Transdisciplinary Approach Towards Innovative Recovery and Disaster Risk Reduction
TC21: Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC) I 10 March 2023 @ Sendai

Transdisciplinary Approach at Community Level in Malaysia

This project aims to build the regional and local capacity
by reinforcing risk-informed decision making for action
and realigning domestic DRR and resilience strategies
for societal transformation in the cities. It revitalizes
health-emergency disaster-risk-management (HealthEDRM) to prevent future pandemic risk in an extremeclimate. Open science, citizen science, and ICT-based
innovative solution are the highlight. It strengthens
multi-sectoralcoordination,communicationandinformation-sharing
ranging
frompreparedness,
response and inclusive-recovery plan to emerging
technologies and humanitarian coordination. A
transdisciplinary approach coupled with sociotechnicalbased system enabled by collaborative foresight anddisaster informatics upscale our impact to a larger
digital society of APEC member economies.

Khamarrul Azahari Razak, Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Center (DPPC),

Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Email: khamarrul.kl@utm.my; Tel: +6019 3649495

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Transdisciplinary Approach Towards Innovative Recovery and Disaster Risk Reduction
TC21: Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC) I 10 March 2023 @ Sendai
Disaster Intelligence - Community Resilience – Risk Reduction

Seminar Pengurangan Risiko Bencana Kepada Pegawai Sekretariat Pengurusan Bencana Angkatan Pertahanan Awam Malaysia

3 CASE STUDIES - 3 KEY RECOMMENDATIONS – 1 SECRET RECIPE
EMERGING ISSUES I LOCAL CHALLENGES I HIGH DEMAND & URGENT NEEDS

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40% of large dams are at high risk
12% are aging dams (> 50 years)

Photo by BERNAMA, 27 February 2022

Extreme weather event & climate-induced disaster risk @ large hydro dam
Power Generation & Critical Infrastructure Disruption I Business Continuity
Massive evacuation I Impact-based Early warning system I Complex decision-making
Systemic risk & emerging disaster I Local DRR Resilience Strategy

Dam-related disaster risk
reduction and resiliencestrategies 2030

1. Enhancing multi-scale community
preparedness (vulnerability-downstream ofdams, dam-break modelling & local impacts)
2. Strengthening local resilience culture(people-centric-based early warning system,
community-led risk communication, andscience-based approach for building trust)

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME (SEP)FOR DAM RELATED DISASTER (DRD) IN MALAYSIA- TNB RESEARCH & DPPC (MJIIT, UTM), 2020-2025 -REVITALIZING DATA-EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING FOR LOCAL ACTION

Emerging Hazard, Systemic risk& Compound Disaster
Landslides, Debris flow & Debris flood, 04 July 2022 @ Kg Iboi, Baling District, Kedah

Cycle of knowledge-flow. New knowledge (enhanced hazard map) is
generated by combining the externalized tacit knowledge (disasterexperience) and contemporary landslide engineering (Kuraoka et al 2020)

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REIMAGING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION AND ECONOMY (STIE) MODEL

Food Security & disaster risk
in Malaysia

62%

Agriculture

57%

Fishery & Aquaculture

41%

Livestock farming
Source: PLANMalaysia, 2022

TDA: Rethinking Scientific-

Knowledge-based Decision Making
for Action & High-Return Investment
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2040 MASTER PLAN FOR NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY(RISK-DRIVEN, MULTI-HAZARD, ALL-OF-SOCIETY)

CO-DESIGNING RISK-INFORMED SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURE STRATEGIES (MULTI-RISK, FUTURE

CLIMATE SCENARIO, RISK-SENSITIVE CULTIVATION,
CASCADING IMPACT ANALYSIS, MULTI-SCALERESILIENCE INDICATORS & MONITORING)
Baling District, Kedah I August 2022

CO-DEVELOPING NATIONAL DISASTER RESILIENT RECOVERY (DRR) MODEL(Multi-scale Living Lab in Jajahan Pasir Mas, Kelantan)

Northeast monsoon flood (December 2022) @ Golok River, Malaysia-Thailand border
MALAYSIA: 29.8 million economic losses in Kelantan, 26.1 million economic losses in Jajahan Pasir Mas (87.5%)
covering only 4% of total land in the state, 46% (22/50) sub-districts flooded & 138,311 people affected
THAILAND: 29,113 families directly affected by flood disaster over 13 districts in Narathiwat region, Thailand

Agensi Pengurusan Bencana Negara

Malaysia’s Disaster Resilient Recovery (DRR) Model

TRANSBOUNDARY DISASTER RISK:MALAYSIA-THAILAND

Empowering local community(local knowledge, network, resources,Local solution & co-ownership)for Post-Disaster Needs Assessment(PDNA) - mapping technology, disaster
informatics tool & evidence-based system

Malaysia’s Disaster Resilient Recovery (DRR) Model
1. Improved disaster response based on data& humanitarian action at a local scale
2. Targeted multi-tier disaster preparedness
program for long-term impacts
3. Enhanced partnership and collaboration
at state, district and local level

EXPLORING SYSTEMS THINKING APPROACH FOR ROOT-CAUSES & EVIDENCE-DRIVEN SOLUTIONSTransdisciplinary
Approachfor
Towards
Innovative Recovery and Disaster Risk Reduction
Technology Enhanced Stakeholder
Collaboration
Supporting
TC21: Asian Civil(TRANSCEND)Engineering Coordinating
Risk-Sensitive Urban Development
2019-2022 Council (ACECC) I 10 March 2023 @ Sendai

DIVERSIFYING INVESTMENT STRATEGIESFOR LOCAL RESILIENCE“A multi-hazard, multi-dimensional, and multi-scalar assessment of systemic risk is the precursor forstrengthening our understanding of increasing, complex nature of risk. Therefore, localization is a key factor
to develop a long-term solution to address all dimensions of risk. “ –APEC-EPWG, POLICY BRIEF, 2022

https://www.apec.org/publications/2022/08/policy-brief-rejuvenating-cities-and-resilience-capacities-for-multi-challengesof-covid-19-pandemic-extreme-weather-events-and-climate-induced-disaster

Disaster Intelligence - Community Resilience – Risk Reduction

Disaster Intelligence - Community Resilience – Risk Reduction

RESILIENCE 2030-2045
DR3 @ MALAYSIARISK TORESILIENCE
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Transdisciplinary Approach Towards Innovative Recovery and Disaster Risk Reduction
TC21: Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC) I 10 March 2023 @ Sendai

THANK YOUFOR YOUR
Khamarrul Azahari Razak, PhD
Director,
Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Center
Malaysia-Japan International Institute of TechnologyUniversiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Kuala Lumpur
54100 Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +6019-3649495
Email: khamarrul.kl@utm.my; khamarrulrazak@gmail.com
Web: https://mjiit.utm.my/dppc/

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