Development-Induced Water Pollution in Malaysia: Policy Planning, Instruments for Protection and Emerging Issues
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2007-04-07
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European Journal of Social Sciences
Abstract
Development program is primarily the target of any government to uplift the standard of
life of its people. However, in the course of these developmental programs, the basic unit
of life upon which the people depends, especially water resources, becomes the price for
the costs of such development activities. Hence, this is considered as trade-off between
development program, which is compulsory, and degradation of environmental resources
at large.
The paper, therefore, examined the strategic policy planning and instruments used by the
government to balance between these environmental resources and development, with
special reference to water. In the course of this investigation, various environmental
integration policies with development plans were examined. In addition, the strategic
instruments such as polluter-pay principle, contravention licence, effluent standards and
the issues associated with each of them, which are likely to affect the policy
implementation procedures and/or jeopardize the objectives of the policy programs for
pollution abatement were examined.