Development Induced Displacement Research Papers (original) (raw)

2025, Las Tres Hermanas en Vulnerabilidad

Meet The Sisters As our planet Earth becomes more connected and visible to us all through technology, the Anthropocene systematic devastation can no longer be hidden. The inequalities we have built

2025, Energy research and social science

Energy poverty remains an enduring challenge in Bangladesh, with 41 million people lacking electricity. Foreign states, corporations, and financial institutions have historically shaped the form and terms of the country's energy system, which is predominantly fossil fuel based. Shifting geographies of energy extraction and processing continue to reflect this past and influence current national energy debates in Bangladesh. The Rampal coal-fired energy project, a joint initiative with India, exemplifies these tensions. Opposition to the Rampal plant, proposed in the ecologically sensitive Sundarbans region, and other controversial energy extraction and processing projects led some activists and impacted stakeholders to promote the idea of "our energy, our rights." The articulation of an energy rights discourse asserts that Bangladesh should extract and control national energy resources in a manner that respects rights and provides the basis for analyzing the energy justice landscape in the nation and beyond. The rights discourse rejects the nation's legacy of poor energy decisions, and the associated realities of energy poverty. Contributing to emerging ideas around the geographies of energy justice, this research paper explores the practical application by activists and stakeholders of rights discourses to contested energy projects in Bangladesh. It shows how distributional energy justice activism critiques the historical political economy of economic liberalization and energy exploitation in the country and centers the rights concerns of energy poverty while also considering climate change vulnerabilities.

2025, Development in Practice

The loss of land, livelihoods and home associated with displacement frequently has profound impacts on people, with women particularly vulnerable to violence, impoverishment and marginalisation. Lessons gleaned broadly from the gendered experiences of displacement offer insights to those evicted and dispossessed for development projects. This article takes a gender lens to highlight activism related to development-forced evictions locally and globally, including efforts to demand state and corporate accountability. It concludes with insights on how applied research and solidarity across boundaries can help support, rather than undermine, women's leadership on these pressing issues.

2025, The Extractive Industries and Society

Coal extraction and processing remains at the heart of energy security in India. As ever larger amounts of electricity are produced to support overall economic growth, this creates environmental justice challenges as people in the coal-producing areas are exposed to perilous air pollution levels. Federal technocrats shape the environmental governance of coal, prioritizing energy security and de-emphasizing the environmental health risks associated with coal extraction and processing. We argue that these technocrats render the pollution technical to continue the expansion of the nation's energy supply. In response, pollution-affected people in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh increasingly attempt to take technical approaches to contest high levels of pollution to counter the government's claims about acceptable levels of pollution. This tactic relies on an increased ability to counter expert pollution data collection and analysis. The approach requires connections with wider civil society networks who have the technical and legal knowledge required to quantify and judicially contest air pollution practices. Given conditions of great regulatory uncertainty in spite of well-developed legal norms, we conclude that a strategy based on long-term community cohesion and awareness-building, combined with independent air pollution monitoring by the impacted stakeholders, are crucial for sustained coal pollution mitigation.

2025, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

India has over the recent decade witnessed a spate of land transfers as Special Economic Zones, extractive industries, or real estate dispossess farmers, land owners, and indigenous groups of their land. As a result, struggles over land have emerged with force in many locations, almost across India. Yet while the political economy and legal aspects of India’s new ‘land wars’ are well documented, the discourses and identities mobilised against large-scale forcible land transfers receive less scholarly attention. We suggest ‘the regional identity politics’ of India’s current land wars to explain the important role of place-based identities in garnering broad, public support for popular anti-dispossession movements. We explore how land, and its produce, are mobilised by anti-dispossession movements in the Indian states of Goa and West Bengal. The movements mobilised land and food not as emblematic of structural changes in the political economy, but first and foremost within a symbolic ...

2025, Geoforum

The right to food is increasingly evoked by a range of actors, but there is not sufficient critical analysis of distinct interpretations of what this right means in practice. Through examination of a mineral extraction project with agricultural implications, this article explores diverse human rights narratives and illuminates associated corporate efforts to minimize recognition of food as a fundamental right. A British mining company proposes the Phulbari open pit coal mine in an agriculturally important region of Bangladesh. Highly contested by affected populations, clashes in 2006 between the police and protestors turned deadly in the area. In February 2012, a group of UN Special Rapporteurs cautioned the Government of Bangladesh regarding human rights violations associated with the planned mine. They warned that the project would displace hundreds of thousands of people, while destroying fertile agricultural land. In contrast, an ongoing publicity campaign by the corporation attempts to promote their intervention as a positive step, fully compliant with international human rights and corporate social responsibility standards. Taking this case as an exemplar, the article illuminates the pursuit of mining profit and the distinct use of human rights narratives by corporations and UN Special Rapporteurs. These diverse actors represent the layering of voices weighing in on mineral extraction and associated right to food concerns. Collectively, these layered narratives represent a new terrain for the promotion and contestation of mining and highlight the need to scrutinize mining practices in light of social responsibility and human rights claims being voluntary and self-regulated.

