in Resettlement Planning
Globalization, Displacement and Impoverishment Risks
Policy/Management Response to Social and Environmental Risks
The Conference website www.iaps19-bibalex.com and organizer was
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November 20th by The Panel at the World Conservation Conference, Bangkok. For more details, contact:
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