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New Haven, CT
Posted:
November 23, 2012

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Thayer Scudder

Born: * August, ****, New Haven, Connecticut

Married: Mary Eliza Drinker, 1950

Current Professional Position: Professor of Anthropology

Emeritus, California Institute of Technology

Office Address: 228-77 Caltech, Pasadena,

California, 91125, U.S.A.

Email: abpvpm@r.postjobfree.com

Education: A.B. Biology and Anthropology, Harvard College

Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University

Post Doctoral Fellowship, London School of

Economics

Major Research Interests:

Impacts of large-scale river basin development

projects on low income populations

Systematic long-term studies of low income human

communities

Regional development; irrigated and rainfed

pioneer settlement

Community-based natural resource management

Major Field Research (partial listing):

Middle Zambezi Valley : 1956-Present

Aswan High Dam: 1961-1962

Sri Lanka s Mahaweli Project: 1979-1989

Comparative analysis of land settlement projects in

14 countries: 1979-1985

Comparative analysis of river basin development in

Africa, the Middle East and Asia: 1956-Present

Botswana s Southern Okavango Integrated Water

Development Project: 1991-92

Current and Recent Advisory Positions (partial listing)

1986-1987 Resettlement adviser to CIDA-funded

CIPM-Yangtze Joint Venture feasibility study of the

Three Gorges Project

1989-2002 Panel of Environment and Resettlement

Experts (POE): Lesotho Highlands Water Project

1993 POE: China s Longtan Project

1996-Present POE: Lao P.D.R s NT2 Project

1998-2000 POE: Swaziland s Maguga Dam

1999 Internal Review Panel of the International

Water Management Institute

1998-2000 Commissioner, World Commission on

Dams

2002-2003 U.S. National Research Council

Committee to Assess U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Methods of Analysis and Peer Review for Water

Resources Project Planning

Recent Publications (partial listing)

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.



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