Recommended Reading
This page provides suggestions for recommended reading on topics including:
- Inspection Panel
- Involuntary Resettlement/Internal Displacement
- Oil, Gas and Mining Projects
- Dam Projects
- The World Bank and International Environmental and Human Rights Issues
For publications, reports, and analysis written by IAP staff, please see our Publications page.
About the Inspection Panel
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Alfredsson, Gudmundur and Rolf Ring, eds. The Inspection Panel of the World Bank: A Different Complaints Procedure. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2001.
Bradlow, Daniel D. Private Complaints and International Organizations: A Comparative Study of the Independent Inspection Mechanisms in International Financial Institutions. 36 Georgetown Journal of International Law. 403 (2005).
Clark, Dana L., Fox, Jonathan, and Kay Treakle, eds. Demanding Accountability: Civil Society Claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
Shihata, Ibrahim F.I. The World Bank Inspection Panel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Shihata, Ibrahim F.I. The World Bank Inspection Panel: In Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Udall, Lori. The World Bank Inspection Panel: A Three Year Review. Washington, DC: Bank Information Center, 1997.
About Involuntary Resettlement/Internal Displacement
Cernea, Michael M. (ed.), The Economics of Involuntary Resettlement: Questions and Challenges. The World Bank, 1999.
Cohen, Roberta and Francis M. Deng, eds. The Forsaken People: Cases Studies of the Internally Displaced. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.
Cohen, Roberta and Francis M. Deng. Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.
Fernandes, Walter and Enakshi Ganguly Thukral, eds. Development, Displacement, and Rehabilitation. New Delhi: Indian Social Institute, 1989.
Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. United Nations
La Torre Lopez, Lily. All We Want is To Live in Peace: Lessons Learned from Oil Operations in Indigenous Territories of the Peruvian Amazon. Lima: IUCN and Racimos de Ungurahui, 1999.
Mathur, Hari Mohan and Michael Cernea, comps and eds. Development, Displacement and Resettlement: Focus on Asian Experiences. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 1995.
McDowell, Christopher, ed. Understanding Impoverishment: The Consequences of Development-Induced Displacement. Providence and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996.
Oliver-Smith, Anthony. Displacement, Resistance and the Critique of Development: From the Grass Roots to the Global. Oxford: Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, July 2001.
Robinson, Courtland W. Risks and Rights: The Causes, Consequences, and Challenges of Development-Induced Displacement. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution and SAIS Project on Internal Displacement, May 2003. http://www.brook.edu/fp/projects/idp/articles/didreport.htm
Schmid, Estella, Rochelle Harris, and Sarah Sexton, eds. Listen to the Refugee's Story: How UK Foreign Investment Creates Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Ilisu Dam Campaign Refugees Project, The Corner House, and Peace in Kurdistan, 2003.
Shihata, Ibrahim F.I. “Legal Aspects of Involuntary Population Displacement.” In Michael M. Cernea and Scott E. Guggenheim, (Eds.), Anthropological Approaches to Involuntary Resettlement: Policy, Practice, and Theory. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1991.
World Bank, Resettlement and Development: The Bankwide Review of Projects Involving Involuntary Resettlement 1986-1993. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1994.
World Bank, The World Bank Operational Manual, Operational Policy 4.12 on Involuntary Resettlement, 2001.
World Bank, Operations Evaluation Department, Recent Experience With Involuntary Resettlement, 1998.
About Oil, Mining, and Gas Projects
Colchester, Marcus, Ann Loreto Tamayo, Raymundo Rovillos, Emily Caruso (eds.), Extracting Promises: Indigenous Peoples, Extractive Industries, and the World Bank. Tebtebba Foundation and Forest Peoples Programme, 2003.
Gambling with People's Lives. A Report by Environmental Defense, Friends of the Earth, and the International Rivers Network.
Horta, Korinna, et al., Environmental Defense Fund, Centre pour L'Environnment et le Developpement, Association Tchadienne pour la Promotion et la Defense des Droits de l'Homme, The Chad Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project: Putting People and the Environment at Risk (1999), available at http://www.environmentaldefense.org/documents/728_ChadCameroon_pipeline.pdf.
Indigenous Peoples' Declaration on Extractive Industries.
Oxford: United Kingdom, 15 April 2003.Karl, Terry Lynn. The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997.
Okonta, Ike and Oronto Douglas. Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2001.
About Dams
D'Souza, Dilip., The Narmada Dammed: An Inquiry into the Politics of Development. Penguin Books India, 2002.
Dubash, Navorz K, Mairi Dupar, Smitu Kothari, Tundu Lissu. A Watershed in Global Governance?: An Independent Assessment of the World Commission on Dams. India: World Resources Institute, Lokayan, and Lawyer's Environmental Action Team, 2003.
Lending Credibility: New Mandates and Partnerships for the World Bank. Washington, DC: World Wildlife Fund, Berne Declaration, CIEL, and PUEBLO, 1996.
McCully, Patrick. Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams. London: Zed Books, 2001.
Roy, Arundhati. "The Greater Common Good: The Human Cost of Big Dams." Frontline, June 1999, vol. 16, no. 11, pp.4-29. Available at: http://www.flonnet.com/fl1611/16110040.htm
Sardor Sarovar: The Report of the Independent Review, Chairman, Bradford Morse, Deputy Chairman, Thomas Berger, Ottawa, Canada: Resource Futures International, Inc., 1992.
Scuddler, Thayer. The Future of Large Dams. London: Earthscan, 2005.
World Commission on Dams. Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision Making.
The World Bank and International Environmental and Human Rights Issues
Caufield, Catherine. Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.
Declaration on the Right to Development, G.A. Res. 41/128, U.N. G.AOR, 41st Sess., 97th plen. mtg., Annex, art. 1, U.N. Doc. A/RES/41/128 (1986).
Fox, Jonathan A. and L. David Brown, eds. The Struggle for Accountability: The World Bank, NGOs, and Grassroots Movements Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998.
Hunter, David, James Salzman, and Durwood Zaelke, International Environmental Law and Policy. New York: Foundation Press. 1998.
Johnston, Barbara Rose, ed., 1997, Life and Death Matters: Human Rights and the Environment at the End of the Millennium, Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Kapur, Devesh, John P. Lewis, and Richard Webb, eds. The World Bank: Its First Half Century. 2 vols. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1997.
Oloka-Onyango, J. and Deepika Udagama, U.N. Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Globalization and its Impact on the Full Enjoyment of Human Rights, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2001/10 (Aug. 2001).
Rich, Bruce. Mortgaging the Earth. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.
Salvaging Nature: Indigenous Peoples, Protected Areas and Biodiversity Conservation. World Rainforest Movement and Forest Peoples Programme, 2003.
Skogly, Sigrun I. The Human Rights Obligations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. London: Cavendish Publishing, 2001.
The World Bank, Development and Human Rights: The Role of the World Bank. Washington,DC, 1988.
The World Bank: Governance and Human Rights. 2nd Ed. New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 1995.
