How to estimate the number of displaced people

Bevan
14 April 2009 – 11:20am

In order to estimate the number of people displaced, you may want to find the populations of towns in the area. Wikipedia can be useful for this, though doesn't have information for many small places. The dam's environmental impact study should include this data.

Read an article about indigenous people struggling against large dams.
Read a Bank Information Center article about relocating entire villages in Peru for mines and dams.