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TOWARDS DISASTER RESILIENCE IN MALAYSIA A Paradigm Shift From Disaster Proneness That Will Improve the Quality of Life in Malaysia Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia, USA MALAYSIA • • • • • Population: 23,522,482 Area: 329,750 km2 Coastline: 4675 km GDP: $207.8 billion GDP Per Capita: $9,000 MALAYSIA, A PART OF SOUTHEAST ASIA, IS AT RISK FROM NATURAL HAZARDS CONTINUATION OF THE STATUS QUO WHEN MALAYSIA IS AT RISK AND DISASTER PRONE - - Will result in new and more complex HEALTH PROBLEMS WILL result in unnecessary DEATHS AND INJURIES WILL result in longer and more costly RECOVERY and RECONSTRUCTION MALAYSIA IS AT RISK FROM NATURAL HAZARDS • CYCLONES • FLOODS (especially during cyclone season) • LANDSLIDES (TRIGERED BY TOO MUCH RAIN) Floods and landslides from cyclones are the primary hazards affecting Malaysia. Effects from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are from distant sources. Droughts also occur. MALAYSIA IS ALSO AT RISK FROM EFFECTS OF OTHER HAZARDS • EARTHQUAKES and VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS (from sources outside the country; i.e., Indonesia) WESTERN MALAYSIA, WHERE KUALA LAMPUR IS LOCATED, IS AT GREATER RISK THAN EASTERN MALAYSIA Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots: KUALA LUMPUR IS THE FEDERAL CAPITAL KUALA LUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR • The city covers an area of 243 km2 (94 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 1.6 million in 2010. • Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, was an urban agglomeration of 6.9 million in 2010 and one of the fastest growing metropolitan regions in Malaysia. KUALA LUMPUR AND PUTRAJAVA • Kuala Lumpur is the cultural, financial, and economic center of Malaysia, and also the seat of Malaysia’s Parliament and the official residence of the King. • Putrajava is the location of the executive and judicial branches of the federal government, which were relocated from Kuala Lumpur in 1999. CAUSES OF RISK WIND AND WATER PENETRATE BUILDING ENVELOPE UPLIFT OF ROOF SYSTEM FLYING DEBRIS PENETRATES WINDOWS CYCLONES GLOBAL DISASTER LABORATORIES STORM SURGE HEAVY PRECIPITATION IN A SHORT TIME FLASH FLOODING LANDSLIDES (MUDFLOWS) CAUSES OF RISK LOSS OF FUNCTION OF STRUCTURES IN FLOODPLAIN INUNDATION INTERACTION WITH HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FLOODS FLOOD DISASTER LABORATORIES STRUCTURAL/CONTENTS DAMAGE FROM WATER WATER BORNE DISEASES (HEALTH PROBLEMS) EROSION AND MUDFLOWS CONTAMINATION OF GROUND WATER CAUSES OF DAMAGE SITING AND BUILDING ON UNSTABLE SLOPES SOIL AND ROCK SUCEPTIBLE TO FALLS SOIL AND ROCK SUCEPTIBLE TO TOPPLES LANDSLIDES GLOBAL DISASTER LABORATORIES SOIL AND ROCK SUCEPTIBLE TO LATERAL SPREADS SOIL AND ROCK SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLOWS PRECIPITATION THAT TRIGGERS SLOPE GROUND SHAKING THAT TRIGGERS SLOPE FAILURE MALAYSIA: PART OF THE COMPLEX EURASIAN AND INDO-AUSTRALIAN PLATE TECTONICS MALAYASIA IS ON THE SUNDA SUB-PLATE THE SUNDA TECTONIC PLATE • The Sunda Plate is a minor tectonic plate on which the majority of Southeast Asia is located. • The Sunda Plate was formerly considered a part of the Eurasian plate, but GPS measurements have confirmed its independent movement at 10 mm/yr eastward relative to Eurasia. CAUSES OF DAMAGE INADEQUATE RESISTANCE TO HORIZONTAL GROUND SHAKING SOIL AMPLIFICATION