Development and change in Sri Lanka : geographical perspectives

By: Peiris, G. HMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : Macmillan India Ltd., ©1996Description: xvi, 370 p. : mapsISBN: 0333924312; 9780333924310 Subject(s): Rural development | Sri Lanka -- Economic policy | Sri Lanka -- Economic conditions | UrbanizationDDC classification: 338.95493
Contents:
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.
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"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.

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