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Local community acceptance of the rare earth industry: the case of the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Malaysia

This paper provides a detailed analysis of the local community response to a newly installed rare earth (RE) refinery facility and the factors underlying its acceptance. House-to-house interviews, using structured questionnaire, were conducted in 2013 (N = 370). Results show that the community was d...

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Main Authors: Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza, Juahir, Hafizan, Aris, Ahmad Zaharin, Md Zain, Sharifuddin, Abu Samah, Mohd Armi
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Published: Springer 2016
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TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/45517/1/45517_Local%20community%20acceptance%20of%20the%20rare%20earth.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.455172017-01-13T08:07:10Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/45517/ Local community acceptance of the rare earth industry: the case of the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Malaysia Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza Juahir, Hafizan Aris, Ahmad Zaharin Md Zain, Sharifuddin Abu Samah, Mohd Armi TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering This paper provides a detailed analysis of the local community response to a newly installed rare earth (RE) refinery facility and the factors underlying its acceptance. House-to-house interviews, using structured questionnaire, were conducted in 2013 (N = 370). Results show that the community was divided into deciding whether they agreed with the presence of the facility, 41.36 % (for) and 41.62 % (against). The remaining fraction of the community was undecided, which made up 17.03 % of the total respondents. This paper identifies six significant predictors of risk acceptance: gender, education status, place of residence, Factor 1 (variables—perception of safety, concern on effects, and trust in the operators), Factor 2 (variables—social and individual benefits), and Factor 3 (variables—no confidence in government). This study gives insights on how the public respond to potential hazardous facilities and highlights the need for policy makers to consider public sentiment which can interfere with further expansion of the RE industry. Springer 2016-06 Article REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45517/1/45517_Local%20community%20acceptance%20of%20the%20rare%20earth.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45517/2/45517_Local%20community%20acceptance%20of%20the%20rare%20earth_SCOPUS.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45517/3/45517_Local%20community%20acceptance%20of%20the%20rare%20earth_WOS.pdf Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza and Juahir, Hafizan and Aris, Ahmad Zaharin and Md Zain, Sharifuddin and Abu Samah, Mohd Armi (2016) Local community acceptance of the rare earth industry: the case of the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Malaysia. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 18 (3). pp. 739-762. ISSN 1387-585X http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-015-9675-5 10.1007/s10668-015-9675-5
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topic TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
spellingShingle TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza
Juahir, Hafizan
Aris, Ahmad Zaharin
Md Zain, Sharifuddin
Abu Samah, Mohd Armi
Local community acceptance of the rare earth industry: the case of the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Malaysia
description This paper provides a detailed analysis of the local community response to a newly installed rare earth (RE) refinery facility and the factors underlying its acceptance. House-to-house interviews, using structured questionnaire, were conducted in 2013 (N = 370). Results show that the community was divided into deciding whether they agreed with the presence of the facility, 41.36 % (for) and 41.62 % (against). The remaining fraction of the community was undecided, which made up 17.03 % of the total respondents. This paper identifies six significant predictors of risk acceptance: gender, education status, place of residence, Factor 1 (variables—perception of safety, concern on effects, and trust in the operators), Factor 2 (variables—social and individual benefits), and Factor 3 (variables—no confidence in government). This study gives insights on how the public respond to potential hazardous facilities and highlights the need for policy makers to consider public sentiment which can interfere with further expansion of the RE industry.
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author Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza
Juahir, Hafizan
Aris, Ahmad Zaharin
Md Zain, Sharifuddin
Abu Samah, Mohd Armi
author_facet Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza
Juahir, Hafizan
Aris, Ahmad Zaharin
Md Zain, Sharifuddin
Abu Samah, Mohd Armi
author_sort Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza
title Local community acceptance of the rare earth industry: the case of the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Malaysia
title_short Local community acceptance of the rare earth industry: the case of the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Malaysia
title_full Local community acceptance of the rare earth industry: the case of the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Malaysia
title_fullStr Local community acceptance of the rare earth industry: the case of the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Local community acceptance of the rare earth industry: the case of the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Malaysia
title_sort local community acceptance of the rare earth industry: the case of the lynas advanced materials plant (lamp) in malaysia
publisher Springer
publishDate 2016
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/45517/1/45517_Local%20community%20acceptance%20of%20the%20rare%20earth.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/45517/2/45517_Local%20community%20acceptance%20of%20the%20rare%20earth_SCOPUS.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/45517/3/45517_Local%20community%20acceptance%20of%20the%20rare%20earth_WOS.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/45517/
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-015-9675-5
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