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To evacuate or not: An empirical analysis on the effectiveness of the Malaysian NSC'S directive 20 in flood disaster management

Using a unique data set collected from victims of the now infamous 2014 massive flood in two east coast states of Malaysia, this paper tests several hypotheses concerning flood victims’ evacuation decision.Such evacuation decision can be regarded as a reflection of the effectiveness of the Malaysian...

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Main Authors: Soon, Jan Jan, Kamaruddin, Roslina, Anuar, Abdul Rahim
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Published: 2016
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GB Physical geography
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spelling my.uum.repo.195372016-11-15T04:19:39Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/19537/ To evacuate or not: An empirical analysis on the effectiveness of the Malaysian NSC'S directive 20 in flood disaster management Soon, Jan Jan Kamaruddin, Roslina Anuar, Abdul Rahim GB Physical geography Using a unique data set collected from victims of the now infamous 2014 massive flood in two east coast states of Malaysia, this paper tests several hypotheses concerning flood victims’ evacuation decision.Such evacuation decision can be regarded as a reflection of the effectiveness of the Malaysian NSC’s Directive 20.It is a directive on the policy and mechanism of the integrated disaster management system involving pre-disaster, during disaster, and post-disaster management. Preparedness is one aspect of pre-disaster management, which involves implementations of an early warning system, awareness programmes, and information dissemination such as where the evacuation centre would be located in the event of a flood, for example. Apart from a handful of reviews and conceptual studies on the Directive 20, there are yet to be any empirical studies the effectiveness of the directive, where preparedness is one aspect of itseffectiveness.One important aspect of preparedness is whether or not there are any periodic disaster management awareness programmes being held at the community level.Our results however show that such programmes are not significantly associated with evacuation decisions.This finding implies that such awareness programmes to be seemingly inconsequential as part of the government’s effort in educating the community to evacuate to safer grounds in the event of large-scale disaster. 2016-09-28 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/19537/1/IMAC8%202016%20235%20238.pdf Soon, Jan Jan and Kamaruddin, Roslina and Anuar, Abdul Rahim (2016) To evacuate or not: An empirical analysis on the effectiveness of the Malaysian NSC'S directive 20 in flood disaster management. In: 8th International Management and Accounting Conference (IMAC8), 28th – 29th September 2016, Adya Hotel, Langkawi Island, Malaysia. http://conference.ukm.my/IMAC/imac8
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Soon, Jan Jan
Kamaruddin, Roslina
Anuar, Abdul Rahim
To evacuate or not: An empirical analysis on the effectiveness of the Malaysian NSC'S directive 20 in flood disaster management
description Using a unique data set collected from victims of the now infamous 2014 massive flood in two east coast states of Malaysia, this paper tests several hypotheses concerning flood victims’ evacuation decision.Such evacuation decision can be regarded as a reflection of the effectiveness of the Malaysian NSC’s Directive 20.It is a directive on the policy and mechanism of the integrated disaster management system involving pre-disaster, during disaster, and post-disaster management. Preparedness is one aspect of pre-disaster management, which involves implementations of an early warning system, awareness programmes, and information dissemination such as where the evacuation centre would be located in the event of a flood, for example. Apart from a handful of reviews and conceptual studies on the Directive 20, there are yet to be any empirical studies the effectiveness of the directive, where preparedness is one aspect of itseffectiveness.One important aspect of preparedness is whether or not there are any periodic disaster management awareness programmes being held at the community level.Our results however show that such programmes are not significantly associated with evacuation decisions.This finding implies that such awareness programmes to be seemingly inconsequential as part of the government’s effort in educating the community to evacuate to safer grounds in the event of large-scale disaster.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Soon, Jan Jan
Kamaruddin, Roslina
Anuar, Abdul Rahim
author_facet Soon, Jan Jan
Kamaruddin, Roslina
Anuar, Abdul Rahim
author_sort Soon, Jan Jan
title To evacuate or not: An empirical analysis on the effectiveness of the Malaysian NSC'S directive 20 in flood disaster management
title_short To evacuate or not: An empirical analysis on the effectiveness of the Malaysian NSC'S directive 20 in flood disaster management
title_full To evacuate or not: An empirical analysis on the effectiveness of the Malaysian NSC'S directive 20 in flood disaster management
title_fullStr To evacuate or not: An empirical analysis on the effectiveness of the Malaysian NSC'S directive 20 in flood disaster management
title_full_unstemmed To evacuate or not: An empirical analysis on the effectiveness of the Malaysian NSC'S directive 20 in flood disaster management
title_sort to evacuate or not: an empirical analysis on the effectiveness of the malaysian nsc's directive 20 in flood disaster management
publishDate 2016
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