The policy oriented aspects, some scholars, institutions, and organizations have played a vital role in the study of the nature and sequence of conflict induced internal displacement from different perspectives. However large majority of such studies have confined merely to identify the...

The idea of economic progress became commonly discussed with the advent of the work of Adam Smith and thereafter even while economists were starting to measure national income, the sustainability of growth was still questioned. A lot of recent debate on the search for proper indicators for...

Since the urban-rural linkages mainly depend on the availability of the transportation facilities, any project on infrastructure development should concern the level of accessibility through the existing roads which should be developed. Most of the regional development programmes in post...

Since the urban-rural linkages mainly depend on the availability of the transportation facilities, any project on infrastructure development should concern the level of accessibility through the existing roads which should be developed. Most of the regional development programmes in post...

An understanding of the spatial variations of solid waste generation helps in many ways to design waste management policies particularly at micro-regional levels. Many of the studies have focused different factors behind the postconsumer plastic waste generation as the determinants, but few of...

Swamp forests are considered as the late succession stage of a freshwater marsh ecosystem and it is the rarest wetland type in Sri Lanka, rich in biodiversity thus providing a number of ecosystem services. The Walauwewatta Wathurana has been identified as the most dynamic fresh water ecosystem...

Landslide is a geophysical event that has become one of the most calamitous natural hazards in Sri Lanka. Approximately, over 50000 people have been directly affected by landslide during the last five years and thousands of people are living at risk situation today particularly in the Badulla,...

This paper analyses an important faith related episode in Sri Lankan humanitarian history. Nearly three decades of civil war in the country between the government forces and the LTTE (the Tamil separatists) had justified concerted and widespread interventions from both local and international...

Floods are one of the meteorological events that often record as sever catastrophic natural hazard in the world. Flooding ranks as the most damaging forms of natural disaster in Sri Lanka. Since the most of the populated urban spaces are being subjected to the flood hazard, urban flood hazard...