";s:4:"text";s:3049:" In the recent past Sri Lanka has been experiencing an increase in natural disasters. Clipping is a handy way to collect important slides you want to go back to later. Investments in development need to consider long-term resilience. SRI LANKA NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT POLICY Towards a Safer Sri Lanka Ministry of Disaster Management . Several hazards such as droughts, floods, earth slips, cyclones, lightning, tsunamis and earth quakes are some examples for such instances. The economic loss has been estimated at US$ 2.2 billion, disregarding the cost of social disorder.
Sri Lanka in the field of disaster management. Now customize the name of a clipboard to store your clips. You just clipped your first slide! The tsunami waves that struck nearly 2/3 of the Sri Lankan coastal belt resulted in 35,320 confirmed deaths and 6,300 missing people. Some of the key findings of the assessment, which were recorded in After the Tsunami: UNEP's Rapid Environmental Assessment … Its frequency and impacts are alarming, considerably affecting the economy and development gains. Therefore, it is Jayawardane Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Professor of Civil Engineering University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka ABSTRACT Sri Lanka is prone to natural disasters commonly caused by floods, cyclones, landslides, droughts and coastal erosion for generations with increasing losses to life and property in the past few decades. Factor Analysis of Water-related Disasters in Sri Lanka by Junichi YOSHITANI Norimichi TAKEMOTO Tarek MERABTENE The International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Managemant Synopsis: Vulnerability to disaster differs considerably depending on natural exposure to hazards and social conditions of countries affected.
One of the world’s worst natural disasters, causing more than 300,000 deaths affecting over 15 nations in two continents occurred in December 26th, 2004. The destruction of many schools revealed that educational facilities are particu-larly vulnerable to disasters.