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Chapter 14 Impacts of Disasters and Disasters Risk Management in Malaysia: The Case of Floods Ngai Weng Chan Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia December 2012 This chapter should be cited as Chan, N. W. (2012), Impacts of Disasters and Disasters Risk Management in Malaysia: The Case of Floods , in Sawada, Y. and S. Oum (eds.), Economic and Welfare Impacts of Disasters in East Asia and Policy Responses. ERIA Research Project Report 2011-8, Jakarta: ERIA. 503 CHAPTER 14 Impacts of Disasters and disaster Risk Management in Malaysia: The Case of Floods NGAI WENG CHAN * Universiti Sains Malaysia Malaysia lies in a geographically stable region, relatively free from natural Disasters , but is affected by flooding, landslides, haze a

towards disaster management/reduction is largely reactive. Because Malaysia’s main risk is flooding, the NFDMM is largely targeted towards handling monsoon flooding. Consequently, this mechanism is less than effective and should be re-modeled into something more pro-active. In terms of flood management, the

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