2025, WZKM

This paper investigates the changing Bedouinity (Bedouin identity) of the Bdul Bedouin community in Petra and Umm Sayhoun, Jordan, focusing on their perceptions and ideologies surrounding Bedouin Arabic (BA). The Bdul, traditionally semi-nomadic, were forcibly displaced from Petra’s caves to government housing in Umm Sayhoun. As the tourism industry in Petra developed, the community increasingly became dependent on the tourism sector, altering their traditional lifestyle and identity. This study explores
how the Bdul’s Bedouinity, once tied to a semi-nomadic way of life and subsistence economy, has been reshaped in response to economic pressures and tourism-driven displacement. Language plays a central role in this transformation, with BA viewed as a vital marker of their identity. The analysis reveals that the Bdul community’s language ideologies are deeply connected to notions of (linguistic) purity, emphasizing simplicity,
authenticity, and morality as core dimensions of their cultural identity.

2025, Make the Road New Jersey; Popular Democracy in Action

"Fair Rents, Stable Communities: How Strong Rent Stabilization Can Help Passaic Thrive" provides compelling evidence that Passaic, NJ’s recently enacted rent stabilization law, while a historic step, does not go far enough to protect... more

2025, South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics

This paper highlighted the socioeconomic and cultural disruptions endured by indigenous communities affected by compulsory land acquisition for state-led development initiatives. The objective was to assess how effectively current legal frameworks protect indigenous rights during compulsory land acquisition. A systematic literature review was conducted, analyzing peerreviewed articles published between 2000 and 2024. The findings revealed that legal frameworks, such as Ghana's State Lands Act of 1962, marginalized customary land tenure systems, resulting in fragile land rights, diminished economic autonomy, and erosion of cultural heritage. Inadequate consultation, poor compensation mechanisms, and insufficient recognition of customary rights

2025, TKPT

Kata Kunci : Reorganisasi Ruang, Krisis Sosial Ekologis, Penyingkiran Paksa Perempuan, Masyarakat Adat

2025, LIAS-workshop “Cities in times of climate change”

2025, AYAN

The Paper critically examines the impact of large-scale development and resettlement projects in post-independence India, with a particular focus on the social, economic, and gendered consequences for displaced populations. It highlights how, despite the intentions of modern development—such as the construction of dams, mining, industrial projects, and infrastructure—millions of people, primarily from marginalized and tribal communities, have been uprooted from their ancestral lands.
Key findings include:
• Displacement and Marginalization: Development projects have led to the displacement of millions, often without adequate rehabilitation or compensation. Most displaced persons (DPs) belong to marginalized groups, including women, children, and lower castes, who face persistent exclusion from land rights and livelihoods.
• Inadequate Rehabilitation: The majority of resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) policies have failed to restore the socio-economic status of the displaced. Only a small fraction of those displaced have been properly rehabilitated, resulting in chronic poverty, loss of community, and social disintegration.
• Gendered Impacts: Women and girls are disproportionately affected by displacement, losing both land rights and social security. Patriarchal norms further marginalize displaced women, who are rarely recognized as independent landowners or beneficiaries in rehabilitation schemes.
• Policy and Implementation Gaps: There is a significant disconnect between policy intentions and actual outcomes. Official records often underreport the number of displaced, and compensation or land allotment is frequently delayed or denied. The lack of gender-sensitive and community-focused policies exacerbates the vulnerability of affected populations.
• Environmental and Social Costs: Besides social disruption, development-induced displacement has also led to environmental degradation and loss of traditional livelihoods, further undermining the well-being of displaced communities.
The Paper concludes that while development is essential, it should not come at the cost of the most vulnerable. There is a pressing need for more inclusive, transparent, and accountable policies that prioritize the rights and rehabilitation of displaced persons, especially women and marginalized groups.

