Carbon-capability framework for Malaysia: towards encouraging low-carbon community lifestyles
Human welfare is increasingly affected by the climate change impacts where more scientific evidence has pointed to a significant human contribution as the most contributing factors. Lately, the concept of ‘carbon-capability’ has been proposed recently to get the relative meanings related to carbon a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Trans Tech Publications
2015
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/44001/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/44001/1/Carbon-capability%20framework%20for%20Malaysia%20towards%20encouraging%20low-carbon%20community%20lifestyles.pdf |
| Summary: | Human welfare is increasingly affected by the climate change impacts where more scientific evidence has pointed to a significant human contribution as the most contributing factors. Lately, the concept of ‘carbon-capability’ has been proposed recently to get the relative meanings related to carbon and individual power and enthusiasm to cut emissions. Thus, this paper aims to present a review of the theoretical framework and identifies the need for more specific components underlying the community carbon-capability. This study analyzes by using content analysis and based in part on related earlier study. The paper concludes that community carbon-capability framework's ability to help in reducing climate change impacts and highlighted the vital to understanding community engagement with overall climate change issues in Malaysia. |
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