Floods are one of the most frequent and destructive natural hazards in river
basins, causing serious consequences for the community and regional development. The
intensity of seasonal monsoon rainfall and the dynamics ...
Tillekaratne, H.I; Siriwardan, , Chandana; Karunarathne, Ananda Y.; ugeeshwara 5, S. P. C; Wanninayake, S. B.; Madduma‑Bandara, C. M.; Bandara, T. W. M. T. W(Scietific Publishing, 2018)
Dissanayak, DMSLB; Wanninayake, W.M.S.B.; Ranagalag(Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, 2018-02)
Sri Lanka is experiencing an increasing trend of disasters for few decades like many other countries in the world. Number of affected people and properties damaged by disasters like tsunami, WMSB floods, landslides and droughts within past few decades are significant. Sri Lanka Disaster Management Act which isthe basic law of disaster management mechanism in the country is not strong enough to manage increasing disaster risk through the government stakeholder agencies because of no specified and mandated roles and responsibilities for stakeholder agencies by the act or any other rules and regulations. Although the National Council for Disaster Management (NCDM) and the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) has taken some initiatives for disaster management through various stakeholder agencies at national, district, divisional and local level, still it remains to identify the level of disaster risk in the country at community level based on scientific method. All the mitigation and preparedness projects should be identified and implemented based on the level of risk according to the priority. Disaster management is a multidisciplinary approach and all the stakeholders should be assigned their duties by rules and regulations. The objective of the study was to identify the gaps of government mechanism of Sri Lanka in managing disasters and to find better initiatives of some other countries. Primary and secondary data were used for the study and descriptive analysis was done to find the results. KEYWORDS: Disaster management, Stakeholders, Roles and(Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, 2025-01)
This study investigates the evolving dynamics of cyclone risk in Sri
Lanka, with particular emphasis on the impacts of Cyclone Ditwah
(2025). Drawing on secondary data sources, published reports, and
existing scholarly ...
Wanninayake, W.M.S.B.(Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, 2018-01)
Sri Lanka is experiencing an increasing trend of disasters for few decades like many other countries in
the world. Number of affected people and properties damaged by disasters like tsunami, floods,
landslides and ...
Dissanayake, D.M.S.L.B.; Morimoto, Takehiro; Murayama, Yuji; Ranagalage, Manjula(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-11)
Abstract: Urbanization has bloomed across Asia and Africa of late, while two centuries ago, it was
confined to developed regions in the largest urban agglomerations. The changing urban landscape can
cause irretrievable ...
Samarathunga, W.H.M.S.(Sri Lanka Economic Research Conference 2020, Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka,, 1/21/2021)
Abstract
COVID19 has made a detrimental impact on tourism resources, tourism markets,
and tourism economies. Thus, the purpose of this working paper is to make a
realistic assessment of impacts of COVID19 on Sri Lanka ...
Abstract: An urban heat island (UHI) is a phenomenon that shows a higher temperature in urban
areas compared to surrounding rural areas due to the impact of impervious surface (IS) density,
and other anthropogenic activities ...