2025, Bihar Research Journal

This paper investigates the phenomenon of developmentinduced displacement in Jharkhand, India, through the lens of political economy. It traces the historical roots of indigenous resistance, examines the impact of industrialization and state policies on tribal communities, and analyses contemporary protest movements. Drawing on case studies such as the Koel-Karo antidam movement, the Pathalgadi assertion, and anti-mining struggles, the paper reveals how state-led development has often marginalized Adivasi populations. The study concludes with policy recommendations for more inclusive and equitable development.

2025, The Land Deal Politics Initiative - Working Paper Series

This paper offers a typology of state-backed land dispossession and a conceptual framework to advance explanations of this phenomenon. It warns against the careless application of the ‘primitive accumulation’
and ‘accumulation by dispossession’ concepts. Both offer vital insights into the links between capitalism and land dispossession, but - on their own - are insufficient tools for examining coercive land acquisitions
in the contemporary context. The paper includes a sympathetic engagement with Levien’s theory of land dispossession. Levien is one of few authors who directly tackles the question: why or under what conditions is land acquired via coercive dispossession rather than voluntary market-exchange? He concludes that extra-economic force is used to facilitate accumulation where “land markets are not fully capitalist”. This paper argues instead that what he calls “barriers to accumulation” are inherent to capitalist land markets themselves.

2025

Displacement is traumatic as it forces the movement of individuals from their babitual residence. People are displaced mostly due to political reasons, internal violence, natural disaster and above all environmental degradation caused by government sponsored development projects for modernisation and urbanisation purpose. The irony behind dam construction is displacement of the native for whom the dam was originally meant to be. Internal displacement poses a great danger and uncertainty among the native people. Within this purview, this paper aims at analysing the theme of displacement and injustice caused to the native people as represented in Norbert D'Souza's Dweepa.

2025

The papers submitted for the purpose of the summit form the content of this publication. They include academic articles, interviews with Swedish civil servants and politicians and articles from civil society organisations. They reflect the diverse angles from which this topic can and should be addressed. We hope it will be a useful resource for politicians, civil servants working in local government and researchers and practitioners interested in human rights implementation at the local level.

2025, Frontline (The Hindu)

In March 2025, an angry crowd of 300 villagers descended upon a mining site in Chanda mouza in West Bengal's Birbhum district. The word had spread that despite their protests, the Trinamool government had commenced the digging of the coal pit. And, for sure, tractors had swung into action, men hired from outside were supervising the digging, and everything was covered with a layer of red Deocha-Pachami is not development. It's dispossession in disguise Framed as progress, the coal project commodifies Adivasi land, flouts forest rights, and replaces dignity with surveillance, fear, and fragile jobs.

2025, Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The research paper tries to present the concept of development induced displacement. The present research paper is a systematic review study that highlights various dimensions of resettlement and rehabilitation within the context of development induced displacement. Development induced displacement has been one of the significant cause of deprivation of livelihood of the people, and it is in this backdrop that the study has tried to highlight the global scenario of resettlement and rehabilitation. This review study would be effective for developing an understanding about the various dimensions of resettlement and rehabilitation in the context of development induced displacement.

2025

The role of law in dispossession is often overlooked or at least downplayed in the literature, with the law being represented as something that politicians and state officials can change or ignore at will. This is too simplistic. This socio-legal article argues that the way state authorities use and misuse the law in state-led dispossession impacts the outcomes of these processes and warrants consideration in the study of this phenomenon. Although variable, the law has autonomy from social, political, and economic factors. Building on four case studies from Timor-Leste, this article proposes an analytical framework through which the role of law in dispossession can be more precisely studied and thus better understood. This framework identifies three key points of analysis: (1) the legal mechanisms used for dispossession, (2) the uses of the law, and (3) the misuses of the law for dispossession, and proposes a typology for each.

2025, Manejo Integrado De Plagas Y Agroecologia

Se investigó el efecto del oxicloruro de cobre, el clorotalonil y el sulfato de cobre en el desarrollo in vitro de siete cepas del hongo Lecanicillium (=Verticillium) lecanii. Todos los productos mostraron un efecto adverso al desarrollo del hongo, el cual varió dependiendo de la cepa y del producto evaluado. El efecto sobre el desarrollo micelial fue de tipo fungistático, y se detectaron diferencias estadísticas (P < 0,05) entre las diferentes cepas. Los porcentajes de inhibición fueron de 79,20%, 68,53% y 28,39%, para el oxicloruro de cobre, el sulfato de cobre y el clorotalonil, respectivamente. La cepa más sensible tuvo una inhibición de 90,78%, 89,52%, y 36,13% para el sulfato de cobre, el oxicloruro de cobre y el clorotalonil, respectivamente. El efecto sobre la germinación con la dosis alta fluctuó entre 97% y 99% y fue irreversible. Al parecer, las cepas catalogadas como de conidios pequeños fueron las más afectadas en su germinación.

