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... Sri Lanka . In particu- lar , the project is likely to prove disastrous for Sri Lanka's dwin- dling elephant population . Eight hundred elephants are said to inhabit the project area , and an important migratory route will disappear ...
... Sri Lanka . In particu- lar , the project is likely to prove disastrous for Sri Lanka's dwin- dling elephant population . Eight hundred elephants are said to inhabit the project area , and an important migratory route will disappear ...
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... Sri Lanka SRI LANKA'S TANKS Sri Lanka is covered with a network of thousands of man - made lakes and ponds known locally as tanks ( after tanque , the Portu- guese word for reservoir ) . Some are truly massive , many are thou- sands of ...
... Sri Lanka SRI LANKA'S TANKS Sri Lanka is covered with a network of thousands of man - made lakes and ponds known locally as tanks ( after tanque , the Portu- guese word for reservoir ) . Some are truly massive , many are thou- sands of ...
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... Sri Lanka . Leach argues that although the large tanks may have been the work of a bureaucracy , the small village tanks most decidedly were not . Not only did villages run their own irrigation systems quite independently of the state ...
... Sri Lanka . Leach argues that although the large tanks may have been the work of a bureaucracy , the small village tanks most decidedly were not . Not only did villages run their own irrigation systems quite independently of the state ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Problems of Resettlement | 17 |
Management and MaintenancePerennial Problems | 163 |
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