Brooke Wilmsen

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse DFDR for its frailties, identify these lessons and situate them within the broader political economy, and provide contextual considerations for planners organizing resettlements in response to climate change.

TL;DR: This paper examined the Three Gorges Dam resettlement in China's Hubei province and found that while the Chinese government has devised an inspired toolbox of benefit-sharing initiatives, the gains accrue to a minority who live in the most amenable location of the three gorges area and concluded that the availability of capital through benefit sharing initiatives does not guarantee its productive use.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that despite improvements to infrastructure and housing, incomes generally declined, livelihoods were dismantled, and permanent employment was replaced by more temporary employment in the region of the Three Gorges Dam.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of resettlement on farming households in two villages within the area inundated by the Three Gorges Dam, China were analyzed and a political economic model was proposed.

TL;DR: This article found that the success of involuntary resettlement is contingent on recasting the involuntary as voluntary and that it is not volition that leads to better outcomes, but people-centred practices that are embedded in policy, planning, and implementation of PAR.