Conservation resettlement is a controversial issue in balancing biological conservation with the people s social and economic needs. Very few studies have examined the conservation resettlement outcome, and majority of them view resettlement as counterintuitive to the people s livelihood in the name of biological conservation. This book focuses on residents responses on social, economic and environmental consequences of a voluntary resettlement. Previous studies of forced resettlement during the creation and maintenance of national parks and protected areas have found negative socioeconomic...