Title: Incorporating sustainable management system into housing development practice in Malaysia

Authors: Soo Cheen Suzanne Khor; Abu Hassan Bin Abu Bakar

Addresses: School of Housing, Building and Planning, University of Science Malaysia, 11800 Pulau Penang, Malaysia. ' School of Housing, Building and Planning, University of Science Malaysia, 11800 Pulau Penang, Malaysia

Abstract: This paper reviews the practice in sustainable management in housing development, which incorporates in Malaysia the urban planning organisation and sustainable housing development variables. The transition of a sustainable housing development is to ward off the constraints faced in the housing sector and to drive through the sustainable loop to undergo the evolution in the new housing era. The primary objective is to achieve the balance of a sustainability triple bottom line at the end of the result. The suggestion made is to use a system tool to manage housing development in Malaysia in a sustainable approach.

Keywords: sustainability management systems; SMS; urban planning mechanisms; sustainable housing variables; Malaysia; sustainable development; housing development; triple bottom line.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSD.2012.047754

International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2012 Vol.15 No.3, pp.277 - 291

Received: 12 May 2010
Accepted: 09 May 2011

Published online: 30 Aug 2014 *

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