Risks, safeguards, and reconstruction: a model for population displacement and resettlement.

By M. Cernea. 2000

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Poverty Risks and National Parks: Policy Issues in Conservation and Resettlement (2006, methodology): “When the new neighbors speak a similar language or belong to the same ethnic group, the risk that the resettlers ‘‘spiral on a downward mobility path’’ (Cernea, 2000, p. 16) was significantly lower than in other cases.”
Dams and population displacement on China’s Upper Mekong River: Implications for social capital and social–ecological resilience (2016, background): “Understanding the social and economic impacts of dam-induced displacement has become a major focus of research and advocacy for academic institutions, government agencies, international financial institutions, and NGOs around the world (Cernea, 2000; Scudder, 2005; Richter et al., 2010).”
For a new economics of resettlement: a sociological critique of the compensation principle (2003, background): “It cannot be tamed through piecemeal measures based solely on compensation for damages (Cernea, 2000).”
Project-induced displacement and resettlement: from impoverishment risks to an opportunity for development? (2017, background): “Following extensive research of World Bank projects and realising that, in almost all projects, people who were resettled were made worse off, Michael Cernea (1997, 2000) developed the Impoverishment Risks and (livelihood) Reconstruction (IRR) model.”
The Social Framework for Projects: a conceptual but practical model to assist in assessing, planning and managing the social impacts of projects (2017, background): “The risks and their accompanying mitigations that comprise the IRR are (Cernea 2000, p. 20): • From landlessness to land-based resettlement; • From joblessness to reemployment; • From homelessness to house reconstruction; • From marginalization to social inclusion; • From increased morbidity to…”
Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special Economic Zones (2013, background): “The land prices offered to them were low, and resettlement and rehabilitation measures absent or inadequate (Cernea, 2000; Fernandes, 2008; Mahapatra, 1999).”