A quality of life index for the rural periphery of Sri Lanka using GIS multi-criteria decision analysis techniques

• Neel Chaminda Withanage ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Neel Chaminda Withanage, Kalpani Lakmali Gunathilaka, Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, Kamal Abdelrahman

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliations Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Bebei District, Chongqing, P. R. China

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• Kalpani Lakmali Gunathilaka ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Neel Chaminda Withanage, Kalpani Lakmali Gunathilaka, Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, Kamal Abdelrahman

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Arts, Department of Geography, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Prabuddh Kumar Mishra ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Neel Chaminda Withanage, Kalpani Lakmali Gunathilaka, Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, Kamal Abdelrahman

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: prabuddh@shivaji.du.ac.in

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Shivaji College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3073-8175

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• Kamal Abdelrahman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Neel Chaminda Withanage, Kalpani Lakmali Gunathilaka, Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, Kamal Abdelrahman

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Department of Geology and Geophysics, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Dilnu Chanuwan Wijesinghe ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Bebei District, Chongqing, P. R. China

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• Vishal Mishra ,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics section, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, Germany

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• Sumita Tripathi ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Environment Studies, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University, New Delhi, India

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• Mohammed S. Fnais

  Roles Funding acquisition, Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Geology and Geophysics, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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