Date of Award

2010

Thesis Type

Masters

Document Type

Dissertation

Divisions

Faculty of Science

Department

Institute of Biological Sciences

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

In order to correct the political, economic, environment, social and spatial imbalance, almost all the countries have some forms of environmental policies on land and planning systems. Environmental policies and planning systems are in a more extensive application under the supervision of the environmental departments. Environmental polices play an important role in a country's overall economic development and also promotes regional development. Malaysia and China’s environmental polices are composed of many consecutive policy documents. Therefore, this work was undertaken in order to compare Malaysia and China’s environmental policy implementation specifically on land issue and to identify gaps between two countries on environmental policy implementation on land. Malaysia and China are both Asian developing countries. As a background, an understanding and analysis of the history and present of the environmental policy on land in Malaysia and China are expounded in this thesis. The comparison is supported by three explanations of pollutions caused by agricultural, industrial and domestic activities between two countries on environmental policy on land. After comparing with them, the gaps of environmental policy on land between two countries were obtained. Discussions of the pluses and minuses are based on the existing environmental policies of both countries via government surveys. As a conclusion, China should learn the advanced environmental policy legislation systems from Malaysia, while Malaysia needs more environmental policies to protect land. Some recommendations in handling environmental management problem were proposed for both countries in this dissertation.

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Additional Information

Dissertation (M.A.) – Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 2010.

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