Improving community disaster resilience through scorecard self-testing

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop government and community-level critical thinking, planning, and action for improving community disaster resilience by reporting a study that sought to evaluate the possibility of using the Torrens Resilience Institute Australian Community Disaster...

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Main Authors:	Mohamed Ludin, Salizar, Arbon, Paul
Format:	Article
Language:	English English English
Published:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2017
Subjects:	GE Environmental Sciences GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography HT Communities. Classes. Races RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine RT Nursing
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/1/47744_Improving%20community.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/7/47744-Improving%20community%20disaster%20resilience%20through%20scorecard%20self-testing_SCOPUS.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/8/47744-Improving%20community%20disaster%20resilience%20through%20scorecard%20self-testing_WOS.pdf

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spelling	iium-477442017-06-07T02:46:04Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/ Improving community disaster resilience through scorecard self-testing Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Arbon, Paul GE Environmental Sciences GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography HT Communities. Classes. Races RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine RT Nursing Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop government and community-level critical thinking, planning, and action for improving community disaster resilience by reporting a study that sought to evaluate the possibility of using the Torrens Resilience Institute Australian Community Disaster Resilience (CDR) Scorecard in the Malaysian context. Design/methodology/approach – A participatory action research approach (done in 2015) encouraged key people involved in managing the 2014 Kelantan floods in Malaysia’s north-east to participate in discussions about, and self-testing of, the CDR Scorecard to measure and improve their communities’ disaster resilience. Findings – The CDR Scorecard can be useful in the Malaysian community context, with some modifications. Self-testing revealed that participating communities need to strengthen their disaster resilience through better communication, cross-community cooperation, maximizing opportunities to compare their plans, actions and reactions with those reported in research publications, and aligning their community disaster management with reported best practice internationally while acknowledging the need to adapt such practice to local contexts. Research limitations/implications – There is a need for a Malaysia-wide, simple-to-use, standardized disaster resilience scorecard to improve communities’ quality, self-efficacy, and capability to facilitate improved disaster resilience. Practical implications – The adaptation of Australian CDR Scorecard for used in the country. Social implications – Awareness of CDR level will enhance community and government preparedness, mitigation, and responses to flood disaster. Originality/value – This project is the first of its kind in Malaysia. It provides an example of the possibilities of using the CDR Scorecard globally in the form of a context-specific toolkit. The engagement of key people in the community in self-testing the Scorecard provides genuine, on-the-ground, real life data, giving others an understanding of local assessment of each community’s resilience level. Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/1/47744_Improving%20community.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/7/47744-Improving%20community%20disaster%20resilience%20through%20scorecard%20self-testing_SCOPUS.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/8/47744-Improving%20community%20disaster%20resilience%20through%20scorecard%20self-testing_WOS.pdf Mohamed Ludin, Salizar and Arbon, Paul (2017) Improving community disaster resilience through scorecard self-testing. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 26 (1). 13 -27. ISSN 0965-3562 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journal/dpm 10.1108/DPM-08-2016-0177
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topic	GE Environmental Sciences GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography HT Communities. Classes. Races RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine RT Nursing
spellingShingle	GE Environmental Sciences GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography HT Communities. Classes. Races RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine RT Nursing Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Arbon, Paul Improving community disaster resilience through scorecard self-testing
description	Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop government and community-level critical thinking, planning, and action for improving community disaster resilience by reporting a study that sought to evaluate the possibility of using the Torrens Resilience Institute Australian Community Disaster Resilience (CDR) Scorecard in the Malaysian context. Design/methodology/approach – A participatory action research approach (done in 2015) encouraged key people involved in managing the 2014 Kelantan floods in Malaysia’s north-east to participate in discussions about, and self-testing of, the CDR Scorecard to measure and improve their communities’ disaster resilience. Findings – The CDR Scorecard can be useful in the Malaysian community context, with some modifications. Self-testing revealed that participating communities need to strengthen their disaster resilience through better communication, cross-community cooperation, maximizing opportunities to compare their plans, actions and reactions with those reported in research publications, and aligning their community disaster management with reported best practice internationally while acknowledging the need to adapt such practice to local contexts. Research limitations/implications – There is a need for a Malaysia-wide, simple-to-use, standardized disaster resilience scorecard to improve communities’ quality, self-efficacy, and capability to facilitate improved disaster resilience. Practical implications – The adaptation of Australian CDR Scorecard for used in the country. Social implications – Awareness of CDR level will enhance community and government preparedness, mitigation, and responses to flood disaster. Originality/value – This project is the first of its kind in Malaysia. It provides an example of the possibilities of using the CDR Scorecard globally in the form of a context-specific toolkit. The engagement of key people in the community in self-testing the Scorecard provides genuine, on-the-ground, real life data, giving others an understanding of local assessment of each community’s resilience level.
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author	Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Arbon, Paul
author_facet	Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Arbon, Paul
author_sort	Mohamed Ludin, Salizar
title	Improving community disaster resilience through scorecard self-testing
title_short	Improving community disaster resilience through scorecard self-testing
title_full	Improving community disaster resilience through scorecard self-testing
title_fullStr	Improving community disaster resilience through scorecard self-testing
title_full_unstemmed	Improving community disaster resilience through scorecard self-testing
title_sort	improving community disaster resilience through scorecard self-testing
publisher	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
publishDate	2017
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/1/47744_Improving%20community.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/7/47744-Improving%20community%20disaster%20resilience%20through%20scorecard%20self-testing_SCOPUS.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/47744/8/47744-Improving%20community%20disaster%20resilience%20through%20scorecard%20self-testing_WOS.pdf
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