PERMANENT DISPLACEMENT (SURFACE FAULTING & GROUND FAILURE) EARTHQUAKES GLOBAL “DISASTER LABORATORIES” IRREGULARITIES IN ELEVATION AND PLAN FIRE FOLLOWING RUPTURE OF UTILITIES LACK OF DETAILING AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS INATTENTION TO NONSTRUCTURAL ELEMENTS CAUSES OF RISK LATERAL BLAST PYROCLASTIC FLOWS FLYING DEBRIS VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS DISASTER LABORATORIES VOLCANIC ASH LAVA FLOWS LAHARS TOXIC GASES A PARADIGM SHIFT TOWARDS DISASTER RESILIENCE IN MALAYSIA - - Will result in fewer and less complex HEALTH PROBLEMS WILL result in fewer DEATHS AND INJURIES WILL result in shorter and less costly RECOVERY and RECONSTRUCTION A PARADIGM SHIFT TOWARDS DISASTER RESILIENCE A THREE STEP PROCESS TOWARDS DISASTER RESILIENCE IN MALAYSIA • Step 1: Integrate Past Experiences Into Books of Knowledge • Step 2: From Books of Knowledge to Innovative Educational Surges to Build Professional and Technical Capacity • Step 3: From Professional and Technical Capacity to National Disaster Resilience Step 1: Integrate Past Experiences Into Books of Knowledge NOTE: A book of Knowledge is everything we know or think we know about Malaysia’s risk-causing hazards BOOKS OF KNOWLEDGE Are “TOOLS” to facilitate a commitment by Malaysia to minimize the likely impacts of the inevitable future cyclones, floods, landslides earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and droughts, thereby anticipating and preventing disasters WHAT DO WE KNOW? • Disaster resilience has become an urgent global goal in the 21st century as many Nations are experiencing disasters after a natural hazard strikes, and learning that their communities, institutions, and people do NOT yet have the capacity to be disaster resilient. Step 2: From Books of Knowledge to Innovative Educational Surges to Build Professional and Technical Capacity in Malaysia to Minimize Likely Impacts in the Next Disaster NOTE: Step 2 is a task for a Nation’s “Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine,” its educational institutions at all levels, and its electronic and print media that provide public information WHAT DO WE KNOW? • Disaster resilience does not just happen; it is the result of decisionmaking for a national paradigm shift from the status quo to an improved “coping capacity” that enables the country to recover quickly after a disaster. GOAL: MINIMIZE THE “DOMINO EFECTS” OF THE NEXT DISASTER Step 3: From Professional and Technical Capacity to Sciencebased Decision-making for a Paradigm Shift from the status quo to Disaster Resilience in Malaysia NOTE: Step 3 is a task for Malaysia’s “decision-makers,” (i.e., its political leaders, stakeholders, and leading professionals) who have a basis for deciding on the nature and scope of a national paradigm shift LIVING WITH NATURAL HAZARDS A DISASTER: INSUFFICIENT CAPABILITIES OF COMMUNITY INCREASED DEMANDS ON COMMUNITY LIVING WITH NATURAL HAZARDS MINIMIZE IMPACTS OF FUTURE OCCURRENCES: DEMANDS ON COMMUNITY CAPABILITIES OF COMMUNITY RISK ASSESSMENT •NATURAL HAZARDS MAPS •INVENTORY •VULNERABILITY •LOCATION ACCEPTABLE RISK RISK UNACCEPTABLE RISK MALAYSIA’S DATA BASES AND INFORMATION A PARADIGM SHIFT IN MALAYSIA COMUNITIES POLICY OPTIONS HAZARDS: GROUND SHAKING GROUND FAILURE SURFACE FAULTING TECTONIC DEFORMATION TSUNAMI RUN UP AFTERSHOCKS •PREPAREDNESS •PROTECTION/PREVENTION •EARLY WARNING •EMERGENCY RESPONSE •RECOVERY/RECONSTRUCT.