Irina Safitri ZenInternational Islamic University Malaysia | iium · Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP)
Irina Safitri Zen
PhD Env. Management & Policy
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June 1999 - June 2006
June 1997 - June 1998
June 1993 - June 1997
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SUMMARY: This study explored and analyzed household acceptance of the curbside recycling scheme (CRS) in selected residential areas in Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory (KLFT), Malaysia where the number of drop-off recycling facilities are limited. The analysis identified the socio-economic factors that affect the respondents’ willingness to pay (WTP...
SUMMARY: Campus sustainability can be a showcase of dynamic interaction between man and environment in translating sustainable development into the local context. As part of the sustainability initiative of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), the application of Waste Minimization efforts open up the complexities of close-loop campus solid waste ma...
The campus environment in a higher learning institution should be conducive to support the synergistic effects of its three basic functions namely: learning, social interactions and living. Campus conduciveness is rarely measured in the context of campus sustainability. This study will develop and establish Conducive Campus Environment (CCE) tools...
Malaysia has partially banned the use of asbestos. The prohibition of asbestos building materials in schools, clinics, and hospitals built by government started in 1999. Since 2005, prohibition has also been applied to all government buildings. However, asbestos construction materials such as roof and ceiling tiles are still sold in the market. The...
The ASEAN Sustainability Leadership Program conducted in Siem Reap, Cambodia, involved researchers from various disciplines of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the region and the local community. The program provided a platform for experiential and transformative learning and used an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to promot...
Subak is a local organization that formalizes the Balinese traditional ecological knowledge and wisdom in managing and distributing water for agricultural purposes. This organization combines cosmology, spirituality, science, ecology, and engineering dimensions of knowledge. As the current development of Bali Island as one of the international tour...
Agriculture is the largest global water consumer, making it crucial to understand its impact on watersheds. This study, conducted in 2023, examines the Kampar watershed in the Riau province, covering Kampar and Pelalawan regencies. It assesses the watershed's suitability for meeting agricultural water needs, particularly for rice cultivation. The s...
Sustainable economic development, especially the industrial sector, is an important agenda in improving the welfare of the population. The problem that arises is that land use for industry is dominant compared to considerations of the carrying capacity. This study aims to analyze the carrying capacity of the environment, especially land and water i...
The defragmentation of multiple sources of greenhouse gas emissions would allow for more effective climate action at the local level. The adoption of a Global Protocol for Community-Scale (GPC) framework will assist in determining the source of greenhouse gas emissions in Malacca based on inventory data. The online software tool (Harmonised Emissio...
What transforms society? Using the quintuple helix model (QHM) of social innovation, this study examines how the Okayama Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) project has transformed the local community and its people, and how this has led to global recognition. Okayama is known as a world leader in ESD and their unique approach is called the...
The preparation of a District Local Plan is in accordance with the Local Plan manual as
stated in the Plan Malaysia 2020 Edition. This paper highlights the findings, issues,
proposals, and design of the Kuala Selangor District Local Plan. The main objective of
this project is to prepare a draft local plan for the Kuala Selangor district to uplift t...
This study aims to develop scales to measure teachers’ systems thinking and leadership in education for sustainable development (ESD) at an environmental care and culture school, which is important because the school serves as an ESD benchmark for other public schools. However, there is no adequate performance measurement scale that incorporates th...
Understanding the complex links between socioeconomic variables and carbon emissions can reveal household spending and lifestyle patterns. This study oversees those issues and examines consumption patterns and their related variables such as climate change understanding, attitudes, and knowledge, in order to better comprehend the complicated linkag...
The carbon footprint of households is a significant contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for 24% of total emissions. As a result, it is critical to quantify a household's carbon footprint in order to reduce it over time. One of the best ways to measure carbon emitted from various sectors of the economy, including household da...
The carbon footprint of households is a significant contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for 24% of total emissions. As a result, it is critical to quantify a household's carbon footprint in order to reduce it over time. One of the best ways to measure carbon emitted from various sectors of the economy, including household da...
New development activity brings its various impacts for indigenous people often prompting their relocation to a new area. The 1977’s relocation of indigenous people in Royal Belum, Perak State, Malaysia, as part of its rural spatial development, questions on their livelihood in a new resettlement area and their relationship with nature within the c...
The review of Negeri Sembilan State Structure Plan 2045 complies with the
amendments or review of the state’s five years’ development plan. This
planning document presents the strategies, policies, and general proposals
that cover the whole state. The review also considers changes in policies at
the state level to align with the policies at the nat...
Sustainable development at higher education level plays an important role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Higher education holds a great responsibility to increase the awareness and knowledge of students who will manage and develop resources. For the purpose of the sustainability of resources, awareness and knowledge of susta...
Given the plethora of choices and the abundance of products available in the market, household roles in practicing sustainable consumption and lifestyle in their daily life is crucial. As a newly industrialized country, Malaysian consumers are experiencing high consumerism spirits due to strong purchasing power. Hence, reoriented the complexities o...
A corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative by supermarkets have made significant contributions to the elimination of plastic bags consumption, hence establishing a new norm in the society. This means that the various initiatives conducted in promoting a sustainable shopping lifestyle have challenged the ‘status quo’ of providing free single...
Rapid urbanization currently seen in the major cities of Malaysia such as Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru and Penang are responding to the equally rapid population growth. This phenomenon has at the same time instigated the rise in housing prices (Diwa Samad, Mohd-Rahim, Nurshuhada Zainon, Lou, & Karim, 2016). The rapid growth and evolution of nuclear fa...
Malaysia suffered from several dengue epidemics with a highly contagious health threat in the last few decades. Analyses of the incidence number of dengue cases and the illegal dumpsite by using the Geographical Information System, GIS, standard deviational ellipse, SDE, produces a scientific-based evidence of dengue map for the urbanized area of I...
Adopting biosphere reserves, BRs in the area with local protected area and international designated area will embrace the community involvement to support its biosphere stewardship function. It is argued that the community with a strong social capital as well as strong traditional ecological knowledge and culture will contribute to strengthen the c...
Biosphere reserves Framework by UNESCO
Complex issues in sustainable development require partnership and collaboration between governments and local communities. Long process require in building partnerships and collaboration is one of the key strategy of social change process which also crucial to establish continuum cooperation and partnership. The study aims to examine and understand...
Fisheries are fundamental part of human activities. Sustainable fishing is an important aspect in maintining the fishery resources for the future generation. The main objective of this study is to estimate the maximum sustainable yield (MSY) of the fishing grounds for the sustainable harvesting. This study deploy the approximate estimation of abund...
Having the global movement of the University’s third mission of co-creation
for sustainability, the living lab has mentioned as one of the innovative and transformative approach for university response to the global environmental challenges of climate change. However, not much attention has been discussing in a more structured manner how the univer...
Mapping traffic noise pollution from an increasing number of vehicles facilitate better land use planning in order to measures the environment sustainability performances of institution in higher education. The aim of this research is to analyse the relationship on the increasing number of the motorized vehicles recorded as noise pollution data for...
Functionalized poly(acrylic acid)/SiO 2 (PAA/SiO 2 ) composite nanofiber with mercapto groups have been prepared through an electro spinning process. The characterization of the composite nanofiber was performed using FTIR, optical microscopy, SEM, TEM and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) analysis. Finally, the prepared nanofiber was used for the adsor...
Study the Talang Mamak tribe is an isolated community that lives traditionally in the downstream Indragiri River, Riau Province, Indonesia. This tribe is one of the oldest Malay tribes (Proto Malay), relatively still maintaining hunting and gathering mode of life even though now some of them began to settle and farm. The study aims to identify thei...
The establishment of low carbon assessment initiatives is a crucial task especially at the city level. The determination of which source of carbon contributed more require robust data set and strategic approach. Hence, by using the campus as a small city approach, the establishment of carbon assessment and its’ reduction initiatives was required to...
The establishment of low carbon assessment initiatives is a crucial task especially at the city level. The determination of which source of carbon contributed more require robust data set and strategic approach. Hence, by using the campus as a small city approach, the establishment of carbon assessment and its’ reduction initiatives was required to...
The complexity of consumer’s changes towards green behavior, such as sustainable shopping lifestyle is a challenge for the government and its public policy. Most of the traditional regulatory approach, such as plastic bag ban or tax was hoping for immediate result of the consumer behavioral changes. Thus, changes the consumer behavior towards green...
The establishment of low carbon assessment initiatives is a crucial task especially at the city level. The determination of which source of carbon contributed more require robust data set and strategic approach. Hence, by using the campus as a small city approach, the establishment of carbon assessment and its’ reduction initiatives was required to...
nvironmental pollution is a complex and rapidly evolving challenge faced by urban environments. University campuses are susceptible to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions arising from energy use, particularly due to vehicular movement, solid waste generation and disposal, and electricity generation. The impact of GHG emissions, particularly carbon dioxi...
The research was stimulated by the experiences that campus sustainability initiatives are ad-hoc basis implementation, sporadic, silos and unsustainable. Current initiative in campus sustainability is disintegrated between campus operation, research & development, teaching & learning as well as community engagement. Thus, a collaborative research p...
Sustainability is a growing priority for higher education institutions around the world. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) through UTM Campus Sustainability Office ready to transform the campus as platform to inculcate the sustainability mind set of young people through education and empowering them to continue living the values in the future as...
Purpose – The article aims to explore and analyse the potential of campus living learning laboratory (LLL)
as an integrated mechanism to provide the innovative and creative teaching and learning experiences, robust research output and strengthening the campus sustainability initiatives by using the sustainability science approach.
Design/methodolog...
Air pollution has always been a concern with increasing urbanization and poor land use planning adding to the problem. This study sets out to investigate the relationship between land use composition of an area and its ambient concentration of 10-μm-or-less particulate matter (PM10). For this study, Iskandar Malaysia has been chosen as the study ar...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop and explore the policy concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a focus for sustainable development. To this end, it develops and explores the implications of a distinction between CSR as a marketing strategy and a more sustainable long-term commitment to changes in organizational culture a...
