• Stakeholder Perception Based Approach To Vulnerability Assessment: Case Of Ratnapura Municipal Council Area 

  Mahanama, PKS; Ranasinghe, TKGP; Warusavitharana, EJ [Article-Full-text]

  The intention of this paper is to provide an alternative approach to thevulnerability assessment. Most of the present approaches that are involved in the vulnerability assessment process have been identified with various ...
• Identification of Evaluating Criteria for Sustainable Visitor Management of National Parks in Sri Lanka 

  Nillegoda, L; Mahanama, PKS; Ranasinghe, TKGP [Article-Full-text]

  With the booming of Tourism industry,eco-tourism has been popularized and improved in the world. The places which are practicing eco-tourism attract increasing number of visitors day by day by exceeding their carrying ...
• Industrial Hazardous Waste Management: Avenues for Collaborations 

  Karunasena, G; Rathnayake, RMNU [Article-Full-text]

  As nations industrialized people benefited greatly from the advances in technology but with negative effects of pollution and production of hazardous waste. On the other hand, with growing demand for raw materials for ...
• Using walk-recordings and images: How Students experience safety m a city centre 

  Ratnayake, R [Article-Full-text]

  This paper reflects on using self-recorded walk and auto-photo-elicitation as qualitative methodological components in studying students sense of safety at night in a Central Business District {CBD) area of a regional city ...
• Road Traffic Crashes and Road Configuration; A Space Syntax Application 

  Dasanayaka, U; Jayasinghe, A [Article-Full-text]

  Transport provides a range of benefits to society in terms of mobility, access and economic growth. However, there are negative impacts of transport, not least in terms of environmental degradation, damage to property, ...
• Applicability of Centrality Measures to explain Vehicular flow in Colombo Municipal Council Area, Sri Lanka 

  Gunawardana, C; Jayasinghe, A [Article-Full-text]

  Traffic congestion has become a major issue for all of the cities in the acrid. Sri Lanka also incurs 1.5% of GDP due to massive financial and man-hour loss due to traffic congestion. Thus, this sets the importance of ...
• Shortcomings in the UK's Current 'Fabric' First Approach towards Building Energy Targets 

  Futcher, JA [Article-Full-text]

  buildings consume between 40 - 50% of the world's energy, and as a result bare become a prime focus towards achieving net-target energy and greenhouse gas reductions. Within the UK building policy sets minimum standards ...
• The Effects of Globalization on Multi-disciplinary consultancy Firms in Sri Lanka 

  Meegahakotuwa, MGALIB; Perera, BAKS; IUankoon, IMCS [Article-Full-text]

  ‘Globalization ’ is a phenomenon that describes the accelerated pace at which interaction and expansion in cross-border trade activities, open markets, migration and technology advancement take place in today’s world. ...
• Model_isi; Developing a Model for Indigenous Knowledge Management 

  Nawarathne, DJ; Ratnamalala, S [Article-Full-text]

  This article presents the initial development of a communication model (Model_isi) as a mean of gathering, presenting and transferring indigenous knowledge in knowledge management. The article first discusses the need for ...
• Factors Affecting the Accuracy of Pre-Tender Estimation of Road Construction in Sri Lanka 

  Britto, AD; Perera, BAKS; Illankoon, IMCS [Article-Full-text]

  Within the sphere of construction, the “estimating process'1 is a significant element due to the lack of financial resources available, and out of the branches of estimating, pre-tender cost estimating of road construction ...
• Factors Contributing Towards Establishing a Positive Safety Culture In Manufacturing Sector 

  Dissanayake, DMPP; Fernando, NG [Article-Full-text]

  A combination of large scale disasters and hazards has encouraged high risk industries to reduce the potential workplace incidents and accidents with routine tasks and to improve workplace safety. This idea encourages the ...
• A Study on the trends of rainfall and temperature patterns to identify the influence of climate variation in a coastal cities in Sri Lanka 

  Bandara, PKBDB; Abenayake, CC; Jayasinghe, AB; Jayasinghe, PKS [Article-Full-text]

  Climate change has been universally recognized as a fundamental human development challenge in the 21st century and also it impacts both natural and built environments. Since different parts of the world have predicted to ...
• Political-Geographic Scales of Environmental Injustice: Understanding the Flood-Affected Neighbourhoods on the Banks of the Kelani River in Colombo 

  Perera, JKHH; Abenayake, CC [Article-Full-text]

  Environmental injustice has become a detrimental reality in urbanizjngdeveloping world. Branding of communities as ‘encroachers’ due to the absence of property rights has caused insecure rights to clean air; safe dunking ...
• Sri Lankan Children’s Independent Mobility 

  Rudner, J; Wickramaarachchi, N; Karunasena [Article-Full-text]

  Children’s and young people’s independent mobility has decreased significantly in industrialised countries, and these trends could be replicated in Sri Lanka as standards of living increase alongside changes in urban form. ...
• Colour Associated Thermal Perception (CTP): Evidence From An Experimental Research Design Implemented In Sri Lanka. 

  Hettiarachchi, A; De Silva, N [Article-Full-text]

  Colours have been hypothetically recognized to alter perceived temperature. and thus differentiated as warm colours and cool colours, even though not satisfactorily supported via scientific inquiry. Given that this association ...
• People’s Perception of Revitalized Public Spaces: The Case of Independence Square, Colombo, Sri Lanka 

  Gangabada, LP; Mahanama, PKS; Ranasinghe, G [Article-Full-text]

  The increasing tendency of enhancing the quality of public spaces in developing countries, for example by promoting strong visual identity, is a crucial government polity instrument in economic and urban revitalization, ...
• Future Directions for Fashion Design Education in Sri Lanka 

  Senanayake, R [Article-Full-text]

  The paper tries to address the key question: ‘what is the role of the fashion designer in the emerging creative economy of Sri Lanka?The answer rests upon the tasks of the Sri Lankan fashion design education and the readiness ...
• The Effect of Visual Stimuli of Planned Residential Streetscapes on Way Finding Behavior of First Time Visitors 

  Gunanwardena, WL; Yoichi, K; Fukahori, K [Article-Full-text]

  This paper is concerned the streetscape visual stimuli making streetscape confusions as well as the visual stimuli making trouble-free bidirectional movements of first time visitors to an area. Pedestrian/ vehicle streets ...
• The Role of Socio-Spatial Relationships in Sustaining Communities. Case Study of Low Income Settlements in Colombo 

  Mahamudalige, K; Coorey, SBA [Article-Full-text]

  Low income settlements in Colombo represent communities that have high interdependence and social ties. Such communities are observed to be significantly linked and dependents on their public and semi public spaces where ...
• A Study on the Factors Affecting Safety Behavior of Construction Workers 

  Manjula, NHC; De Silva, N [Article-Full-text]

  Construction industry, being one of the most injury-prone industries worldwide in terms of serious injuries, lost work time, hospitalization, disability, and mortality, is in a great need to improve occupational safety. ...

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