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    A comparative study between mainland and islander small-scale fishermen’s adaptation towards climate change
    (Springer, 2020) Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah; Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril
    The existing literature have demonstrated a considerable amount of existing studies that merely interest on scientific perspectives by examining the physical environmental changes rather than conducting social-based studies that allow for the comparison of adaptation ability between mainland and island small-scale fishermen. Therefore, the current research attempts to fill this gap by investigating the adaptation level of mainland and island small-scale fishermen towards climate changes for the purpose of further identifying any significant differences regarding their adaptation aspects.
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    A Comparative Study on Renewable Energy Policies between Japan and Malaysia
    (IOP Publishing, 2022) YongHua Tang; Abby Choo; TeckChai Lau; WenTong Chong; KokHoe Wong
    This paper presents a comparative study of RE policies between Japan and Malaysia, with the RE policies of both countries being analysed and presented chronologically. Moreover, the factors that contributed to the effectiveness of the policy and the measures thatcan be taken to overcome the shortcomings of the policies are elaborated.
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    A Systematic Review on Linking Community Livelihood in Social Forestry with Food Security
    (IOP Publishing, 2022) H Yahya; H Mohd Amir; W Lintangah; D D Mohd Hamdan; F Mohd Fadzwi; G J Thomas
    The study aims to address the gap from an overview of community livelihood and food security in various Asian countries. The studyretrieved approximately 142 articles from different databases and filtered 71, highlighting 30 case studies related to social forestry and food security, published between 2010 and 2021 cross schemes in Asia. The key indicators of community livelihood and food security mainly stated access to forest area, consumption of forest resources and non-timber forest products.
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    An Assessment of Green Rural Road Criteria and Elements for My Green Rural Road Index: A Case Study in Pengerang, Johor
    (IOP Publishing, 2022) N A Mustafa; V Munikanan; R Zakaria; E Aminudin; S Langie; J A Adzar; M H S Abd Rashid; S M Shamsudin; S Z Sooria; M M Hassan
    The main aim of this study is to build tools to evaluate and declare green rural roads in Malaysia. The data for this study were gathered through group discussions with road construction experts and distributed questionnaires to identify sustainability factors. Then the data were analysed by factor analysis method using SPSS software.
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    An assessment of tourist knowledge and awareness level towards the environment in Tunku Abdul Rahman Park, Malaysia
    (UiTM Press, 2021) Nasrulhakim Maidin; B. Mabel Manjaji-Matsumoto; M. Rafiee Asdari
    Tunku Abdul Rahman Park (TARP) is the first Marine Protected Area gazetted in Sabah, Malaysia in 1974. TARP has been flooded by tourists receiving more than 500,000 tourists in 2018 and 2019. It is clear that tourism activity in TARP is one of the major contributions to anthropogenic disturbance. In this study, we assessed the level of awareness and knowledge of the marine environment among tourists in TARP. Briefings by tour guides or companies were also assessed.
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    Are Malaysian airline passengers willing to pay to offset carbon emissions?
    (Springer, 2020) Nur Fatihah Shaari; Abdul Samad Abdul-Rahim; Syamsul Herman Mohammad Afandi
    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft is one of the issues taken seriously by the transportation sector. However, air transportation has implemented several ways to reduce carbon emissions, and one of them is by launching a carbon offset program. This study estimates the willingness among Malaysian airline passengers to pay for a carbon offset program to have a better environmental performance.
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    Assessing household perception, autonomous adaptation and economic value of adaptation benefits: Evidence from West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia
    (Elsevier, 2022) Sofia EHSAN; Rawshan Ara BEGUM; Khairul Nizam ABDUL MAULUD; Md Shahin MIA
    This study assesses households' perception, adaptation measures and empirically estimates willingness to pay and preference for planned adaptation measures to guide policy instruments through public engagement.
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    Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of solid waste open burning in Terengganu, Malaysia
    (Thai Society of Higher Eduation Institutes on Environment, 2017) Mariani Ariffin; Wan Nor Amalina Wan Yacoob
    With more than 40 percent of the world's rubbish is burned, open burning is a significant source of atmospheric pollution globally and remains one of the main environmental issues and health concerns for many developing nations. Despite having stringent criminal penalties for illegal open burning, Malaysia encounters increasing trend in open burning incidents. A better understanding of the knowledge, attitudinal, and perception towards open burning would inform more effective intervention efforts towards changing this trend. A questionnaire survey to assess knowledge, attitude and practice of public was conducted in Kuala Terengganu. A total of 384 respondents from various demographic backgrounds participated in the survey. Descriptive analysis was used to analyse the respondents' socio-demographic profiles. Pearson correlation was used to uncover the relationship between knowledge, attitude and practice among the respondents.
