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Community’s Response on the Disaster Risk Reduction for Dam Break Disasters
Dam disaster occurrences have become very alarming and more frequent during the past few years. Preparation of community in facing disaster is what makes them resilient. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies are essential to improve community preparedness in facing future dam disasters. Selected sites study: Bertam Valley and Pos Telanok in Cameron Highlands are disaster-prone areas and located just downstream of the dams. The research investigates the community responses of dam-related disaster (DRD), focusing on the community downstream of the dams. The objectives of this paper are (i) to investigate the factors influencing the awareness of the community towards DRD, (ii) to assess the response level of the affected community towards dam disaster, and (iii) to evaluate community preparedness on EWS and DRR programmes. Descriptive analysis and content analysis were used to assess the community preparedness based on the questionnaire survey and FGD. Mapping analysis was used to quantify the disaster impact in the study area. The findings revealed that DRR approach would increase people's responsiveness and reduce their disaster impact. It revealed that risk knowledge is the most important element that needs to be improved and updated regularly and consistently to increase people’s preparedness. On the other part, community participation and involvement from multi-agencies in the DRR process are significant in developing resilience communities. Thus, the findings proved that the integrated programme that was supported by the agencies, dam owners and community leaders reduces the disaster risks to the affected communities.
Community’s Response on the Disaster Risk Reduction for Dam Break Disasters
Dam disaster occurrences have become very alarming and more frequent during the past few years. Preparation of community in facing disaster is what makes them resilient. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies are essential to improve community preparedness in facing future dam disasters. Selected sites study: Bertam Valley and Pos Telanok in Cameron Highlands are disaster-prone areas and located just downstream of the dams. The research investigates the community responses of dam-related disaster (DRD), focusing on the community downstream of the dams. The objectives of this paper are (i) to investigate the factors influencing the awareness of the community towards DRD, (ii) to assess the response level of the affected community towards dam disaster, and (iii) to evaluate community preparedness on EWS and DRR programmes. Descriptive analysis and content analysis were used to assess the community preparedness based on the questionnaire survey and FGD. Mapping analysis was used to quantify the disaster impact in the study area. The findings revealed that DRR approach would increase people's responsiveness and reduce their disaster impact. It revealed that risk knowledge is the most important element that needs to be improved and updated regularly and consistently to increase people’s preparedness. On the other part, community participation and involvement from multi-agencies in the DRR process are significant in developing resilience communities. Thus, the findings proved that the integrated programme that was supported by the agencies, dam owners and community leaders reduces the disaster risks to the affected communities.
Community’s Response on the Disaster Risk Reduction for Dam Break Disasters
Water Res.Develop.Managem.
Mohd Sidek, Lariyah (editor) / Salih, Gasim Hayder Ahmed (editor) / Ahmed, Ali Najah (editor) / Escuder-Bueno, Ignacio (editor) / Basri, Hidayah (editor) / Muda, R. S. (author) / Tukiman, I. (author) / Hussain, M. R. (author) / Kamal, N. S. (author)
International Conference on Dam Safety Management and Engineering ; 2023 ; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Dam Safety Management and Engineering ; Chapter: 37 ; 551-564
2024-02-05
14 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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