The risk of impoverishment in urban development-induced displacement and resettlement in Ahmedabad

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 231-256

  Patel, Sejal ^a   Sliuzas, Richard ^b   Mathur, Navdeep ^c  

^a CEPT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c AZIM PREMJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

community exclusion; development induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR); impoverishment risk; India; policy rhetoric; rhetoric reality gap; slums

Indexed keywords

INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MEGACITY; RESETTLEMENT POLICY; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN RENEWAL;

AHMEDABAD; GUJARAT; INDIA;

EID: 84927745962     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: 17460301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247815569128     Document Type: Article

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