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Peiris, G. H.

Development and change in Sri Lanka : geographical perspectives - New Delhi : Macmillan India Ltd., ©1996. - xvi, 370 p. : maps ;

"International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka in association with the Canadian International Development Agency and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung."

Preface --
An Introductory Overview --
Territory and People --
Physiography --
Climate --
Physical Resources Base --
General Land Use Changes --
The Use of Physicak Resources n Agriculture --
Resource Use in Energy Production --
Environmental Hazards --
Pre-Modern Agrarian Relations --
Agarian Transformations Under Colonial Rule --
Spatial Dimensions of Colonial Economic Change --
Evolution of Contemporary Agrarian Policy --
Land Distribution Programmes --
Development of Peasant Settlements in the Dry Zone --
Issues and Problems of Dry Zone Settlement Development --
Institutional Reforms and Rural Development --
Plantation Crop Production --
Manufacturing Industries --
Service Industries --
Socal Welfare Services --
Macro-Economic Change: Problems and Prospects.

ISBN: 0333924312 9780333924310

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Rural development
Sri Lanka -- Economic policy.
Sri Lanka -- Economic conditions.
Urbanization

Dewey Class. No.: 338.95493 / PEI