Literature Review Of Flood In Malaysia

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4. Literature Reviews International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (n,d para. 1) states that disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that seriously interfere the functioning of a community or society and cause human, material and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community’s or society’s ability to survive by using their own resources. Mohamed Shaluf (2007) was state that disaster was classified into three types which is naturals, man-made disaster and hybrid disaster. Flood disaster is the one example of the natural disaster. According to Mohammad Abdul Mohit et al. (2013), floods are the most significant natural disaster that affect 4.9 million people and inflict damage worth of several million every year in Malaysia. Mohamad Sukeri Bin Khalid et al. (2015) was state that the average rainfall in Malaysia at every state is approximately 2,500 mm a year and it making Malaysia as the one of the countries with the heaviest rainfall in the world. According to Mohammad Abdul Mohit et al. (2013) all the four regions of the country in Malaysia such as north, central, east and south had experience flooding during the monsoon season every year. The basic cause of flood in Malaysia is incidence of heavy monsoon or convective rainfall and the resultant large concentration of runoff which has been worse due to rapid development in the river catchment and decline a river capacity (Ho, 2002). Definition Food Security Food security, or rather

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