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    Climate change scenarios in Malaysia: Engaging the public
    (Faculty of Cultural Sciences-Hasanuddin University, 2018) Haliza Abdul Rahman
    Climate change are any change of climate that is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and that is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable periods. Climate change has become a global environmental issue which dominates the international agenda and one of the most challenging issues for mankind. This paper involved with secondary data which are collected from journal, proceedings, books and internet sources regarding the topic.
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    Climatic changes and vulnerability of household food accessibility: A study on Malaysian east coast economic region
    (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2017) Md. Mahmudul Alam; Chamhuri Siwar; Basri Abdul Talib; Abu N.M. Wahid
    Sustainable food security at the household level is one of the emerging issues for all nations. Several factors such as social, economic, political, demographic, natural and livelihood strategies cause vulnerability in the status of household food security. This study aims to examine the vulnerability of the factors of household food accessibility and its linkage with the climatic changes in Malaysia.
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    Comparing adaptation ability towards climate change impacts between the youth and the older fishermen
    (Elsevier, 2019) Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah; Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril; Mohd Fauzi Fadzil
    In recent years, a considerable amount of studies published locally which focused on the influence of age on climate change ability. Accordingly, this has driven the present study to achieve its main objective which is to compare the adaptation ability between youth and older fishermen. The current research is quantitative in nature; hence, a survey was conducted on a total of 259 youth and older fishermen residing in different states of Malaysia, namely Pulau Pinang, Terengganu, Johor, and Kedah. The present study managed to conclude a unique and important result which stated that youth and older fishermen within the context of Malaysia have an equally strong adaptation ability.
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    Covid-19 Effect on Community Mobility and Stock Market of Malaysia
    (Asian Journal of Accounting and Governance, 2022-08-14) Wee Hin Boo; Norhafizah Abu Hasan; Wong Wai Yan
    Physical distancing is believed to contain the spread of COVID-19 virus. With data provided by COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports from Google, this study examines the mobility patterns at different stages of Movement Control Order (MCO) and investigates whether lower mobility reduces the number of new cases, death cases, and recovery rate. This research also covers the time spent in places such as i) retail and recreation, ii) grocery and pharmacy, iii) parks, iv) transit stations, v) the workplace, and vi) residential areas. As each of these types of places has distinct epidemiological characteristics, they may spread transmission differently. This study also correlates the stock market with mobility patterns of Malaysians in order to evaluate the effectiveness of lockdowns on COVID-19 incidents and its impact on the stock market, in this case; Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI). Findings of this study highlight the effects of pandemic COVID-19 on stock market daily performance by utilizing prospect and uncertainty theory in predicting the short-term impacts of the epidemic
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    Determinants of Green Highway Implementation Factors by Using Partial Least Squares
    (IOP Publishing, 2020) Fatin Najwa Mohd Nusa; Mohd Amizan Mohamed @ Arifin; Nur Izzati Ab Rani; Azlan Abu Bakar; Aini Nazura Paimin; Fam Soo Fen; Siti Hamidah Abdul Rahman
    Malaysia was officially launched Malaysia Green Highway Index (MyGHI) manual as a guideline to confirm the green credential of a highway, this concept is at the conforming stage in Malaysia with seventeen (17) operated tolled highway projects and eleven (11) other registered and awaiting assessment for certification. Subsequently, INFRASTAR developed as an evidence-based rating system for infrastructure projects. Further measurement should be taken into account from the perspectives of highway concessions and stakeholders. Thus, this is not only to focus on the rating scores; as well as to highlight the driven factors that lead to Malaysia's green highway implementation. The primary constructs of this research model namely green highway challenges, green highway characteristics and green highwayimplementation are assessed. A total of 63 surveys from 81 surveys were responded (77.8% of responses rate). The response rate was high, and there was no evidence of bias noted. The statistical result of this study corroborates the exploratory study interviewed earlier which suggested a positive relationship between green highway characteristics and green highway implementation. Besides, all the constructs represent 12.8%, 37.7% and 96.2% of factors for challenges and characteristics towards green highway implementation in Malaysia's operated tolled highway projects, respectively. Implications and future research directions of this study are discussed.
