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To minimise flood damage:
Need for spatial planning in development
Today’s society is ever more vulnerable to
natural disasters due to the concentration of population,
environmental degradation and a lack of planning, management and
preparedness. With an alarming increase in natural disasters
throughout the world, caused by global climate change as well as due
to adverse effects of human intervention, the time has come to take
immediate steps to minimise the loss of human lives, damage to
economy and environment.
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VIGNETTES - By R.S Karunaratne
The violence of disease
Have you ever been diagnosed with any kind of
incurable disease? If so, you will find that it is one of the most
distressing situations in life. When you are young you never give
thought to dreaded diseases such as cancer, heart problems and
paralysis. But when you reach middle age you will be compelled to
visit physicians and specialists. Then you find that all diseases,
especially the incurable ones, are painful, frightening and
devastating.
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Science and technology could help win economic war
In the context of present development President
Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that the next objective is to win the
economic war. It is necessary that we should have a five-year
strategy which would lay the foundation for economic take off. The
sixth Biennial Conference on Science and Technology (BICOST-VI) was
held a few weeks ago organised by the National Science and
Technology Commission. The conference was to work out an action plan
to implement the National Science Policy of the government.
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