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Original research A STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND CULTURE IN ISOLATED VILLAGES IN SRI LANKAPages 15-24
Abstract
Due to urbanization and globalization, many rural areas are becoming urban. But there are still many isolated rural villages in the Eastern world including Sri Lanka. Many features are still intact in those isolated areas. Therefore, it is timely and important to discuss such remote areas' ecological and social relationships and how people's lives are built on those characteristics. The main objective of this research is to study the environmental ethics and traditional knowledge system developed through environmental and social concepts in Galmudunagama village located in Hasalaka Divisional Secretariat Division of Kandy District, Sri Lanka. The study was mainly based on primary data and collected using structured questionnaires, interviews, and participant observation methods. In this study, qualitative data analysis has been done on all the data obtained through 35 questionnaires. According to the study, it is possible to understand the traditional and isolated environmental values of the Galamudunugama area and the process followed by the people who lived there in water consumption. It was revealed how the villagers have worked to build a self-sufficient economy and an environment-friendly agriculture, and that as a social corporation, there is a process associated with the natural environment from birth to death. In addition, it became clear how people socialize in a knowledge system specific to this isolated area and how to protect the natural environment through an oriental knowledge system. Finally, I suggest that this study recognizes the value of traditional knowledge systems in such rural areas of Sri Lanka and uses them to create future eco-friendly societies.
Keywords: Ecological, Rural, eco-friendly, Traditional Knowledge System, Environmental ethics.
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K.A.J.S Jayasuriya, 
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