Thayer Scudder
Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus
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Office: 204 Baxter Hall Email: tzs@hss.caltech.edu Tel: 626-395-4207 |
Mailing Address: California Institute of Technology Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences MC 228-77 Pasadena, CA 91125 |
Research interests
Long-term community studies, socio-economic impacts of large-scale development projects in the tropics and subtropics.
Publications
1993 IUCN Review of the Southern Okavango Integrated Water Development Project. Senior author with 12 colleagues
1993 "Development-induced Relocation and Refugee Studies: 37 years of change and continuity among Zambia's Gwembe Tonga," Journal of Refugees Studies, Vol 6 (2): 123-152
1994 "Recent experiences with river basin development in the tropics and subtropics," Natural Resources Forum 18(2): 101-113
1997 Chapters on "Social Impacts" and "Resettlement" in Water Resources: Environmental Planning, Management and Development, edited by Asit K. Biswas, New York: McGraw Hill.
2000 "The World Commission on Dams and the Need for a New Development Paradigm," International Journal of Water Resources Development. Vol 17, No.3:329-341.
2005 The Future of Large Dams: Dealing with social, environmental, institutional and political costs. London: Earthscan.