FLOOD HAZARD AWARENESS

AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

GROUP 1 || 10 JANUARY 2023
No. NAME ID PROGRAM

1. BEM
MUHAMMAD NURSYAFIQ BIN NOR RASID 50220120298

2. AET
MUHAMMAD ILMAN NAJMI BIN MOHD HAMRI 50225131135

3. AET
ADIB AZLI BIN ZAKARIAH 50225120247

4. AET
MUIZZUDIN BIN MAHFUDZ 50225121320

5. AET
MUHAMMAD SYAHROL HAFIZ BIN LOKMAN 50225121152
 BACKGROUND OF PROBLEM
Disasters are ongoing phenomena that are
inevitable. The Malaysia was hit by its worst
floods since 1993, following hours of continuous
rain earlier. Taman Sri Nanding was one of the
worst affected areas and nearly 1,000 houses were
flooded up to their roofs. Many surrounding areas
were severely affected and involved a lot of
property damage and casualties. The scenic beauty
and peacefulness everything has been swept away
by the floods. Heavy and continuous rainfall over
two days starting Dec 17 had resulted in severe
floods said to be the worst in 50 years in Malaysia.

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 PROBLEM
STATEMENT

To find out university students'

awareness on flood hazard.
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 RESEARCH
OBJECTIVE

1. To determine the awareness of flood

hazard among University students
2. To conduct survey via Google Form to
obtain information in this research.
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 RESEARCH SCOPE

A sample of 50 respondents were randomly selected for the

survey. The selection was made based on the different
situations and places.

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 Literature
Review
Flood Management
 
• The findings of this review suggest that flood management in Malaysia
involves four phases which are prevention/mitigation, preparedness,
response and recovery. However, as mentioned by (Baharuddin et al., 2015).
Flood forecast and preparedness
• Further to that, the operational flood forecasting systems form a key part of “preparedness”
strategies for disastrous flood events by providing early warnings several days ahead, giving
flood forecasting services, civil protection authorities and the public adequate preparation time,
thus reducing the impacts of the flooding (Cloke, H. L., & Pappenberger, F, 2009).
• citizen is still having problem with perceived threat especially in occurrence of the disaster. A
survey has done in 20011 showed only 25% of respondents concern of the occurrence of the
flood disaster even though 61% of the respondents receiving timely and adequate information
on time. Only 49% of respondents prepared for the disaster and majority of them choose
television news as the source of information (Dorasamy et al, 2011).
• The real time information of rainfall and river water levels is published on-line via the Info-
banjir webpage; this could be directly accessed by the public and governmental officials. The
public Info banjir system enables effective early flood warning dissemination to the public
through internet access anywhere and at any time. Undoubtedly, according to Chan, Zakaria,
Ghani, and Lien (2004),
Flood impact on communities
• Flood disasters have an impact on the remaining communities in areas exposed to the risk of
disasters resulting in the loss of human life, economic loss, crop destruction and infrastructure
destruction (Ghozali et al. 2016)
Cause of Flood
• The study of flooding in the Langat river basin based on the amount of river discharge and the
level of discharge varies depending on the year and the period of repetition of flooding
calculated from the total river discharge (Saudi ASM, Kamarudin MKA, Ridzuan ISD, Ishak R,
Azid A, Rizman ZI. Flood risk index pattern assessment: case study in langat river basin. J.
Fundam. Appl. Sci., 2017, 9(2S), 12-27)
• Meanwhile, the flooded area is mostly accumulated in the middle part, along and adjacent to the
main river that appears smooth in the map, indicating flat areas or areas with low elevation.
Major development activities along the river stream have resulted in the increase of the size and
frequency of floods in particular. (K. Uddin, D. R. Gurung, A. Giriraj, and B. Shrestha,
“Application of remote sensing and GIS for flood hazard management: A case study from Sindh
Province, Pakistan,” American Journal of Geographic Information System 2(1), pp. 1-5, 2013.)
1. RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY

This study was carried out virtually using Google Form via social communication
platform like WhatsApp groups that contain university students for 1 week. 50
respondents from various social background will be selected randomly. The
researcher distributed 1 set of questionnaires which consists of a total of 5
questions.

