Malaysian local governments’ role towards sustainable development focusing on knowledge transfer practices framework
Local Governments are facing very demanding and dynamic situation in development agenda when dealing with sustainable development. When the development’s activities do not start with the sustainability elements at Local Governments, the negative impacts are imminent and it will cause hazards to...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1220/1/24p%20SULZAKIMIN%20MOHAMED.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1220/2/SULZAKIMIN%20MOHAMED%20COPYRIGHT%20DECLARATION.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1220/3/SULZAKIMIN%20MOHAMED%20WATERMARK.pdf |
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| Summary: | Local Governments are facing very demanding and dynamic situation in development
agenda when dealing with sustainable development. When the development’s activities
do not start with the sustainability elements at Local Governments, the negative impacts
are imminent and it will cause hazards to society, economy and environment. Hence, the
knowledge of sustainability needs to be inculcated in Local Governments’ practices. It
needs to be shown in the stage of planning approval since this is where the development
begins. In relation to that, the research objectives are to identify the constraints in
knowledge transfer practices of sustainable development in the planning approval at
Local Governments, to study the perceptions of stakeholders involved in the planning
approval stage at Local Governments regarding knowledge transfer practices towards
sustainable development, to study the knowledge transfer practices towards sustainable
development at Local Governments and to develop the framework of knowledge transfer
practices towards sustainable development into the planning approval stage at Local
Governments. Therefore, respondents involved are 55 selected Malaysian Local
Governments for questionnaire, 17 selected Malaysian Local Governments for interview
and 9 selected stakeholders. The results of this study show that there is lacking in clear
direction which bring to the unsupportive policy and management, the perceptions of
stakeholders suggest that Local Governments need to show their capabilities in handling
sustainable development at the planning approval stage and overall result demonstrates
that staffs have low percentage of below 30% in acquiring and participating in activities
related to sustainable development. In relation to that, it contributes to the lack of
knowledge on sustainable development. Hence knowledge transfer practices towards
sustainable development at the planning approval stage are needed as suggested in the
analysis of interviews. Therefore, this research has developed a framework of the
knowledge transfer practices towards sustainable development at planning approval
stage in Malaysian Local Governments, which is to improve the process of the planning
approval for sustainability delivery. |
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