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Infrastructural Projects, Land Use Conflicts and Socioeconomic Impacts Nexus : a Case Study of Diamer Bhasha Dam Project, Pakistan
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Auteur(s) : |
Muazzam Sabir, Auteur (et co-auteur)
André Torre, Directeur de thèse (et co-directeur) |
Type de document : | Thèse |
Sujets : | Etudes d'impact (administration publique) -- Diamer Bhasha, Barrage de (Pakistan) -- Thèses et écrits académiques ; Infrastructure (économie politique) -- Pakistan -- Thèses et écrits académiques ; Gestion des conflits -- Thèses et écrits académiques |
Résumé : |
Land use change for the purpose of development always comes with conflicts among different stakeholders, especially under the construction or expansion of developmental projects in developing countries. Thus, infrastructural projects like dams have both positive and negative consequences in this regard. The conflicts in such projects emerge with view of issues associated with the superposition of land expectation, as well as different stakeholders' interests. They appear in different forms, depending upon their intensity, with severe impacts on local people. The article deals with conflicts arising among different actors and their socioeconomic impacts on affected people, due to construction of Diamer Bhasha Dam project in Pakistan. This project started facing opposition from land acq[...]
Land use change for the purpose of development always comes with conflicts among different stakeholders, especially under the construction or expansion of developmental projects in developing countries. Thus, infrastructural projects like dams have both positive and negative consequences in this regard. The conflicts in such projects emerge with view of issues associated with the superposition of land expectation, as well as different stakeholders' interests. They appear in different forms, depending upon their intensity, with severe impacts on local people. The article deals with conflicts arising among different actors and their socioeconomic impacts on affected people, due to construction of Diamer Bhasha Dam project in Pakistan. This project started facing opposition from land acquisition and encouraged protestations, legal action in court, road blockage, threatening the project contractor, and violation.In order to analyze the conflicts and to assess the socioeconomic impacts of the project, we used both primary and secondary data sources. About 61 interviews with experts and stakeholders of different backgrounds were conducted.Moreover, under the secondary source about 289 articles from different national and regional dailies on conflicts and socioeconomics impacts of the Dam were studied in order to cross check the information. Further, some literature published by public and private organizations was also consulted.Preliminary results show different conflicts between affected people and Government and also among different groups of locally affected people, over land compensations and property rights. This study further highlights the socioeconomic issues of the project in the form of ineffective resettlement plan and loss of employment opportunities. It further, explores the root causes of conflicts, due to poor planning and governance, mismanagement, corruption and cronyism in different project activities. Lack of participation of all stakeholders and proper information dissemination about all project activities are also main source of conflicts among different actors. Finally, it provides policy measures and recommendations for better governance in the form of capacity building of local people in different areas and participation of all stakeholders in all project activities.
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Editeur(s) : | Gif-sur-Yvette [France] : Université Paris-Saclay ; Ecole doctorale ABIES (Agriculture Alimentation BIologie Environnement Santé) |
Date de publication : | 2018 |
Format : | 1 vol. (126 p.) / ill. en coul., fig., tabl., graph / 30 cm |
Note(s) : |
Th. 3e cycle : sciences économiques : Saint-Aubin, Université Paris-Saclay : 2018 |
Langue(s) : | Anglais |
Lien vers la notice : | https://infodoc.agroparistech.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=196219 |
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