2025

Unpacking es un videojuego que, a pesar de su aparente simplicidad como juego de organización, encierra una profunda reflexión sobre la identidad, el hogar y la generación millennial. Su mecánica permite contar una historia sin narración explícita, revelando la vida de su protagonista a través de los objetos personales que la acompañan en cada mudanza. Además, representa el deseo contemporáneo de encontrar refugio en un espacio propio. Más allá del escapismo, Unpacking explora la relación entre memoria y posesiones, mostrando cómo los objetos no solo cuentan historias, sino que también reflejan nuestra evolución y adaptación al entorno.

2025, Empowering Education: Policies and Schemes for Scheduled Tribes in Ladakh

This research explores the educational policies designed to empower Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Ladakh, highlighting their significance in addressing historical disparities and fostering inclusive development. Despite Ladakh's cultural and ecological richness, its tribal communities face challenges stemming from geographic isolation, socioeconomic constraints, and inadequate infrastructure. Initiatives such as the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarship Schemes, and the National Fellowship for Higher Education have been pivotal in improving access to education and reducing dropout rates. Various scholarships and grassroots efforts, such as Village Education Committees (VECs), emphasize a comprehensive approach to educational development by bridging the divide and promoting community ownership. While these policies have made significant strides, challenges persist, including infrastructural deficits and cultural disconnects in mainstream education. The study concludes that sustained investment, culturally relevant curricula, and community-driven strategies are essential for the long-term educational advancement of STs in Ladakh. By ensuring education is accessible and responsive to tribal needs, these initiatives can empower Ladakh's tribal communities to thrive in a modern world while preserving their unique heritage.

2025

Building on a long-term qualitative field research and satellite imageries, this essay aims to illuminate how the local political economy and progressively mounting neoliberal capitalism have led to a process of shrinking rural through grabbing of land and commons in order to build a neoliberal transformative global city, and is causing a perturbing environmental degradation. It also aims to elaborate on how the local and national media played a central part in covering and bringing up these issues to the attention of the citizenries and state authorities.

2025, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs

Do Good Cause eviction protections reduce the rate of housing production? Our preliminary analysis suggests not; housing production in California, Oregon, and New Hampshire did not decline after passage of Good or Just Cause relative to nearby states without the legislation. Across the USA, state legislatures are considering legislation that requires landlords to document “Good Cause” when evicting renters. Stakeholders make contrasting claims about the potential impact of the policy. In support, tenant advocates argue that it helps families stay in their homes amidst a housing affordability and homelessness crisis. In opposition, landlord lobbyists suggest that Good Cause will disincentivize developers from building new multifamily rental housing and lead to a decline in housing supply, and, thus, exacerbate the housing crisis. We set out to investigate the existing empirical research, and, subsequently, identified a gap across the fields of housing economics and policy studies on the impact of Good Cause on housing markets. We gathered data from three states – California, Oregon, and New Hampshire – where “Good” or “Just Cause” laws passed over the last decade. We conducted a difference-in-difference analysis on whether the trend in new permits at the county-level in states subject to the passage of Good Cause were different from the trends in nearby counties in states not subject to the law. The model controlled for other factors: county-level GDP, population, unemployment and per capita income. We found that permits did not decline in California, Oregon, or New Hampshire counties relative to the changes occurring in surrounding states, ceteris paribus. Building on existing research that suggests that Good Cause will keep families in their homes because it results in lower rates of evictions and displacement, our findings suggest that passing Good Cause eviction protections will not result in reduced rates of new housing production or, subsequently, housing supply.

