1. 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 
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2. MALAYSIA Population: 23,522,482 Area: 329,750 km2 Coastline: 4675 km
GDP: $207.8 billion
GDP Per Capita: $9,000

3. MALAYSIA, A PART OF SOUTHEAST ASIA, IS AT RISK FROM NATURAL HAZARDS

4. 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

5. MALAYSIA IS AT RISK FROM NATURAL HAZARDS
CYCLONES
FLOODS (especially during cyclone season)
LANDSLIDES (TRIGERED BY TOO MUCH RAIN)

6. Floods and landslides from cyclones are the primary hazards affecting Malaysia. Effects from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are from distant sources. Droughts also occur.

7. MALAYSIA IS ALSO AT RISK FROM EFFECTS OF OTHER HAZARDS
EARTHQUAKES and VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS (from sources outside the country; i.e., Indonesia)

8. WESTERN MALAYSIA, WHERE KUALA LAMPUR IS LOCATED, IS AT GREATER RISK THAN EASTERN MALAYSIA

9. Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots:

10. KUALA LUMPUR IS THE FEDERAL CAPITAL

11. KUALA LUMPUR

12. KUALA LUMPUR
The city covers an area of 243 km2 (94 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 1.6 million in
Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, was an urban agglomeration of 6.9 million in and one of the fastest growing metropolitan regions in Malaysia.

13. 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.

14. WIND AND WATER PENETRATE BUILDING ENVELOPE
CAUSES OF RISK
WIND AND WATER PENETRATE BUILDING ENVELOPE
UPLIFT OF ROOF SYSTEM
FLYING DEBRIS PENETRATES WINDOWS
CYCLONES
STORM SURGE
HEAVY PRECIPITATION IN A SHORT TIME
GLOBAL
DISASTER
LABORATORIES
FLASH FLOODING
LANDSLIDES (MUDFLOWS)

15. FLOODS CAUSES OF RISK LOSS OF FUNCTION OF STRUCTURES IN FLOODPLAIN
INUNDATION
INTERACTION WITH HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
STRUCTURAL/CONTENTS DAMAGE FROM WATER
FLOODS
WATER BORNE DISEASES (HEALTH PROBLEMS)
FLOOD DISASTER LABORATORIES
EROSION AND MUDFLOWS
CONTAMINATION OF GROUND WATER

16. SITING AND BUILDING ON UNSTABLE SLOPES
CAUSES OF DAMAGE
SITING AND BUILDING ON UNSTABLE SLOPES
SOIL AND ROCK SUCEPTIBLE TO FALLS
SOIL AND ROCK SUCEPTIBLE TO TOPPLES
LANDSLIDES
SOIL AND ROCK SUCEPTIBLE TO LATERAL SPREADS
SOIL AND ROCK SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLOWS
GLOBAL DISASTER LABORATORIES
PRECIPITATION THAT TRIGGERS SLOPE
GROUND SHAKING THAT TRIGGERS SLOPE FAILURE

17. MALAYSIA: PART OF THE COMPLEX EURASIAN AND INDO-AUSTRALIAN PLATE TECTONICS

18. MALAYASIA IS ON THE SUNDA SUB-PLATE

19. 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.

20. INADEQUATE RESISTANCE TO HORIZONTAL GROUND SHAKING
CAUSES OF DAMAGE
INADEQUATE RESISTANCE TO HORIZONTAL GROUND SHAKING
SOIL AMPLIFICATION
PERMANENT DISPLACEMENT (SURFACE FAULTING & GROUND FAILURE)
IRREGULARITIES IN ELEVATION AND PLAN
EARTHQUAKES
GLOBAL “DISASTER LABORATORIES”
FIRE FOLLOWING RUPTURE OF UTILITIES
LACK OF DETAILING AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
INATTENTION TO NON-STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS

21. DISASTER LABORATORIES
CAUSES OF RISK
LATERAL BLAST
PYROCLASTIC FLOWS
FLYING DEBRIS
VOLCANIC
ERUPTIONS
VOLCANIC ASH
LAVA FLOWS
DISASTER LABORATORIES
LAHARS
TOXIC GASES

22. 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

23. A PARADIGM SHIFT TOWARDS DISASTER RESILIENCE A THREE STEP PROCESS

24. 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

25. 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

26. KNOWLEDGE - Perspectives
BOOK OF
KNOWLEDGE Perspectives
On Science, Policy,
And Change

27. 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

28. 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.   

29. 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

30. 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

31. WHAT DO WE KNOW?
Disaster resilience does not just happen; it is the result of decision-making for a national paradigm shift from the status quo to an improved “coping capacity” that enables the country to recover quickly after a disaster.   

32. GOAL: MINIMIZE THE “DOMINO EFECTS” OF THE NEXT DISASTER

33. Step 3: From Professional and Technical Capacity to Science-based Decision-making for a Paradigm Shift from the status quo to Disaster Resilience in Malaysia

34. NOTE: Step 3 is a task for Malaysia’s “decision-makers,” (i. e
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

35. LIVING WITH NATURAL HAZARDS
A DISASTER:
INSUFFICIENT CAPABILITIES OF COMMUNITY
INCREASED DEMANDS ON COMMUNITY

36. LIVING WITH NATURAL HAZARDS MINIMIZE IMPACTS OF FUTURE OCCURRENCES:
DEMANDS ON COMMUNITY
CAPABILITIES OF COMMUNITY

37. MALAYSIA’S COMUNITIES
NATURAL HAZARDS MAPS
INVENTORY
VULNERABILITY
LOCATION
RISK ASSESSMENT
ACCEPTABLE RISK
UNACCEPTABLE RISK
RISK
A PARADIGM SHIFT
IN MALAYSIA
MALAYSIA’S
COMUNITIES
DATA BASES AND INFORMATION
PREPAREDNESS
PROTECTION/PREVENTION
EARLY WARNING
EMERGENCY RESPONSE
RECOVERY/RECONSTRUCT.
POLICY OPTIONS
HAZARDS: GROUND SHAKING GROUND FAILURE SURFACE FAULTING TECTONIC DEFORMATION TSUNAMI RUN UP AFTERSHOCKS