Following a series of high-profile problems with resettlement associated with large dam development projects in the 1980s and early 1990s, multilateral development banks and other institutions adopted policies designed to prevent and mitigate the worst effects of resettlement. Please join the Environmental Law Institute, the University of Tokyo, and Hosei University for a distinguished panel discussion of lessons from the last 20 years, and explore what this means for the future of resettlement policy.
Professor Ryo Fujikura (Hosei University) and Professor Mikiyasu Nakayama (University of Tokyo) will present findings from their forthcoming book Resettlement Policy in Large Development Projects (Routledge). Michael Cernea will present lessons from his book Can Compensation Prevent Impoverishment?: Reforming Resettlement through Investments and Benefit-Sharing (Oxford University Press). Bruce Rich (Environmental Law Institute) will provide comments, drawing on his books Mortgaging the Earth and Foreclosing the Future. Syafruddin Karimi (Andalas University, Indonesia) will also provide commentary. Carl Bruch (Environmental Law Institute) will moderate.