Re-imagining Resettlement for Risk Reduction in Urban India

Garima Jain  | 2016 

Abstract:

As part of the ‘Reducing relocation risk in Urban Areas’ project which examines the various social and economic implications of climate-risk related resettlement and relocation policies in cities across three geographies (India, Uganda, and Peru, Colombia and Mexico in Latin America), this policy brief assesses the current frameworks in India that exist for resettlement and relocation in urban areas, and identifies the gaps therein, followed by some key recommendations.