REPORT

 
Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA)                     Advancing the Frontier of Maritime Knowledge CentrCentre for Coastal and Marine Environment (CMER)         

     
 

 
     
 

MOHD NIZAM BASIRON

 
 

Research Fellow
Center for Coastal and Marine Environment
Maritime Institute of Malaysia

 
     
 

Reports & Publications
The primary outputs of a policy researcher include among others, research reports, position and opinion papers as well as publications in journals, newsletters and conference proceedings. A list of reports, opinion papers and publications from Nizam’s work at CMER as an individual researcher or part of a research team is given below. The highlight of the list is Malaysia’s first maritime atlas which was published in 2000 and is currently being updated and upgraded with new information and a revised format.

Reports
National Institute of Oceanography in Malaysia, a feasibility study for the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, 1995.

Framework for National Legislation to Implement International Maritime Conventions for the United Nations Development Programme/International Maritime Organisation, 1997.

National Report for Malaysia for the Formulation of a transboundary diagnostic analysis for the South China Sea for the United Nations Environment Programme, 1998.

National Coastal Zone Policy status document 1999 – 2000.

Conservation of Biodiversity in Marine Parks of Peninsular Malaysia: Review of Institutions and Policies for United Nations Development Programme, 2001.

Reversing Environmental Degradation Trends in the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand: Land-Based Pollution Malaysia for UNEP-GEF Project, 2005;

Reversing Environmental Degradation Trends in the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand: National Segrass Report for Malaysia for UNEP-GEF Project, 2005.

Reversing Environmental Degradation Trends in the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand: National Corals and Coral Reefs Report for Malaysia for UNEP-GEF Project, 2005.

Marine Environment Law in Malaysia – Development and Compliance. In press, Maritime Institute of Malaysia.

Publications
Basiron, M.N. Managing Marine Pollution in the Straits of Malacca. Coastal Resources Management Newsletter, 1995.

Basiron, M.N. The Implementation of Chapter 17 of Agenda 21 in Malaysia: challenges and opportunities, Ocean and Coastal Management 1998, 41 (1), 1 – 17.

Basiron, M.N. and Hewison, G. Marine Environment Security. In Proceeding of the Workshop of the CSCAP Working Group on Environmental Security.

Basiron, M.N. Marine Environment Protection – defining the challenges of the new millennium. In Takai, S (ed). Ocean Governance and OPK. The Thirteenth International Symposium Proceedings. Tokyo, National Institute for Defense Studies, 1998.
 

 
 

Basiron, M.N. and Hewison, G. Marine Environment Security. In Proceeding of the Workshop of the CSCAP Working Group on Environmental Security.

Basiron, M.N. Marine Environment Protection – defining the challenges of the new millennium. In Takai, S (ed). Ocean Governance and OPK. The Thirteenth International Symposium Proceedings. Tokyo, National Institute for Defense Studies, 1998.
 

 
 


Forbes, V.L. & Basiron, M.N. Malaysia’s Maritime Space – an atlas of environments and resources. Kuala Lumpur: Maritime Institute of Malaysia, 2000.

Basiron, M.N. Protection of the Marine Environment from Sea-Based Pollution. In Proceedings of
the International Conference on Geo Future Project: Protect the Ocean. Tokyo, Institute for Ocean Policy, Ship and Ocean Foundation, 2002.

Basiron, M.N. Malaysia’s Experience in the Development of a National Oceans Policy in F.M Yusoff et al (eds). Tropical Marine environment: Charting Strategies for the Millennium. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Straits of Malacca. Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2002.

Work in Progress – a review of the implementation of Chapter 17 of Agenda 21 in Malaysia. Background Paper for Conference on Rio + 10. Kuala Lumpur, 2002.

Basiron, M.N. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Chapter 17 of Agenda 21: Malaysia’s Obligations Towards the Conservation of the Marine Environment, Journal of the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, 4 (1). 82 – 92.

Mokhzani Zubir and Mohd Nizam Basiron. The Strait of Malacca: the Rise of China, America’s Intentions and the Dilemma of the Littoral States. Maritime Studies. 141 (2005).

Review of the Institutional Framework for the Management of Marine Parks in Peninsular Malaysia, submitted to Ocean and Coastal Management Journal, 2005.
 

 
 

 
     
 

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