Jayasinghe Anuradhi Dulangi
Law and Society Trust, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Environ Dev Sustain. 2023 Jan 11:1-20. doi: 10.1007/s10668-022-02893-4.
People are vulnerable to increasing environmental pollution and unprecedented economic changes in countries like Sri Lanka. Development projects such as coal power plants have exaggerated the vulnerability of the communities to the threats of environmental pollution coupled with economic crises. This study is to present the concurrent socio-environmental issues related to the largest power plant in Sri Lanka-the Norochcholai coal power plant (NCPP). The vulnerability of the communities to environmental pollution due to the coal power plant and the prevailing economic crisis was studied. Results revealed that communities are extremely exposed to threats and are highly sensitive to poverty and yet they have no adequate sets of strategies to cope and/or adapt to threats or increase their resilience. This study suggests a human-centric approach focused on sustainable and autonomous adaptation strategies for the communities in the vicinity of the NCPP and to address their rising vulnerability to the impacts for both the NCPP and the prevailing economic crisis.
在斯里兰卡这样的国家，人们容易受到日益严重的环境污染和前所未有的经济变化的影响。诸如燃煤发电厂之类的发展项目加剧了社区面对环境污染威胁以及经济危机的脆弱性。本研究旨在呈现与斯里兰卡最大的发电厂——诺罗乔莱燃煤发电厂（NCPP）相关的同时存在的社会环境问题。研究了由于该燃煤发电厂以及当前的经济危机，社区面对环境污染的脆弱性。结果显示，社区极易受到威胁，对贫困高度敏感，但却没有一套足够的策略来应对和/或适应威胁或增强其恢复力。本研究建议采用一种以人类为中心的方法，重点是为NCPP附近的社区制定可持续和自主的适应策略，以应对他们面对NCPP和当前经济危机影响时不断增加的脆弱性。
