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Sustaining forest in Peninsular Malaysia: existing forest laws and Malaysia’s international commitments / Adzidah Yaakob

This paper seeks to address and discuss the importance of related national and international law in ensuring the sustainability of forest particularly in Peninsular Malaysia. The international commitments here refer to Multilateral Environmental Agreements which are related to forests and forestry a...

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Main Author: Yaakob, Adzidah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Agricultural conservation
SD Forestry
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/35438/1/35438.pdf
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/35438/
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spelling my.uitm.ir.354382021-06-21T04:13:50Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/35438/ Sustaining forest in Peninsular Malaysia: existing forest laws and Malaysia’s international commitments / Adzidah Yaakob Yaakob, Adzidah Agricultural conservation SD Forestry This paper seeks to address and discuss the importance of related national and international law in ensuring the sustainability of forest particularly in Peninsular Malaysia. The international commitments here refer to Multilateral Environmental Agreements which are related to forests and forestry and to which Malaysia is a party. The Malaysian Forest Law refers to forests Acts and Policies, inter alia the National Forestry Policy 1978 (Revised 1992) (the NFP) and the National Forestry Act 1984 (The NFA); other related government policies on forest conservation are referred to wherever relevant. Besides the challenges in compromising forest for the sake of economy, public rights upon forest is also another challenge to deal with. It is essential to look at related legislation on forest in order to perceive the sustainability of forest in Peninsular Malaysia. 2014-11 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/35438/1/35438.pdf ID35438 Yaakob, Adzidah (2014) Sustaining forest in Peninsular Malaysia: existing forest laws and Malaysia’s international commitments / Adzidah Yaakob. In: TeSSHI 2014- Technology, Science Social Sciences, Humanities, 5 & 6 Nov 2014, One Hotel Helang, Langkawi Kedah Malaysia.
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topic Agricultural conservation
SD Forestry
spellingShingle Agricultural conservation
SD Forestry
Yaakob, Adzidah
Sustaining forest in Peninsular Malaysia: existing forest laws and Malaysia’s international commitments / Adzidah Yaakob
description This paper seeks to address and discuss the importance of related national and international law in ensuring the sustainability of forest particularly in Peninsular Malaysia. The international commitments here refer to Multilateral Environmental Agreements which are related to forests and forestry and to which Malaysia is a party. The Malaysian Forest Law refers to forests Acts and Policies, inter alia the National Forestry Policy 1978 (Revised 1992) (the NFP) and the National Forestry Act 1984 (The NFA); other related government policies on forest conservation are referred to wherever relevant. Besides the challenges in compromising forest for the sake of economy, public rights upon forest is also another challenge to deal with. It is essential to look at related legislation on forest in order to perceive the sustainability of forest in Peninsular Malaysia.
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author Yaakob, Adzidah
author_facet Yaakob, Adzidah
author_sort Yaakob, Adzidah
title Sustaining forest in Peninsular Malaysia: existing forest laws and Malaysia’s international commitments / Adzidah Yaakob
title_short Sustaining forest in Peninsular Malaysia: existing forest laws and Malaysia’s international commitments / Adzidah Yaakob
title_full Sustaining forest in Peninsular Malaysia: existing forest laws and Malaysia’s international commitments / Adzidah Yaakob
title_fullStr Sustaining forest in Peninsular Malaysia: existing forest laws and Malaysia’s international commitments / Adzidah Yaakob
title_full_unstemmed Sustaining forest in Peninsular Malaysia: existing forest laws and Malaysia’s international commitments / Adzidah Yaakob
title_sort sustaining forest in peninsular malaysia: existing forest laws and malaysia’s international commitments / adzidah yaakob
publishDate 2014
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/35438/1/35438.pdf
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