The environmental movement in Malaysia

Ramakrishna, Sundari

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“…NGOs active in this sector have always had a limited catchment area. Their members are disproportionately nonMalay, urban, English-speaking, and middle class (Hassan & Weiss, 2003;Ramakrishna, 2003). Moreover, Malaysian NGOs are for the most part service advocates rather than providers, unlike in some low-income countries like Bangladesh (Batley & McLoughlin, 2009).…”

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Can Top-Down and Bottom-Up be Reconciled? Electoral Competition and Service Delivery in Malaysia

McCourt

2012

World Development

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Can Top-Down and Bottom-Up be Reconciled? Electoral Competition and Service Delivery in Malaysia

McCourt

2012

World Development

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“…Trust also influences actors' cooperation. Federal and subnational governments have historically entrusted NGOs, both local and international, with environmental education, hence addressing the aforementioned low environmental awareness (Hezri 2015, 18; Ramakrishna 2003, 127‐8). For instance, low‐carbon environmentalism was incorporated into school syllabi under the United Nations Regional Center of Excellence Iskandar project (Rahman 2020, 6).…”

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“…Other ENGOs and CSOs are regularly consulted. The Malaysian government prefers engaging with professionalized CSOs, such as CETDEM and the Clean Energy Regulators Initiative (Clean Energy Solutions Center 2016; Ramakrishna 2003, 128; Weiss 2005, 72), and is also less inclined to embrace ENGOs with more radical environmental tendencies into the policy‐making fold. Greater wariness is directed toward those CSOs less attuned to a Global South narrative, specifically vis‐à‐vis the socioeconomic inequalities and dislocations attached to sustainable development shifts.…”

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Trust in the Process: Renewable Energy Governance in Malaysia and Indonesia

Anuar

Dewayanti

2021

Politics & Policy

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Studies on renewable energy (RE) policies and policy making have generally focused on the Global North. This article homes in on how trust, an underexamined concept in the multi‐level governance literature, affects RE trajectories in Malaysia and Indonesia. Through comparative analysis, we find that different levels of trust result in similar degrees of RE policy support, but dissimilar degrees of engagement between state and societal actors in RE policy making. Negative expectations of the social grievances engendered by RE transitions contribute to reluctant, though legitimized, pursuits of clean energy production and consumption. Meanwhile, trust in actors' nationalism—that is, in opposing a Global North environmental agenda and demonstrating constitutionally aligned resource management in Malaysia and Indonesia, respectively—facilitates more inclusive policy making. Due to greater nationalism, Indonesia's state‐society engagement in RE governance is stronger and leads to a civil RE movement that outpaces Malaysia's overall. Related Articles Ash, John. 2010. “New Nuclear Energy, Risk, and Justice: Regulatory Strategies for an era of Limited Trust.” Politics & Policy 38 (2): 225‐284. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2010.00237.x Khodr, Hiba, and Isabella Ruble. 2013. “Energy Policies and Domestic Politics in the MENA Region in the Aftermath of the Arab Upheavals: The Cases of Lebanon, Libya, and KSA.” Politics & Policy 41 (5): 656‐689. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12033 Wood, Steve. 2009. “Energy Security, Normative Dilemmas, and Institutional Camouflage: Europe's Pragmatism.” Politics & Policy 37 (3): 611‐635. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2009.00187.x

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“…This was also due to the successful lobbying of Malaysian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), such as the Consumers' Association of Penang (CAP) and the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS). These cumulative factors led to the adoption of the 1974 Environmental Quality Act [31,32].…”

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Limits of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Malaysia: Dam Politics, Rent-Seeking, and Conflict

Nor-Hisham

Zhao

2020

Sustainability

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is often portrayed as a policy measure that can mitigate the environmental influence of corporate and government projects through objective, systematic, and value-free assessment. Simultaneously, however, research has also shown that the larger political context in which the EIA is embedded is crucial in determining its influence on decision-making. Moreover, particularly in the case of mega-projects, vested economic interests, rent-seeking, and politics may provide them with a momentum in which the EIA risks becoming a mere formality. To substantiate this point, the article examines the EIA of what is reportedly Asia’s largest dam outside China: the Bakun Hydro-electric Project (BHP) in Malaysia. The study is based on mixed methods, particularly, qualitative research (semi-structured interviews, participatory observation, and archival study) coupled to a survey conducted in 10 resource-poor, indigenous communities in the resettlement area. It is found that close to 90% of the respondents are dissatisfied with their participation in the EIA, while another 80% stated that the authorities had conducted the EIA without complying to the procedures. The findings do not only shed light on the manner in which the EIA was used to legitimize a project that should ultimately have been halted, but are also testimony to the way that the BHP has disenfranchised the rights of indigenous people to meaningfully participate in the EIA.

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The environmental movement in Malaysia

Cited by 7 publications

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Can Top-Down and Bottom-Up be Reconciled? Electoral Competition and Service Delivery in Malaysia

Can Top-Down and Bottom-Up be Reconciled? Electoral Competition and Service Delivery in Malaysia

Trust in the Process: Renewable Energy Governance in Malaysia and Indonesia

Limits of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Malaysia: Dam Politics, Rent-Seeking, and Conflict

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