Country Frameworks for Development Displacement and Resettlement (eBook, PDF)

Reducing Risk, Building Resilience
Redaktion: Price, Susanna; Singer, Jane

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The problem of escalating population displacement demands global attention and country co-ordination. This book investigates the particular issue of development-induced displacement, whereby land is seized or restricted by the state for the purposes of development projects. Those displaced by these schemes often risk losses to their homes, livelihoods, food security, and socio-cultural support; for which they are rarely fully compensated. Bringing together 22 specialist researchers and practitioners from across the globe, this book provides a much-needed independent analysis of country frameworks for development-induced displacement spanning Asia, Africa, Central and South America.

As global competition for land increases, public and private sector lenders are lightening their social safeguards, shifting the oversight for protecting the displaced to national law and regulations. This raises a central question: Do countries have effective ways of addressing the risks and lost opportunities for their people who are displaced? While many countries remain impervious to the problem, the book also shines a light on the few who are pioneering new legislation and strategies, intended to address questions such as: should the social costs to those displaced help determine whether a project meets the public interest and merits financing? Does the modern state need powers of eminent domain? How can country laws, systems, institutions and negotiations be reformed to protect citizens better against disempowering public and private sector development displacement?

This book will interest those working on forced and voluntary migration, property and expropriation law, human rights, environmental and social impact assessment, internal and refugee displacement from conflicts, environment change, disasters and development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351031813
• Artikelnr.: 56139189

Autorenporträt

Susanna Price is a Lecturer in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University (ANU) Jane Singer is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies at Kyoto University, Japan

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I Conceptual Frameworks 1. Why national law is essential
for protecting public interest and providing safeguards in land acquisition
and forced displacement 2. Global monitoring of the human impacts of
development-forced displacement and resettlement 3. Can national and
international legal frameworks mitigate land grabbing and dispossession in
South-East Asia? 4. Minding the Gender Gaps: How legal gaps withhold
gender-equitable outcomes in land acquisition, compensation, and
resettlement 5. Higher Risk, Higher Reward? Negotiated Settlements,
Wellbeing and Livelihoods in Development Displacement Part II Challenges at
the Country Level 6. What does it take to mandate good national policy into
law? The case of Sri Lanka's National Involuntary Resettlement Policy 7.
Assessing country safeguards as a protection/benefit for those who are
displaced by development projects: the case of democratic South Africa 8.
Safeguarding community livelihoods in Uganda: Analysis of a country
framework for land acquisition, resettlement and rehabilitation 9.
Indigenous People, Involuntary Resettlement, International Institutions 10.
Paying resettled communities for environmental services: Legally mandated
benefit-sharing for Vietnam's dam displaced Part III Interweaving
international, national and local: Country Case Studies 11. Global or local
safeguards? Social impact assessment insights from an urban Indian land
acquisition 12. Urbanisation resettlement in China: characteristics, risks
and the revised Land Administration Law 13. Land rights on paper and in
practice in Cambodia: How land rights are recognised, protected and
expropriated for project development 14. Cultural and political obstacles
to effective resettlement: a case study of involuntary displacement of
Pehuenche families by the Pangue and Ralco hydroelectric dams in southern
Chile 15. With or without international institutions? Acquisition of land
rights for infrastructure projects in the weak legal framework of
Timor-Leste Conclusion