Publication: Community resilience and disaster readiness for sustainable coastal development in malaysia
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Date
2024-01-01
Authors
Amarpreet Kaur, A/P Mahinder Singh
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Abstract
Malaysia is considered as a high-risk country due to the increasing number of
natural disasters occurrences in recent years, particularly in its coastal areas. With a
growing population and critical infrastructure development along the coast, coping
mechanisms include increasing resiliency in coastal communities and cities.
Community members should prioritize disaster readiness based on perceptions of risks
and establish disaster control committees. Prioritizing human aspects in disaster
management is crucial. However, community resilience features have not been clearly
established and assessed in Malaysia. This study aims to evaluate community
resilience in disaster preparation levels for sustainable coastal development, focusing
on critical components to assess disaster preparedness. A quantitative research method
was conducted using a close-ended questionnaire survey for data collection on the
perspectives of the community resilience on disaster readiness for sustainable coastal
development in Malaysia. In this study, community resilience frameworks which is
Disaster Risk Management Cycle (DRMC) is modified and developed to assist the
assessment and measurement of community resilient index based disaster risk
management phases and sustainability elements. The Community Resilience Index
(CRI) approaches was developed to calculate the scores including of Disaster
Management Cycle (DMC) (CRI-I), Sustainability (CRI-II), and Overall Dataset
(CRI-III). The research goal is to evaluate these three approaches of CRI. About 441
respondent gives their perceptions on the community resilience and disaster readiness
for sustainable coastal development in Malaysia. It is discovered that the level of community resilience is high in Mitigation-Prevention (MP) phase of DMC (CRI-I)
with a resilience score of 85.7% and followed by social attribute of sustainability (CRI II) with a resilience score of 85.3 %. The overall Community Resilience Index based
on the overall dataset (CRI-III) obtained in this study is 85.0%. It is expected that the
index produced in this study will help governments at central and local levels to
formulate better policies and develop more effective strategies for disaster risk
reduction practices.