Displacement by Development: Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities

by Peter Penz , Jay Drydyk , Pablo S. Bose

• ISBN13: 9780521124645
• ISBN10: 0521124646
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-07
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 manageable collective bargaining process and would empower displaced people to achieve equitable results. Their book will be valuable for readers in a wide range of fields including ethics, development studies, politics and international relations as well as policy making, project management and community development.

Author Biography

Peter Peru 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, 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 Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association. With Peter Penz he co-edited Global Justice, Global Democracy (1997). Pablo S. Bose is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Vermont. He is currently undertaking a research project with community organizations and service providers on transportation, mobility and access issues for refugees resettled in North America, from the perspective of environmental justice.

Table of Contents

List of tables	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Fundamentals	p. 15
Problems of polarization	p. 17
Defining displacement for and by development	p. 41
From Cost-Benefit analysis to Ethics	p. 59
Cost-benefit analysis and compensation	p. 63
Guidelines and rights	p. 84
The development ethics framework	p. 116
From values to responsibilities	p. 153
Ethical outcomes	p. 157
Ethical procedures	p. 187
From rights to responsibilities	p. 210
International responsibilities and rights regarding displacement	p. 243
Realizing Responsibilities	p. 261
Narmada revisited	p. 263
Starting points and future directions	p. 288
Bibliography	p. 305
Index	p. 327
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