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Malaysia’s 2014 unprecedented flood catastrophe: A semiparametric estimation of evacuation decisions

In December 2014, Malaysia experienced its worst unprecedented flood catastrophe.This paper looks at the victims’ evacuation decisions of that flood. This paper is unique because previous papers on Malaysian flood-related disasters are only confined to floods of regular or typical scales.This paper...

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Main Authors: Soon, Jan Jan, Kamaruddin, Roslina, Anuar, Abdul Rahim
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Language:English
Published: 2016
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GB Physical geography
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spelling my.uum.repo.204312016-12-26T01:41:44Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/20431/ Malaysia’s 2014 unprecedented flood catastrophe: A semiparametric estimation of evacuation decisions Soon, Jan Jan Kamaruddin, Roslina Anuar, Abdul Rahim GB Physical geography In December 2014, Malaysia experienced its worst unprecedented flood catastrophe.This paper looks at the victims’ evacuation decisions of that flood. This paper is unique because previous papers on Malaysian flood-related disasters are only confined to floods of regular or typical scales.This paper is also unique because it uses a semiparametric estimation approach to obtain the marginal impact of the variables of interest on evacuation decisions.This way, there are less distributional assumptions on the error term, and the estimation results would be more robust. Among some of the important findings from the estimations, we find that: (i) victims who have participated in flood awareness programmes are less likely to evacuate to evacuation centres, (ii) victims who are instructed to evacuate are 5 times likelier to do so, (iii) victims with tertiary education are also less likely to evacuate, (iv) larger households are likelier to evacuate, and (v) the further away victims’ homes are from the evacuation centres the likelier they are to evacuate.These findings, some which may seem counterintuitive, are discussed in the conclusion and policy implication section of the paper. 2016-10-05 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/20431/1/ICOGPA%202016%201%209.pdf Soon, Jan Jan and Kamaruddin, Roslina and Anuar, Abdul Rahim (2016) Malaysia’s 2014 unprecedented flood catastrophe: A semiparametric estimation of evacuation decisions. In: International Conference on Government & Public Affairs 2016 (ICOGPA2016), October 5th - 6th, 2016, School of Government, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia. http://icogpa2016.weebly.com/
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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Soon, Jan Jan
Kamaruddin, Roslina
Anuar, Abdul Rahim
Malaysia’s 2014 unprecedented flood catastrophe: A semiparametric estimation of evacuation decisions
description In December 2014, Malaysia experienced its worst unprecedented flood catastrophe.This paper looks at the victims’ evacuation decisions of that flood. This paper is unique because previous papers on Malaysian flood-related disasters are only confined to floods of regular or typical scales.This paper is also unique because it uses a semiparametric estimation approach to obtain the marginal impact of the variables of interest on evacuation decisions.This way, there are less distributional assumptions on the error term, and the estimation results would be more robust. Among some of the important findings from the estimations, we find that: (i) victims who have participated in flood awareness programmes are less likely to evacuate to evacuation centres, (ii) victims who are instructed to evacuate are 5 times likelier to do so, (iii) victims with tertiary education are also less likely to evacuate, (iv) larger households are likelier to evacuate, and (v) the further away victims’ homes are from the evacuation centres the likelier they are to evacuate.These findings, some which may seem counterintuitive, are discussed in the conclusion and policy implication section of the paper.
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 Malaysia’s 2014 unprecedented flood catastrophe: A semiparametric estimation of evacuation decisions
title_short Malaysia’s 2014 unprecedented flood catastrophe: A semiparametric estimation of evacuation decisions
title_full Malaysia’s 2014 unprecedented flood catastrophe: A semiparametric estimation of evacuation decisions
title_fullStr Malaysia’s 2014 unprecedented flood catastrophe: A semiparametric estimation of evacuation decisions
title_full_unstemmed Malaysia’s 2014 unprecedented flood catastrophe: A semiparametric estimation of evacuation decisions
title_sort malaysia’s 2014 unprecedented flood catastrophe: a semiparametric estimation of evacuation decisions
publishDate 2016
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/20431/1/ICOGPA%202016%201%209.pdf
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