This volume focuses on critical issues pertaining to involuntary resettlement that affects millions of people around the world every year. It examines emerging resettlement policy initiatives, and the current approaches and practices to address problems of rebuilding the lives of people displaced by developmental projects.

Acknowledgements. Foreword by Muchkund Dubey. Introduction and Overview Hari Mohan Mathur. Part I. The Governance Challenge in Resettlement 1. Doing Resettlement: Policy, Planning and Management Hari Mohan Mathur Part II. Emerging Issues in Resettlement Policy 2. Converting India?EUR?s Resettlement Policy into Resettlement Law: A Welcome Initiative but a Disappointing Outcome Ramaswamy R Iyer 3. Re-examining ?EUR?Displacement?EUR?: A Redefinition of Concept in Development and Conservation Policies Michael M Cernea 4. Involuntary Resettlement Policy and Transport Projects Gordon Appleby 5. Resettlement Realities: The Gulf between Policy and Practice Felix Padel and Samarendra Das Part III. Compensation and the Resettlement Process 6. Resettlers?EUR? Preferences and the Compensation Criterion: A Second Look Supriya Garikipati 7. From Narmada to Nandigram: The Never Ending Clamour for Land as the only Route to Resettlement Vasudha Dhagamwar 8. Reconstructing Livelihoods: The CIL Experience with Self-Employment Schemes M P Roy 9. Resettlement in the Tehri Dam Project: An Ethnographic Profile Tulsie Charan Bisht 10. The Micro-Politics of Urban Evictions and Rehabilitation: Cases from Kolkata, India Medha Chandra Part IV. Privatizing Development 11. Development-Induced Displacement in the Era of Privatization Walter Fernandes 12. Special Economic Zones: The New ?EUR?Land?EUR? Mines Manshi Asher and Yamini Atmavilas 13. Special Economic Zones, Land Acquisition, and Civil Society in West Bengal Abhijit Guha 14. A Blow to Tribal Life: The Effects of Privatization in Orissa Hari Mohan Mathur Part V. An Alternative View 15. The Limitations of Current Approaches to Resettlement Jayantha Perera. About the Editor and Contributors. Index