COBIT principles to govern flood management

Exploring the managing of flood disaster: A Malaysian perspective

“…In Malaysia, past researches showed that flood is the most common disaster affecting a number of areas especially the low area since 1920s. Past researches stated that almost 9% of the total disaster is caused by the widening of the area while almost 22% of the total population is directly affected by floods ( Salleh et al, 2013;Othman et al, 2014;Aliagha et al, 2015;Khalid & Shafiai, 2015;Tan et al, 2015). Indeed, the flood disaster is expected to keep rising in line with the increase of migration from the rural residents to the cities, changes in the structure of soil which is caused by uncontrolled development, poverty and other factors that threaten the floodplain areas (Mustaffa et al, 2014).…”

“…Floods often occur in Malaysia due to the increase in the frequency of rainfall and the rise of the level of the sea in certain parts of the country (Aliagha et al, 2015). Furthermore, the condition of climate in Malaysia is experiencing rainfall with the average of approximately 2,500 mm a year in Peninsular Malaysia, 3,000 mm a year in Sabah and 3,500 mm a year in Sarawak (Tahir, 2009;Khalid & Shafiai, 2015;Tan et al, 2015) making it as a common natural disaster in Malaysia (Othman et al, 2014).…”

“…On the other hand, flash flood usually happens in the busy city. It is caused by the uncontrolled human activities such as infrastructure development near the river areas and uncontrolled littering causing clogged drains and waterways (Othman et al, 2014;Sipon et al, 2015). This situation is definitely worrying to the public as it has a negative impact on life, property, infrastructure, agriculture, human health and economic status which are affecting the community"s quality of life (Austin & Baharuddin, 2012;Elias et al, 2013;Abram et al, 2014;Aliagha et al, 2015;Hammond et al, 2015).…”

“…Therefore, efforts need to be implemented to resolve the problem. The effectiveness of flood disaster management should be given attention so that this situation cause by the disaster can be alleviated (Othman et al, 2014). Hence, this paper intends to get the information about how the flood issues have been managed in Malaysia as reported in the published literature.…”

Team Performance in Flood Emergency Response: A Conceptual Model and Scale Development

“…Statistically, flood takes 83.3% of all disaster that happened in Nigeria from 1990 -2014 and 84.4% of death recorded during the period is from flood [6]. Similarly, there is an estimated cost of MYR1 billion as a lost which is reported annually in Malaysia as a result of the effect of disaster on 21% of the country's population that are residing in about 9% of the total 328,938 sq km of the country [7]. In Sudan, flood as dangerous disaster is common term due to its re-recurrences annually because of change in weather, social, and poor economic conditions, heavy and clustered population, and unawareness in public and limited resources.…”