Environmental sustainability in Malaysia: efforts so far and challenges ahead

Being a developing country which hopes to join the developed nations by 2020, environmental sustainability has been at centre stage in Malaysia. Which efforts are being made to promote economic development, these economics activities seem to be having its side effects on the protection of the enviro...

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Main Authors:	Kadouf, Hunud Abia, O. Sambo, Abdulfatai
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Kaerntner Botanikzentrum, Klagenfurt, Austria 2014
Subjects:	K Law (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/36406/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/36406/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/36406/1/envirn0onmental_sustainability_prof.hunud.pdf

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spelling	iium-364062018-06-20T06:24:56Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/36406/ Environmental sustainability in Malaysia: efforts so far and challenges ahead Kadouf, Hunud Abia O. Sambo, Abdulfatai K Law (General) Being a developing country which hopes to join the developed nations by 2020, environmental sustainability has been at centre stage in Malaysia. Which efforts are being made to promote economic development, these economics activities seem to be having its side effects on the protection of the environment. Nevertheless, there are also mechanisms being put in place to achieve sustainable pollution free environment. These have been in terms of conclusion of treaties and enactment of legal, regulatory and policy framework towards ensuring environmental sustainability. Based on this premise, this paper is intended to evaluate the efforts so far taken and the challenges which serve as stumbling block to proper realisation of environmental protection objective. A number of treaties, conventions, enactments, regulations and judicial pronouncements are used to enrich this study. The paper finds that a lot of legal, policy and regulatory frameworks have been created to ensure environmental protection. Yet, the challenges to proper implementation of these frameworks are enormous though surmountable. Kaerntner Botanikzentrum, Klagenfurt, Austria 2014-03 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/36406/1/envirn0onmental_sustainability_prof.hunud.pdf Kadouf, Hunud Abia and O. Sambo, Abdulfatai (2014) Environmental sustainability in Malaysia: efforts so far and challenges ahead. Wulfenia Journal, 21 (3). pp. 327-340. ISSN 1561-882X http://multidisciplinarywulfenia.org/announcements/index.html
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spellingShingle	K Law (General) Kadouf, Hunud Abia O. Sambo, Abdulfatai Environmental sustainability in Malaysia: efforts so far and challenges ahead
description	Being a developing country which hopes to join the developed nations by 2020, environmental sustainability has been at centre stage in Malaysia. Which efforts are being made to promote economic development, these economics activities seem to be having its side effects on the protection of the environment. Nevertheless, there are also mechanisms being put in place to achieve sustainable pollution free environment. These have been in terms of conclusion of treaties and enactment of legal, regulatory and policy framework towards ensuring environmental sustainability. Based on this premise, this paper is intended to evaluate the efforts so far taken and the challenges which serve as stumbling block to proper realisation of environmental protection objective. A number of treaties, conventions, enactments, regulations and judicial pronouncements are used to enrich this study. The paper finds that a lot of legal, policy and regulatory frameworks have been created to ensure environmental protection. Yet, the challenges to proper implementation of these frameworks are enormous though surmountable.
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author	Kadouf, Hunud Abia O. Sambo, Abdulfatai
author_facet	Kadouf, Hunud Abia O. Sambo, Abdulfatai
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title	Environmental sustainability in Malaysia: efforts so far and challenges ahead
title_short	Environmental sustainability in Malaysia: efforts so far and challenges ahead
title_full	Environmental sustainability in Malaysia: efforts so far and challenges ahead
title_fullStr	Environmental sustainability in Malaysia: efforts so far and challenges ahead
title_full_unstemmed	Environmental sustainability in Malaysia: efforts so far and challenges ahead
title_sort	environmental sustainability in malaysia: efforts so far and challenges ahead
publisher	Kaerntner Botanikzentrum, Klagenfurt, Austria
publishDate	2014
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Environmental sustainability in Malaysia: efforts so far and challenges ahead

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