Resettlement in the Three Gorges Project
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ISBN：
9789622098565
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定價：
HK$ 350.00
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作者：
Yan TAN
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語言：
英語
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出版社：
Hong Kong University Press
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分類：
地理旅遊
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出版日期：
2007-12-01
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發行日期：
2008-01-02
- Examines the multi-dimensions of the Three Gorges Project resettlement policies and their implementations and consequences.
- Employs a multi-method approach — using geographical information system, interviews, social surveys and documentary analysis.
- Provides evaluations of the impacts on the displaced families and on the host communities, of government reactions to resettlement-related problems, and of the current status of the relocation programme in meeting the original objectives.
- Develops insightful analyses on a multitude of aspects little known and still subject to controversy and opposing interpretations.
- Has both policy and theoretical importance for policy-makers and planners contemplating large infrastructure projects and for all interested in social and environmental issues.
Dr Yan Tan is a human geographer and demographer. She is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia. She specialises in population and migration issues in China and Australia, and social applications of geographical information systems (GIS). She has worked as a consultant to the Emerging Social Issues Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) since 2006.
“The Three Gorges Dam is not only the world’s biggest, it also required the world’s largest ever development-caused population displacement and resettlement. This mega-resettlement has confronted giant hurdles, entailed enormous debates inside and outside China, spawned many bold and innovative solutions on the ground, and radically changed the social, human and physical geography of an immense area. Yet we still know much too little about it. Courageously and meticulously, Yan Tan undertook to study this complex process. She develops insightful analyses of its macro- and, particularly, micro-variables, on families’ daily lives, on women and marriages, on farming and housing, on economics and culture, on a multitude of aspects little known and still subject to controversy and opposing interpretations. The author opens up new windows for understanding and offers empirical ‘food’ for further thinking and in-depth debate.”
— Michael M. Cernea, Research Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University
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