ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the efforts around the world to minimize negative effects have emphasized adequate pre-relocation risk evaluation since the awareness of risks is the first step to prevent their realization in a planned process such as Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement (DIDR). DIDR literature focuses on planner's evaluation and prevention of risks, mainly, based on Cernea's Impoverishment Risks and Reconstruction (IRR) model. The population resettlement induced by the Three Gorges Project (TGP) in China and it examines how individual relocatees risk perception affects their relocation outcome, and particularly its impacts on their mental health. Empirical studies in the fields of health behavior, traffic accidents, financial investments, and environmental hazards have demonstrated that increased risk perception prompts both decreased risk-taking behavior and increased risk-reduction efforts and risk-mitigation measures. Relocatees should have access to risk information and be able to participate in the planning and re-planning process so that they can fully exercise their agency to mitigate possible risks.