2025, A+ArchDesign

This study investigates the intricate relationship between urban morphology and urban ecology, focusing on the water networks within Bengaluru's Koramangala Challaghatta Valley. The research addresses the need to understand how urbanization has altered these historically significant water systems and their impact on urban ecology. Despite their critical role, these water networks have experienced significant transformations due to land reclamation and buffer zone creation, highlighting a gap in current urban planning practices. To bridge this gap, the study used a combination of field reconnaissance, including systematic site observations and un structured stakeholder interviews at 20 strategically selected sites along the water network. The analysis involved mapping and evaluating the land-water interface to identify specific typologies of transformation and their implications for urban ecology. The results reveal that urbanization and planning regulations have considerably disrupted the water network. The study found that the primary transformations include land reclamation and land use along the water network, which have altered the ecological functions and spatial configuration of the water systems. Based on these findings, the study recommends the adoption of targeted planning tools and policy adjustments that consider the ecological carrying capacity of sensitive zones. Specifically, it suggests policies for improved collective management of urban commons and more precise regulations to integrate and protect water networks in urban development. These recommendations aim to address the gaps in the current urban planning policies and enhance the sustainability and effectiveness of urban planning in rapidly expanding cities.

2025, The Indian Express

Ravaged by the 2004 tsunami and aid, the historically isolated Indigenous peoples of Great Nicobar Island now face the perils of megadevelopment

2025, Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 10: 2022-23

Rock art on lateritic formations have been earlier reported from Dakshina Kannada-Kasargod (Tulu Nadu) and Goa-Sindhudurg-Ratnagiri regions but was not reported from Uttar Kannada region. The discovery of Petroglyphs from Karoor near Bhatkkal has now bridged the gap between these two regions. The motifs in Karnataka region do show a similarity. This article reporting the rock art motifs noticed at Karoor tries to probe the site's role as a sacred space possibly associated Bhuta cult prevalent in the region.

2025, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

This paper investigates worsening flooding damage recently experienced in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Contrary to Cambodia government leadership assertions that these floods have been caused by climate change, the study adopts an urban political ecology framework to uncover their actual underlying causes, which are rooted in political decisions, economic interests, and prevailing power dynamics. We argue that three processes have significantly contributed to the adverse flooding outcomes. First, rapid and uncoordinated urban land transformations have exacerbated flooding, disproportionately benefiting the economic elites. Second, inadequate governance of waste management systems and flood protection infrastructure has further compounded flooding. Last, state-sanctioned land reclamation projects of lakes and wetlands, which favor business and political elites, have displaced the urban poor and rendered the city, but particularly this group, more susceptible to flooding risks. All these processes are linked to Cambodia's neopatrimonial political economic system, and are sustained by informal practices, coercion, and financial profits for elites. The urban poor tend to suffer the most, facing displacement risks and worsening vulnerability to floods. Our research transcends the rural-urban dichotomy, revealing the interconnectedness of this system across different contexts, including the influence of illicit gains from land enclosures on development. It also aims to contribute to international debates by highlighting that flood damage and losses are not solely caused by climate change but are also shaped by political-economic factors specific to each location.

2025, pdf.wri.org

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2025

This research was conducted at the Experimental Farm "La Represa" property Quevedo State Technical University, located in the Fayta, 7,5 mile of the Via San Carlos , province of Los Rios - Ecuador. With 01 o 03'18 '' south latitude and 79 o 25'24 '' west longitude.At an altitude of 73 meters, with 24,5 ° C, with a relative humidity of 77,4 % , to 823 of heleofania, and average annual rainfall of 2178 mm.The soils are clay loam with a pH of 5,7. The experiment lasted a year. The association of four variables were clones of cacao (EET- 96, EET- 103 EET- 544 and CCN -51) with two tree species (Fernan Sanchez and teak). With four sub treatments and three replicates per tree species, was used a randomized complete block design in parcels divided (forestry species and cacao clones). Were planted 24 experimental units in an area of 9963 m2. 3x3 m distance between plants, with a population of 824 cocoa plants .The forestry species trees have 9x9 m distance,...

2025, Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration

Amidst growing socio-environmental conflicts, violence, record murders of environmental activists and forced displacements caused directly and indirectly by extractive activities, this text analyzes the origins, main characteristics, and links between this model of accumulation and dispossession and migration. Based on a review of specialized literature and secondary data, the impacts of extractivism on territories and communities are analyzed, highlighting that these are greater and deeper in the case of women and indigenous and racialized populations. Finally, some relevant cases are studied in the context of Africa and Latin America that show the clear connections between extractivism, internal displacement and forced international migration. Key words: extractivism, internal displacement, forced international migration, violence, environmental conflicts.

