The Environmental and Water Resource Management Division is geared to conduct research and investigations relating to socio-economic and institutional issues in environmental and water resources management issues with particular reference to small farming sector in Sri Lanka. Much of its emphasis is on policy and socio–economic analysis relating to the broader areas of water and Environmental Resource Management, water users associations and other institutional arrangements and agrarian relations. The divisional contribution in dealing with issues in environment and water resources management through holding and coordinating conferences, seminars, symposiums and workshops and knowledge dissemination through electronic and printed media plays an important role in decision making at policy spheres.