Development and Dispossession The Crisis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement

Anthony Oliver-Smith/ Gregory V. Button/ Michael M. Cernea/ Dana Clark/ Chris de Wet/ Theodore E. Downing/ William F. Fisher/ Carmen Garcia-Downing/ Barbara Rose Johnston/ Satish Kedia/ Dolores Koenig/ Thayer Scudder

ISBN 10: 1934691089 / ISBN 13: 9781934691083

Verlag: School for Advanced Research on the, 2009

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344 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers x-1934691089

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Titel: Development and Dispossession The Crisis ...

Verlag: School for Advanced Research on the

Erscheinungsdatum: 2009

Einband: Paperback

Zustand: Brand New

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More people were involuntarily displaced in the twentieth century than ever before, and not only by war and natural disasters. Capital-intensive, high-technology, large-scale projects compel the displacement and resettlement of an estimated 15 million people every year in the process of converting farmlands, fishing grounds, forests, and homes into reservoirs, irrigation systems, mines, plantations, colonization projects, highways, urban renewal zones, industrial complexes, and tourist resorts. Aimed at generating economic growth and strengthening the region or nation, these projects have all too often left local people permanently displaced, disempowered, and destitute. Resettlement has been so poorly planned, financed, implemented, and administered that these projects end up being "development disasters." Because there can be no return to land submerged under a dam-created lake or to a neighborhood buried under a stadium or throughway, the solutions devised to meet the needs of people displaced by development must be durable. The contributors to this volume analyze the failures of existing resettlement policies and propose just such durable solutions.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.