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1 Perera, E. N. R.; Weerakkody, P. 2003. A biodiversity status profile of sub-tidal and inter-tidal habitats of the Rekawa, Ussangoda and Kalametiya Area. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). iii, 33p. (Occasional papers of IUCN Sri Lanka no.5)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 574.5 G744 PER Record No: H035603)
2 Ekanayake, S. P.; Bambaradeniya, C. N. B.; Perera, W. P. N.; Perera, M. S. J.; Rodrigo, R. K.; Samarawickrama, V. A. M. P. K.; Peiris, T. N. 2005. A biodiversity status profile of Lunama – Kalametiya Wetland Sanctuary. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). iii, 43p. (Occasional papers of IUCN Sri Lanka no.8)
Biodiversity ; Lagoons ; Wetlands ; Ecosystems ; Vegetation ; Mangroves ; Fauna / Sri Lanka / Lunama / Kalametiya
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.9516 G744 EKA Record No: H038375)
3 Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali. 2007. The sustainability of livelihood dynamics in a rural coastal community in Sri Lanka. Doctoral Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science of the University of London. Division of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, UK. 289p.
Rural sociology ; Poverty ; Food security ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Coastal area ; Villages ; Households ; Risks ; Tsunamis ; Natural resources management ; Fisheries ; Lagoons / Sri Lanka / Hambantota District / Rekawa / Kalametiya / Gurupokuna / Wewegoda / Thuduwa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: D 307.1412 G744 SEN Record No: H040798)
My study aims to investigate the key socio-economic and policy factors influencing the sustainability of natural resource based livelihoods in rural coastal households. While I adopt a sustainable livelihoods approach as an overall conceptual framework, I focus specifically on two aspects of livelihood security - food security and personal wellbeing. I investigate the usefulness of using a combination of food security and personal wellbeing indices that I develop together with other standard qualitative tools, to highlight aspects of livelihoods sustainability that are not covered by conventional poverty approaches. I also apply these approaches to assess first, how certain coastal zone management policy processes such as Special Area Management (SAM) has affected rural coastal livelihoods, and later, to assess the impact of the Asian tsunami on coastal communities and their livelihoods. SAM is a co-management approach applied in specific coastal sites. I collected data from two SAM sites - Rekawa and Kalametiya, on the south coast of Sri Lanka. I collected data from a total of 210 households that covered 6 villages (3 villages in each site). A combination of participatory methods and conventional surveys methods were used. I first examined the major qualitative trends and influences, and thereafter investigated the differences between households within and between villages and between male and female respondents using univariate analyses. Finally, regression analyses were used to relate the food security and personal well-being indices to a number of explanatory variables such as location of village, wealth rank, livelihood activities and SAM participation. My findings suggest that in terms of coastal resource management initiatives, the use of indices and tools such as those developed under this study, could prove to be useful in respect to better targeting the poorer groups among coastal communities. This in turn would contribute towards the overall success and long-term sustainability of coastal zone management initiatives.
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