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Community-based evacuation routes for hydrometeorological hazards resilience: a case study of Ratnapura district in Sri Lanka

Cooray, MSS; Bandara, AANS; Perera, AAH; Lankeshwarie, ABD; Dassanayake, SM; Gunawardana, A; Prasanna, R [Conference-Full-text]

Sri Lanka has endured many hydrometeorological hazards due to torrential rains and monsoonal rains. These events disrupt communication networks, obstruct roadways, and can result in resource misallocation. Thus, setting ...
Development of a cost-optimized model for evacuation route planning for tsunamis

Kannangara, KKCL; Adhikariwatte, V; Siriwardana, CSA [Conference-Full-text]

This paper addresses the problem of planning inland evacuation routes along a given coastal stretch. This study presents a methodology to determine the optimum interval for proving inland evacuation routes within a stretch ...
It based evacuation methodology for a coastal railway system under a tsunami warning

Sirisoma, RMNT; Wirasinghe, SC [Conference-Abstract]

Natural disasters have been known to humans ever since the formation of early civilizations. However, as increased human interventions contribute to the destabilization of the natural balance of environmental processes, ...
The loopholes of evacuation process in the Sri Lankan healthcare sector

Ramachandra, T; Weerasinghe, A [Conference-Full-text]

Healthcare facilities are traditionally seen as places of sanctuary and safety by the general public. The fire hazard is one of the challenges faced by any healthcare organization. Therefore, in order to save lives and ...
Numerical investigation of future tsunami hazard on Sri Lanka From the earthquakes of Sumatra-Andaman region

Ohga, M; Appuhamy, JMRS; Tinti, S; Lai, C; Dissanayake, PBR [Conference-Full-text]

The mega event of Indian Ocean Tsunami 26th December 2004, stressed the need for assessing tsunami hazards in vulnerable coastal areas in Sri Lanka. Two major areas of the management of disaster prevention are to evacuate ...

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