ICSS 2016

Now showing 1 - 3 of 3

Market Landscape of Bio Fertilizer: Opportunities and Challenges
(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Kularathne, M.G.; de Silva, D.A.M.; Hettiarachchi, I.C.
Solid waste management strategies of the developed nations created economic, social and environmental benefits which Sri Lanka is far behind to reach. Our approach was to recognize the opportunities of municipal solid waste and investigate the market landscape. Further, domestic market place showing positive demand on organic fertilizers due to the favorable policy and ideological changes and global price hikes of inorganic fertilizer. First, several user groups and producers of compost and other forms of organic fertilizers were identified. Composed producers were divided into two main stratums; government owned operations and private operations. Principal sample strategy used was stratified random sampling and respondent selected from each stratum using simple random method. Further, snow ball sampling technique was used to select the respondents from the household stratum due to the lack of proper sampling frame. Study has identified that some of the local government authorities were able to manage the process well with collaboration of their stakeholders while majority experienced the unsuccessful programs. Success stories were necessarily depend on the vision of the top management and the officers who handle the process as well as good inter-organizational relationships while others fail due to particular remuneration issues, poor performance management schemes, financing systems, rigid regulatory system and symmetric information.
Heritage tourism and sustainability: surveying the Asian scenario
(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dasture, P.
Tourism, has been one of the oldest forms of recreation man has ever known; the desire to explore and the longing to know more, has always led man to known and unknown territories. Today tourism is a full-fledged industry, sites, and areas of various kinds, be it pilgrimage sites, beaches, forests, forts, historical sites and the likes that hold heritage value have always attracted a man. Asia, boosts of some of the most exciting tourist spots; making it second only to Europe as a favourite travel destination. Even ASEAN recognizes it as a priority area for integration. The need of the hour, however, is to identify the role of tourism in promoting socio-cultural advancement, to evaluate sustainability and find out the forms of sustainable development not only in the overall heritage tourist industry but also at the sites itself. Factors that surface as challenges to sustainable heritage tourism development are related to national fiscal policies; governmental norms; the role of UNESCO in managing World Heritage Sites and the response of the host nation; the role of the organizations that work towards the maintenance of the sites; emerging environmental issues; over commercialization of the structures; international, domestic and local tourist flow and other such pointers. This paper intends to look into the above mentioned issues in an attempt to figure out solutions to the challenges faced by the industry, its operators, the policy-makers, the actual implementation and the impact of an operationally sustainable framework, from heritage sites across Asia.
Globalization and the Developmental Role of a State: The Sri Lankan Experience from its Independence to date
(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Kanchana, D.G.
National states have to manage their developmental activities by responding to globalization. Globalization is not a totally new thing which has come far away from the state and its behavior. It is also a result of states’ activities. But, states and their developments have been threatened by the globalization. Actually, globalization opens windows for lifting up the levels of states in a positive way by making opportunities such as technology improvements, collectivism, providing aids, knowledge sharing, etc. It also opens the windows for threats towards states’ development. This study was focuses on this issue and there were two main objectives; firstly; to identify the role which is played by the state of Sri Lanka in managing its development in an increasingly globalized world from its independence in 1948 to date and secondly; to find out the challenges which are being faced by the state in Sri Lanka in managing its development with global impacts. The study is based on qualitative approach and by using the content analysis method; secondary data collected from the sources such as published books, journal articles, websites and government’s reports. One can conclude that the global process is biased towards the developed world whereas developing countries like Sri Lanka faces enormous troubles. The Sri Lanka has taken many steps to develop its capacity as a prerequisite to the development, i.e. enabling an environment for doing businesses (its business density recorded as 0.51 by 2012) and use of e-governance in curbing corruptions. Globalization and its means sometimes lead to internal political struggles since the party politics and their political agendas are shaped by them. Due to the contextual mismatching of the reforms’ initiatives which were introduced by the donors, the country has lost its conventional administrative framework too. Sri Lanka has become a fragile state through the economic liberalization policies―e.g. the country has lost the indigenous strength of the stock market and it cannot bear the sudden market failures which always happen in the international market.

ICSS 2016

Browse

Filters

Settings

Sort By

Results per page

Search Results