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Application of resilience concept for enhanced management of water supply systems

Amarasinghe, P; Barnes, P; Egodawatta, P; Goonetilleke, A [Conference-Full-text]

This paper presents an approach to developing indicators for expressing resilience of a generic water supply system. The system is contextualised as a meta-system consisting of three subsystems to represent the water ...
Biomimetic strategies for climate change adaptation in the built environment- a literature review

Oguntona, OA; Aigbavboa, CO

Out of the numerous challenges facing mankind globally, the impact of climate change poses more threat. These impacts include sea-level rise, more frequent floods from heavy rainfall and notably among others, intense ...
Impact of climate change on wind energy generation in Mannar-Sri Lanka

Wickramaarachchi, WAMKP; Narayana, M [Conference-Full-text]

North Western coastal area of Sri Lanka is identified as a region with substantial wind power potential. Favorable geographical location and the terrain conditions have effected for higher wind power generation. Presently, ...
Impacts of global climate change on the future ocean wave power potential: A case study from the indian ocean

Karunarathna, H; Maduwantha, P; Kamranzad, B; Rathnasooriya, H; Silva, KD [Article-Full-text]

This study investigates the impacts of global climate change on the future wave power potential, taking Sri Lanka as a case study from the northern Indian Ocean. The geographical location of Sri Lanka, which receives ...
An integrated, probabilistic modeling approach to assess the evolution of barrier-Island systems over the twenty-first century

Bamunawala, J; Spek, AVD; Dastgheib, A; Murray, AB; Ranasinghe, R [Article-Full-text]

Barrier-island systems, spanning ∼7% of the world’s coastlines, are of great importance to society because not only they provide attractive, liveable space for coastal communities but also act as the first line of defense ...
Presidential address 2021 climate-change pledges, actions, and outcomes

Tenreyro, S; De Silva, T [Article-Full-text]

We study countries’ compliance with the targets pledged in international climate-change agreements and the impact of those agreements and specific climate laws and policies on greenhouse-gas emissions and economic outcomes. ...
Trading disaster:containers and container thinking in the production of climate precarity

Parsons, L; de Campos, RS; Moncaster, A; Cook, I; Siddiqui, T; Abenayake, C; Jayasinghe, AB; Mishra, P; Billah, T [Article-Full-text]

This paper examines how global trade shapes and intensifies disasters. Juxtaposing three basic, everyday consumer goods – a t-shirt, a brick, and a tea bag – with disasters manifesting in their respective global supply ...

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