Kadaruddin Aiyub

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia | ukm · School of Social, Development & Environmental Studies

Understanding of shoreline dynamics is essential to coastal management and the development of tropical archipelagic countries. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the factors affecting shoreline changes and their future predictions in Bengkayang Regency, West Kalimantan. Research data used includes historical maps, remote sensing imagery, total s...

Lichen is a well-documented useful biological indicator for monitoring air pollution using various methods such as the biodiversity of lichens. However, the use of lichen biodiversity to estimate air pollution levels in industrial areas, particularly in Malaysia, is still weak, and the determinants of its diversity are unknown. As a result, the pur...

Urban air pollution has been a major concern due to its impact on global public health. Various techniques for monitoring urban air quality have been developed. However, there is currently a dearth of research on how effective bioaccumulators such as lichen are at monitoring urban air pollution. As a result, the purpose of this research is to inves...

Rice is an important cereal and a staple food in many countries in the world. Climate change is a significant challenge that affects paddy production and threatens food security. However, research and development in this area continue to work to ensure the supply of rice fulfils the demands of the population. The study aims to analyse the transform...

Ecotourism ecosystem services can rarely been identified specifically in detail. Hence, little is known about interactions and relationship between ecotourism and its services. We have chosen South-East Asia (ASEAN) as our case studies because of its multi-diverse ecotourism ecosystem. We conducted a systematic review of studies that aim to underst...

Microalgae are unicellular microorganisms with unique features and can be used as indicators for air pollutants. Microalgae have been found to withstand the negative effects of air pollutants. This study examined the relationship between the levels of carbon monoxide (CO) and the density of microalgal cells in different areas in Peninsular Malaysia...

The benefits from ecosystem services have the prospective and potential to improve the Malay urban design and increase the quality of life. However, rapid development and urbanization activities are increasingly causing a conversion from the original functions and changes that can affect the urban environment. This paper aims to update current unde...

Abas et al.: Analysis of heavy metal concentration using transplanted lichen Usnea misaminensis at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah (Malaysia)-1175-APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 18(1):1175-1182. Abstract. Heavy metals were emitted from motor vehicles and industries as part of the effects of rapid urbanization. This study aims to measure the heavy...

The Ministry of Education Malaysia has introduced the Higher-Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) through the Malaysian Education Development Plan (PPPM 2013- 2025). However, this element has not yet been fully integrated into the History Subject’s Learning and Facilitation (L&F). This study was conducted to examine the potential of the GIS Story Map Applic...

Conventional air quality monitoring systems, such as gas analysers, are commonly used in many developed and developing countries to monitor air quality. However, these techniques have high costs associated with both installation and maintenance. One possible solution to complement these techniques is the application of low-cost air quality sensors...

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) has been one of the most important aspects in determining the human well-being especially those so called urban dweller. Many studies in CES had been conducted, but generally all of it only discussed from the objectivism point of view. Hence, this study tries to open a new paradigm as we will look into the signific...

Malaysian construction industry is crucial in the development of the country towards becoming a developed nation. However, the positive growth of Malaysian construction industry is being affected with high fatality rate. There are four main elements contributing to occupational accidents in the industry comprising of immediate factor (human and wor...

The sustainable development goals (SDG) right now are the main focus for every nation in the world to tackle and implement. With the rising of environmental problems and risks, the right policy should be planned and implemented promptly. Implementation of policy alone cannot ensure the success of the sustainable development goals. It must blend up...

The urban region with high traffic volume and high density developments contributed to the decreasing of air quality. Air pollution is a major environmental risk to health and exposure to ambient air pollution has been associated with a series of adverse health effects including respiratory system. Previous scholars found a significant link between...

Construction industry is an important sector that contributes to the development of economy and socioeconomy in Malaysia. It is a vital component in achieving the developed country status. However, fatalities in the Malaysian construction industry are a critical problem. Number of fatalities in this industry is the highest compared to other industr...

The construction industry plays a significant role in contributing to economy and development globally. During the process of construction, various hazards coupled with the unique nature of the industry contribute to high fatality rates. This review was carried out by referring to previous published studies and related Malaysian legislation documen...

The purpose of this study was to assess the safety culture within the research university in Malaysia such as Universiti Malaya, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Putra Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The eight elements of safety culture in education sector have been identified including rules and pro...

