Country frameworks for development displacement and resettlement : reducing risk, building resilience /: reducing risk, building resilience. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Susanna Price and Jane Singer.
• Editors: (Social development specialist), Price, Susanna; (Professor of environmental education), Singer, Jane
• Contents: Why national law is essential for protecting public interest and providing safeguards in land acquisition and forced displacement / Ruwani Jayewardene -- Global monitoring of the human impacts of development-forced displacement and resettlement / Nadine Walicki -- Can national and international legal frameworks mitigate land grabbing and dispossession in South-East Asia? / Andreas Neef -- Minding the gender gaps : how legal gaps withhold gender-equitable outcomes in land acquisition, compensation, and resettlement / Celine Salcedo La Vina -- Higher risk, higher reward? : negotiated settlements, wellbeing and livelihoods in development displacement / Susanna Price and Nicholas Tagliarino -- What does it take to mandate good national policy into law? : the case of Sri Lanka's national involuntary resettlement policy / Sam Pillai -- Assessing country safeguards as a protection/benefit for those who are displaced by development projects : the case of democratic South Africa / Chris De Wet -- Safeguarding community livelihoods in Uganda : analysis of a country framework for land acquisition, resettlement and rehabilitation / Russell Rhoads and Onesmus Mugyenyi -- Indigenous people, involuntary resettlement, international institutions / Nahmad Salamon Sitton -- Paying resettled communities for environmental services : legally mandated benefit-sharing for Vietnam's dam displaced / Jane Singer -- Global or local safeguards? : social impact assessment insights from an urban Indian land acquisition / Asmita Kabra and Budhaditya Das -- Urbanisation resettlement in China : characteristics, risks and the revised land administration law / Duan Yuefang, Brooke Wilmsen and Zhao Xu -- Land rights on paper and in practice in Cambodia : how land rights are recognised, protected and expropriated for project development / Sophorn Sek -- 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 / Jeanne W. Simon and Claudio Gonzales Parra -- With or without international institutions? : acquisition of land rights for infrastructure projects in the weak legal framework of Timor-Leste / Bernardo Almeida.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (300 pages), (8 illustrations)
• Subjects: 362.87/561; Internally displaced persons -- Government policy -- Case studies; Internally displaced persons -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Case studies; Economic development projects -- Social aspects -- Case studies; Forced migration -- Case studies; Eminent domain -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351031806; 1351031805
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.