Research Projects

New Manouawan Resettlement Village (Pasak Cholasith) Thailand: Population Displacement and Livelihood Reconstruction – Funder: Australian Research Council, Safety Net Grant ($15,000) Collaborating Institutions: Asian Studies Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Main Focus: Socio-cultural impacts of resettlement, social disarticulation, compensation and corruption.

Bhasha (Diamir) Dam, Northwest Frontier Province and Northern Areas, Pakistan: Socio-Cultural Impact on Displacement and the Loss of Cultural Heritage in the Chilas Valley – Funder: Macquarie University,  Scoping Study

 

Publications

(2015) ‘Don’t Go There: COP21 Negotiations and the Social Risks of Adaptation and Mitigation’, Conference Paper Human Migration and the Environment: Futures, Politics, Invention, 28 June 2015 to 1 July 2015, Durham University

(2014) ‘Displacement Potential of Climate Policies and Lessons from World Bank Safeguards’ presented at Conference: Social inequality and social justice in environmentally-induced relocation, Bielefeld University, Germany, 20-21 November, 2014

(2014) ‘Development-Created Displacement’, in The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Oxford: OUP

(2013) ‘Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: Implications for land acquisition and population relocation’, in Development Policy Review, Vol.31, Issue 6, November 2013

(2012) Displacement: The Human Cost of Development and Resettlement, New York, Palgrave Macmillan (with Bennett, O.)

(2011) ‘Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: Implications for land acquisition and population relocation’, PD22, commissioned reviewed by Global Environmental Migration Programme, UK Government’s Foresight Project, October

(2010) Non-Conflict Displacement: Challenges for the 21st Century, Oxford, Berghahn (with Morrell, G.)

(2007) ‘Development and Displacement: Institutionalising Responsibility’, Development, Volume 50, Number 3 (with Morrell, G.)

(2007) ‘Non-Conflict Displacement: A Thematic Literature and Organisational Review, August, pp.166, IDMC, Geneva

(2003) Privatising Infrastructure Development: ‘Development Refugees’ and the Resettlement Challenge’ in Sullivan, R. ed.  Human Rights and Business: Dilemmas and Solutions, London: Greenleaf Publishing

(2002) ‘Involuntary Resettlement, Impoverishment Risks and Sustainable Livelihoods’ in Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, Vol.2.

(2000) Risks and Reconstruction: Experiences of Refugees and Resettlers,Washington, D.C.: World Bank Publications (with Cernea, M.M.)

(2000) ‘The Resettlement of Oustees and Refugees’ in (eds)  Risks and Reconstruction: Experiences of Refugees and Resettlers,  Washington D.C.: World Bank Publications

(1996) Understanding Impoverishment: The Consequences of Development-Induced Displacement Oxford: Oxford University/Berghahn Books, Series on Forced Migration