Resettlement in the Three Gorges Project

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

The construction of the Three Gorges dam and corresponding relocation of people are among the socio-economic transformations that have profoundly influenced all aspects of urban and rural life in China. The resettlement issue associated with the Three Gorges project (TGP) has been regarded as a huge problem for China, involving 17 years of relocation of over 1.3 million people by 2009.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-01-01
Mått:156 x 232 x 27 mm
Vikt:696 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:274
Förlag:Hong Kong University Press
ISBN:9789622098565

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Yan TAN, an academic researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Flinders University of South Australia, is a demographer and human geographer. She has worked as a consultant to the Emerging Social Issues Division of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

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"The first book published outside China on the early stages of the Three Gorges resettlement this will have both policy and theoretical importance for planners of large infrastructure projects and for academics interested in the contentious social, environmental and resettlement issues associated with development." - Thayer Scudder, Anthropology Professor Emeritus, California Institute of Technology, author of: The Future of Large Dams"