Increase in land price and land use pattern changes in the post-disaster situation in Ampara district, Sri Lanka

Abstract

This field research carried out the subject on “Increase in land price and land use pattern changes in the post-disaster situation in Ampara district”. It is one of the major productivities under this project, funded by the NUFU, Norwegian Program for Development Research and Education. In this research, the land use pattern, its changing trend, the increase in land price and its significant causes in the post disaster situation, are key components to understand the real condition of the land usage in the Ampara district. This district has had the misfortune of facing many disasters in the recent past which created severe impacts on its people. This area has suffered a lot as a result of armed conflict and natural disaster. The effects of both disasters have had directed to increase the land price and land use pattern changes in the research area considerably. Therefore, this study is significant as it explores how far posttsunami and post-war scenarios pilots to increase the land price and land use pattern changes in the area of research. This paper has covered the three major workings as land use pattern changes, increase in land prince and the causes for increasing land price respectively. This paper is found that the land use pattern has been changed and it impact on agriculture and other economical activities. Further, this study reveals that the land price of coastal region of Ampara district has been increased rapidly due to many reasons. So, this recent work tries to assess the level of usage of lands and the trend of land price in different locations, and also these helps to categorize the varies types of land and land use patterns which experienced by the people in Ampara district where natural and human-made disasters were placed in large scale.