The potential impact of climate change environmental hazards on quality of life of fishermen community in Malaysia

Climate change is not a new phenomena and has already bring concerns to us. A lot of community groups have suffered from the impacts of the climate change. Farmers, businessmen, tourists, older people and children are going to be challenged like never before as cl...

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Main Authors: Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril, Abu Samah, Bahaman, Uli, Jegak, D’Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information 2011
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53503/
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author Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
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Uli, Jegak
D’Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence
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description Climate change is not a new phenomena and has already bring concerns to us. A lot of community groups have suffered from the impacts of the climate change. Farmers, businessmen, tourists, older people and children are going to be challenged like never before as climate change exerts a multi-faceted influence. Other than these groups, what about the fishermen? Are their social, economic and health aspects are going to be affected by the impacts of climate change? The answer of this question will fulfill the main objective of this paper which is to discover the climate change impact on the fishermens quality of life. This is a qualitative study where the data was gained through literature analysis and document analysis. Based on the analysis done, it can be concluded that the climate change will obstruct fishermen from doing their routine tasks, bring damages to their belongings, reduce the quantity and quality of the sea faunas which will affect their productivity and expose them to diseases related to malaria, skin problems, fever, flu, cough and other health problems. It is recommended that the fishermen in Malaysia must be socially and economically prepared so that they can face the impacts brought by the climate change.
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spelling upm-535032018-10-09T02:19:38Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53503/ The potential impact of climate change environmental hazards on quality of life of fishermen community in Malaysia Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril Abu Samah, Bahaman Uli, Jegak D’Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence Climate change is not a new phenomena and has already bring concerns to us. A lot of community groups have suffered from the impacts of the climate change. Farmers, businessmen, tourists, older people and children are going to be challenged like never before as climate change exerts a multi-faceted influence. Other than these groups, what about the fishermen? Are their social, economic and health aspects are going to be affected by the impacts of climate change? The answer of this question will fulfill the main objective of this paper which is to discover the climate change impact on the fishermens quality of life. This is a qualitative study where the data was gained through literature analysis and document analysis. Based on the analysis done, it can be concluded that the climate change will obstruct fishermen from doing their routine tasks, bring damages to their belongings, reduce the quantity and quality of the sea faunas which will affect their productivity and expose them to diseases related to malaria, skin problems, fever, flu, cough and other health problems. It is recommended that the fishermen in Malaysia must be socially and economically prepared so that they can face the impacts brought by the climate change. American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information 2011 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53503/1/The%20potential%20impact%20of%20climate%20change%20environmental%20hazards.pdf Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril and Abu Samah, Bahaman and Uli, Jegak and D’Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence (2011) The potential impact of climate change environmental hazards on quality of life of fishermen community in Malaysia. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 5 (7). pp. 507-515. ISSN 1991-8178 http://www.ajbasweb.com/old/ajbas_july_2011.html
spellingShingle Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
Abu Samah, Bahaman
Uli, Jegak
D’Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence
The potential impact of climate change environmental hazards on quality of life of fishermen community in Malaysia
title The potential impact of climate change environmental hazards on quality of life of fishermen community in Malaysia
title_full The potential impact of climate change environmental hazards on quality of life of fishermen community in Malaysia
title_fullStr The potential impact of climate change environmental hazards on quality of life of fishermen community in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The potential impact of climate change environmental hazards on quality of life of fishermen community in Malaysia
title_short The potential impact of climate change environmental hazards on quality of life of fishermen community in Malaysia
title_sort potential impact of climate change environmental hazards on quality of life of fishermen community in malaysia
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