Flood risk management in Malaysia

Risk management has been established as a well-defined procedure for handling risks due to natural, environmental or man-made hazards, of which floods are representative. Flood risk management is about reducing damages and fatalities. Some large damages, which the population are unable to cover through insurance or savings, can threaten livelihoods. Kuala Lumpur is located in a flash flood prone area. Thus, Kuala Lumpur city experiences flash flood more frequently in this period of time of the years, although flash flood does not always enclose with monsoon seasons every year. Therefore, this study will focus on finding the causes of flood within the city are specifically in Kuala Lumpur. This paper also examined the communities of contractor and developer level of awareness towards risk management of flash flood and also the effectiveness of flood warning measure issued by authorities to reduce flash flood risk. The data will be obtaining throughout distribution of questionnaire to 100 respondents, and the data will be supported by interviewing the contractors or developers randomly to ask about flash flood management. Participatory Statistically Program for Social Study (SPSS) is applied to analyze the data that will be obtaining throughout questionnaires.