The town planners’ perspective: development plan towards sustainable coastal management in Malaysia

This study investigates whether the town planning system can and should make a substantial contribution to coastal management by conducting primary research that focuses on the application of theory on practice. Perspectives of Malaysian town planners were viewed by carrying out questionnaire survey...

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Main Authors: Asmawi, M. Zainora, Yaman, Maheran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd 2008
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spelling iium-33202012-07-09T07:39:09Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/3320/ The town planners’ perspective: development plan towards sustainable coastal management in Malaysia Asmawi, M. Zainora Yaman, Maheran GB Physical geography This study investigates whether the town planning system can and should make a substantial contribution to coastal management by conducting primary research that focuses on the application of theory on practice. Perspectives of Malaysian town planners were viewed by carrying out questionnaire survey for data collection. Coastal management requires other tools in delivering its wide spectrum of objectives and strategies to make it more sustainable. In this regards, development plan system in the town planning practice is recognised as one of the tools to assist coastal management. This paper examines the limited consideration given to the contribution of development plan to coastal management. Though it is evident that development plan has some limitation, town planners are still highly regarded development plan as a useful mechanism to ensure that coastal management can achieve its objectives and strategies in the land-side of development. Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd 2008 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/3320/1/planners_perspective-final_version.pdf Asmawi, M. Zainora and Yaman, Maheran (2008) The town planners’ perspective: development plan towards sustainable coastal management in Malaysia. The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, 4 (6). pp. 45-54. ISSN 1832-2077 http://www.sustainability-journal.com
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Asmawi, M. Zainora
Yaman, Maheran
The town planners’ perspective: development plan towards sustainable coastal management in Malaysia
description This study investigates whether the town planning system can and should make a substantial contribution to coastal management by conducting primary research that focuses on the application of theory on practice. Perspectives of Malaysian town planners were viewed by carrying out questionnaire survey for data collection. Coastal management requires other tools in delivering its wide spectrum of objectives and strategies to make it more sustainable. In this regards, development plan system in the town planning practice is recognised as one of the tools to assist coastal management. This paper examines the limited consideration given to the contribution of development plan to coastal management. Though it is evident that development plan has some limitation, town planners are still highly regarded development plan as a useful mechanism to ensure that coastal management can achieve its objectives and strategies in the land-side of development.
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author Asmawi, M. Zainora
Yaman, Maheran
author_facet Asmawi, M. Zainora
Yaman, Maheran
author_sort Asmawi, M. Zainora
title The town planners’ perspective: development plan towards sustainable coastal management in Malaysia
title_short The town planners’ perspective: development plan towards sustainable coastal management in Malaysia
title_full The town planners’ perspective: development plan towards sustainable coastal management in Malaysia
title_fullStr The town planners’ perspective: development plan towards sustainable coastal management in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The town planners’ perspective: development plan towards sustainable coastal management in Malaysia
title_sort town planners’ perspective: development plan towards sustainable coastal management in malaysia
publisher Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd
publishDate 2008
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/3320/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/3320/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/3320/1/planners_perspective-final_version.pdf
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