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In: Rural Society, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 81-88
ISSN: 2204-0536
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In: Rural Society, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 81-88
ISSN: 2204-0536
In: Impact assessment and project appraisal, Volume 38, Issue 2, p. 126-131
ISSN: 1471-5465
In: Impact assessment and project appraisal, Volume 35, Issue 1, p. 3-21
ISSN: 1471-5465
In: Vanclay , F 2017 , ' Project-induced displacement and resettlement : from impoverishment risks to an opportunity for development? ' , Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal , vol. 35 , no. 1 , pp. 3-21 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2017.1278671 ; ISSN:1461-5517
While the World Bank safeguard policies and International Finance Corporation Performance Standards specify the requirements to be observed when project-induced displacement and resettlement occurs, these international standards are not always followed. Governments often invoke the power of eminent domain and implement expropriation procedures instead of building support for a public or private project by negotiating with project-affected peoples. Evaluations of projects reveal that people are usually made worse off by being resettled. This paper provides a general introduction to the topic of project-induced displacement and resettlement, raising the key issues facing resettlement practice: under what conditions should projects and associated resettlements proceed; what constitutes appropriate compensation; can livelihoods be restored or improved; what is the role of benefit sharing and shared value; and how resettlement practice can be improved. Although there is ongoing improvement in the discourse and practice of project-induced resettlement, being resettled is still likely to be an impoverishment risk and have an emotional toll. Hopefully, however, under the right conditions, resettlement has the potential to be an opportunity for development.
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In: Impact assessment and project appraisal, Volume 33, Issue 4, p. 291-291
ISSN: 1471-5465
In: Impact assessment and project appraisal, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 11-13
ISSN: 1471-5465
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Volume 49, Issue 8, p. 1326-1339
ISSN: 1360-0591
In: Impact assessment and project appraisal, Volume 21, Issue 1, p. 5-12
ISSN: 1471-5465
In: Australian journal of social issues: AJSI, Volume 38, Issue 1, p. 81-94
ISSN: 1839-4655
As a leader in the Cairns Group of Nations, Australia has been advancing deregulation in agri‐food trade. Successive governments have assumed that Australia would benefit from a greater deregulation of international trade because this would allow increased access to world markets for primary agricultural commodities. But regulation exists, at least in Europe, to protect the social value of the rural landscape. Australian governments, strongly influenced by economic rationalist ideology, have given insufficient consideration to the rural social landscape. Little critical reflection has taken place about whether Australia, and its farmers, would actually benefit from deregulation, or what the social impacts of this trend might be. Deregulation inevitably invokes structural adjustment, forces farmers out of agriculture, depopulates rural areas, and creates social hardship. There are also environmental ramifications. The exit of farmers from agriculture has not been as fast as was expected by economists and policy‐makers, with many farmers adapting to new situations.
In: Rural Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, p. 378-380
ISSN: 2204-0536
In: Rural Society, Volume 8, Issue 1, p. 39-48
In: Rural Society, Volume 4, Issue 1, p. 10-13
ISSN: 2204-0536
In: Rural Society, Volume 4, Issue 3-4, p. 45-47
ISSN: 2204-0536