Six themes at environment seminar

The first international symposium on 'Environment Management and Planning' organised by the Central Environment Authority (CEA) of Sri Lanka was held at the Waters Edge, Battaramulla recently.

The symposium revolved around six core themes comprising Environmental Innovation, Natural Resources Management, Pollution Control and Management, Geo-informatics Applications in Environmental Management, Environment and Sustainable Development and Environmental Education and Awareness. Abstracts on the six topics were called in August 2014 which was short listed and the authors presented their abstracts at the symposium. Among the participants were leading academics, scientists, researchers and research scholars.

This symposium created a platform for exchanging experiences and operational structures about environmental management. This was driven through focused interdisciplinary sessions enabling the audience and speakers to present and discuss current trends in innovation, risks, real-world challenges and solutions applied in the field.

Supun Siriwardane, a Product Engineer at GIS Solutions (Pvt) Ltd, a subsidiary of the Just In Time Group, presented his abstract on Geo-informatics Applications on day two of the symposium's technical sessions.

Siriwardane's paper on 'Cloud Based GIS Approach for Environmental Monitoring in the Coastal Zone of Kalutara, Sri Lanka' brought into play the current trend of Cloud Solutions through his outline of natural resource management using Cloud GIS applications.