The urban village is an area occupied by the urban community that lives and resides in the urban environment as a group or in certain group which was formed or naturally due to urbanization. The formation of the urban village concept is based on two circumstances, which is due to the effects of urbanization and the result of the urban village forma...

Education industry plays an important role to achieve knowledge based economy. This industry also facing OSH issues at work especially when involves working in laboratories during teaching and research. This study explores the safety culture in the research university. The eight elements of safety culture have been highlighted. There are rules and...

Construction industry plays an important role in the development of economy and socio-economy of a country. This industry is hazardous and has been contributing to severe injuries and fatalities around the world. There are many OSH accidents that can be related to construction industry but there is a few that really need proper attention due to the...

The conceptual framework is a process that determines the direction of the research. There are few elements that have been selected and being considered as focus on the process of analysis in the research. Here, researcher has developed the special conceptual framework for the quality of life of urban village inhabitants' assessment, which is divid...

Fire is one of the main risk factor to the oil and gas industry. This is because it involves the handling of risky materials and machineries that can easily cause fire. Fire can cause harm to human life, destruction of properties as well as causing a great deal of monetary losses. The objective of this research is to evaluate the relationship betwe...

Penilaian status kualiti hidup penduduk kampung bandar melibatkan sumber maklumat sebagai input, proses penilaian komuniti serta output yang tergambar melalui makna kualiti hidup tersebut. Input melibatkan komponen persekitaran terhadap manusia. Elemen persekitaran mempunyai pengaruh tersendiri melalui menyediakan peluang-peluang yang menjadi daya...

The law of tort focusing on negligence plays an important role towards environmental sustainability in Malaysia. The application on the law of tort focusing on negligence within the scope of interest approach to the area of environmental sustainability is largely in reply to the necessity of individual to protect his/her interests and rights agains...

The implementation of separate management systems of ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 need to be carried out by organizations in oorder to ensure their business continuity. This is because through this implementation, organizations are able to receive various benefits such as reducing business costs, improving companies image and having greater...

The occupational safety management is very essential in order to achieve sustainability at workplace. Without proper management on occupational safety, it will cause accidents to workers. As for Malaysia, those related to accidents at work has increased yearly. For example, in the year of 2003, the number of accidents involving loss of life is abou...

Statutory implied terms in the Malaysian Sale of Goods Act, 1957 give protection to consumer in order to achieve sustainable development focusingon interest approach. The application of interest approach within the statutory implied terms in the Malaysian Sale of Goods Act, 1957, largely in response to the necessity of every each individual to prot...

The idea of interest approach is one of the essential ideas that influence in environmental cooperation to achieve sustainable development. The application the idea of interest approach, within the Principle of Transboundary Liability, largely in response to the necessity of every each individual state to protect their rights and interests in order...

Malaysia merupakan salah sebuah negara yang begitu aktif di persada dunia dalam merealisasikan hasrat memulihara alam sekitar ke arah pembangunan mapan dengan menerimapakai undang-undang antarabangsa dalam pengurusan persekitaran di peringkat nasional. Malaysia juga begitu aktif dalam proses rundingan pembentukan dan penerimaan undang-undang antara...

The law of negligence plays an important role towards environment awareness and sustainability. The application on the law of negligence to the area of the environmental awareness and sustainability is largely in reply to the necessityof individual to protect hisiher interests and rights against pollution. Therefore, this study will examine the app...

Occupation Healthy and Safety Management (OSHAH) is one of the tool that can be use in voluntary way by the organization to overcome workers safety problems in the work place. For that reason, this paper work is done to see how the effects of OSHAH 18001:1999 implementation from the perspective of the benefits received by organizations which applie...

Co-curricular or extra-curricular activities are an integral part of knowledge in supporting students' generic skills development in order to become quality human capital. In general, the co-curricular activities in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Malaysia are of similar fields. However, the institutions have their own way to assess and eva...

Inland water is one of the components of the environment. The inland water is very precious to every single creature. Therefore, it is vital to take extra care to all of the environmental components, which includes the inland water. A good municipal management will ensure the inland water is maintained properly as well as a good protection of the p...

The law of tort on private nuisance plays an important role in protecting individuals from contaminated and polluted drinking water in order to safeguard safety. The use of the law of tort on private nuisance in the area of an individual's protection is largely in reply to the necessity of each individual to protect his rights and interests in cons...

