This paper empirically explored climate change, its related impact on rice agriculture and proper policy- related strategies and mechanism. Our current assessment provided the expected climate change impact based on observational records of inter-annual variability in precipitation and warming...

This paper examines the impacts of external price shocks in the Malaysian economy. There are three simulations are carried out with different degrees of external shocks using Malaysian Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) analysis. The model results indicate...

The electric power industry is playing a crucial role in the economic uplift of Malaysia. Significant growths have been evident in the recent years both in energy supply and its demand. At the same time, the growing demand of electricity in the newly industrialized Malaysia is having negative...

This paper analyzes the scenario pollution implication of globalization process such as trade liberalization in the Malaysian economy toward a developed nation by 2020. In the first part, the purpose of this paper is to provide various air emissions in the Malaysian economy for the year 2020....

Malaysia is now an open and export-oriented economy. The export and manufacturing sectors are contributing significantly to economic growth and its share on GDP contributing significantly. It has increasingly diversified its exports in terms of products and markets, the result of which has been...

Purpose – Climate change impacts and scientific evidence are now irresistible based on time scales, consequences and perspectives. Civil society leaders and business people are now agreed on emission reduction targets to mitigate the effects of climate change but the question remains: how to...

Environmental pollution is an emerging issue in many developing countries and its mitigation is increasingly being integrated into national development policies. One approach to mitigate the problem is by implement pollution control policies in the form of pollution tax or clean technology...

Problem statement: Lacking of proper environmental models environmental pollution is now a solemn problem in many developing countries particularly in Malaysia. Some empirical studies of worldwide reveal that imposition of a carbon tax significantly decreases carbon emissions and does not...

This paper analyzes the contribution of services sector as well as pollution implication of services sector for the production of different industries in the Malaysian economy. In the first part, the purpose of this paper is to provide direct and indirect service intensities that reveal the...