Landslide Hazards: Household Vulnerability, Resilience and Coping in Malaysia

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

Landslide is one of the common hazards occurring globally and Malaysia is not spared as well. Over the past four decades, Malaysia has played host to a number of landslide incidents, resulting in significant loss of lives and damage to property. The magnitude of landslide destruction is quite high in Malaysia. A survey has been carried out on 143 respondents in selected areas. This paper presents the findings on how Malaysians react towards landslide incidents, who their landslide informer are and to whom they preferred to disseminate information on landslide incidents. The result from this study indicates that the majority of the respondents agree that factors such as education and proper land use are important to mitigate landslide incidences. Additionally, the respondents also agree that they will take action if landslide occurs in the future. Most of the respondents agree that they preferred information from landslide expert. However, majority of the respondents indicates that they have less trust towards the media’s landslide information and are also reluctant to disseminate landslide information to the media. Therefore, a further research on media, public and landslide issues in Malaysia should be conducted in the future.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Education and Human Development
Volume3
Issue number3
Pages (from-to) 149-155
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Recently viewed

Researchers

  1. Lea Wollschläger

Publications

  1. The Making of Urban Computing Environments
  2. Political embedding of climate assemblies. How effective strategies for policy impact depend on context
  3. Affective responses to system messages in human-computer-interaction
  4. Two degrees and the SDGs:
  5. Lizard distribution patterns in the Tumut Fragmentation "Natural Experiment" in south-eastern Australia
  6. Exploring Mexican lower secondary school students’ perceptions of inclusion
  7. Editorial introduction: where is business ethics?
  8. PyFin-sentiment
  9. Turbulente Ränder
  10. Added value of convection-permitting simulations for understanding future urban humidity extremes
  11. Red List of marine macroalgae of the Wadden Sea
  12. Experimentation for Sustainable Innovation
  13. Propagating Maximum Capacities for Recommendation
  14. Differentiated Instruction Around the World - A Global Inclusive Insight
  15. Calculation of Physicochemical Properties for Short- and Medium-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins
  16. Log in and breathe out: internet-based recovery training for sleepless employees with work-related strain
  17. Asset Backed Securities
  18. New concepts of extrusion dies to reduce the anisotropy of extruded profiles by means of additive manufacturing
  19. Corporate social responsibility performance, reporting and generalized methods of moments (GMM)
  20. Faszination Programmierung
  21. Guest editorial
  22. Online hands-on trainings (real worlds in virtual environments)
  23. Traits of butterfly communities change from specialist to generalist characteristics with increasing land-use intensity
  24. Host plant availability potentially limits butterfly distributions under cold environmental conditions
  25. Land use change and the future of biodiversity
  26. Die Welteislehre
  27. Evidence-Based Management
  28. Group membership does not modulate automatic imitation