Analysing the sustainability of Solid Waste Policy in Malaysia using the Ecological Modernization theory

The theory of Ecological Modernisation (EMT) has become one of the dominant sociological theories which attempts to understand and interpret how modern societies are dealing with environmental crises. This paper aims to examine the sustainability of Malaysia’s Solid Waste Management (SWM) programm...

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Main Authors:	Siti Aisyah Saat, Noraziah Ali
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2014
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8330/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8330/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8330/1/12x.geografia-nov14-sitiaisyah-edam.pdf

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spelling	ukm-83302016-12-14T06:46:56Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8330/ Analysing the sustainability of Solid Waste Policy in Malaysia using the Ecological Modernization theory Siti Aisyah Saat, Noraziah Ali, The theory of Ecological Modernisation (EMT) has become one of the dominant sociological theories which attempts to understand and interpret how modern societies are dealing with environmental crises. This paper aims to examine the sustainability of Malaysia’s Solid Waste Management (SWM) programmes from this EMT perspective. It was found that while the EMT requires a national approach in order to effect a more sustainable Solid Waste Management system the current institutional arrangement, managerial process and policy formulation of the SWM in Malaysia has not delivered a cohesive and sustainable national SWM policy. This was caused by factors ranging from the lack of institutional arrangements, policy gaps, and inadequate financial support, to failures in the privatisation process, insufficient manpower and poor understanding of environmental concerns dealing with the whole social complexity of solid waste management . Given such yet-to-be-rectified flaws the application of the EMT to Malaysia’s SWM may be difficult to achieve for now. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2014-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8330/1/12x.geografia-nov14-sitiaisyah-edam.pdf Siti Aisyah Saat, and Noraziah Ali, (2014) Analysing the sustainability of Solid Waste Policy in Malaysia using the Ecological Modernization theory. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 10 (6). pp. 118-125. ISSN 2180-2491 http://www.ukm.my/geografia/v2/index.php
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description	The theory of Ecological Modernisation (EMT) has become one of the dominant sociological theories which attempts to understand and interpret how modern societies are dealing with environmental crises. This paper aims to examine the sustainability of Malaysia’s Solid Waste Management (SWM) programmes from this EMT perspective. It was found that while the EMT requires a national approach in order to effect a more sustainable Solid Waste Management system the current institutional arrangement, managerial process and policy formulation of the SWM in Malaysia has not delivered a cohesive and sustainable national SWM policy. This was caused by factors ranging from the lack of institutional arrangements, policy gaps, and inadequate financial support, to failures in the privatisation process, insufficient manpower and poor understanding of environmental concerns dealing with the whole social complexity of solid waste management . Given such yet-to-be-rectified flaws the application of the EMT to Malaysia’s SWM may be difficult to achieve for now.
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title	Analysing the sustainability of Solid Waste Policy in Malaysia using the Ecological Modernization theory
title_short	Analysing the sustainability of Solid Waste Policy in Malaysia using the Ecological Modernization theory
title_full	Analysing the sustainability of Solid Waste Policy in Malaysia using the Ecological Modernization theory
title_fullStr	Analysing the sustainability of Solid Waste Policy in Malaysia using the Ecological Modernization theory
title_full_unstemmed	Analysing the sustainability of Solid Waste Policy in Malaysia using the Ecological Modernization theory
title_sort	analysing the sustainability of solid waste policy in malaysia using the ecological modernization theory
publisher	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi
publishDate	2014
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Analysing the sustainability of Solid Waste Policy in Malaysia using the Ecological Modernization theory

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