EIA in Malaysia : preliminary review on the implementation issues and challenges towards sustainable development / Nurulhuda Ali, Anuar Alias and Khairul Nizam Othman

• Main Authors: Ali, Nurulhuda, Alias, Anuar, Othman, Khairul Nizam
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Environmental protection; Environmental effects of industries and plants; Environmental reporting; Malaysia
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/42898/1/42898.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/42898/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been an important tool in ensuring sustainable development. Malaysia has imposed the needs for EIA in the Environmental Quality Act (1974) for the property development process. However, issues of EIA process and implementation in Malaysia particularly in the...