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 DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS

THIS CHAPTER PRESENTS THE FINDINGS OF THIS STUDY

BASED ON THE OBJECTIVES IDENTIFIED EARLIER IN THE
REPORT. DATA COLLECTED FROM THE QUESTIONNAIRE WERE
COLLECTED AND ANALYZED. THE FINDINGS OF THE STUDY
ARE PRESENTED IN THE FORMS OF GRAPH AND FIGURES FOR
EASY REFERENCE AND SIGNIFICANT RESULTS ARE FURTHER
DISCUSSED AND ANALYZED IN DETAIL IN THIS CHAPTER.
Demographic Profile of the Respondents
A total of 50 valid responses were obtained, indicating that we achieved the targeted responses of 50.
The distribution of the respondents over the different types of living zone is presented

Distribution
76% of the respondents consists of 38 of students which is the majority of the respondents doesn’t live in a flood zone. 3 respondents stated that
they doesn’t know if they live in flood zone or not. The rest of the 9 respondents live in flood zone.
Respondent Flood Zone
Various location were obtained from 9 respondents that live in flood zone and 3 respondents that not sure if they live in flood zone in Malaysia. 12
respondents are included in this observation. 5 of 12 respondents that live in the flood zone are from various districts in Selangor. From Kelantan,
we have 4 respondents which 2 are from Besut and 2 from Machang district. The rest of the respondents that live in the flood zone are stated to be
in Kemaman, terengganu.
 INVOLVEMENT OF
THE RESPONDENTS
IN FLOOD
Respondents involvement
• Majority of the respondents never involved or
experience flood which is 62% or 31 out of 50
respondents. The rest 19 respondents that have
involved with flood are made up for 38% of the
responses.
Differences in flood zone and involvement responses
• As we observed, the value of respondents that live in
the flood zone and respondents that have involvement
in flood are not in syncronization. 12 respondents said
they live in flood zone but the responses for who have
involved stated there are 19 respondents. This indicate
that respondents who live outside the flood zone also
might happen to experience flood.
RESPONDENTS FLOOD PREPARATION
ASSESSMENT Preparation index
• as indicated in the graph, the number of respondents that
prepared for flood is considered low. In scale of 1 to 5, only 7
respondents are fully prepared against flood. 9 responses
stated their preparation is on the scale of 4. The majority of the
respondents consist of 20 respondents said their preparation
are intermediate. The rest respondent's response indicated 9
respondents on scale 2 and 5 respondents on scale 1.
Respondents Preparation
• As the graph stated, not everyone are prepared for the flood as
the majority of the respondents does not live in flood zone and
never experience or involved in flood. Most of the response
that stated their preparation in scale 3 might have their general
preparation when any disaster occur.
 RESPONDENTS RESPONSE ON
FLOOD AWARENESS

Respondents Interest
• The graph indicated that 82% respond want an
exposure regarding safety during flood. 34
respond consist of 68% replied they want the
assessment of flood risk. and 32% respond have
interest in awareness of flood insurance.
Respondents Reasons
• Respondents anwsered that their most priority are
on their safety. Then risk assessment. The least
that they have interest is food insurance as
probably most of them already live with the norma
to stock up food since Covid 19 quarantine.
 CONCLUSIO
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The flood in Malaysia caused the destruction of property and significant loss of life related to the
level of preparedness among the community to face flood disasters. The main objective of the
study is to examine the influence of the community on aspects of cognitive, affective and
psychomotor preparedness in facing flood disasters. The existence of various levels of
preparedness depends on the frequency of flood disasters that occur in their area. The results of
this study are important because they have an impact on the need to improve the joint framework
from the psychological aspect in Directive 20 of the existing National Security Council in order to
improve the current flood disaster management system.

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 RECOMMENDATIONS
 

Based on the findings and conclusions of the study, the following are several recommendations to be considered:
 

 University in Malaysia should introduce Flood Awareness campaign to university students.

 University must collaborate with authorities and conduct more research in gaining data pertaining to specific
awareness required to at least be ready when disaster occur

 University can organize more interactive programs that will provide opportunity for students to expose to
risk and preparation of flood and other disaster.

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