Staff Profile

Undergraduate Teaching

• ENS3143 Solid Waste Management
• ENS2172 Sustainable Development for Environment
• ENS3132 Environmental Policies and Law
• ENS3222 Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Audit
• ENS4122 Cleaner Production

Full papers

• Kayanan, S. and Basnayake, B.F.A. (2021) ‘Development of Evidence-Based Informative and Interactive Database (EBIID) for Vavuniya Solid Waste Management System in Sri Lanka’. Proceedings Peradeniya University International Research Sessions (iPURSE) 2021, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka: University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka, p83.
• Wijesinghe, W.A.N.J., Nanthakumaran, A. and Kayanan, S. (2017) ‘Socio economic determinants of solid waste generation at household level within the Urban Council Limits of Vavuniya’. 4^th annual research symposium on Social Sciences and Humanities, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 20^th December 2017, pp143-146.
• Nanthakumaran, A., Kayanan, S. and Kishoran, S. (2016) ‘Pollution Reduction Potential of Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetland System’. Proceeding of 6^th International Symposium 2016, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 20^th and 21^st December, 2016, pp181-186
• Nanthakumaran, A. and Kayanan, S. (2015) ‘Phytoremediation potential of three grass spp. in a constructed wetland system’. 5^thInternational Symposium-2015, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 7^th and 8^thDecember, 2015, pp167-169.
• Nanthakumaran, A. and Sobana, K. (2013) ‘Analysis of Carbon: Nitrogen ratio of market waste compost’. Annual Academic Session -2013 Open University of Sri Lanka,27^th-28^thNovember, 2013. pp415 -416.

Published abstracts

• Kayanan, S. and Basnayake, B.F.A. (2020) ‘Solid Waste Management Issues within Vavuniya Urban Council Limits’. Proceedings of the Postgraduate Institute of Science Research Congress, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 2020, 26th – 28th November 2020,p3.
• Kumarasinghe, M.A.N., Nanthakumaran, A. and Kayanan, S. (2018) ‘Pesticide Use and Health Behaviour of Farmers in Rajanganaya’. Social Sciences & Humanities (IRSSSH) 2018, Towards Sustainable Future. International Research Symposium Proceedings of National Centre for Advanced Studies and Social Sciences, Sri Lanka, 13th – 14th December, 2018, p4.
• Kanthasamy, S. and Nanthakumaran, A. (2012) ‘Household willingness to pay for improved solid waste management services within the Urban Council (UC) limits of Vavuniya’. Proceeding of 17^thinternational Forestry and Environment Symposium- 2012 of the Department of Forestry and Environmental Services, University of Sri Jayawardenepura Sri Lanka, 16th – 17^thNovember, 2012, p49.
• Kanthasamy, S. and Nanthakumaran, A.(2012) ‘Existing coastal zone vegetation and expected coastal inundation areas in Jaffna district’. The first international conference on Oceanography in the Bay of Bengal, Colombo , Sri Lanka, November 28- 29, 2012, P27.
• Sobana, K. and Nanthakumaran, A.(2012) ‘Assessment of Existing Solid Waste Management practices within the Urban Council limit of Vavuniya’. Proceeding of International Symposium on Agriculture and Environment 2012, University of Ruhunu,29^th November 2012, p345

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