Ecological footprint for campus sustainability in Malaysia
Ecological footprint (EF) is applied in universities to reduce the environmental impact and resource consumption from its main activities; teaching-learning, research and operations. The campus also functions in providing a physical environment covered by land area, building and infrastructure to su...
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| author | Tan, Ang See Choong, Weng Wai Zen, Irina Safitri |
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| description | Ecological footprint (EF) is applied in universities to reduce the environmental impact and resource consumption from its main activities; teaching-learning, research and operations. The campus also functions in providing a physical environment covered by land area, building and infrastructure to support the living environment. In this case, the campus environment represents a small city level of EF sustainability assessment. The unique roles of EF can contribute to campus sustainability in developing own version of EF which measures the level of campus sustainability. With this approach, unsustainable elements can be determined and actions can be taken to mitigate the negative impact to the environment. In more specific, EF translates to individual levels that have an impact towards a campus by converting levels of consumption into the amount of land needed. This preliminary paper discusses the rationale and needs of EF as one of sustainability assessment for Malaysian universities in the context of campus sustainability. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-614602017-04-25T08:21:44Z http://eprints.utm.my/61460/ Ecological footprint for campus sustainability in Malaysia Tan, Ang See Choong, Weng Wai Zen, Irina Safitri GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography Ecological footprint (EF) is applied in universities to reduce the environmental impact and resource consumption from its main activities; teaching-learning, research and operations. The campus also functions in providing a physical environment covered by land area, building and infrastructure to support the living environment. In this case, the campus environment represents a small city level of EF sustainability assessment. The unique roles of EF can contribute to campus sustainability in developing own version of EF which measures the level of campus sustainability. With this approach, unsustainable elements can be determined and actions can be taken to mitigate the negative impact to the environment. In more specific, EF translates to individual levels that have an impact towards a campus by converting levels of consumption into the amount of land needed. This preliminary paper discusses the rationale and needs of EF as one of sustainability assessment for Malaysian universities in the context of campus sustainability. 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/61460/1/ChoongWengWai2014_EcologicalFootprintforCampusSustainability.pdf Tan, Ang See and Choong, Weng Wai and Zen, Irina Safitri (2014) Ecological footprint for campus sustainability in Malaysia. In: International Conference on Urban and Regional Planning 2014, 9-11 May, 2014, Skudai, Johor. |
| spellingShingle | GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography Tan, Ang See Choong, Weng Wai Zen, Irina Safitri Ecological footprint for campus sustainability in Malaysia |
| title | Ecological footprint for campus sustainability in Malaysia |
| title_full | Ecological footprint for campus sustainability in Malaysia |
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| title_short | Ecological footprint for campus sustainability in Malaysia |
| title_sort | ecological footprint for campus sustainability in malaysia |
| topic | GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography |
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