Development and Dispossession: The Crisis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement

by Dolores Koenig, Michael M. Cernea, Gregory V. Button, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934691089
• ISBN13: 9781934691083
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.8"