Adaptation of sustainability community indicators for Malaysian campuses as small cities
Adaptation of sustainability community indicators for Malaysian campuses as small cities
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DOI：
10.1016/j.scs.2012.08.002
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发表时间：
2013-02
影响因子：
11.7
通讯作者：
O. Saadatian;K. Sopian;E. Salleh
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作者：
O. Saadatian;K. Sopian;E. Salleh
大校园在人口和城市特征方面与小城市相似。马来西亚是一个认可可持续校园（SC）概念的国家，批准了《塔卢瓦尔宣言》。这个国家缺乏评估大学校园SC水平的本地评估工具。一项探索性研究包括观察、访谈和内容分析，以确定马来西亚大学在社区和社会方面的具体挑战。这些挑战的构建和校园可持续发展评估框架（CSAF）的构建结合在一起，提出了一套问卷调查，并在马来西亚四所研究型大学的专家中分发。调查结果显示，在参与和凝聚力、多样性、服务和项目四个类别中，大多数CSAF的构建被马来西亚专家所接受。然而，一些指标，如“社区毕业生”，并不适合马来西亚的情况，一些新的指标，如“将不同种族团结在一起的行动”，被提议作为新的合适指标。这一发现可以为马来西亚的大学提供参考，以评估其组织中社区的社会可持续性水平。
Big campuses resemble small cities in terms of populations and urban characteristics. Malaysia is a country that recognizes the concept of sustainable campus (SC) by ratifying Talloire Declaration. This country lacks a local assessment tool to assess the level of SC in its university campuses. An exploratory research inclusive of observation, interview and content analyses was conducted to identify the specific challenges of Malaysian universities in terms of the community and social aspects. The construct of those challenges and constructs of Campus Sustainability Assessment Framework (CSAF) was combined together and was proposed as a set of a questionnaire survey and distributed among the experts of four Malaysian research universities. The result of the survey indicated that majority of CSAF constructs in four categories of involvement and cohesion, diversity, services and program were accepted by Malaysian experts. However, some indicators such as “Graduate in the community” were not found out conducive for Malaysian context and some new indicators such as “Actions that bring different races together” were proposed as the new suitable indicators. The finding can function as a reference for Malaysian universities which aim to assess the level of their social sustainability in terms of community in their organization.