{"id":3215,"date":"2024-03-25T08:55:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T08:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2024-03-25T08:56:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T08:56:46","slug":"the-inaugural-issue-of-the-journal-of-colombo-geographer-published-by-the-department-of-geography-university-of-colombo-was-officially-launched-on-13th-february-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/2024\/03\/25\/the-inaugural-issue-of-the-journal-of-colombo-geographer-published-by-the-department-of-geography-university-of-colombo-was-officially-launched-on-13th-february-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journal of Colombo Geographer was officially launched on 13th February 2024."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural issue of the Journal of Colombo Geographer, published by the Department of<br \/>\nGeography, University of Colombo, was officially launched on 13th February 2024 at the<br \/>\nceremony of the launch of academic journals of the Faculty of Arts. This significant event<br \/>\nbrought together many esteemed figures including the Vice-Chancellor of the University of<br \/>\nColombo, Senior Professor H.D. Karunaratne, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Senior Professor<br \/>\nL. Manawadu, editors of the journals, authors, and other distinguished academic luminaries. The<br \/>\njournal&amp;#39;s official launch involved presenting its printed copy to the Vice-Chancellor of the<br \/>\nUniversity of Colombo, Senior Professor H.D. Karunaratne.<br \/>\nSenior Professor Sirimal Abeyratne delivered an illuminating speech, providing valuable insights<br \/>\ninto the content, significance, and future directions of the journals and setting the stage for<br \/>\ncontinued academic excellence.<br \/>\nJournal of Colombo Geographer is an open-access, double-blind, peer-reviewed journal<br \/>\npublished by the Department of Geography, University of Colombo. This journal is dedicated to<br \/>\npublishing research papers produced based on geographic approaches from any sub-discipline of<br \/>\nGeography (human geography, physical geography, and geoinformatics) addressing<br \/>\nenvironmental\/human problems with a spatial dimension.<\/p>\n<p>To access Volume 1, Issue 1 of Journal of Colombo Geographer and\/or submit articles,please<br \/>\nfollow the link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geographer\/#1707462603635-fa697dd5-62e7\">https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geographer\/#1707462603635-fa697dd5-62e7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3216\" src=\"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-14-at-05.53.58_b8a3ae13-3-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-14-at-05.53.58_b8a3ae13-3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, 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This significant event brought together many esteemed figures including the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Colombo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}