Displacement by Development: Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reissue, 1/20/2011
EAN 9780521124645, ISBN10: 0521124646
Paperback, 358 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
For decades, policy-makers in government, development banks and foundations, NGOs, researchers and students have struggled with the problem of how to protect people who are displaced from their homes and livelihoods by development projects. This book addresses these concerns and explores how debates often become deadlocked between 'managerial' and 'movementist' perspectives. Using development ethics to determine the rights and responsibilities of various stakeholders, the authors find that displaced people must be empowered so as to share equitably in benefits rather than being victimized. They propose a governance model for development projects that would transform conflict over displacement into a more manageable collective bargaining process and would empower displaced people to achieve equitable results. Their book will be valuable for readers in a wide range of fields including ethics, development studies, politics and international relations as well as policy making, project management and community development.
Acknowledgements
List of tables
1. Introduction
Part I. Fundamentals
2. Problems of polarization
3. Defining displacement by and for development
Part II. From Cost-Benefit Analysis to Ethics
4. Development planning, cost-benefit analysis, and displacement
5. Guidelines and rights
6. The development ethics framework
Part III. From Values to Responsibilities
7. Ethical outcomes
8. Ethical procedures
9. Agents, harms, and responsibilities
10. International responsibilities and rights regarding displacement
Part IV. Realizing Responsibilities
11. Narmada revisited
12. Starting points and future directions
Bibliography.