Volume 01 - 2015
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2024-03-29T08:24:34ZCategories of International Migration
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Categories of International Migration
Madanayaka, S.A.K.
2015-01-01T00:00:00ZOver Utilization of Coastal Resources and its Impact: The Case of Sri Lanka
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Over Utilization of Coastal Resources and its Impact: The Case of Sri Lanka
Arunashantha, H.A.S.
The coastal zone is the interface where the land meets the ocean or sea, encompassing shoreline environments as well as adjacent coastal water. Its components include river deltas, coastal plains, wetlands, beaches and dunes, reefs, mangrove forests, lagoons, and other coastal features. It is a geomorphologic area either side of the seashore in which the interaction between the marine and land parts occurs in the form of complex ecological and resource systems made up of biotic and a biotic components coexisting and interacting with human communities and relevant socio-economic activities. It has no definite boundary, it varies from one coastal nation to another nation as they defined it. In Sri Lanka, Coastal Zone is defined as the area lying within a limit of 300 m landward of the Mean High Water Line (MHWL) and a limit of 2 km seaward of the Mean Low Water Line (MLWL); in the case of estuaries, streams and river outfalls, lagoons, or any other body of water connected to the sea either permanently or periodically, the landward boundary extends up to a limit of 2 km measured perpendicular to the straight base line drawn between the natural entrance points thereof and includes the waters of such rivers, streams and lagoons or any other body of water so connected to the sea.
Coastal zone has several definitions. Ketchum has given a definition in (1972) as “The band of dry land and adjacent ocean space in which terrestrial processes and land uses directly affect oceanic processes and uses and vice versa.” However this definition also has some problem since it has not considered the all coastal ecosystems. Coastal zone is commonly referred to as the interface or transition space between two environmental domains, the land and the sea. Coastal area consists only 8% of the world surface area but it provides 25% of the global productivity. In addition to the above 70% of the world’s population is living within the coastal areas. The coastal area in the world also consists of very valuable resources such as fish, mineral corals, mangroves, lagoon and estuaries, gas and mineral (ICRMP). About 90% world’s fish harvest comes from the coastal area. Therefore coastal area is very important to the world economy and the population. However coastal zone or coast is not a well-defined resource. Coast is physically dynamic edges between land and sea and comprised of numerous physiographic forms: dunes, deltas, beaches, wetland etc. it also has a wide range of ecosystems such as coral reefs, mangroves, sand dunes, sea grass beds, estuaries and lagoons. The coastal area serves as habitats for countless flora and fauna. More importantly coastal areas are the locus of an incredibly diverse range of human uses and activities.
2015-01-01T00:00:00ZMedia and its impact on sport
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Media and its impact on sport
Oshani, P.A.L.
The aim of this study media and its impact on sport. Sport and the media has been a popular topic in recent years. Sport appears to be everywhere. Across the world, billions of viewers turn into television broadcasts of global events like the Olympic Games and soccer, rugby or cricket world cups. Reports and studies on media sport institutions, media sport audiences, media sport texts and sport journalism, abound in academic relationship between sport and the mass media in society. In this study researcher examined how both the print and electronic media affect sport fans by increasing their knowledge, excitement and interest in sport at all levels. But particularly professional sport. It is clear that the interrelationships between the media and big-time sport are inextricably intertwined and interdependent. In this study researcher explore how sport have affected the media. Both print media and the electronic media have turned to sport because it is guaranteed to produce interest and revenue. Sport and the Sport media have the potential to affect the ideology of a society in the way they present key values. We have looked at the effect of spectatorship on participation levels, attitudes toward gender, Sexuality and racial and ethnic groups. The main objectives of this article, to identify the interrelationship and how the media affect sport and sport affect the media.
2015-01-01T00:00:00ZEnvironmental change as a source of conflict
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Environmental change as a source of conflict
Peiris, M.J.D.
A number of scholars have recently studied large-scale human-induced environmental pressures may seriously affect national and international security. But here this environmental change is discussed as a source of conflict and these huge environmental changes may lead to conflicts in the future.
How might environmental change lead to conflict? Some experts propose that environmental change may shift the balance of power between states either regionally or globally, producing instabilities that could lead to war or as global environmental damage increases the disparity between people. Poor nations may militarily confront or struggle the rich for a greater share of the world's wealth. Warmer temperatures could lead to contention over new ice-free sea-lanes in the Arctic or more accessible resources in the Antarctic. Population growth and land stress may produce such environmental refugees. This may cause recipient's domestic and international stability. Countries may fight over dwindling supplies of water and the effects of upstream pollution. In developing countries, a sharp drop in food crop production could lead to internal strife and finally into conflicts among urban and rural areas. If environmental degradation makes food supplies increasingly tight, exporters may be tempted to use food as a weapon. Environmental change could ultimately cause the gradual impoverishment of societies in the world.
Moreover, many scholars indicate that environmental degradation will "ratchet up" the level of stress within national and international society, thus increasing the likelihood of many different kinds of conflict and impeding the development of cooperative solutions. But the time has come to escape from it and “rescue” our environment. It’s all our responsibility to know about these environmental changers and challenges and take possible and serious actions regarding it.
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