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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,175 Views
21 Pages

27 November 2020

Sri Lanka is experiencing various social and environmental challenges, including drought, storms, floods, and landslides, due to climate change. One of Sri Lanka’s biggest cities, Kurunegala, is a densely populated city that is gradually turnin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,431 Views
21 Pages

Spatiotemporal Variation of Urban Heat Islands for Implementing Nature-Based Solutions: A Case Study of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka

  • Manjula Ranagalage,
  • Sujith S. Ratnayake,
  • DMSLB Dissanayake,
  • Lalit Kumar,
  • Hasula Wickremasinghe,
  • Jagathdeva Vidanagama,
  • Hanna Cho,
  • Susantha Udagedara,
  • Keshav Kumar Jha and
  • Priyantha Muthunayake
  • + 3 authors

Changes in the urban landscape resulting from rapid urbanisation and climate change have the potential to increase land surface temperature (LST) and the incidence of the urban heat island (UHI). An increase in urban heat directly affects urban livel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
570 Views
19 Pages

From Risk to Resilience: Willingness-to-Pay for Crop Insurance Among Paddy Farmers in the Kurunegala District, Sri Lanka

  • Virajith Kuruppu,
  • Nirma Subashini,
  • Lahiru Udayanga,
  • Navoda Erabadupitiya,
  • Hasini Ekanayake,
  • Mohamed M. M. Najim,
  • Savinda Arambawatta Lekamge and
  • Bader Alhafi Alotaibi

20 November 2025

Agriculture is one of the many sectors facing significant risks from climate change. To manage potential crop losses, whether climate-related or not, farmers widely rely on crop insurance to increase their resilience. However, farmers in Sri Lanka de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,318 Views
14 Pages

27 January 2025

As the human population has grown and expanded, increasing pressure is being put on natural habitats in Sri Lanka. This situation has led to a noticeable increase in human–primate conflicts. To understand the situation, we studied the interacti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,513 Views
29 Pages

19 December 2024

The promotion of sustainability and resilience within urban environments is widely recognized as an essential approach to educating urban communities through innovative strategies and tools. This paper presents a process for integrating stakeholders...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,725 Views
12 Pages

The objective was to conduct a review and meta-analysis of questionnaire-based surveys of dengue knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and practices (KAP)s among the general public in Sri Lanka as no prior island-wide survey existed. The electronic data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,887 Views
18 Pages

Agricultural Biomass-Based Power Generation Potential in Sri Lanka: A Techno-Economic Analysis

  • W. A. M. A. N. Illankoon,
  • Chiara Milanese,
  • Alessandro Girella,
  • Puhulwella G. Rathnasiri,
  • K. H. M. Sudesh,
  • Maria Medina Llamas,
  • Maria Cristina Collivignarelli and
  • Sabrina Sorlini

28 November 2022

Worldwide energy costs have grown in recent years due to the dwindling global fossil fuel resources and the increased reliance on them for global energy production. This is a common scenario in many nations, including Sri Lanka. As a developing count...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,985 Views
14 Pages

A Nutritional Investigation of Major Feed Types and Feed Rations Used in Medium-Scale Dairy Production Systems in Sri Lanka

  • Sagara N. Kumara,
  • Tim J. Parkinson,
  • Richard A. Laven,
  • Garry C. Waghorn,
  • Anil Pushpakumara and
  • Daniel J. Donaghy

13 September 2022

In this paper, the nutritional quality, digestibility, and chemical composition of major feed types as well as the use of those feeds in rations by medium-scale dairy farmers in the Kurunegala district of Sri Lanka were studied. Nine dairy farms were...