J. Alipal, D. Thompson, R. Dambul, I.M. Sabrun

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The article provides a framework for understanding differences in the motivations and designs of relational-based networks across three major focus issues in the “Covidisation” timeframe: the pandemic itself via Covid-19, the environment as a whole via climate change, and the economic divisions such as consumerisation, distribution, exchange, products, and finance. The axioms relate that most academics are influenced by the bandwagon effect of covidisation, which drives their reporting commitment to select pressing issues.

The triangulation network generates the axiom of linkage between issues, which asserts that the current status quo of practises and policies toward critical issues, such as climate change, requires an emerging basis for governing the post-covidified age under a realistic economic model, especially for developing countries such as Malaysia.

Chin Shing Yee, Borhan Abdullah, Rosli Sareya

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This paper examines the long run relationship between foreign direct investment, exports, and economic growth. The data is acquired from the World Bank from 1990 to 2019. Unit Root Tests, the order of lags of the Vector Autoregression (VAR), Johansen test, Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), Autocorrelation test, Normality test, and Stability test were used to study the relationship between foreign direct investment, exports, and economic growth.

This research found a positive long run relationship between foreign direct investment and exports on economic growth according to the findings. Our results also show that foreign direct investment and exports are significant drivers of Malaysian economic growth.

Jain Yassin

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Tourism was seen as a potential sector to contribute, directly or indirectly to sustainable development goals in ASEAN countries, however, the carrying capacity of a destination was primarily created for local use suffer under an increasing number of tourists. The main concern of society is the environmental stress from high tourism density. Thus, the main purpose of the current study is to investigate the effect of the tourist arrivals on environmental quality, which focus primarily on carbon emissions on ASEAN-5 countries, consisting of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. This study also analyzed whether the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) holds for all ASEAN-5 countries from 1995 until 2018 using nonlinear a fixed-effects model.

The result shows that an increase in tourism density will intensify the carbon emissions. Interestingly, at higher tourism density, it is bound to reduce the carbon emissions as observe in quadratic function. Nevertheless, the declining trend is only temporary and reveals an N-shape relationship between tourist arrivals and carbon emissions. The finding of this paper offers insight into the establishment of economic policies aimed at achieving sustainable development that is generated in the advanced development of mass tourism.

Keywords: Tourism; Environmental quality; Carbon Emissions; environmental performance index; ASEAN-5

Gusniar Nurdin & Jennifer Yukin

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A local community initiative in conservation is one of the trends in conservation management. Kampung Singgaron Baru community’s involvement in conservation has highlighted the importance of the forest preservation that face a range of development issues with limited resources and livelihood opportunities. Therefore, the community conservation initiatives have the potential to promote ecotourism opportunities which can reconcile and sustain economic development with cost-benefit of conservation in Kampung Singgaron Baru. Thus, this paper identified the socio-economic profile of the community and to explore the process of Community Conserved Areas (CCAs) recognition. Household profile of the community was collected through survey research with questionnaire.

History of the conflict and the process of getting CCAs are explored through in-depth interviews with two key informants. The results showed a comprehensive figure of socio-economic pattern of the community. The bottom up approach has been used to get the CCAs recognition through integrated collaboration with related agencies. Ultimately, Kampung Singgaron Baru will be additional to CCAs in Sabah. Therefore, the findings from this study will eventually become an additional reference for related parties or government agencies in formulating policies and strategies in conservation management as well as community engagement especially in the state of Sabah.

Keywords: Community Conserved Areas (CCAs), community’s involvement, community conservation initiative, bottom-up approach