Development, Environment and Migration: Lessons for Sustainability

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This book brings the discourses around social justice and sustainable development back into focus by looking at India’s mining sector and the state’s frameworks for economic development. The chapters in this volume analyse mining practices in the mineral-rich areas of eastern India through various case studies and highlight their immense human and environmental costs. This volume critically analyses selected mining projects in India that have resulted in large-scale displacements, impoverishment and environmental degradation. It identifies the gaps in policy, its implementation, and the lack of safeguards which threaten the socio-economic and ecological ways of life and the livelihoods of the local communities. Based on documents, reports, interviews and field observations, this book engages with the issues surrounding the mining sector, e.g., land acquisition, land use and degradation, the politics of compensation, policies, agitation and social mobilisation, health and agriculture, livelihood and gender. It further provides an assessment of local political economies and offers suggestive frameworks for inclusive growth in this sector. This book will be of interest to students and researchers exploring the disciplines of development studies, sociology, law and governance, human ecology and economics. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: mining sector and the idea of development: challenges, policies and possibilities Part I Development, displacement and dispossession: Macro Perspectives 2 When I listened to the voices of development communities 3 Coal mining-induced displacement and its impact on human development: a study on selected tribal households in Odisha 4 Problems of displacement and deprivation of tribes due to mining industrialisation in Eastern India (Orissa) 5 Land grabbing in tribal mineral belt of Odisha: implications for livelihood and environment 6 Gender and the mining sector: mapping the praxis of women workforce in the mining sector 7 Land acquisition and development-induced displacement in Odisha: a study on development projects in Western Odisha Part II Development, displacement and dispossession: selected case studies 8 Development, displacement and disposession: a study of POSCO India transit camp 9 Impact of displacement on social life: a case study from Talcher Coalfield 10 Land acquisition for mining and social inclusion in Talcher Coalfields of Odisha, India 11 Development, displacement and resistance movement: a reflection on Kalinga Nagar industrial complex Part III Emerging policy gaps 12 Land rights: the penumbral region in Indian constitutional space 13 A review of the audit reports on land acquisition and rehabilitation Index