2025, Economic and Political Weekly

While the Government of India
is mulling over the scrapping
of the Free Movement Regime
and fencing the India–Myanmar
border due to security reasons,
both the Mizoram and Nagaland
governments perceive it as
potentially disrupting the ethnic
bonds among the communities
across the border. The issue is
an example of how collective
identities and shared values cut
across physical boundaries set
by the modern nation states.
Ethnicity as a primordial identity
has the potential to disengage
with political identity created
by territorial states. However,
the end result depends on the
negotiating capacity of the state
with different stakeholders

2025

Aðferðir og áhrif stjórnunar á samþaettingu í þjónustu Akureyrarbaejar

2024

Anaegjulegt hefur verið að fylgjast með þvi hvernig ahugi Islendinga a malefnum þrounarlanda virðist hafa aukist a undanfornum arum. Fjolmiðlar hafa og tekið við ser; algengt er að fjallað se um hin fataekari riki heims a siðum dagblaða og i ljosvakamiðlum. Þrounarmal eru i deiglunni. Yfirbragð þeirra upplýsinga sem við hofum fengið hefur þo ekki breyst alveg i takti við aukið magn þeirra: Enn ber su mynd sem dregin er upp af mannlifi i Afriku sunnan Sahara einkum keim af allsleysi og orbirgð, orvinglun og krom. Enn er okkur innraett su hugmynd að i Afriku bui einsleitt folk an menningarserkenna og okkur er litt veitt innsýn i serkenni mismunandi rikja i alfunni og otolulegra þjoðflokka, rikrar floru tungumala og nýtingu margbreytilegs natturufars. Of oft virðist okkur aetlað að fella þann taepa milljarð manna sem alfuna byggir undir hatt almennrar staðalmyndar af "Afriku".

2024, Critical analysis on Right to fair compensation and transparency in Land acquisition

2024, Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

2024

This thesis is presented together with the documentary film The two ewes as a final project for a MA degree in Applied Studies in Culture and Communication from the University of Iceland. Urban farming is discussed here and examined as a possible way for more sustainable cities. The characteristics of this type of farming will be discussed and an attempt is made to understand better its concepts and attributes. Examples both from Reykjavík and elsewhere in Europe are observed along with attitudes of authorities and public are examined. Limitations and problems concerning urban agriculture are also viewed. The decision to make a creative documentary film is discussed as for the importance of visual stimulus to raise awareness and inspire people.

2024

This paper analyzes Nepal's current act and land acquisition and compensation policies. Land acquisition and compensation are the main controversial issues protests occur when the property is taken during development projects; these protests are frequently caused by inadequate compensation, increased project expenses, and the forced displacement of citizens, who may become homeless. The impacts of land acquisition are highlighted in the research, but laws and policies require further attention. So, the main research questions of this article are what kind of administrative structures are there in Nepal's policies and laws related to land acquisition, what are the processes and how is compensation determined etc.? It reviews the legal structures and policies for property acquisition and the process of land acquisitions. It has adopted a descriptive research design, analyzing, and discussing the weaknesses of acts and policies. It concludes that the compensation is considered inadequate, lacks transparency in the land acquisition process, and lacks any resettlement and environmental impact provisions. (;).

2024, Columbia University | Barnard-Columbia Urban Review (1st Authorship)

In 1934, during the Great Depression, the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works established the Joint Committee on Housing in Baltimore to address urban blight. Their rehabilitation plan targeted six predominantly African American and industrial neighborhoods, citing deteriorating housing, public health crises, and social instability. However, rather than addressing structural drivers in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, such as overcrowding, systemic poverty, and housing discrimination (redlining), the joint committee scapegoated Black residents. They pathologized tuberculosis and proposed the displacement of many residential areas. This paper evaluates the committee’s deeply flawed reporting and underscores the necessity of inclusive urban planning that rectifies structural inequities enacted to promote equitable developments throughout Baltimore.

2024

Ritgerðina má ekki afrita nema með leyfi höfundar.

2024

Ritgerðina má ekki afrita nema með leyfi höfundar.

2024

Preambles for SDG-Target Debate 3) The question of the commons debate (SDGs 6, 7, 14, 15) 4) The landgrab/large-scale land aquisition debate (SDGs 7, 8, 9) 5) The climate change debate (SDGs 11, 12, 13) 6) The distributional justice... more
Preambles for SDG-Target Debate 3) The question of the commons debate (SDGs 6, 7, 14, 15) 4) The landgrab/large-scale land aquisition debate (SDGs 7, 8, 9) 5) The climate change debate (SDGs 11, 12, 13) 6) The distributional justice debate (SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) 7) The new institutional politics of distribution debate (SDGs 10, 16) 8) The local initiatives and participation debate (SDG 17) 9) Synthesis and final conclusions Bibliography