Obstacles in Formulating Policy for Climate Change Mitigation: A review

Sia Pong Hock; Ainur Zaireen Zainudin

doi:10.21834/e-bpj.v9iSI22.5888

Authors

Sia Pong Hock Department of Real Estate, Faculty of Built Environment & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Ainur Zaireen Zainudin Department of Real Estate, Faculty of Built Environment & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v9iSI22.5888

Keywords:

Challenges, Climate Change, Land Administration, Policy

Abstract

Climate change has become central to many public policies nowadays as all parties are concentrating their efforts on overcoming the issue. However, formulating the policies is challenging. Therefore, it is the objective of this paper to identify the challenges in formulating climate change-related policies from the land administration perspective. It is done by reviewing the existing literature, based on the findings of past research. Economics and governance are among the challenges to formulating climate change policy. This insight will assist authorities to strategize on how to overcome the challenges so that climate change policies can be well formulated.

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