Abstract
As part of Indian Ocean Tsunami recovery projects, an “eco-village” was established in Lagoswatta, located in the Kalutara district near Colombo in Sri Lanka. There are 55 tsunami-affected families relocated from eight different communities. It was supported by local NGO. UNEP and UN-HABITAT initiated the Eco-housing project in 2004 to build capacity and to increase awareness on this issue. This case study will show the impacts of thematic resettlement as eco-village through field survey between 2006 and 2012. Questionnaire and interview survey were conducted in eco-village named ‘Danmiyangama’. Observation survey involved understanding the changing of the community structure and physical life condition in the resettlement area.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 25870930. Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B). The authors are thankful to Dr. Deepthi Wickramasinghe, in the University of Colombo, and Dr. Vinya Aryaratne and Mr. Nandana in Sarvodaya which one of the local NGO in Sri Lanka for their assistance and support in the field work, and to the people of the villages for their spontaneous response to the questionnaires.
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Abe, M., Shaw, R. (2015). Ten Years of Resettlement in Eco-Village, Sri Lanka. In: Shaw, R. (eds) Recovery from the Indian Ocean Tsunami. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55117-1_28
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