"Our customers aren't relocation people or daily commuters," Mrs. Klemm said, "but our business has been affected by corporate troubles, the stock market and unemployment.
Eventually, the FT wag predicts, we will get to stage nine, "Relocation": "People move Prof Piketty's book from the living room to the lavatory, where it sits on a shelf sandwiched between Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time and Francis Fukuyama's The End of History".
Relocation of people is occurring across the Pacific region.
I asked whether relocation made people's lives harder, and he let out a brusque laugh.
In early April the Pakistani cabinet approved Balakot's relocation, and people have been advised not to undertake any extensive reconstruction, though many are doing exactly that.
Concern has grown over the environmental impact of hydroelectric dams, including habitat destruction for wildlife (terrestrial and aquatic), forced relocation of people living in the paths of dams and reservoirs, loss of agricultural land, and disruption of water supplies for inhabitants near the completed dams.
Nasheed, who held an underwater meeting of his cabinet last autumn and is presiding over the relocation of people from some islands because of the effects of warming oceans and rising sea levels, put his hopes in the emergence of "huge" grassroots action after the failure of talks in Copenhagen in December.
We know that the two to four degrees of projected warming this century is likely to force the relocation of people from flooded cities, shift growing seasons, cut a substantial fraction out of our GDP, and have a disproportionate impact upon the most impoverished parts of the world – but it doesn't stop there.
South Africa's government is thinking of making it just a bit more difficult for them.In a country trying to heal the wounds of hundreds of years of land dispossession and forced relocation, many people have come to blame outsiders with pockets full of British pounds or euros for pushing up prices, driving locals out of the housing market, or turning farmland into private game parks.
The funds will be allocated to infrastructure, agriculture and relocation of people from areas prone to mudslides and floods.
This complements traditional options for addressing displacement through voluntary return, local integration, and relocation of people out of disaster affected areas (IASC 2011).
