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Displacement by Development: Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities
Peter Penz
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Description for Displacement by Development: Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities
paperback. Identifies ethical issues raised in displacing people through development, and how an allocation of responsibilities aids compensation and environmental stability. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: GTF; HPS; JFF; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 578.
For decades, policy-makers in government, development banks and foundations, NGOs, researchers and students have struggled with the problem of how to protect people who are displaced from their homes and livelihoods by development projects. This book addresses these concerns and explores how debates often become deadlocked between 'managerial' and 'movementist' perspectives. Using development ethics to determine the rights and responsibilities of various stakeholders, the authors find that displaced people must be empowered so as to share equitably in benefits rather than being victimized. They propose a governance model for development projects that would transform conflict over displacement into a more ... Read more
For decades, policy-makers in government, development banks and foundations, NGOs, researchers and students have struggled with the problem of how to protect people who are displaced from their homes and livelihoods by development projects. This book addresses these concerns and explores how debates often become deadlocked between 'managerial' and 'movementist' perspectives. Using development ethics to determine the rights and responsibilities of various stakeholders, the authors find that displaced people must be empowered so as to share equitably in benefits rather than being victimized. They propose a governance model for development projects that would transform conflict over displacement into a more ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521124645
SKU
V9780521124645
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About Peter Penz
Peter Penz is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and former Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. His publications include Consumer Sovereignty and Human Interests (Cambridge University Press, 1986) and Political Ecology: Global and Local (co-editor, 1998). Jay Drydyk is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University, President of the International Development Ethics Association, and ... Read more
Reviews for Displacement by Development: Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities
"...It is without doubt that this book offers an excellent presentation on the background of the issue of displacement by development.... Students and researchers will find this book as an essential reading material on the issue of displacement by development. As this book is the result of two research projects by the authors, they base their arguments on a plethora ... Read more