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    Malaysia faces obvious environmental threats such as climate change, desertification, and deforestation, which are more alarming than conventional military threats. As environmental damage accelerated in the late 1960s and 1970s, the UN promoted sustainable development to address issues. This document examines Malaysia's policy on environmental security by investigating how Malaysia understands environmental security issues, the factors influencing this understanding, and the government agencies influencing policy. The research uses qualitative methods like surveys, interviews, and observations to assess Malaysia's reactions to environmental threats and role in international discussions on sustainability.

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    Malaysia faces obvious environmental threats such as climate change, desertification, and deforestation, which are more alarming than conventional military threats. As environmental damage accelerated in the late 1960s and 1970s, the UN promoted sustainable development to address issues. This document examines Malaysia's policy on environmental security by investigating how Malaysia understands environmental security issues, the factors influencing this understanding, and the government agencies influencing policy. The research uses qualitative methods like surveys, interviews, and observations to assess Malaysia's reactions to environmental threats and role in international discussions on sustainability.

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    Malaysia faces obvious environmental threats such as climate change, desertification, and deforestation, which are more alarming than conventional military threats. As environmental damage accelerated in the late 1960s and 1970s, the UN promoted sustainable development to address issues. This document examines Malaysia's policy on environmental security by investigating how Malaysia understands environmental security issues, the factors influencing this understanding, and the government agencies influencing policy. The research uses qualitative methods like surveys, interviews, and observations to assess Malaysia's reactions to environmental threats and role in international discussions on sustainability.

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    Malaysia faces obvious environmental threats such as climate change, desertification, and deforestation, which are more alarming than conventional military threats. As environmental damage accelerated in the late 1960s and 1970s, the UN promoted sustainable development to address issues. This document examines Malaysia's policy on environmental security by investigating how Malaysia understands environmental security issues, the factors influencing this understanding, and the government agencies influencing policy. The research uses qualitative methods like surveys, interviews, and observations to assess Malaysia's reactions to environmental threats and role in international discussions on sustainability.

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    MALAYSIAN POLICY ON ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY

    UKM GUP ASPL 07 06 003

    Dr Mohd Rizal Mohd Yaakop

    ABSTRACT

    The issue of environmental security emerged in recent years is not surprising.


    Malaysia face such obvious environmental threats such as climate change,
    desertification and deforestation. Such threats seem to be much more alarming than
    conventional military threats. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, worries about
    accelerating damage to the environment started to articulate. As a result UN
    Commission on Environmental Protection promoted “sustainable development” as an
    operational concept to be applicable to deter environmental problems. Furthermore by
    the declaration of Brundtland Commission Report, the concept of sustainable
    development hand been internationally standardized. The environmental issues in the
    form of resource shortages and climate change constitute a major international
    security threat and will cause much more wars in the future as the `world population
    is pushing against the earth’s resources, straining its ability to meet the needs of this
    generation and the next` The understanding of Malaysian policy on environmental
    issue in Malaysia is also challenging since environment is a relatively large area and
    sector to be discussed of. There is a risk that by analyzing environment as part of
    security sector or category that the analysis will become less coherent than most of
    the other security sector. Furthermore, there are theoretical problems and
    controversies pertaining to the operational utility of the concept of sustainable
    development. The main research questions are: What is Malaysian policy on
    environmental security issues? Are environmental issues become its matter of
    national and international interest? How Malaysia reacts towards various issues
    related to environmental threats? Objective (s) of the research are; To investigate how
    Malaysia’s understanding on environmental security; to assess factors influencing
    Malaysian understanding of environmental security; to investigate various
    government agencies which influence Malaysian understanding on environmental
    security. This research adopts a qualitative method in collecting data. The same
    applies to method of analysis. The main research method sre surveys, interviews and
    observations. Interviews are conducted with officers in charge at agencies and
    ministerial level.– Among the respondents are officers at Office of the Prime
    Minister, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, government agencies such
    as Forest Research Institute of Malaysia and Indonesia.

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