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Amphibious house, a novel practice as a flood mitigation strategy in South-East Asia

The vulnerability of flooding in terms of exposing population and assets is increased dramatically over these decades. There are different strategies to prevent or mitigate the flood destructions in urban areas. Floating urbanization is a novel story which motivates people to face with flood rather...

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Main Authors:	Mohamad, Mohamad Ibrahim, Nekooie, Mohammad Ali, Ismail, Zulhilmi
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Published:	International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE) 2012
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/31639/ https://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/PPAR/article/view/1258
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spelling	my.utm.316392019-03-25T08:18:17Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/31639/ Amphibious house, a novel practice as a flood mitigation strategy in South-East Asia Mohamad, Mohamad Ibrahim Nekooie, Mohammad Ali Ismail, Zulhilmi TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The vulnerability of flooding in terms of exposing population and assets is increased dramatically over these decades. There are different strategies to prevent or mitigate the flood destructions in urban areas. Floating urbanization is a novel story which motivates people to face with flood rather than fighting with nature. This study proposed the new concept of the amphibious house in lowland area as a flood mitigation strategy. It evaluates the awareness and acceptance level of floodplain settlers to consider amphibious house as a safe shelter for dwelling in lowland area. The VBA programming has been used to develop a designing system for different type of amphibious house. The questionnaire survey was conducted between 6 lowland regions in Malaysia. The level of acceptance and suitability perceptions of the amphibious house were 3.08 and 3.33, which were in moderate level. There was significant higher interest for dwellers who know about floating houses on applying amphibious house. International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE) 2012 Article PeerReviewed Mohamad, Mohamad Ibrahim and Nekooie, Mohammad Ali and Ismail, Zulhilmi (2012) Amphibious house, a novel practice as a flood mitigation strategy in South-East Asia. Innovative Systems Design and Engineering, 3 (3). pp. 66-76. ISSN 2222-1727 (Print) ; ISSN 2222-2871 (Electronic) https://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/PPAR/article/view/1258
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spellingShingle	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Mohamad, Mohamad Ibrahim Nekooie, Mohammad Ali Ismail, Zulhilmi Amphibious house, a novel practice as a flood mitigation strategy in South-East Asia
description	The vulnerability of flooding in terms of exposing population and assets is increased dramatically over these decades. There are different strategies to prevent or mitigate the flood destructions in urban areas. Floating urbanization is a novel story which motivates people to face with flood rather than fighting with nature. This study proposed the new concept of the amphibious house in lowland area as a flood mitigation strategy. It evaluates the awareness and acceptance level of floodplain settlers to consider amphibious house as a safe shelter for dwelling in lowland area. The VBA programming has been used to develop a designing system for different type of amphibious house. The questionnaire survey was conducted between 6 lowland regions in Malaysia. The level of acceptance and suitability perceptions of the amphibious house were 3.08 and 3.33, which were in moderate level. There was significant higher interest for dwellers who know about floating houses on applying amphibious house.
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author	Mohamad, Mohamad Ibrahim Nekooie, Mohammad Ali Ismail, Zulhilmi
author_facet	Mohamad, Mohamad Ibrahim Nekooie, Mohammad Ali Ismail, Zulhilmi
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title	Amphibious house, a novel practice as a flood mitigation strategy in South-East Asia
title_short	Amphibious house, a novel practice as a flood mitigation strategy in South-East Asia
title_full	Amphibious house, a novel practice as a flood mitigation strategy in South-East Asia
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title_full_unstemmed	Amphibious house, a novel practice as a flood mitigation strategy in South-East Asia
title_sort	amphibious house, a novel practice as a flood mitigation strategy in south-east asia
publisher	International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE)
publishDate	2012
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/31639/ https://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/PPAR/article/view/1258
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Amphibious house, a novel practice as a flood mitigation strategy in South-East Asia

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