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When Worlds Collide #120: Asia’s smallest state Maldives faces big climate threats

Posted on 5 September 2014 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 5 September 2014 Small island nations are in focus this week, as well as throughout this year. The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity, Communicating Development, Disaster, Disaster Communication, Energy Conservation, Environment, Environmental management, Environmental policy, Green Economy, Humanitarianism, Indian Ocean, Power & Energy, South Asia, Sustainable Development | Tagged Ali Rilwan, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Bluepeace, Carbon Neutral Plan, climate adaptation, Coral reefs, ecosystem-based adaptation, Good governance, Hulhumalé, International Year of Small Island Developing States, Malé, Maldives, Mauritius, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President Mohamed Nasheed, Samoa, sea level rise, Seychelles, SIDS, Singapore, South Asia, Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), World Bank | Leave a comment

When Worlds Collide #99: South Asia: In Search of Open Data

Posted on 7 March 2014 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today broadsheet newspaper on 7 March 2014 “When you’re trying to reach a goal, data not only tells you if you’re succeeding, but it also suggests which activities you should do … Continue reading →

Posted in Communicating Development, Environmental management, Environmental policy, ICT, Public policy, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development | Tagged Bangladesh, Bill Gates, Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), comparability, data revolution, Google Earth, Ibrahim Naeem, India, India’s Department of Science and Technology, India’s Marine Fisherfolk Census of 2010, integrated coastal zone management (ICZM), inter-operability, Maldives, National Policy on Data Sharing and Accessibility (NPDSA), Open Data, Pakistan, PondyCAN, public domain, SAARC Coastal Zone Management Centre, South Asia Convention on Coastal Management, Sri Lanka, Sudarshan Rodriguez, Sunita Narain, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), the cloud | 1 Comment

When Worlds Collide #97: Living on the Edge – South Asia’s Coastal Scramble

Posted on 14 February 2014 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today broadsheet newspaper on 14 February 2014 Many different worlds collide on the coast – both literally and metaphorically. Coasts are where land meets the sea. A precise coastline cannot be … Continue reading →

Posted in Business & Commerce, Climate change, Communicating Development, Disaster, Environmental management, Environmental policy, Green Economy, Indian Ocean, Poverty, Public policy, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Transport, Travel, Urban issues, Water, Water management | Tagged Bangladesh, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Chandra Bhushan, climate impacts, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ), coastal resource management, coastal zone, Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP), coasts, commercial ports, Ibrahim Naeem, India, industrialisation, integrated coastal zone management (ICZM), Livelihoods, Maldives, Pakistan, Pondicherry, PondyCAN, Probir Banerjee, SAARC Coastal Zone Management Centre, South Asia Convention on Coastal Management, Sri Lanka, Sunita Narain, thermal power plants, tourism development, urbanisation | 1 Comment

When Worlds Collide #96: Before Malala came Meena…

Posted on 17 January 2014 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today broadsheet newspaper on 17 January 2014 Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager turned activist, was a key newsmaker of 2013. Having survived an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen in October 2012, … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadcasting, Cartoons, Communicating Development, Creative Writing, Culture, Education, Film making, Gender based violence, Innovation, Media, Movies, Poverty, Public health, South Asia, Sustainable Development, Television, Women's Rights, Youth | Tagged access to education, Bangladesh, Bhutan, child health and survival, child labour, child survival and development, Christian Clark, early marriage, Fil Cartoons of Manila, gender equity, Hanna-Barbera animation studio, HIV/AIDS, India, Malala and Meena, Malala Yousafzai, Maldives, Meena, Meena animation, Meena cartoon, Meena Communication Initiative (MCI), Meena: Count Your Chickens, Mithu, Neill Mckee, Nepal, Pakistan, Ram Mohan, rights of the child, SAARC Year of Girl Child, sanitation, Sara, Sesame Street, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Taliban, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Unicef | 5 Comments

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