Flood impacts across scales: towards an integrated multi-scale approach for Malaysia

Bell, Victoria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0792-5650; Rehan, Balqis; Hasan-Basri, Bakti; Houghton-Carr, Helen; Miller, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7705-8898; Reynard, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5185-3869; Sayers, Paul; Stewart, Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4246-6645; Toriman, Mohd Ekhwan; Yusuf, Badronnisa; Zulkafli, Zed; Carr, Sam; Chapman, Rhian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3842-1420; Davies, Helen; Fatdillah, Eva; Horritt, Matt; Kabirzad, Shabir; Kaelin, Alexandra; Okeke, Tochukwu; Rameshwaran, Ponnambalam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8972-953X; Simpson, Mike. 2021 Flood impacts across scales: towards an integrated multi-scale approach for Malaysia. In: 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FLOODrisk2020), Online, 22-24 June 2021. Budapest, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

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Flooding is a recurring challenge across Malaysia, causing loss of life, extensive disruption and having a major impact on the economy. A new collaboration between Malaysia and UK, supported by the Newton-Ungku Omar Fund, aims to address a critical and neglected aspect of large-scale flood risk assessment: the representation of damage models, including exposure, vulnerability and inundation. In this paper we review flood risk and impact across Malaysia and present an approach to integrate multiple sources of information on the drivers of flood risk (hazard, exposure and vulnerability) at a range of scales (from household to national), with reference to past flood events. Recent infrastructure projects in Malaysia, such as Kuala Lumpur’s SMART Tunnel, aim to mitigate the effects of flooding both in the present and, ideally, for the foreseeable future. Our collaborative project aims to develop and assess a new multi-scale model of flood risk in Malaysia for current and projected future scenarios, and to address climate adaptation questions of policy relevance for flood stakeholders. This approach will enable us to identify the preferred adaptation pathways given multiple scenarios of climate and socio-economic change in Malaysia, and, beyond the life of our project, internationally

Item Type:	Publication - Conference Item (Paper)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3311/FloodRisk2020.9.6
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Hydro-climate Risks (Science Area 2017-) Water Resources (Science Area 2017-)
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Freely available via Official URL link.
Additional Keywords:	flood risk, modelling, Malaysia
NORA Subject Terms:	Hydrology
Date made live:	27 Apr 2022 13:59 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532556

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