Good Practices in Resettlement

Hari Mohan Mathur (1937–2022) was Distinguished Professor at Council for Social Development, New Delhi and member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

“Professor Mathur assembles more than a dozen case examples from around the world in which project proponents, financing institution staff, government agency officials, resettlement social scientists, NGOs, and civil society personnel all labored in close collaboration and consultation with project-affected people and communities in crafting innovative solutions to achieve ‘resettlement with development’. A useful and welcome addition to the emerging literature on cases of positive resettlement outcomes that counterbalance the dominant narrative of resettlement failure, this book illustrates what is possible and what can be achieved.”

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Development, Displacement and ResettlementHari Mohan Mathur Chapter 1: Good Practices Approach to Resettlement Planning and ImplementationHari Mohan MathurChapter 2: Land Pooling for Urban Development in BhutanKinzang Deki and Bhawana ChhetriChapter 3: Physical Relocation Options - One Size Doesn’t Fit All: An Example of Good Practice from the Democratic Republic of Congo Gordon ApplebyChapter 4: Resettlement in Practice: Lessons from the Philippines Samar Road ExperienceAlbab AkandaChapter 5: Successful Involuntary Resettlement: The Urra 1 Project in ColombiaDominique EgreChapter 6: Good Preparation and Follow-up: Costa Rica Arenal Hydro ProjectWilliam L PartridgeChapter 7: Tangguh Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project Indonesia: A Rights and Risks Resettlement ModelSusanna PriceChapter 8: Resettlement and Livelihood Restoration at the Newmont, Ahafo South Gold Mine, GhanaEddie SmythChapter 9: Ensuring Equitable Livelihood Outcomes for Land-based Compensation in the Context of Heterogeneous Land Quality at the Relocation SiteAsmita Kabra and Arnab MukherjiChapter 10: Good Practice: Using a Mitigation Matrix to Mediate Project Impacts AnxietyGregory Eliyu Guldin and Yulia Alexandrovna ZavyalovaChapter 11: Communal Rural Governance in the Resettlement of a Mexican EjidoAndres RecaldeChapter 12: Institution Building in Resettlement: A Good Practice Example from BangladeshMohammad ZamanChapter 13: Dalian Water Supply Project, ChinaSusan D. TamondongChapter 14: A Resettlement Success Story from a Dam Project in RajasthanHari Mohan MathurChapter 15: Good Practice: Payment for Forest Environmental Services in VietnamJane SingerChapter 16: Renting Submerged Land for Sustainable Resettlement of Resetller Families: The Case of the Jintsu-Gawa DamsMikiyasu Nakayama and Kumi CaremeConclusion: What We Have Learned About Good Practices in ResettlementHari Mohan Mathur About the Contributors