Skills’ sets and shared benefits: perceptions of resettled people from the Yangtze-Huai River Diversion Project in China

Xu, Junzhuo; Shi, Guangming; Li, Bingqin; Fischer, Thomas B.; Zhang, Ruilian; Yan, Dengcai; Jiang, Jingjun; Yang, Qi; Zhou, Sun

doi:10.1080/14615517.2020.1848242

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“…Our objective in this article is to demonstrate the importance of RD for understanding the long-term development prospects of displaced people and the communities that are required, under the same involuntary displacement process, to accommodate them. Our work confirms that resettlement remains synonymous with impoverishment (Koranteng & Shi, 2018;Wilmsen et al, 2019), and that the burdens often fall disparately on already disadvantaged individuals and communities (Cooke et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2019;Xu et al, 2020;Shi & Shang, 2020).…”

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An applied framework for assessing the relative deprivation of dam‐affected communities

Zhang

Owen

Kemp

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Sustainable Development

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Over the past half century, hydropower dams have displaced 40-80 million people around the world. In the development literature, the outcome of these shocks is represented in the form of "absolute deprivation." The policy norms surrounding development-induced displacement and resettlement, across all industries, prioritize compensation as the primary means through which to address any short-term deprivation caused by the shock of displacement. One dimension that has been overlooked is the force and effect of "relative deprivation (RD)." To demonstrate the merits of the RD approach, we develop a novel framework to assess the poverty conditions of affected communities across different resettlement schemes in Qinghai Province, China. A review of the case literature shows the scope and depth of deprivations experienced by those directly impacted by project-induced displacement.

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An applied framework for assessing the relative deprivation of dam‐affected communities

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Kemp

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“…The document, titled the World Bank working guidelines: involuntary resettlement (operational guidelines OD4.30), pointed out that priority should be given to the resettlement issue and that the best scheme should be selected in the early planning stage of the project [19]. The inadequacy of the World Bank document is that it advises that the compensation claim for the resettlers be paid in full before the relocation and that compensation not involve assistance for the problems and difficulties faced by the resettlers after the relocation [20]. The resettlement policy focuses mainly on project construction while ignoring concerns about the development of resettlers, resulting in insufficient resettlement funds and prominent environmental problems [21].…”

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Impact Assessment of the Implementation Effect of the Post-Relocation Support Policies of Rural Reservoir Resettlers’ Livelihoods in Energy Transition

Liang,

Shi,

Sun

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Energy transition is a major structural change in the whole social system, and the energy system must be changed globally to replace fossil fuels. Hydropower is one of the largest sources of renewable energy in the world. However, owing to the construction of hydropower projects, involuntary resettlers are suffering from being far away from their native land, losing the land cultivated for generations and the houses they live in, and losing the social relationship network based on geography and blood ties. Based on the system evaluation theory of reservoir resettlement and referring to relevant research findings, this paper constructs a comprehensive evaluation index framework for assessing the implementation effect of the Post-Relocation Support (PReS) policy. The research region is located in Zhijin County, Bijie City, Guizhou Province, China. Accordingly, a combined method of a structural equation model and a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model is used in this paper to analyze the implementation of the PReS policy. The results show that the total score of implementing effects of the PReS policy is 4.4, with dramatic significance. The subindex scores of the resettlers’ family income, living conditions, and production conditions; the local economy; and social stability are 4.3, 4.6, 4.4, 4.6, and 4.3, respectively, with dramatic significance. This paper has analyzed and summarized the successful practices of implementing the PReS policy for reservoir resettlers in three dimensions: poverty alleviation, beautiful home construction, and accelerating rural revitalization. Research shows that China’s rural reservoir resettlers’ PReS policy has been more effective in restoring the livelihoods of reservoir resettlers.

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“…Some models have been derived and developed, including Cernea's IRR model [30], Scudder and Colson's "stage" model [35,36], Downing and Garcia-Downing's "Routine/Dissonant Culture" and psycho-socio-culture model [37], de Wet's spatial and complexity model [38], Shi's five-stages resettlement system evolutionary model [39,40], nature resources conversion model [39,40], Shi and Shang's land asset securitization model [41], and Zhang's relative deprivation model [42], etc. Many new approaches were proposed and implemented world-wide, such as resettlement legislation [43], investment-impetus [44], resettlement development [45], benefit-sharing [46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53], land asset securitization [1], policyplan-implementation management [54][55][56][57], stakeholders' participatory development and community engagement [58][59][60], social stability risk assessment [61], environment and social impact assessment and management (ESIAM) [62,63]. However, all these types of research are still on the way.…”

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Effects of the Post-Relocation Support Policy on Livelihood Capital of the Reservoir Resettlers and Its Implications—A Study in Wujiang Sub-Stream of Yangtze River of China

Shi

Dong

2022

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Hydropower energy is a clean alternative energy that has less impact on global climate change than fossil energy. However, the subsequent displacement and resettlement caused by dam construction is a global challenge perplexing the displaced population and the stability of the local socio-economic system. Without proper reconstruction and rehabilitation, the resettlers were highly risked in impoverishment. The Chinese government has formulated and implemented the post-relocation support (PReS) policy for reservoir resettlement and has continuously supported the resettlers to improve their livelihoods and socio-economic conditions since 2006. This paper focus on the 20 years dimension before and after policy formation, tests the variation of resettlers’ livelihood capital and explores the effectiveness of the PReS policy and its blank spots based on a survey of 360 affected households by three big hydroelectric dams in China. The results show that reservoir resettlers would have caused the overall decline of resettlers’ livelihood capital. The prominent problem is that the reduction of land resources and population relocation leads to the changes of resettlers’ livelihood diversification and lifestyle change, which puts forward new requirements for the improvement of job skills and personal capability; the policy plays a significant role in rapidly improving the social, economic, and physical assets of resettlers in the early stage of reservoir resettlement; from the time scale of 15 years of policy implementation, the resettlement policy has an obvious slow-release effect on making up for the improvement of natural resources development and human capital; there are still blank spots in the current resettlement policy. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust and extend the policy for specific groups of people.

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Skills’ sets and shared benefits: perceptions of resettled people from the Yangtze-Huai River Diversion Project in China

Cited by 11 publications

References 34 publications

An applied framework for assessing the relative deprivation of dam‐affected communities

An applied framework for assessing the relative deprivation of dam‐affected communities

Impact Assessment of the Implementation Effect of the Post-Relocation Support Policies of Rural Reservoir Resettlers’ Livelihoods in Energy Transition

Effects of the Post-Relocation Support Policy on Livelihood Capital of the Reservoir Resettlers and Its Implications—A Study in Wujiang Sub-Stream of Yangtze River of China

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