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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Susanna Price , Jane SingerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.580kg ISBN: 9780367670986ISBN 10: 0367670984 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 18 December 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 ConclusionReviews"""Price and Singer have brought together a diverse and perceptive group of authors in a volume that will be compelling reading for scholars, practitioners and policy makers concerned with improving planned displacement and resettlement outcomes. The insights within come at a critical juncture for sustainable development, and underscore the need for alignment between local, national and international perspectives on this important topic."" — Deanna Kemp, Professor, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland, Australia ""This volume raises a crucial issue: Good country legislation is paramount as a first step towards minimising the impact of forced displacement on vulnerable people whose way of life may be irrevocably and suddenly changed. I witnessed a graphic illustration of the reservoir disruption and chaos caused by relocation of 15 longhouse communities in East Malaysia."" — Jennifer Alexander, Anthropologist and Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australia ""Susanna Price and Jane Singer have assembled an amazing set of papers focused on country frameworks for displacement and resettlement. A much-needed contribution, this is sure to become a major work in the field of development studies."" — Hari Mohan Mathur, Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India ""A comprehensive analysis of the gaps between national and international standards in land acquisition and resettlement, and a must read for all stakeholders seeking to improve outcomes for affected people. This book provides the evidence that reliance on country safeguard systems alone will result in further serious human rights abuses."" — Eddie Smyth, Director, Intersocial Consulting, Ltd. ""This is a necessary book. Not only does it present well-documented, thoroughly researched case studies" Price and Singer have brought together a diverse and perceptive group of authors in a volume that will be compelling reading for scholars, practitioners and policy makers concerned with improving planned displacement and resettlement outcomes. The insights within come at a critical juncture for sustainable development, and underscore the need for alignment between local, national and international perspectives on this important topic. - Deanna Kemp, Professor, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland, Australia This volume raises a crucial issue: Good country legislation is paramount as a first step towards minimising the impact of forced displacement on vulnerable people whose way of life may be irrevocably and suddenly changed. I witnessed a graphic illustration of the reservoir disruption and chaos caused by relocation of 15 longhouse communities in East Malaysia. - Jennifer Alexander, Anthropologist and Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australia Susanna Price and Jane Singer have assembled an amazing set of papers focused on country frameworks for displacement and resettlement. A much-needed contribution, this is sure to become a major work in the field of development studies. - Hari Mohan Mathur, Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India A comprehensive analysis of the gaps between national and international standards in land acquisition and resettlement, and a must read for all stakeholders seeking to improve outcomes for affected people. This book provides the evidence that reliance on country safeguard systems alone will result in further serious human rights abuses. - Eddie Smyth, Director, Intersocial Consulting, Ltd. This is a necessary book. Not only does it present well-documented, thoroughly researched case studies Author InformationSusanna 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 Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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