Community resilience frameworks for building disaster resilient community in Malaysia

Disasters cannot be prevented fully but their impacts and severity can be lessened through the application of certain frameworks. However, there is currently a lack of a robust framework in building the disaster resilient and sustainable communities in Malaysia. Malaysians are increasingly finding t...

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Main Authors: Sulaiman, Dr. Noralfishah, Wei, She Teo, Fernando, Prof. Terrence
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Language:English
Published: Malaysian Institue 2019
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http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5845/1/AJ%202018%20%28917%29%20Community%20resilience%20frameworks%20for%20building%20disaster%20resilient%20community%20in%20Malaysia.pdf
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author Sulaiman, Dr. Noralfishah
Wei, She Teo
Fernando, Prof. Terrence
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Fernando, Prof. Terrence
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description Disasters cannot be prevented fully but their impacts and severity can be lessened through the application of certain frameworks. However, there is currently a lack of a robust framework in building the disaster resilient and sustainable communities in Malaysia. Malaysians are increasingly finding themselves not being spared from disasters especially flood events. In order to keep pace with these occurring disasters in Malaysia, Community Resilience Frameworks are the backbone strategies among various stakeholders and can assure non-futile efforts for building safer and more resilient communities. Community Resilience Framework sets out the drivers, existing good practices, scopes, aims and work streams respectively for a long-term programme designed to increase the disaster resilience of communities. This paper has attempted to review the existence of disaster resilient communities in detail. Some Community Resilience Frameworks in the context of natural disasters in Malaysia will also be discussed. In this paper, literature is used as a foundation for a new insight contribution. A document analysis method on relevant policies and literatures also been adopted. It is envisaged that the findings of this study could be clinically useful for building a disaster resilient community and also closing the gaps in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Malaysia
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spelling uthm-58452022-01-24T03:22:12Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5845/ Community resilience frameworks for building disaster resilient community in Malaysia Sulaiman, Dr. Noralfishah Wei, She Teo Fernando, Prof. Terrence HT51-65 Human settlements. Communities Disasters cannot be prevented fully but their impacts and severity can be lessened through the application of certain frameworks. However, there is currently a lack of a robust framework in building the disaster resilient and sustainable communities in Malaysia. Malaysians are increasingly finding themselves not being spared from disasters especially flood events. In order to keep pace with these occurring disasters in Malaysia, Community Resilience Frameworks are the backbone strategies among various stakeholders and can assure non-futile efforts for building safer and more resilient communities. Community Resilience Framework sets out the drivers, existing good practices, scopes, aims and work streams respectively for a long-term programme designed to increase the disaster resilience of communities. This paper has attempted to review the existence of disaster resilient communities in detail. Some Community Resilience Frameworks in the context of natural disasters in Malaysia will also be discussed. In this paper, literature is used as a foundation for a new insight contribution. A document analysis method on relevant policies and literatures also been adopted. It is envisaged that the findings of this study could be clinically useful for building a disaster resilient community and also closing the gaps in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Malaysia Malaysian Institue 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5845/1/AJ%202018%20%28917%29%20Community%20resilience%20frameworks%20for%20building%20disaster%20resilient%20community%20in%20Malaysia.pdf Sulaiman, Dr. Noralfishah and Wei, She Teo and Fernando, Prof. Terrence (2019) Community resilience frameworks for building disaster resilient community in Malaysia. Planning Malaysia Journal, 17 (1). ISSN 1675-6215
spellingShingle HT51-65 Human settlements. Communities
Sulaiman, Dr. Noralfishah
Wei, She Teo
Fernando, Prof. Terrence
Community resilience frameworks for building disaster resilient community in Malaysia
title Community resilience frameworks for building disaster resilient community in Malaysia
title_full Community resilience frameworks for building disaster resilient community in Malaysia
title_fullStr Community resilience frameworks for building disaster resilient community in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Community resilience frameworks for building disaster resilient community in Malaysia
title_short Community resilience frameworks for building disaster resilient community in Malaysia
title_sort community resilience frameworks for building disaster resilient community in malaysia
topic HT51-65 Human settlements. Communities
url http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5845/
http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5845/1/AJ%202018%20%28917%29%20Community%20resilience%20frameworks%20for%20building%20disaster%20resilient%20community%20in%20Malaysia.pdf