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Prestasi alam sekitar rantaian industri tekstil dan pakaian di Malaysia: Faktor dorongan daripada perspektif pemodenan ekologi

The textile and apparel industry has come to be regarded as a sunset industry especially with the membership of China in the World Trade Organisation and the stiff competition ensuing from an environment of unrestricted quota since early 2005. The highly keen competition from the Chinese manufactur...

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Main Author: Er Ah Choy,
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Published: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2009
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spelling my-ukm.journal.17492016-12-14T06:30:09Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1749/ Prestasi alam sekitar rantaian industri tekstil dan pakaian di Malaysia: Faktor dorongan daripada perspektif pemodenan ekologi Er Ah Choy, The textile and apparel industry has come to be regarded as a sunset industry especially with the membership of China in the World Trade Organisation and the stiff competition ensuing from an environment of unrestricted quota since early 2005. The highly keen competition from the Chinese manufacturers in the form of lowered production costs had, furthermore, impacted adversely on the environmental performance of the industry. Yet, in Malaysia the textile-apparel lingkage had managed to register a 90 percent compliance with the country‘s 1978 Environmental Quality Act (Clean Air). This paper embarks on a quantitative test of the Malaysian textile-apparel industrial lingkage within the paradigm of the ecological modernisation theory ( EMT). Results of the Kendall tau-b statistical tests establish the role of three factors in driving positive ecological performance of the textile-apparel industrial lingkage, namely, the exposure to international trade, the level of vertical integration, and the intensity of international relation. The paper concludes that the application of EMT needs to be modified and adapted to the Malaysian local as well as institutional contexts to enhance further the already positive contribution of the existing environmental certification to environmental harmonisation practices that are characteristic of the EMT Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1749/1/Geografia_3_%2C1_%2844-56%29_%282009%29..pdf Er Ah Choy, (2009) Prestasi alam sekitar rantaian industri tekstil dan pakaian di Malaysia: Faktor dorongan daripada perspektif pemodenan ekologi. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 5 (3). pp. 44-56. ISSN 2180-2491 http://www.ukm.my/geografia
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description The textile and apparel industry has come to be regarded as a sunset industry especially with the membership of China in the World Trade Organisation and the stiff competition ensuing from an environment of unrestricted quota since early 2005. The highly keen competition from the Chinese manufacturers in the form of lowered production costs had, furthermore, impacted adversely on the environmental performance of the industry. Yet, in Malaysia the textile-apparel lingkage had managed to register a 90 percent compliance with the country‘s 1978 Environmental Quality Act (Clean Air). This paper embarks on a quantitative test of the Malaysian textile-apparel industrial lingkage within the paradigm of the ecological modernisation theory ( EMT). Results of the Kendall tau-b statistical tests establish the role of three factors in driving positive ecological performance of the textile-apparel industrial lingkage, namely, the exposure to international trade, the level of vertical integration, and the intensity of international relation. The paper concludes that the application of EMT needs to be modified and adapted to the Malaysian local as well as institutional contexts to enhance further the already positive contribution of the existing environmental certification to environmental harmonisation practices that are characteristic of the EMT
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Prestasi alam sekitar rantaian industri tekstil dan pakaian di Malaysia: Faktor dorongan daripada perspektif pemodenan ekologi
author_facet Er Ah Choy,
author_sort Er Ah Choy,
title Prestasi alam sekitar rantaian industri tekstil dan pakaian di Malaysia: Faktor dorongan daripada perspektif pemodenan ekologi
title_short Prestasi alam sekitar rantaian industri tekstil dan pakaian di Malaysia: Faktor dorongan daripada perspektif pemodenan ekologi
title_full Prestasi alam sekitar rantaian industri tekstil dan pakaian di Malaysia: Faktor dorongan daripada perspektif pemodenan ekologi
title_fullStr Prestasi alam sekitar rantaian industri tekstil dan pakaian di Malaysia: Faktor dorongan daripada perspektif pemodenan ekologi
title_full_unstemmed Prestasi alam sekitar rantaian industri tekstil dan pakaian di Malaysia: Faktor dorongan daripada perspektif pemodenan ekologi
title_sort prestasi alam sekitar rantaian industri tekstil dan pakaian di malaysia: faktor dorongan daripada perspektif pemodenan ekologi
publisher Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi
publishDate 2009
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