DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2016.v03i09.010

Pages: 504-511

This paper intends to contribute the resettlement science and management in perspective by understanding the concepts, causes, types, branches, steps, risks and good practices of people resettlement. The paper shows that, the resettlement management is a new marginal science, which studies about the resettlement of a large group of people from one to another place. The main causes of people resettlement are included the need of new development era, necessary usage of natural resources for development projects, climate change, disaster, and so forth. There are two major types of resettlement-voluntary and involuntary resettlements. Resettlement science and management applies three management functions – planning, implementing, and monitoring (PIM). The resettlement has potential risks and also creates new development opportunities among resettled families, PAPs and other stakeholders. As expected, the resettlement is not just paid compensation and physical reconstruction but it goes beyond the social, economic and environmental reconstructions in the post-resettled communities. This needs to treat resettlement as development oriented in the holistic approach.