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Item Administering Environment Management Process for a Sustainable Development in Sri Lanka: The Case of Open Waste Disposal at Guhagoda(5th National Conference on Applied Social Statistics (NRCASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Somarathna, D. H. A. S.All modern states have implemented new policy programs and projects have been planned and implemented regarding solid waste management Sri Lanka which is expecting, sustainable environmental development too prepared and implemented various mechanisms for solid waste management against such a background, some of the solid waste management programmers implemented in Sri Lanka are facing a charge that such programmers have become a threat to human health which has in turn become a serious social problem. Main objectives of this study is to find out how far the impact of these programs have become a threat to human health and human security. Under the qualitative research plan Guhagoda area was selected as the study field. 05 officers from Harispattuwa Pradeshiya Sabha, 05 officers from the Central Environmental Authority, 05 persons belonging to the Waste Management Unit of Kandy Municipality and 25 persons were selected as the sample. In the collection of Primary Data, interviews and observation were used while for the collection of secondary from secondary sources were used. For the analysis of overall data system, the descriptive method was used. One of the main facts revealed from the research study was that informal method of solid waste disposal at Guhagoda has a definite impact on the human health and human security. Due to failure in recycling the solid waste various poisonous gas in emitted to the environment while poisonous chemicals have got mixed with underground water. Due to these things the people of the area are subject to respiratory diseases, heart problems and skin diseases. Accordingly, environmental development targets priority should be given for environmental protection and human protection and in planning implementation of solid waste management plans, it is necessary consider environmental factors community oriented ideas and new technology and the specialized knowledge of environmentalistItem Environmental Management: A Lesson from Giants of the Corporate Sector in Sri Lanka(University of Kelaniya, 2005) Rajapakse, B.Sri Lanka is an agricultural economy base country. Ancient people protected the environment since their economy (farming activities) was totally depended on the healthy environment. Therefore, people themselves voluntarily contributed to protect the physical environment of the country. However, this situation was adversely affected by the commercialization of agriculture activities, basically tea, rubber and coconut plantations introduced after the colonialisation. In addition, increasing trend of population and the continuing effort to improve their living have created a tremendous pressure on the natural environment of the country. Therefore, relazing this adverse impact, even the colonial government imposed various acts/ordinances in order to protect physical environment of the country. However, provisions of these acts were not enough to control declining trend of the physical environmental of the country. Later on, this situation was further accelerated with the liberalization of economic activities in late 1970s. Then, the major challenge faced by the country was the imperative of harmonizing economic and social development with environmental management. Government and public concern on conservations of natural resources and physical environmental issues have been dramatically increased during the last few years. As a result, the government has taken various steps to minimize such environmental pollution, which resulted mainly from industrial activities. Meanwhile, some leading business organizations have voluntarily introduced their own environmental management polices to achieve sustainable development through the protection of the physical environment of the country. The study is designed to assess the environmental management practices and contribution of leading business organizations as a lesson to other entrepreneurs. This study is based on two leading business entities in the country and it is found that both those entities have introduced excellent environmental practices. If other entities follow such type of environmental management practices it will be easy to overcome environmental problems in future.