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The first work in English to provide a description of Sri Lanka's cloud forests, now reduced to small island patches dotted across the peaks of the central massif and Knuckles hills. Cloud forests are areas of high diversity and endemicity, both plant and animal. The book also describes several cloud forest trails, many of them scarcely used. ... Read more

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Filling a distinct gap in the reference literature of archaeology, this bibliography provides an introduction to the vast and varied literature produced by the practice of archaeology in the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka since the early 19th Century. The annotated entries are arranged geographically by contemporary political subdivisions, with now-vanished "native states" and jurisdictions from the days of the British Raj cross-referenced to the modern subdivision. Within each section, entries are arranged chronologically, permitting the user to trace the inception and development of archaeological field survey and investigation regionally. Emphasis has been placed on works in English or other Western languages which are located easily outside of South Asia. ... Read more

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This is the first in-depth academic work on the Ceylon Survey Department and provides an institutional history of the largest government department on the island. It argues that there was no 'single colonialism' but varieties of colonialism explained by local conditions and exigencies. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Focus on Geography, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2007. The length of the article is 4409 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sri Pada: sacred pilgrimage mountain of Sri Lanka.(Adam's Peak)
Author: John B. Wright
Publication: Focus on Geography (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 50Issue: 2Page: 1(6)

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Relates to Kotabowa village, Moneragela District of Sri Lanka. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Sri Lanka," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Sri Lanka in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Sri Lanka when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Sri Lanka, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vellalar amongst Sri Lankan Tamils are a dominant group of formerly farming related caste group from Sri Lanka that is found amongst all walks of life and around the world as part of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora.What is certain is that the Sri Lankan Tamil Vellalar identity rose amongst those who migrated from neighbouring Tamil Nadu state in India since the 13th century. According to Yalpana Vaipava Malai, a native chronicle, written in the 18th century, which narrates the history of the establishment and the fall of the Jaffna kingdom in Sri Lanka, from its establishment in the 13th century to its fall in the early 17th century, many Vellalar chiefs from Tamil Nadu were responsible for organizing settlement groups from India in to the Jaffna peninsula. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Sri Lanka," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Sri Lanka in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Sri Lanka when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Sri Lanka, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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This book takes on human-nature interconnectedness and the interplay between global capitalism, natural resource use and development in the South, exemplified by transdisciplinary field studies of coastal aquaculture in Sri Lanka and the Philippines. Experiences among local farmers and aquaculture dependence on a variety of local and global human and environmental resources and processes are studied in the light of world- and general systems theories and emergy. The study shows that local benefits and environmental impacts from aquaculture are dependent and embedded in processes at a multiplicity of scales; ranging from the local to the global. The book also exemplifies and visualises the organisation and effects of global capitalism for the environment and people in the South. Furthermore, it aims to make a contribution to transdisciplinary theory and sustainability assessment; something that will be crucial in the transition into a fairer and more sustainable world. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Geoforum, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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There are two antagonistic, but equally influential traditions in the study of the nexus between resource use and violent conflict. One works through a Malthusian frame linking resource scarcity with violence, the other school of thought establishes a nexus between resource abundance and the incentives to use violence for rent monopolisation in a political economy of war or markets of violence. The tacit essentialism inherent in both schools of thought has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by geographers and anthropologists. To escape such essentialism requires a more detailed study of the dynamism of the political economy of (civil) war and its spatial dynamics, the political geographies of violence. In this paper, we study endowments and entitlements of people depending on common-pool or open-access resources in war-affected areas of Sri Lanka. Rural spaces in the war-affected areas became both a strategic retreat for fighters and an important common-pool resource on which a large part of the rural populace depended for their survival. Our research illustrates how the political geographies of war affect access regimes and entitlements to common-pool resources and thereby confine the livelihood opportunities of resource users. These dynamics of the political economy of war cross different scales and go beyond simple place-based struggles, for they are rooted in broader spatial dynamics of warfare creating place-space tensions in the sense that spatial dynamics of military control impinge changing access regimes upon specific places. ... Read more

