Social Construction of Landslide; Case of Aranayake-Political Ecological Glances in Sri Lanka
Social Construction of Landslide; Case of Aranayake-Political Ecological Glances in Sri Lanka
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滑坡社会建设；
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2019
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N. Hennayake
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M. JayathilakaD.M.S.C.D.;N. Hennayake
在斯里兰卡，滑坡主要是在自然现象类别中进行研究，突出地质、地貌和气象属性。虽然不适当的土地使用的做法被确定为滑坡的一个促成因素，更大的政治和生态环境，导致这种不适当的土地使用的做法还没有，无论是经验和理论，充分处理。本研究的目的是分析社会建构的滑坡现象。为了了解滑坡的社会建设，本研究的重点是最近的滑坡Elangipitiya从政治生态学的方法，这是假定在政治和自然环境之间的关系。在这项研究中，我们应用保罗罗宾斯的方法，政治生态，重点是知识，权力和实践的贡献因素对环境退化，在宏观到微观层面上运作。这项研究表明，Elangipitiya的土地利用实践已经从一个不受干扰的森林发展到一个茶叶种植园，然后到现代国家土地改革下的殖民地定居点。茶叶和橡胶种植园后来被瓜分和侵占，导致1960年代和1980年代更多的定居点。随着定居点的建立，一条新的道路已经开发到目前滑坡实际发生的上部地区。这清楚地证明了政治决策过程如何导致环境变化，这种政治与社区本身有限的环境知识和做法相结合，对该地区产生了不利影响。本研究的结论是，理解滑坡作为社会建设超越其狭隘的自然灾害，特别是揭示政治和环境之间的关系，将启发我们，至少在减少影响，如果不是避免这样的灾害。
Landslides have been predominantly studied in Sri Lanka in the category of natural phenomena, highlighting geological, geomorphologic and meteorological attributes. Although improper land use practices are identified as a contributing factor for landslides, the larger political and ecological context that leads to such improper land use practices have not been, both empirically and theoretically, adequately dealt with. The objective of this study is to analyze the phenomenon of landslides as socially constructed. In order to understand landslides as socially constructed, this study focuses on the recent landslide of Elangipitiya from the political ecology approach which is presumed upon a relationship between politics and natural environment. In this study, we applied Paul Robins approach to political ecology which focuses on knowledge, power and practices as contributing elements towards environmental degradation, operating at macro to micro levels. This study reveals that land use practices in Elangipitiya have evolved from an undisturbed forest to a tea plantation and then to a colony settlement under land reforms of the modern state. Tea and rubber plantations have later been parceled out as well as encroached into resulting in more settlements in the 1960s and 1980s. With the settlements, a new road has been developed to the upper area where the current landslide has actually occurred. This is clear evidence as to how political decision making process can induce environmental changes and such politics teamed up with limited environmental knowledge and practices of the community itself have adversely affected the area. This study concludes that understanding landslides as socially constructed transcending its narrow designation as natural disasters, especially revealing the relationship between politics and environment would enlighten us, at least in reducing the impact, if not to avert such disasters.