Environmental awareness plays important role towards sustainable development. This can be done through the application on the principle of transboundary liability. The used of the principle of transboundary liability to the area of the environmental awareness, largely in response to the need of individuals to protect their rights and interests in p...

One of the important soft skills that have always been stressed by the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education for the university students to acquire during their university's life is entrepreneurship skill. This soft skill should be an added value to students' academic qualification once they leave university to face the real world. However, there...

The study was carried out to analyze employees and students perception towards Occupational Safety and Health aspects (OSH) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSSK), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Selangor, Malaysia. Based on questionnaire technique, information was gathered from respondents about their knowledge, opinion, und...

Interest approach which concerns with costs and benefits would lead for environmental awareness that plays an important role in environmental sustainabihty by promoting the precautionary principle. The use of the precautionary principle to the area of environmental sustainability, largely in response to the necessity of every and each individual st...

The law of private nuisance plays an important role in environmental awareness towards sustainable development. The used of the law of private nuisance to the area of environmental awareness is largely in reply to the necessity of every each individual to protect their rights and interests in land from being polluted towards sustainable development...

Air environmental health indicators were defined operationally as a combination of "air quality" and "air-related health" indicators. Clean air is a basic precondition of human health. Air pollutants had been identified with potential negative impact on health especially on respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Thus, studies are necessary to ide...

Environmental health as an aspect of concern on healthy environment, involves relationship between environment and human health. It comprises the aspects of human health and diseases that are determined by factors in the environment, as well as the characteristics of environmental conditions which affect the quality of health. Generally, urban ambi...

Malaysia is a speedy developing country and now struggling to become a developed country with a first class infrastructural network. Towards the vision, various developments have been well planned especially in building construction sectors in order to fulfill the need of society and an organization. In the hasty stream of building construction whe...

One of the basic factors for continuous economic development in tropical areas is the availability of the water supply from the forest water catchment. Hydrological characteristics analysis is important to determine the availability of water which later influences the event of flash flood, surface flow velocity, base flow and underground water rete...

The aim of this paper is to record some observations made on issues faced in Malaysia in relation to the implementation of Facilities Management (FM), particularly in Building Maintenance (BM), with a special focus on the health and safety aspects of the building's occupation, and also to outline several proposals to help overcome the problems. Res...

Research and ethics are two words that will always link together. A good management is required to conduct a good research and a good research is the one that is highly-ethical. This study discusses the three types of research known are basic research, applied research and action research. There are several criteria that need to be met in order to...

The law of tort on private nuisance plays an important role in urban sustainability. The used of the law of tort on private nuisance to the area of urban sustainability, largely in response to the necessity of every each individual state to protect their rights and interests in order to safeguard the environment in urban area. Therefore, this study...

Population growth and urbanisation are potentially affecting the environmental quality and human health. Studies have been carried out to understand the “chain of causality” between human activities and air pollution, as well as air quality and human health. Environmental health indicators were reviewed and selected for this study with Kuala Lumpur...

Banjir kilat yang berlaku dalam masa yang singkat (kurang daripada 6 jam) berupaya untuk meningkatkan paras air sungai secara mendadak. Kebanyakan banjir kilat yang berlaku memberi perhatian kepada banjir di kawasan tanah rendah. Bagaimanapun, kajian di Sungai Lembing yang terletak di kawasan tanah tinggi, lebih kurang 45 km dari pinggir pantai Pah...

The management have to make sure the safety of the university's residential colleges at the highest level. Health and safety audit should be done frequently in order to reduce risks to staffs and residents in college. The implementation of health and safety audit in college also has to take into consideration the programme aspects like seminar, cam...

Globalization today has an impact on all aspects of life, especially in the business organization world. Introduction to various management systems, such as the Quality Management System (ISO 9001:2000), Environmental Management System (ISO 14001:2004) and Safety and Health Management System (OHSAS 18001:1999), has changed its direction and form of...

Basel Convention 1989 as one of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) focusing on the control of hazardous wastes has incorporated the principle of trans boundary liability through interest approach. The principle of trans boundary liability plays an essential role in the area of international environmental law and governance. The use of the...

With increasing urbanisation, more people are now staying in urban built environments, even though the conditions of the urban environments may not be conducive to urban residents' health. However, with the lack of health data of urban residents, very few studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between urban factors and city residen...

