Development and Dispossession The Crisis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement

Anthony Oliver-Smith/ Gregory V. Button/ Michael M. Cernea/ Dana Clark/ Chris de Wet/ Theodore E. Downing/ William F. Fisher/ Carmen Garcia-Downing/ Barbara Rose Johnston/ Satish Kedia/ Dolores Koenig/ Thayer Scudder

ISBN 10: 1934691089 / ISBN 13: 9781934691083

Published by School for Advanced Research on the, 2009

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344 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Development and Dispossession The Crisis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement
• Publisher: School for Advanced Research on the
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934691089
• ISBN 13: 9781934691083
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.48 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

ANTHONY OLIVER-SMITH is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Florida. He held the Munich Re Foundation Chair of Social Vulnerability at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security 2007–2008. He has done anthropological research and consultation on issues relating to involuntary resettlement, as well as the impacts of natural and technological disasters, in Peru, Honduras, India, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Japan, and the United States since the 1970s.