Role of religious communities in enhancing transition experiments: a localised strategy for sustainable solid waste management in Malaysia
Role of religious communities in enhancing transition experiments: a localised strategy for sustainable solid waste management in Malaysia
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宗教社区在加强转型实验中的作用：马来西亚可持续固体废物管理的本地化战略
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2012
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6
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Zuffri Mamat
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Z. Mohamad;Noorshahzila Idris;Zuffri Mamat
最理想的宗教形式被视为一股强大的力量，可以为拥有相似宗教信仰的后代带来生态变革。这为增强他们在可持续发展转型中的作用提供了一个有趣的论据。马来西亚在这方面具有相关的地理背景，因为几乎所有公民都正式信奉某种宗教信仰。然而，这些想法大多停留在理论层面，很少有系统的实证研究。本文旨在通过提供理论上有依据的实证见解来填补这一空白，这些见解涉及一些宗教社区目前如何在马来西亚城市社区的背景下进行成功的回收实验。该论文认为，这些证据可能证明宗教社区在为回收实验提供本地化资源方面的“潜在”作用，这有利于马来西亚向更可持续的城市固体废物管理过渡。本文的实证基础基于对马来西亚四大主要宗教——佛教、基督教、印度教和伊斯兰教——选定的宗教团体所实施的成功回收计划的探索性多重案例研究。这项研究的理论框架基于可持续性转型文献，特别是“转型实验”框架。
Religion in its most ideal form is seen as a powerful force to create ecological transformations to succeeding generations that share similar religious beliefs. This provides an interesting argument for enhancing their role in sustainability transitions. Malaysia is a relevant geographical context in this regard since almost all of its citizens formally embrace some kind of religious belief. However, such ideas are discussed mostly at the theoretical level with little systematic empirical investigation. This paper aims to fill this gap by presenting theoretically informed empirical insights on how a number of religious communities are currently creating successful experiments in recycling within the context of an urban community in Malaysia. The paper argues that such evidence may demonstrate the ‘potential’ role of religious communities to provide localised resources for recycling experiments that can be advantageous for the transition towards a more sustainable municipal solid waste management in Malaysia. The empirical basis of this paper is based on an exploratory multiple case study of successful recycling programmes conducted by selected religious communities from four key religions in Malaysia—Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Islam. The theoretical framework for this research is based on the sustainability transitions literature, particularly the ‘transition experiment’ framework.