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    Determination of Critical Environmental, Social, Infrastructure, and Economic Indicators as Evaluation Checklist for Pre-Project Abandonment Plan Assessment inline with Sustainable Development Goal Plan
    (IOP Publishing, 2022) SN Abdullah; A Aznah; Mohd Hakim; MF Md Din; M Ponraj; S Mat-Taib
    The increasing number of project abandonment because of the Novel Coronavirus pandemic 2019 (Covid-19) calls for better management of abandonment projects. The outbreak of Covid-19 has affected the environment, economy, and society aspects globally. In a developed country like Malaysia, the requirement to submit an abandonment plan is stipulated under the Environmental Guidelines in Malaysia (EGIM) 2016. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a Sustainable Pre-Project Abandonment Plan Assessment Checklist in Malaysia that is in line with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2030 aspirations. This new Sustainable Pre-Project Abandonment Plan Assessment Checklist in Malaysia is comprehensively structured; is expected to minimise the negative impact of the abandonment process towards the environment, socioeconomy, and efficient management of infrastructure; and complies with the related legislation in Malaysia. In this study, data was collected and analysed using NVivo12. It consisted of findings from documents reviewed such as legislations, journals, and books. From the NVivo12 analysis, the results showed 28 critical indicators for abandonment plan assessment and related legislation that synchronises with SDG 2030 is required to develop the Proposed Sustainable Pre-Project Abandonment Plan Assessment Checklist in Malaysia.
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    Development of a Self-Rating System for Domestic Water Consumption in Malaysia
    (IOP Publishing, 2021) N S Muhammad; J Abdullah; N Abd Rahman; N A Razali
    This study established a simple self-rating system for consumers to evaluate their domestic water usage. The rating classifications are "Poor", "Fair", "Average", "Good", and "Excellent", based on a score established using statistical analysis.
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    Disaster Resilience Education (DRE) Programmes in Schools: A Case Study in Kelantan, Malaysia
    (IOP Publishing, 2020) Muhamad Azahar Abas; Nur Eliana Ibrahim; Seow Ta Wee; Suzyrman Sibly; Sulzakimin Mohamed
    This study will explore the Disaster Resilience Education (DRE) programmes that have been conducted in a secondary school at Tanah Merah, Kelantan. A questionnaire was adopted as the research instrument to collect data from respondents. A total of 200 respondents which consisted of students, teachers, and administrative staffs, had participated in this study. The stratified sampling approach was applied in this study to select the respondents. Descriptive and inferential analysis were executed to explore the DRE programmes that had been conducted, in order to identify the school's community awareness on DRE and the factors that influence the school's community awareness.
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    Education background and monthly household income are factors affecting the knowledge, awareness and practice on haze pollution among Malaysians
    (Springer, 2020) Bin-Seng Low; Kumaran Ganesh Selvaraja; Tze-Han Ong,King-Kok Ong; Shajan Koshy
    Transboundary haze pollution caused by periodic forest fires has initiated a serious negative implication to the economy, tourism sectors and public health in Southeast Asia. Due to the raising concerns of health effects of haze towards the Malaysian population, the present study was conducted to investigate the degree of awareness towards haze and the number of safety measures adopted by the Malaysian population during the haze crisis based on demographic characteristics.
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    Empowering Women for Disaster Risk Reduction: A Case Study of Geologically Based Disaster at Yan, Kedah, Malaysia
    (IOP Publishing, 2023) S U M Tobi; K A Razak; Y M Siow; L H S Ramlee; N A M Aris
    This paper seeks to build an initial understanding on the importance of gender perspective through review of literature and single case study of Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) program conducted at Yan, Kedah. Data was collected through survey questionnaires and focus group discussion with women that had experienced the geological disaster that occurred on the 18th of August 2021.
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    Enhancing energy efficiency through the incorporation of maqasid syariah knowledge: A review
    (UiTM Press, 2023) Mohd Zin Kandar; Nurul Hadirah Muszaffarsham; Elina Mohd Husini; Norita Md Norwawi; Khairil Faizal Khairi
    This paper aims to review Maqasid Syariah (MS) knowledge in enhancing good EE practices, and the objectives are to investigate the EE awareness, knowledge and practices in Malaysia, plus to explore the importance of MS knowledge.
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    Environmental awareness and attitude among Iranian students in Malaysian universities
    (Thai Society of Higher Eduation Institutes on Environment, 2010) Z. Aminrad; M. Azizi; M. Wahab; R. Huron; M. Nawawi
    This study focuses on environmental awareness and attitude among Iranian students in Malaysian universities. It evaluates the awareness and attitude of a group of 541 from 14 universities. The figure to 541 is considered the representative of these students and the selection was based on Stratified Random sampling method and G-power soft ware. A set of questionnaire which comprised of 25 questions was applied as instrument for data collection.