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Browsing ICSS 2016 by Subject "Sri Lanka"

Browsing ICSS 2016 by Subject "Sri Lanka"

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  • Community Participation for Disaster Risk Reduction 
    Hemathilaka, J. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Floods and landslides caused by torrential rains in Sri Lanka in May 2016 have left 71 people dead, 127 missing, and over 319,000 displaced from homes while over a 427,000 people are affected by the adverse weather. This ...
  • A Contextual Framework to Guide the Introduction and Use of e-learning 
    Suraweera, S.A.D.H.N.; Liew, C.L.; Cranefield, J. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    In Sri Lanka, under the government’s vision of higher education, Information Management (IM) education is seen as important for fostering the development of a high quality market-oriented and knowledge-based society. ...
  • Demographic Change and Ageing of Population in Sri Lanka 
    Menike, H.R.A. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Like many developed countries in the world, Sri Lanka has successfully attempted to decrease both the birth rate and death rate. With the decrease of fertility rate, the annual birth rate was gradually reduced. The mortality ...
  • Effect of Tax Revenue on Unemployment in Sri Lanka 
    VGunasekara, H.; Fernando, A.K.; Padmasika, T.; Muthugoda, N.S. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Taxes are compulsory, unrequited payments represent 93.2%(Central Bank Annual Report, 2015) public total income. The main roles of taxation are finance government expenditure, resource mobilization, income distribution and ...
  • Efficacy of Constitutional Reform on Strengthening Good Governance Practice: A Case Study on 19th Amendment to the Constitution on Accountable Governance in Sri Lanka 
    Abeysinghe, C. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    During the recent past, issues related to the governance have been gaining much attention among the academics as well as policy makers. The failure of achieving anticipated development objectives and the burden of the newly ...
  • Gender Based Violence in Post War Situation 
    Jayathilake, H.D.Y.D.; Edirisinghe, E.A.D.A.; Subramanian, K. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The current study was conducted in the districts of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivue’ with the objective of comprehending the current situation relating to Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the aforementioned districts. Data was ...
  • Globalization and the Developmental Role of a State: The Sri Lankan Experience from its Independence to date 
    Kanchana, D.G. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    National states have to manage their developmental activities by responding to globalization. Globalization is not a totally new thing which has come far away from the state and its behavior. It is also a result of states’ ...
  • Progress in Controlling Efforts of Inland Water Pollution in Sri Lanka: The Case of Lower Kelani River Basin in Sri Lanka 
    Amarasinghe, A.G. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Water pollution can be defined as the process or phenomenon of contamination of natural water bodies by chemical, physical, radioactive or pathogenic microbial substances. Polluted water contains harmful chemicals or ...
  • The role of social worker in Elderly care 
    Sirikumara, H.K.S.; Keerthi, J.K.P.U. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Elderly care is becoming a complex problem in modern society. Due to growing population of the elders, it is difficult to take care of them by their own children. Therefore in this context, the government has to take ...
  • Seasonality Variation and Its Impact on Local Economy (With special reference to South coastal area, Sri Lanka) 
    Madushani, H.D.P.; Gunarathne, M. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    In recent decades, tourism has become a significant global phenomena with its massive influence on society, politics, culture and above all the economy. Seasonality is one of the unique and idiosyncratic features of ...
  • Situating India – Sri Lanka Development Co-operation: Attempting to Address Post-Conflict Vulnerabilities? 
    Sivashanmugham, R.P.; Sawant, N.N. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Mutual relations between neighbouring countries of India and Sri Lanka run deep, and precede the phase when concepts of nation states and realpolitik determine bilateral relations. In the post-colonial and ...
  • A study of the contribution of Rural Tourism as a development strategy to develop the household economy of rural areas in Sri Lanka 
    Perera, A. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The key objective of this paper is to analyze the contribution of rural tourism as a preliminary instrument of development of the household economy of rural areas in Sri Lanka. Potentials of Rural Tourism are very high as ...
  • A Study of the Tourism Industry’s Impact on Visitors’ Satisfaction with a Special Focus on Anuradhapura 
    Senarathna, T.M.C.D. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Anuradhapura is one of the remarkable and ancient cities in Sri Lanka. It is a highly popular destination among historical sites in Sri Lanka leading to cultural tourism, one of the fastest growing tourism niche markets ...
  • Usage of Workers’ Remittance by the Households of Origin in Sri Lanka 
    Bandara, S. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Migration is not a new phenomenon and it is the oldest human action against poverty (Galbraith, 1979). Nowadays the most direct impact of migration is remittances. For many rural households in developing economies, remittances ...

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