ABSTRACT
498The cultural, economic and emotional impacts of resettlement are written deeply in the history of both industrial and developing countries. In the latter, development projects and programs that use a nation’s passive natural wealth are indisputably needed; they broaden the production base, create employment, bring added revenues and improve many people’s lives. However, the concept of property versus development rights is ill-defined: who is entitled to acquire land from the individual for the benefit of the society-at-large?
