Approaches to understand land use conflicts in the developing countries
Résumé
It is to contribute in the research on land use conflicts created by infrastructural projects, which have entailed expropriation of homes, farm businesses and other productive resources in the developing countries. In Pakistan, land use conflicts have been germinated by non-existence of national resettlement policy, and human and property right violators, since five decades. For this research the data from Chotiari water reservoir project (Pakistan) has been collected, which explores that unilateral decisions towards development projects disturbed the sustainability of indigenous population, devastated natural resources, environmental services and fertile lands. First the article defines the conflicts over land use with their dynamic features; as well as the description on the case study and the principle actors. The next section highlights the nature and positions of stakeholders involved. There is then a discussion on the impacts of the reservoir, governance roles and responsibilities, and to determine the root causes and consequences by indicating how public officials have pressurized local population to displace and oppose the project, as well as how the institutional inconsistency towards justice has lead local population in mistrust. Finally, on the basis of the result the article offers policy implications particularly in land use conflict perspective.
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