Important criteria for managing disaster Waste in Malaysia
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Abstract
In Malaysia, disaster impacts have become an impediment to the sustainable development. Limited number of case studies has been carried out on the topic of the Disaster Management Guidelines in Malaysia and the needs of the waste management to be adopted into disaster management guidelines. Thus, the main purpose of this study is to highlights possible entry points for waste management adaption into Disaster Management Guidelines in Malaysia. This study will adopt qualitative research design involving comprising of journal review, previous case study and semi-structured interviews. This paper presented the important criteria relating to the disasters waste management in Malaysia. It is anticipated that this research will generate interests from disaster waste researchers and disaster waste management policy makers, as it will provide fundamental elements towards more rigor disaster waste management policy.
Keywords
Disaster, Waste management, Malaysia
Divisions
BuiltEnvironment
Funders
Ministry of Education (MOE), Malaysia: Fundamental Research Grant (FRGS) (Disasters Management)
Publication Title
Jurnal Teknologi
Volume
75
Issue
9
Publisher
Penerbit UTM Press