The study generates a comprehensive conceptual framework of Living Labs for UTM, called Campus Living Learning Lab (CLLL) as an integrative and transformative approach in implementing the elusive and complex framework of sustainable development in more practical approach. It has a potential to develop a plausible pathway to enhance the IHE campus s...
In the context where corporate social responsibility (CSR) becomes the main justification for any activities related with supermarket's involvement in no plastic bag campaign (NPBC), this study aims to clarify complex issues of CSR supermarket involvement in a multifaceted interactions of consumers, corporate and government in NPBC initiatives in M...
Non-state actor involvement to support/ complement government initiatives for climate actions has been emphasized in climate governance. This paper examines the potential of multilevel marine governance framework by using the sustainability science (SS) approach, using the Wakatobi National Park (WNP) as a case study. As a counterproductive to the...
A sustainable campus acting as a premier hub for sustainability in operations, research, education and engagement between university, public and industry. The purpose of sustainable campus is to achieve sustainability's goals to promote society into having a sustainable lifestyle in a local or a universal scale. An effective living in sustainable c...
in translating the elusive concept of sustainable development in the context of Higher Education Institution
into more tangible outcome of sustainable consumption, reduce environmental effect from
campus activities and create conducive campus environmental for behavioral change. As part of the
sustainability initiative in Universiti Teknologi Malay...
Ecological footprint (EF) is potential to be applied in universities to assist building management units to coordinate in order to reduce environmental impact and to achieve sustainable resource consumption from its main activities including teaching-learning, research and operations. As many Malaysian universities declare to become sustainability...
The study aimed to analyse the characteristics and status of the sustainability related engineering courses in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). The sustainability analysis of the undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) engineering courses was conducted by using four criteria which are the model, orientation, approach and theme. A total of 61 U...
The UTM Campus Sustainability Report (SR) presents the community UTM’s progress in fulfill its commitment to excellence and leadership in advancing the pursuit of sustainability. Te report encompass Planning and Campus Operation, transportation and engagement. The report developed base on the Global Report Initiatives (GRI) framework which contains...
This book provides insights on environmental planning and social sustainability
This study explored and analyzed household acceptance of the curbside recycling scheme (CRS) in
selected residential areas in Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory (KLFT), Malaysia where the number of dropoff
recycling facilities are limited. The analysis identified the socio-economic factors that affect the respondents'
willingness to pay (WTP) for CRS....
The role of local community in conserving the biodiversity and environmental is important in developing the community based conservation effort. The early identification of the local community and indigenous people daily living practices and their attitude towards biodiversity conservation are important in developing a foundation for better managem...
In 2009, HRH Raja Dr Nazrin Shah called for enactment of special legislation to protect the Belum-Temengor Tropical Rainforest, the largest remaining contiguous track of unprotected rainforest in Peninsular Malaysia. Whereas 87.58 per cent of the forest has been gazetted as the Royal Belum State Park, the protected forest complex is still threatene...
The world is facing a tremendous environmental challenge in terms of climate change, use of natural resources and natural environment damage. It’s the time where organization focus on policy making which the policy is focusing on technology, problem solution towards sustainability and applying it in the organization. This study objective is to anal...
Each sustainable campus has different way on how to adopt and interpret sustainability into actions. The effort requires dedicated group of people support, integrated work based approach and top management commitment in recognising and establishing the key strategic initiatives and anchor project. This paper explain the process of institutionalize...
Walkability is becoming a popular buzzword in planning cities that suffers high level of pollution due to, amongst others, emission from automobiles are embracing walkability in order to reap its benefits. In addition to that, walkability is the measure of how satisfactorily the transportation system meets the need of walking of the community. Seve...
The weekly No Plastic Bag Campaign Day comprises of an added charge of MYR 0.20 (USD 0.06) per plastic bag in supermarkets and grocery stores. The objective is to reduce plastic bag consumption and save the environment. However, the campaign has provoked a range of reactions from the public including consumers, policy makers, environmentalists and...
In wastewater management system, one of the issues is the accumulated suspended chemical materials that may generate solid waste problems in watershed area, in this study, a campus. The application of statistical methods has become a non-structural management tool in waste management system. This study demonstrated modelling and applying the entry...
A review about mining practice implemented by the Indonesian government related to environmental management system considering land reclamation, mining closures and community development is discussed in this book chapter. Mining activities involving with exploration and exploitation resulting land damage as well as mining problems including illegal...
Various non-structural measures are being used in Malaysia to manage asbestos risk in the workplace. Regulations to control exposure to asbestos in factories came about with the promulgation of the Factories and Machinery (Asbestos Process) Regulations 1986, and in all workplaces with the Occupational Safety and Health (Use and Standards of Exposur...
In order to implement policies of sustainability to change consumer behavior, governments must also gain sufficient support from various stakeholders across the wider community as well as the private sector. In Malaysia as elsewhere government campaigns to encourage shoppers to stop using plastic bags illustrates not only the challenges of getting...