Land Development On Highland Areas: Malaysia And Hong Kong

Author/Editor: Anuar Alias • Azlan Shah Ali • Khairul Nizam Othman

Publisher: UM Press

ISBN: 9789831009857

Weight: 250g

Pages: 186

Year: 2018

Price: RM48

This book focuses on land development on highland areas. It discusses land use planning, laws and regulations pertaining to land development on highlands. The increasing cases of development failures on highland areas have led to the need for the authorities and professionals to explore and find solutions to mitigate the problems. The main aim of this book is to compare the issues and process of land development on highland areas between Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is chosen for benchmarking, based on its success in managing highland developments. The discussion aims to gauge the effectiveness of land development legislation and development approaches for highland development. From the comparison made, it appears that in Malaysia, the land development mechanism on highlands is still in the infancy stage whereby current property laws and regulations still fail to achieve highland development standards compared with Hong Kong. Thus, a practical framework is suggested to ensure the land development on highlands in Malaysia will be at a similar standard as the Hong Kong mechanism in managing highland development