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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...