The contributions of public participation in environmental impact assessment (EIA) towards promoting sustainable development in Malaysia

Public participation in the planning process is very important due to the fact that the public has the right to live in a healthy environment and the obligation to protect the environment. Generally, Malaysia started the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in 1988 as a mandatory legislative requir...

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Main Authors:	Ramli, Rosnadhirah, Mohamed, Mohd Zin, Zahari, Rustam Khairi
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
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spelling	iium-365572014-12-12T04:02:21Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/36557/ The contributions of public participation in environmental impact assessment (EIA) towards promoting sustainable development in Malaysia Ramli, Rosnadhirah Mohamed, Mohd Zin Zahari, Rustam Khairi HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology Public participation in the planning process is very important due to the fact that the public has the right to live in a healthy environment and the obligation to protect the environment. Generally, Malaysia started the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in 1988 as a mandatory legislative requirement to protect and enhance the quality of the environment. EIA was introduced to measure the benefit or cost from physical development to the public. To promote the active participation from the public in achieving better decisions on environmental effects, all parties shall cooperate in taking appropriate actions. While promoting the public participation in the EIA as one of the means in contributing to the sustainable development, this research also aimed at discussing the strategies that can be adopted in order to enhance the participation and involvement of the public. High participation from the public leads to a comprehensive and better decision making. Therefore, the strategies recommended in this research are hoped to improve the public participation generally in the planning process and specifically in the EIA towards realizing the green city through the implementation of sustainable development project. 2012 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/36557/2/Rosnadhirah_Zin_RKZ_-_Public_Participation_EAROPH_Korea_2012_Abstarct_List.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/36557/1/Rosnadhirah_Zin_RKZ_-_Public_Participation_EAROPH_Korea_2012.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/36557/6/EAROPH2012-Conference.pdf Ramli, Rosnadhirah and Mohamed, Mohd Zin and Zahari, Rustam Khairi (2012) The contributions of public participation in environmental impact assessment (EIA) towards promoting sustainable development in Malaysia. In: 2012 EAROPH World Congress, 17th - 19th October 2012, Daegu, Republic of Korea. (Unpublished) http://www.ifhp.org/event/earoph-2012-conference-green-city-human-betterment#.U2nf__mSyIB
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description	Public participation in the planning process is very important due to the fact that the public has the right to live in a healthy environment and the obligation to protect the environment. Generally, Malaysia started the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in 1988 as a mandatory legislative requirement to protect and enhance the quality of the environment. EIA was introduced to measure the benefit or cost from physical development to the public. To promote the active participation from the public in achieving better decisions on environmental effects, all parties shall cooperate in taking appropriate actions. While promoting the public participation in the EIA as one of the means in contributing to the sustainable development, this research also aimed at discussing the strategies that can be adopted in order to enhance the participation and involvement of the public. High participation from the public leads to a comprehensive and better decision making. Therefore, the strategies recommended in this research are hoped to improve the public participation generally in the planning process and specifically in the EIA towards realizing the green city through the implementation of sustainable development project.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Ramli, Rosnadhirah Mohamed, Mohd Zin Zahari, Rustam Khairi
author_facet	Ramli, Rosnadhirah Mohamed, Mohd Zin Zahari, Rustam Khairi
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title	The contributions of public participation in environmental impact assessment (EIA) towards promoting sustainable development in Malaysia
title_short	The contributions of public participation in environmental impact assessment (EIA) towards promoting sustainable development in Malaysia
title_full	The contributions of public participation in environmental impact assessment (EIA) towards promoting sustainable development in Malaysia
title_fullStr	The contributions of public participation in environmental impact assessment (EIA) towards promoting sustainable development in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	The contributions of public participation in environmental impact assessment (EIA) towards promoting sustainable development in Malaysia
title_sort	contributions of public participation in environmental impact assessment (eia) towards promoting sustainable development in malaysia
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The contributions of public participation in environmental impact assessment (EIA) towards promoting sustainable development in Malaysia

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