Photo courtesy of FloodList The most devastating natural disaster to hit Sri Lanka in decades, Cyclone Ditwah, has forced the country into its most severe climate-related humanitarian crisis in recent memory. Sri Lanka is only beginning to recover and analysts are only now starting to review the disaster in its totality and examine its economic, health and agricultural impacts and the methods by which the country can pursue the challenging pathway that lies ahead. A study by Prof. Lakshman Galagedara, a specialist in hydrology and agrophysics, estimates that Sri Lanka received close to 10% of its total yearly rainfall in…
Moving Forward from Ditwah: Understanding the Scale, Impact and Road to Recovery
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