Anoja Wickramasinghe
Biographic Data
| ID | 237204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anoja Wickramasinghe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anoja |
| FAMILY NAME | Wickramasinghe |
| SIGNATURE | WICKRAMASINGHE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Peradeniya |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Challenges of sustainable recovery processes in tsunami affected communities
Purpose Sustainable housing and community recovery processes in the aftermath of tsunamis have to cope with direct impacts, such as fatalities, destroyed buildings, and loss of economic assets, as well as indirect impacts caused by shortcomings in recovery management. Recent studies on post‐tsunami recovery tend to focus on direct impacts, ranging from monitoring to prevention studies. Less attention is paid to recovery as a complex bundle of mul…
Engendering Development Theory from the Standpoint of Women
The UN Decade for Women has made it impossible for development specialists to ignore the experiences of women. Among development planners and male-centered theorists, however, women are either added into established frameworks or treated as the social ’contexts’ of development projects. The problem is that these approaches treat ’gender’ and ’development’ as inter-related but distinct phenomena. This paper challenges this approach to women and de…
Women and Minority Groups in Environmental Management
The work reported here explores how women and indigenous groups could potentially contribute to the process of environmental management. Women, indigenous communities and the poor are minorities due to their powerlessness. The result is that their opinions are not sought and minorities are not treated as contributors to modern development interventions. The objective of this paper is to examine how local knowledge and strategies contribute to the…
Nontimber forest product gathering in Ritigala forest (Sri Lanka)
Development intervention and the changing status of rural women in Sri Lanka
Development intervention and the changing status of rural women in Sri Lanka
Nontimber forest product gathering in Ritigala forest (Sri Lanka)
Engendering Development Theory from the Standpoint of Women
The UN Decade for Women has made it impossible for development specialists to ignore the experiences of women. Among development planners and male-centered theorists, however, women are either added into established frameworks or treated as the social ’contexts’ of development projects. The problem is that these approaches treat ’gender’ and ’development’ as inter-related but distinct phenomena. This paper challenges this approach to women and de…
Women and Minority Groups in Environmental Management
The work reported here explores how women and indigenous groups could potentially contribute to the process of environmental management. Women, indigenous communities and the poor are minorities due to their powerlessness. The result is that their opinions are not sought and minorities are not treated as contributors to modern development interventions. The objective of this paper is to examine how local knowledge and strategies contribute to the…
Challenges of sustainable recovery processes in tsunami affected communities
Purpose Sustainable housing and community recovery processes in the aftermath of tsunamis have to cope with direct impacts, such as fatalities, destroyed buildings, and loss of economic assets, as well as indirect impacts caused by shortcomings in recovery management. Recent studies on post‐tsunami recovery tend to focus on direct impacts, ranging from monitoring to prevention studies. Less attention is paid to recovery as a complex bundle of mul…
Economics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Socioeconomics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Environmental planning (2 works) · Environmental resource management (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)