Exploring strategies for sustainable ‘ecocampus’: the experience of Universiti Malaysia Sabah
The ideal of sustainability is to balance social needs with economic growth and environmental integrity. The importance of this ideal cannot be over-emphasised such that sustainable campus should be implemented in higher educational institutions to nurture the practice of environmental sustainabil...
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Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi
2015
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9227/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9227/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9227/1/9x.geografia-mac15-velan-edam1.pdf |
| Summary: | The ideal of sustainability is to balance social needs with economic growth and environmental integrity. The
importance of this ideal cannot be over-emphasised such that sustainable campus should be implemented in
higher educational institutions to nurture the practice of environmental sustainability. In 2013, Universiti
Malaysia Sabah (UMS) introduced the idea of sustainable campus (EcoCampus) accompanied by the
establishment of EcoCampus Management Centre. This paper explores current strategies to achieve this vision
of EcoCampus based on secondary sources of information. Reports regarding the UMS strategies to achieve
sustainable campus were obtained for the period 2013 - February 2015. The findings reveal that UMS has
successfully introduced a five-year plan for the period of 2013 to 2017 to transform UMS into EcoCampus
including natural resource conservation and energy saving projects. |
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