- The Social Analysis and Resettlement in the World Bank's Environmental Assessment (EA) process;
- Social
Assessment (SA) not only as an EA
requirement but increasingly also for projects not requiring an EA;
- WB Resettlement Policy in abbreviated form
- An
historical vignette, the Beginnings of Hydropower in
India.
- Resettlement
Policy in India.
- Nepal/India
Photo Essay- Some Elements of Resettlement.
- The
Use of Computer Based Programs in Resettlement.
Web Links
While focusing on social assessment and resettlement, the page will as appropriate consider a wide range of social issues -- outlining policies and presenting best case practices. The page, as it develops, will incorporate abstracts and annotations of key resource documents and hotlinks to other relevant websites, such as the World Bank webpage or a variety of social and environmental sciences pages elsewhere on the Web.
Social
Analysis
A description of the World Bank Environmental Department's Social Policy and Resettlement Team.
World Bank Environment Department Working Papers by the Social Policy and Resettlement Policy Division (ENVSP) -- Short summaries of the World Bank Participation Sourcebook (Paper No. 19) and Participation and Indigenous Peoples (Paper No. 21).
An annotated bibliograph of sources by the British Library for Development Studies on Population, Health, and Social Assessment.
Resettlement
World Bank's The Resettlement and Development -- Bankwide Review of Projects Involving Involuntary Resettlement, 1986-1993, April 1994 (Michael Cernea, et al); Urban Environment and Population Relocation: A New Discussion Paper (Michael Cernea); and Involuntary Resettlement: An Annotated Reference Bibliography for Development Research (Scott Guggenheim).
World Bank Regional Remedial Action Planning for Involuntary Resettlement in World Bank Supported Projects -- A Report on One Year of Follow-Up to Resettlement and Development, The Report of the Bankwide Resettlement Review, November, 1995.
World Bank Operational Manual, including OD 4.30 for Involuntary Resettlement.
A short summary of the Asian Development Bank's Involuntary Resettlement Policy.
Example of Participatory Approaches in a Mexican Hydroelectric Project's Resettlement -- From World Bank's Participation Sourcebook, Chapter II.
Socioeconomic Aspects and Resettlement of the Bakun Hydroelectric Project in Malaysia.
Resettlement describes as part of the Summary Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA) for the Asian Development Bank-financed Fujian Mianhuatan Hydropower Project's feasibility study - China.
A detailed critical review of Resettlement as part of the Three Gorges Dam in China.
University of Arizona anthropologist and resettlement specialist Dr. Theodore E. Downing's webpage with article "Mitigating Social Impoverishment when People are Involuntarily Displaced," the "1996 Oxford Declaration on Involuntary Displacement" and other contributions to the field of Involuntary Resettlement planning, policy, and social science research.
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