Trade and the Environment: A Case Study from Sri Lanka

Lalith Heengama

Chapter 14 in Trade, Environment & Sustainable Development, 1997, pp 155-160 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract With a population of 17 million people to support in a land area of only 16 million acres, Sri Lanka has one of the lowest per capita incomes in the world. In the past, industrial and agricultural practices such as timber felling, mining and fishing typically operated well within the absorptive capacities of Sri Lanka’s different ecosystems. Trends over the past few decades, however, indicate that these traditional practices will no longer sustain Sri Lanka’s burgeoning population. Although attempts have been made to enhance the natural resource base to serve this growing population, a variety of severe environmental problems have occurred.

Keywords: OECD Country; Environmental Impact Assessment; Natural Resource Base; Severe Environmental Problem; Waste Management Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25417-0_15

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