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Reservoir resettlement in China: past experience and the Three Gorges Dam
Author(s) -
Heming Li,
Waley Paul,
Rees Phil
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
geographical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.071
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1475-4959
pISSN - 0016-7398
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4959.00018
Subject(s) - china , three gorges , flood myth , geography , flood control , yangtze river , population , water resource management , environmental planning , environmental science , geology , sociology , demography , geotechnical engineering , archaeology
This paper reviews involuntary resettlement resulting from dam‐building, which has been ignored relative to the dominant focus of migration research in China, rural to urban migration. Reservoir resettlement in China has a long history, often of misery and hardship for those displaced. Relocatees affected by the Three Gorges Project (1994–2009) on the Yangtze River face a similar situation. In China priority has been given to building the dam to provide electricity, flood control and navigation. Less attention has been paid to the problems of the people affected by the reservoir inundation. The rural population forced to relocate and rural‐urban migrants in general have been discriminated against by national policies.