Community-based approach for a flood preparedness plan in Malaysia

Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies

 
 
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Title Community-based approach for a flood preparedness plan in Malaysia
 
Creator Shariff, Nur N.M. Hamidi, Zety S.
 
Subject disaster risk management; sociology of disaster; community practice; education flood; community-based disaster risk management; flood preparedness plan; Malaysia; disaster
Description Floods have caused inevitable major disasters around the world as well as in Malaysia. This paper demonstrates that lessons can be taken from the previous flood disasters when developing an effective flood preparedness plan. As a common practice, disaster management is based on a top–down approach or is government-centred. This article attempts to highlight the significance of developing a flood preparedness plan by involving the communities affected. Qualitative analysis was adopted in order to gain in-depth insight of the communities. Two flood-prone communities were chosen: (1) Machang, Kelantan; and (2) Kuala Lipis, Pahang. There were two important things executed by the community for the preparation: (1) community-based disaster risk management; and (2) intensive mutual assistance.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor Universiti Teknologi MARA Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia (IKIM) Centre of Integrated Area Studies (CIAS) of Kyoto University
Date 2019-02-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Survey /Interview
Format text/html application/epub+zip application/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/jamba.v11i1.598
 
Source Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies; Vol 11, No 1 (2019); 6 pages 1996-1421 2072-845X
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Malaysia — flood-prone community
Rights Copyright (c) 2019 Nur N.M. Shariff, Zety S. Hamidi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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