Urban Resettlement in Colombo from a Wellbeing Perspective: Does Development-Forced Resettlement Lead to Improved Wellbeing?

Herath, Dhammika; Lakshman, Rajith W.D.; Ekanayake, Anoji

doi:10.1093/jrs/few043

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“…The government's land expropriation behavior leads to the involuntary loss of land by rural residents, who are forced to relocate to urban centralized resettlement communities. Many scholars at home and abroad have verified the negative impact of involuntary migration on subjective wellbeing, even if resettlement improves the material welfare of forced migrants (Hwang et al, 2011;Day, 2013;Kaida and Miah, 2015;Herath et al, 2017;Vanclay, 2017). These studies reflect the fact that the subjective well-being of peasants is reduced and their psychological welfare is damaged after they are separated from their land.…”

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Psychological Welfare Loss of Land-Expropriated Farmers in China

Xiao

Wang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Mandatory land expropriation, resettlement and welfare loss of landless peasants have received increasing research attention. However, in most previous analyses, the loss of psychological welfare of landless farmers is often neglected, which may lead to biased land requisition compensation and resettlement programs and incomplete policy recommendations. This study attempts to use a three-dimensional framework of place attachment to analyze the causes of psychological welfare loss. China’s land expropriation and centralized resettlement cut off the material and emotional ties between farmers and land. Farmers’ dependence on land, or their dependence on land-dependent farming lifestyle, has been neglected in the process of land acquisition and resettlement, resulting in the loss of farmers’ psychological welfare. Based on a comparative analysis of the existing methods, this paper chooses the contingent valuation method (CVM) to measure the loss of psychological welfare of landless peasants via monetization. The feasibility of the model has been tested at a small scale in nine cities. The results show that 1) farmers have strong place attachment on agricultural land, although centralized land expropriation and resettlement have neglected this dependence and caused psychological welfare losses to landless peasants; and 2) the loss of psychological welfare of landless peasants can be measured by the CVM and presented in monetary units. The monetization measurement method in this paper still has some shortcomings and its feasibility requires more empirical tests. However, as a rare monetization measurement study, this paper can direct academic and policy attention towards this psychological welfare loss.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Welfare Loss of Land-Expropriated Farmers in China

Xiao

Wang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…This was identified by both experts and adolescents. The importance of satisfying human wants however is arguably not important for wellbeing as wants are often concerned with short term, hedonic pleasure (Herath & Ekanayake, 2017). In alignment with academic literature (Alexandrova, 2017), young people understood that money and material goods are important to enable survival however, excesses of money and material goods were agreed to have a limited, if not no, impact on wellbeing.…”

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confidence: 99%

Constructing a definition: Adolescent wellbeing from the perspective of the child and expert

Gennings¹,

Brown²,

Hewlett³

2021

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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Background: Adolescent's wellbeing is gaining increasing attention, with it being part of the United Nations sustainable goals (United Nations, 2019 [online]). The question regarding what adolescent's wellbeing is, however, has received no rigorous answer (Alexandrova, 2017), even though it is regarded as a fundamental measure of learning and growing as a human being (Stevens & Jarden, 2019). Understanding what wellbeing means to adolescents is vital and an under-researched area (Dunlop-Bennett et al., 2019) which has implications for the development and validation of tools to measure their wellbeing. Construct definition development literature highlights that experts, in addition to the relevant population, need to be consulted about the subject area to form a representative and valid definition (Podsakoff et al., 2016). Method: Two groups were invited to interview with the aim to understand their conspetulisations of wellbeing. Group 1 consisted of both expert practitioners and researchers from different disciplines in the field of wellbeing (n = 8) and Group 2 were young people aged 11-16 (n = 41). Conclusion: Any definition needs to be reflective of the multi-faceted nature of wellbeing. Findings revealed three themes: holism, positive feelings, and external influences. Based on these findings a definition of wellbeing was formed. These conclusions should be used to underpin research with adolescents and the development of a measure of young people's wellbeing.

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“…Given the arguably contentious nature of relocation, there has been a push to analyse critically relocation impacts on community well-being (Mortreux and Adams, 2015;Herath et al, 2017). This matter was also included in earlier theoretical models produced by Scudder and Colson (1982) and Cernea (1997Cernea ( , 2000 that identify the risks that relocation poses to communities, not only economically, but also socially, including landlessness, joblessness, homelessness, marginalisation, food insecurity, and social disarticulation.…”

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Displaced by climate and disaster‐induced relocations: experiences of cascading displacement in Fiji and the Philippines

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Disasters and climate-related risks displace millions of people each year. Planned relocation is one strategy used to address displacement. However, little attention has been paid to the secondary impacts of planned relocations, and how they influence the risk, vulnerability, and wellbeing of other groups, particularly people who live on the land selected for relocation sites, or in neighbouring areas. This paper explores how current and potential planned relocations in Fiji and the Philippines redistribute vulnerabilities to non-target communities that previously lived on, or alongside, relocation site land. The notion of cascading displacement is introduced to illustrate a serious consequence of planned relocations in which insecurity and displacement are recreated and perpetuated due to a failure to consider the needs of non-target groups that are directly disadvantaged by relocation processes. Insights from this paper may be used to inform future relocation policy and practice to achieve more equitable and sustainable outcomes for all involved.

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Urban Resettlement in Colombo from a Wellbeing Perspective: Does Development-Forced Resettlement Lead to Improved Wellbeing?

Cited by 23 publications

References 19 publications

Psychological Welfare Loss of Land-Expropriated Farmers in China

Psychological Welfare Loss of Land-Expropriated Farmers in China

Constructing a definition: Adolescent wellbeing from the perspective of the child and expert

Displaced by climate and disaster‐induced relocations: experiences of cascading displacement in Fiji and the Philippines

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