MANAGING RESETTLEMENT IN INDIA
Approaches, Issues, and Experiences
Published on 6. April 2006
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-567813-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume of essay looks at how Indian society takes care of the people whom development and large scale infrastructure projects have displaced. Displacement causes migration, impoverishment, and great upheaval in the social fabric. In a word, displacement hurts. The 14 essays in this volume identify significant solutions towards resettlement which can be implemented in unique and diverse displacement contexts to mitigate suffering and to enhance environmental
sustainability. They identify existing lapses in resettlement management and procedures and formulate useful policy responses. They pay specific attention through a wide variety of examples to the socio economic consequences of development projects, policy and legal issues, planning and management
issues.
sustainability. They identify existing lapses in resettlement management and procedures and formulate useful policy responses. They pay specific attention through a wide variety of examples to the socio economic consequences of development projects, policy and legal issues, planning and management
issues.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
571 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-567813-0 (9780195678130)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
PREFACE ; INTRODUCTION ; DEVELOPMENT AND RESETTELEMENT 1. RESETTLEMENT MANAGEMENT: ADDRESSING RISKS IN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ; 2. INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT IN WORLD BANK FINANCED PROJECTS: REDUCING IMPOVERISHMENT RISKS FOR THE AFFECTED PEOPLE 3. NEW LIVELIHOODS FOR OLD: RESETTLEMENT DIMENSION IN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ; POLICY AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK 4. THE RESETTLEMENT AND REHABILITATION POLICY OF INDIA ; 5. THE KARNATAKA RESETTLEMENT OF PROJECT DISPLACED PERSONS ACT 1987: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ; 6. THE LAND ACQUISITION LAWS IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW WITH SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR AMENDMENT ; PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES 7. LARGE DAM RESETTLEMENT: PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES ; 8. URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT ; 9. GENDER FOCUS IN THE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF RESETTLEMENT ; 10. GOVERNMENT-NGO COLLABORATION IN RESETTLEMENT: AN NGO VIEW ; 11. MONITORING RESETTLEMENT OPERATIONS ; PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION EXPERIENCES 12. HYDERABAD WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION PROJECT: LESSONS LEARNED ; 13. MA ; NAGING SOCIAL ISSUES IN EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY: ISSUES AND LESSONS FROM INDIAN COAL SECTOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MITIGATION PROJECT ; 14. THE UPPER KRISHNA PROJECT: RECENT IMPROVEMENTS, BUT RESETTLEMENT STILL ELUSIVE ; ANNEX 1: WORLD BANK POLICY ON RESETTLEMENT ; ANNEX 2: THE RESETTLEMENT AND REHABILITATION POLICY OF INDIA.