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    Local knowledge on climate variation: case of Negombo and Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
    (2014-08-06) Abenayake, CC; Jayasinghe, AB; Mahanama, PKS
    Knowledge on climatic variations can expand a local community's capacity to adapt to climate change. In recognition of this process, there are number of knowledge transferring and awareness building. programmes that have been undertaken in developing countries around the world. While many such programmes are focused on 'introducing knowledge into local systems' this research emphasizes the 'existences of knowledge within local systems' .on climate change. This study aims to explore the level of awareness on local rainfall and temperature variations among different societal groups in Negombo and Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. The research findings stress the existence of strong observations and memories on climatic variations among local societal groups that exist at different degrees. The findings of this research suggest strengthening knowledge sharing mechanisms within local systems will enable communities to learn from one and another in order to enhance their adaptive capacity so as to be more resilient to the emerging threats of climate change.
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    Political-geographic scales of environmental injustice - understanding the flood-affected neighborhoods on the banks of the Kelani River in Colombo
    (2014-04-09) Perera, JKHH; Abenayake, CC
    Environmental injustice has become a detrimental reality in urbani'{/ngdeveloping world. Branding of communities as 'encroachers' due to the absence ofproperty rights has caused insecure rights to clean air, safe dn'nking n/ater and live in a safe environment. This shows that the term 'properry nghts' is mis-defined as 'right to life'. The observable small geographic extent of the problem tendsthe decision makers to recognize that as a minor issue at neighborhood pockets but the author's reading argues such places as icebergs whichcover the unseen broader geographic context. This study emphasizes h02Vthe negligence of the broader geographic context made matry decision makers fail to address the burning issues exists at these vulnerable urban pockets.
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    A study of the spatial form of Kalutara town, Sri Lanka as a unique historic process
    (2014-01-27) Abenayake, CC; Munasinghe, J
    Contemporary urban planning practice often conceptualize of urban areas as static entities which could be planned towards certain end states, and devoid of social, economic, and political context, within which the spatial form is produced and reproduced. There have been many scholarly attempts to fill in this gap. The main argument put forward in this study is that the spatial form of an urban area is not a static neutral entity, as mostly seen in planning, but a dynamic process that