526
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Table 4 (continued)
Item
Agree (%) Not sure
(%)
Disagree
(%)
Mean
13. National Climate Change Policy acts
as a framework to move the
government agency, industries,
communities and stakeholders in
facing the challenges of climate
change holistically
43.1
50.2
5.3
1.62
14. Human activities are the cause of
global warming and climate change
76.5
15.3
5.4
1.27
4.3 Opinion
In this section, opinions among respondents were investigated by the responses of
14 questions on opinion towards sustainable development policies and initiatives in
Malaysia.
In general, respondents showed strong support and recognition for domestic
actions and policies to address sustainable development issues scoring an above
average for all items. However, there are three items that scored below a 4 point
which are item 7, 9 and 13 with mean score of 3.82, 3.98 and 3.95 respectively.
Vasi (2012) addressed that study on environmental attitudes has steadily shown that
a greater part of the nation is concerned about environmental problems. Vasi continued by saying that these great concerns are accompanied by strong support for
domestic and global action to protect the environment. Thus, strong support shown
from the result of this study could probably due to high level of knowledge from the
Malaysian youth.
Based from the results in Table 5, item 6—‘create a green environment in college’,
recorded the highest mean compared to other items. This shows that respondents also
supported efforts toward green campus or sustainable universities. In 2003, United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) had published a document—Greening
Universities Toolkit as an initiative to support and transform universities into green
and sustainable campus. Several HEIs in Malaysia such as Universiti Sains Malaysia
(USM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Malaya (UM) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) have participated in the efforts to build and provide
a sustainable and environmentally campus for its community (Mohammad 2011).
Years later, according to the UI GreenMetric, a global university ranking system
that measures university’s commitment in developing an environmentally, University Putra Malaysia (UPM) was placed at the top spot along with other universities in
the United States and United Kingdom and also named as Asia’s best green campus
(Malay Mail Online 2016). The success of domestic HEIs placed at the top spot
indicates the government, university management and university students’ commitment and initiatives toward sustainable development. Thus, students may feel more
familiar with greening the campus. Meanwhile, the lowest mean recorded was item
F. N. Ariffin et al.
Table 4 (continued)
Item
Agree (%) Not sure
(%)
Disagree
(%)
Mean
13. National Climate Change Policy acts
as a framework to move the
government agency, industries,
communities and stakeholders in
facing the challenges of climate
change holistically
43.1
50.2
5.3
1.62
14. Human activities are the cause of
global warming and climate change
76.5
15.3
5.4
1.27
4.3 Opinion
In this section, opinions among respondents were investigated by the responses of
14 questions on opinion towards sustainable development policies and initiatives in
Malaysia.
In general, respondents showed strong support and recognition for domestic
actions and policies to address sustainable development issues scoring an above
average for all items. However, there are three items that scored below a 4 point
which are item 7, 9 and 13 with mean score of 3.82, 3.98 and 3.95 respectively.
Vasi (2012) addressed that study on environmental attitudes has steadily shown that
a greater part of the nation is concerned about environmental problems. Vasi continued by saying that these great concerns are accompanied by strong support for
domestic and global action to protect the environment. Thus, strong support shown
from the result of this study could probably due to high level of knowledge from the
Malaysian youth.
Based from the results in Table 5, item 6—‘create a green environment in college’,
recorded the highest mean compared to other items. This shows that respondents also
supported efforts toward green campus or sustainable universities. In 2003, United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) had published a document—Greening
Universities Toolkit as an initiative to support and transform universities into green
and sustainable campus. Several HEIs in Malaysia such as Universiti Sains Malaysia
(USM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Malaya (UM) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) have participated in the efforts to build and provide
a sustainable and environmentally campus for its community (Mohammad 2011).
Years later, according to the UI GreenMetric, a global university ranking system
that measures university’s commitment in developing an environmentally, University Putra Malaysia (UPM) was placed at the top spot along with other universities in
the United States and United Kingdom and also named as Asia’s best green campus
(Malay Mail Online 2016). The success of domestic HEIs placed at the top spot
indicates the government, university management and university students’ commitment and initiatives toward sustainable development. Thus, students may feel more
familiar with greening the campus. Meanwhile, the lowest mean recorded was item