The law of negligence plays an important role in protecting individual from polluted and contaminated bottled drinking water in order to achieve urban sustainability. The use of the law of negligence in the area of an individual's protection is largely in reply to the necessity of each individual to protect his rights and interests in consuming bot...

Kajian ini memfokuskan tentang kualiti hidup masyarkat Bandar Nilai dalam aspek aksesibiliti penduduk terhadap kemudahan yang disediakan berasaskan pandangan mereka terhadap kemudahan yang terdapat di kawasan tempat tinggal. Kemudahan yang dikaji ialah kemudahan ekonomi, kemudahan bekalan air dan elektrik, kemudahan telekomunikasi, perkhidmatan kes...

"Urban developments, land use patterns and activities not only influence the volume of emissions into the ambient air environment but also affect the ability of the urban ecosystem to purify the air. Therefore, urbanisation affects the quality of air in urban areas. However, urban air quality is also affected by global, regional or trans-boundary p...

An aspect of occupational safety and health that may pose various occupational risks to Faculty of Social Science and Humanity (FSSK) students and staff stems from the work environment itself. Health and safety audit is a tool that can be carried out to identify the hazard in the workplace as well as to evaluate and estimate the risk of accidents....

Consumers take part in essential role in contributing to the development of the country's economy which include urban region as the result there are many conferences, symposiums and seminars which have been organised for the purpose to enhance the awareness on their rights. Therefore, this study will discuss on how the Malaysian statutory implied t...

This research studied students perception and awareness on occupational safety and health management in residential college. To achieve this objective, Ibrahim Yaakob College (KIY), University Kebangsaan Malaysia was chosen as a case study. Even though safety and health management aspects has been implemented through out the university, there are p...

Agenda 21 based on parts 19.1 and 19.11 highlighted that there are thousands of chemical substances in the world market, a lot of which emerge as poison and toxin in business goods, food and the variety of environmental medium especially in urban area. This has shown that chemical substances bestow awful impact to the environment which includes urb...

Climate change is a global issue that needs to be tackled by every individual, groups, organization and nations. With our current path of development, climate change seems inevitable. Mitigation measures and adaptation strategies need to be set up just to avoid any further destruction. As IPCC reported that current CO2 level is around 380ppm and wi...

Ever since people utilise natural resources, environmental quality started to deteriorate. One might ask, how does environmental quality deterioration affect human security? The air we breathe, the water we drink, the food that we consume is all related to the environment. Deterioration of the quality of these natural resources will affect human he...

It is a well-known fact that there is interaction between various components of the environment. The atmosphere, the lithosphere, the hydrosphere and the biosphere are interdependent of each other in a symbiotic manner. One component cannot function without the others. The inter-relationship between the various components is vital in the achievemen...

A city's quality of life often linked with its environment and the infrastructures provided in the city. There is an argument that if a city has a good quality of life, it is because of its environment and the infrastructures are good, high standard, sufficient and efficient. This study examined the quality of life status of Seremban, one of the in...

Ever since the existence of human beings slightly more than two million years ago, the natural environment has offered numerous settings for human beings to set-up their homes starting with physical natural shelters in caves to the modern settlements in megacities. The concentration of greater number of human beings in modern habitats in the form o...

Integrated Management System (IMS) is rather new in Malaysia compared to other country. The integration of Quality Management System (ISO 9001:2000), Environment Management System (ISO 14001:1996) and Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OHSAS 18000:1999) had produced a better and more dynamic model in management today. The problems face...

This study reports the environmental performance of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), who are already certified to the ISO 14001 standard in the United Kingdom. A survey questionnaire was used and 59 SMEs responded to this study. The results show that SMEs has gained various benefits from the implementation of the standard. The ISO 14001 i...

Increments of waste due to the industrial and domestic activities had raised the need for a more efficient and systematic waste management. Factors like costs, ineffective enforcement and lack of environmental awareness had resulted companies taking easy way out to manage their waste. ISO 14001 is one of the initiatives for organization in running...

The law of private nuisance plays an important role in the occupational safety, health and environmental management. The used of the law of private nuisance to the area of the occupational safety, health and environmental management is largely in reply to the necessity of every each employee to protect his or her rights and interests on the safety...

OHSAS's implementation 18001:1999 was one method used by organization to reduce accident at workplaces other than obtains other interest. This study aimed to be looking as far as OHSAS's implementation