Edited:  Anthony Oliver-Smith 

Featuring many INDR authors:  Michael Cernea, Dana Clark, Theodore Downing, Carmen Garcia-Downing, Barbara Rose Johnston, Dolores Koenig, Thayer Scudder

More people were involuntarily displaced in the twentieth century than ever before, and not only by war and natural disasters. Capital-intensive, high-technology, large-scale projects compel the displacement and resettlement of an estimated 15 million people every year in the process of converting farmlands, fishing grounds, forests, and homes into reservoirs, irrigation systems, mines, plantations, colonization projects, highways, urban renewal zones, industrial complexes, and tourist resorts. Aimed at generating economic growth and strengthening the region or nation, these projects have all too often left local people permanently displaced, disempowered, and destitute. Resettlement has been so poorly planned, financed, implemented, and administered that these projects end up being "development disasters." Because there can be no return to land submerged under a dam-created lake or to a neighborhood buried under a stadium or throughway, the solutions devised to meet the needs of people displaced by development must be durable. The contributors to this volume analyze the failures of existing resettlement policies and propose just such durable solutions.

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Isbn:  978-1-934691-08-3; 9781934691083; 1-934691-08-9; 1934691089

Contents
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
1.    Introduction: Development-Forced Displacement and Resettlement: A Global Human Rights Crisis
    Anthony Oliver-Smith
2.    Resettlement Theory and the Kariba Case: An Anthropology of Resettlement
    Thayer Scudder
3.    Financing for Development: Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms in Population Resettlement
    Michael M. Cernea
4.    Does Development Displace Ethics? The Challenge of Forced Resettlement
    Chris de Wet
5.    Health Consequences of Dam Construction and Involuntary Resettlement
    Satish Kedia
6.    Urban Relocation and Resettlement: Distinctive Problems, Distinctive Opportunities
    Dolores Koenig
7.    Evicted from Eden: Conservation and the Displacement of Indigenous and Traditional Peoples
    Anthony Oliver-Smith
8.    Local Displacement, Global Activism: DFDR and Transnational Advocacy
    William F. Fisher
9.    Power to the People: Moving towards a Rights-Respecting Resettlement Framework
    Dana Clark
10.    Development Disaster, Reparations, and the Right to Remedy: The Case of the Chixoy Dam, Guatemala
    Barbara Rose Johnston
11.    Routine and Dissonant Cultures: A Theory about the Psycho-socio-cultural Disruptions of Involuntary Displacement and Ways to Mitigate Them without Inflicting Even More Damage 225
    Theodore E. Downing and Carmen Garcia-Downing
12.    Family Resemblances between Disasters and Development-Forced Displacement: Hurricane Katrina as a Comparative Case Study
    Gregory V. Button
Declaration on Disaster Recovery
References
Index