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Authentic tsunami sediments collected from apreviously empty bottle and several coastallocalities were identified as brownish silty finesand with a characteristic grain size distributionand an assemblage of planktonic and benthicmicrofossils. e.g forams. Influenced by referencesin Sri Lankan ancient texts to occurrences oftsunamis a search was undertaken for paleotsunamisediments in selected coastal villages of Peraliyaand Denuwala. In boreholes and well cuttings ofsuch locations we recognize two paleotsunamihorizons at 30 and 75 cm respectively below thepresent ground surface each consisting of brownishsilty fine sand with microfossils that remarkablyresembled those found in the recently depositeduncontaminated tsunami sediment. The 14C dating ofdifferent tsunami sediments gave anomalous ages.However their C/N ratios indicated marine origins.The book highlights diagnostic criteria to identifyauthentic past and recent tsunami sediments anddiscusses the challenges of 14C dating tsunamisediments. It is a landmark publication of interestto geologists, paleontologists, archaeologists andin modeling and dating tsunamis ... Read more

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Kamboja colonists of Sri Lanka. History of Sri Lanka, Migration of Kambojas, Kambojas and Cambodia, Sinhala language, Indo- Aryan languages, Kambojas ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Naga people (Naga meaning Snake or Serpent) were the aboriginal inhabitants of Sri Lanka who existed in 6 BCE to 3 CE in the Western and Northern part of Sri Lanka, mostly along the coast. They are said to have lived among the Yakkha, Raksha and Deva according to the Mahavamsa. They may have been snake-worshippers (Cobra) and dravidian. Some scholars suggest that there were tamil speaking based on Ptolemy's description of the Naga people.. Their name could also be due to their head covering being the shape of a hydra-headed cobra. The Jaffna peninsula was referred to as Nagadipa ("Island of Serpents") for many centuries. H. Parker, a British historian and author of "Ancient Ceylon" considers the Naga to be an offshoot of the Nayars of South India. ... Read more

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This book is based on empirical research in Sri Lanka conducted after the catastrophic tsunami which hit the country in December 2004. The aims of the research have been to develop new knowledge on post-crisis reconstruction and recovery work, on how to bridge the knowledge gap between researchers and practitioners, as well as trying to use past research experiences from Sri Lanka to learn about the present day situation. The chapters use a common analytical frame related to the ‘policy narratives’ of post-tsunami recovery in the shadow of war, and deal with housing reconstruction, livelihoods, internally displaced, humanitarian interventions and protracted conflicts.

The authors represent various social scientific fields and they have experience from different geographical areas of Sri Lanka.

This book was published as a special issue of Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift.

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World natural rain forests have been utilized over centuries by communities at the peripheral areas of the forests on various purposes. Accordingly, the gradual swell of population has threatened the survival of these forests. In answer to this, Forest Buffer Zones (FBZs) can be established in the peripheral areas of rain forests to conserve dense forests and at the same time to satisfy the communal needs for forest resources with the resources available within the FBZs themselves. The book presents an analyzes of the effectiveness of establishing FBZs with regard to the Sripada Tropical Peak Wilderness Sanctuary, which is one of the Wet Ever Green Tropical Rain Forests of Sri Lanka, as an approach to Community Forest Management. The central research problem is to scrutinize whether both socioeconomic development of the rural community and conservation of the rain forest can jointly be achieved through the establishment of FBZs. The book is especially useful to environmentalists, policy makers of Environment Management and Conservation or anyone else who is interested in Ecology, Forestry, and Community Forest Management. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The North Eastern Province was one of the provinces of Sri Lanka. The province was created in September 1988 by merging the Northern and Eastern provinces. This merger was declared illegal by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 2006. The province was formally demerged into the Northern and Eastern provinces on 1 January 2007. The capital of the province was Trincomalee. The Indo-Lanka Accord signed on 29 July 1987 required the Sri Lankan government to devolve powers to the provinces and, in the interim, to merge the Northern and Eastern provinces into one administrative unit. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 2009 in Sri Lanka, other events of 2010, 2011 in Sri Lanka, President - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Prime Minister - Ratnasiri Wickremanayake. The Sri Lankan army releases over 700 former Tamil Tiger fighters after a rehabilitation program. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa announces that Tamils will be given greater say in matters of governance, proposing power sharing agreements. ... Read more

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The Indian sub-continent abounds in flora and fauna and still offers a ground for botanists, and ornithologists. ... Read more