The Management of Sustainable Development at Malaysian Local Government: Stakeholders’ Perception

Mohamed, Sulzakimin; Wee, Seow Ta; Goh, Kai Chen; Masrom, Asrul Nasid; Rahim, Mohd Hilmi Izwan Abd

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“…Stakeholders are organization that involved in housing development such as Local Government, developers and construction firms (Mohamed, Seow & Goh, 2014). A construction developer is an individual or association involved in the procurement of a specific are and development of structures on a land (Fellows, 2011).…”

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Green house is becoming a strong momentum in the construction industry after recognizing many negative environmental issues & and problems and potential social and economic benefits around the world. However, developers still using conventional way to construct the housing. This gives huge impact to our environment and also human health. Meanwhile, there are actually some barriers hindering developers to adopt this in their projects. In this study, the perception of stakeholders on green housing will be reviewed. This study shows alertness on environment and increase the green house project among developers. This study examines the perceptions of the developers in Wilayah Persekutuan on green housing sector for the next 20 years. The outline of Green house rating system, improvement of alertness and knowledge among the stakeholders, support from the government and local industry. Therefore, the current situation in rules and regulation, lack of public interest and demand, lack of interest of organization, local government enforcement and project cost escalation would delay a faster progress.

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“…Furthermore, the lack of awareness for sustainable building can be categorized into two groups: construction practitioners (Shafii, Ali & Othman, 2006;Mohamed, Seow & Goh, 2014) and public. If the construction practitioners do not understand the concept and the benefits, they would not implement this on their projects.…”

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“…Respondent 1 gives view "…training for local governments staff is mainly on environment…..sustainable development seems like taking care of natures first…". In contrast, sustainable development covers all three elements as in economy, social and environment [31]& [32]. Similarly, 5 out of 14 respondents gave views that only environment is the major concern in sustainable development.…”

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“…Over the past decade, those aspects are discussed comprehensively and nowadays, as a result of this development, the interests in sustainable development are increasing. The issues are local governments" function involves large resources and variety of mechanisms [1], [2]& [3]. As a result, implementation and enforcement are not under great obligation to optimise society investments as well as sustainability deliverables.…”

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Sustainable Development At Malaysian Local Governments : Staff's Awareness & Constraints

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:-Sustainable development is for the economical, societal and environmental sustainability for humankind to develop built environment. There are a lots of ways sustainability elements can be incorporated in services at local governments. Hence, capable staffs at local government are much needed. Importantly sustainability represents the link between society and built environment professionals. However, those links still unclear where built environment are still being developed in an unsustainable way and staff at local governments as well as society still unaware with the concept of sustainability. This gives huge impact to our environment and also human health. This paper focuses at the role of the Local Governments and how the staff play their roles towards sustainable development. This study involved interviews with 14 officers from 14 different Local Governments offices. The result shows that Local Governments" staffs need better understanding and awareness in acquiring and disseminating knowledge on sustainability. This study is to contribute to the enrichment of the role of Local Governments in the planning approval for sustainable development.

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The Management of Sustainable Development at Malaysian Local Government: Stakeholders’ Perception

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