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"Should local people lose out as new reservoirs, mines, plantations, or superhighways displace them from their homes? What if the process of resettlement were made accountable to those impacted, empowering them to achieve just outcomes and to share in the benefits of development projects? This book seeks to answer these questions, putting forward powerful counterfactual case studies to assess what problems real-world development projects would likely have avoided if the project had followed a higher standard, such as the World Commission on Dams policy framework. Drawing on contributions from leading and emerging scholars from around the world, this book considers cases involving dams, mines, roads, housing, amongst others, from Asia, Africa, and South America. In each case, the counterfactual approach invites us to reconsider the dynamics of accountability and the asymmetries of power relations in the negotiation of displacement benefits and redress. Considering a range of theoretical and ethical perspectives, the book concludes with practical alternative policy suggestions. This book's novel approach to the dynamics of governance, accountability, and (dis)empowerment in development projects with displacement and resettlement will appeal. to academic researchers, development practitioners, and policy makers"--

The Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics provides readers with insight into the central questions of development ethics, the main approaches to answering them, and areas for future research. Over the past seventy years, it has been argued and increasingly accepted that worthwhile development cannot be reduced to economic growth. Rather, a number of other goals must be realised:
Enhancement of people's well-being
Equitable sharing in benefits of development
Empowerment to participate freely in development
Environmental sustainability
Promotion of human rights
Promotion of cultural freedom, consistent with human rights
Responsible conduct, including integrity over corruption

Agreement that these are essential goals has also been accompanied by disagreements about how to conceptualize or apply them in different cases or contexts. Using these seven goals as an organizing principle, this handbook presents different approaches to achieving each one, drawing on academic literature, policy documents and practitioner experience.

This international and multi-disciplinary handbook will be of great interest to development policy makers and program workers, students and scholars in development studies, public policy, international studies, applied ethics and other related disciplines.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Contexts -- 2 Global ethics -- 3 Integral human development -- 4 Post-development -- 5 Epistemology -- Part II Well-being -- 6 Well-being -- 7 The capability approach -- 8 Happiness -- 9 Adaptive preferences -- Part III Social and global justice -- 10 Social and global justice -- 11 Gender -- 12 Indigenous peoples -- 13 Horizontal inequalities -- 14 Children -- 15 Health -- Part IV Empowerment and agency -- 16 Empowerment -- 17 Agency -- 18 Education -- 19 Displacement -- Part V Environmental sustainability -- 20 Sustainability and climate change -- 21 Food production -- 22 Buen vivir and the rights of nature -- Part VI Human rights -- 23 Human rights -- 24 The right to development -- 25 Security -- Part VII Cultural freedom -- 26 Cultural freedom -- 27 LGBTI people -- 28 Religion -- Part VIII Responsibility -- 29 International responsibilities -- 30 Development practitioners -- 31 Corruption -- Part IX Regional perspectives -- 32 Latin America -- 33 South Asia -- 34 East Asia -- 35 Middle East and North Africa -- 36 French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa -- 37 Sub-Saharan Africa -- 38 Europe -- 39 USA and Canada -- Index

The question of how to arrive at a consensus on human rights norm in a diverse, pluralistic, and interconnected global environment is critical. This volume is a contribution to an intercultural understanding of human rights in the context of India and its relationship to the West. The essays in this collection pioneer a distinct approach by examining what it is that the West itself may have to learn from various Indian articulations of human rights as well.