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Welcome to Spatial-Environmental Governance for Sustainability Research Centre (UMSERGE)

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     Spatial-environmental governance’ is a new sub-field of study proposed by Jamilah Mohamad in 2009 to reflect the increasing importance of governance in bringing about sustainable development. The term `environmental governance’ is already in popular use. However, taking into account the importance of spatial scales when dealing with environmental problems as often espoused by physical planners in the Netherlands, as well as the increasing availability of spatial analysis tools such as GIS, remote sensing, etc., it is thought that a term such as `spatial-environmental governance’ has to be introduced and the sub-field developed, taking into account progress made in other areas of corporate governance, etc. 

     Thus, the proposed Head of this Centre decided that the UM Spatial-Environmental Governance for Sustainability Research Centre (UMSERGE) be formed in 2009 and was registered under the Sustainability Science Cluster as a cluster centre with the support of a number of researchers mainly from the Geography Department in University of Malaya. However, researchers from other disciplines such as Anthropology and Sociology, Economics, Engineering and Business disciplines have either formally registered as members or have expressed their interest to be part of the research centre. The multi-disciplinary approach is an important part of this form of governance since we are dealing with complex ...

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