Post-disaster housing and management in Malaysia: a literature review

Roosli, Ruhizal and O'Keefe, Phil (2013) Post-disaster housing and management in Malaysia: a literature review. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 4 (2). ISSN 1759-5908

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Abstract

Purpose – Malaysia is still in the process of reorganising and restructuring disaster management policy, learning from the national and international experiences. Argument about current situation of emergency management and housing in Malaysia can be used by the decision makers, authorities and NGOs to develop strategies and actions that include awareness raising and capacity building for enhancing enforcement of current legislation.

Design/methodology/approach - The work concentrated mostly on academic reports of original investigations rather than reviews. The conclusions in this paper are generalizations based on the author's interpretation of those original reports.

Findings - Malaysia is not a developed country and also not a developing country but more in the middle, follows any direction from the international arena to national situation. Malaysia has a developed country approach in disaster management policy but with the implementation of developing country. This paper argues that providing post disaster housing must accommodate requirement in the
national disaster management policy and parallel with the needs from international concern to the rights of disaster victims.

Originality/value - The outcomes from this discussion might give insights into designing and planning the national policy and disaster management framework by restructuring and reorganising the present National Disaster Management Mechanism in terms of enhancing the coordination of responsibility between and within government bodies in the National Disaster Management Mechanism.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Built environment, disasters, emergency housing, housing, housing policy, housing rights, Malaysia, social policy
Subjects: L700 Human and Social Geography
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Geography and Environmental Sciences
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Depositing User: Phil O'keefe
Date Deposited: 16 May 2013 12:56
Last Modified: 17 Dec 2023 14:53
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/12589

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