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Carta Organisasi
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PERKHIDMATAN
Pengurusan Banjir
Pengurusan Lembangan Sungai
Pengurusan Pantai
Pengurusan Sumber Air dan Hidrologi
Saliran Mesra Alam
Empangan
Struktur
PENGURUSAN BANJIR
Pendekatan
Pada mulanya, pengurusan banjir tertumpu kepada keperluan mendesak seperti melaksanakan
bantuan banjir dan melaksanakan projek-projek tebatan banjir untuk menangani masalah
disebabkan pembangunan yang pesat.
Kaedah bukan struktur diperkenalkan seperti Manual Saliran Mesra Alam. Sejak 2001,
manual ini merupakan keperluan mandatori yang perlu dipatuhi bagi pembangunan baru di
kawasan bandar.
Sejak alaf baru, JPS telah mengambilkira pendekatan Pembangunan Lembangan Sungai
Bersepadu dan Pengurusan Banjir Bersepadu bagi rancangan pengurusan banjir. Ini akan
memberikan pendekatan yang lebih seimbang antara langkah-langkah struktur dan bukan-
struktur serta tahap penyertaan masyarakat yang lebih tinggi.
Pada tahun 1972, kerajaan telah menubuhkan Jawatankuasa Bantuan Bencana Pusat dimana
fungsinya adalah untuk menyelaraskan operasi bantuan banjir diperingkat kebangsaan, negeri
dan daerah dengan maksud mencegah kehilangan nyawa dan mengurangkan kerosakan akibat
banjir. JPS merupakan ahli jawatankuasa dan pertubuhan ini adalah berdasarkan Prosedur
No.29 yang diterbitkan oleh Majlis Keselamatan Negara. Selain itu, JPS juga menerbitkan
Pekeliling No.2/2003-"Guidelines for Management of Flood Disaster during the Monsoon
Season and Flash Floods" bagi menyelaraskan persediaan operasi banjir di peringkat
persekutuan, negeri dan daerah.
Langkah-langkah struktur
Projek Mega Tebatan Banjir yang telah siap: (Hanya Terdapat Dalam Versi Bahasa Inggeris)
SMART - 'Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel
Pelan Induk
-Kawalan Pembangunan
-Pemeliharaan Tanah
-Pengurusan penggunaan tanah tinggi
Perundangan Berkaitan Air
Penilaian risiko
Mengurangkan kerugian akibat banjir
Langkah asas dalam pelaksanaan langkah-langkah tebatan banjir (struktur atau bukan
struktur)
Prinsip IFM
Program Satu Negeri Satu Sungai telah dilancarkan pada 2002 dengan objektif-objektif berikut:
Untuk memastikan sungai bersih, hidup dan vibran dengan mencapai kualiti air kelas II
menjelang 2015;
Untuk menjadikan sungai dan persekitarannya sebagai kawasan rekreasi yang semulajadi;
Untuk menjadikan sungai dan persekitarannya sebagai kawasan rekreasi yang semulajadi;
dan
Untuk mengekalkan nilai aset sungai.
Program ini merupakan perjanjian bersama Kerajaan Negeri dimana setiap negeri perlu
memilih satu sungai yang tercemar untuk dipulihkan. Program pemulihan ini dillaksanakan
dalam jangka masa 10 hingga 15 tahun melalui program-program jangka pendek.
PENGURUSAN PANTAI
Terdapat lebih daripada 150 muara di Malaysia dan kebanyakannya menghadapi masalah
pengelodakan, yang mengurangkan kedalaman air untuk lalu lintas perikanan dan memberi
kesan negatif kepada pembangunan industri perikanan. Kerajaan telah menjalankan Kajian
Muara Kebangsaan pada tahun 1994 dan hasil kajian menunjukkan 35 muara menghadapi
pengelodakan yang kritikal. Pelan induk yang dibentuk menyarankan supaya kerja pembaikan
dijalankan dalam masa 10 tahun dan melibatkan kos berjumlah RM 330 juta. Berdasarkan
pelan induk, program pembaikan muara sungai diluluskan di bawah Rancangan Malaysia
Ketujuh untuk melaksanakan pengorekan dan pembinaan struktur pembaikan.
Kajian Hakisan Pantai Kebangsaan telah disiapkan pada tahun 1986 dan hasil kajian
mendedahkan bahawa daripada sejumlah 4,809 kilometer garis pantai negara, kira-kira 29%
atau 1,380 kilometer mengalami masalah hakisan. Untuk menangani masalah ini, Kerajaan
telah menubuhkan Pusat Teknikal Kejuruteraan Pantai di dalam Jabatan Pengairan dan Saliran
(JPS) pada tahun 1987 untuk melaksanakan rancangan kawalan hakisan pantai bagi seluruh
negara. Rancangan ini melibatkan dua strategi, iaitu strategi jangka panjang dan juga jangka
pendek. Strategi jangka pendek melibatkan pembinaan projek kawalan hakisan manakala
strategi jangka panjang melibatkan penambahbaikan pengurusan zon pantai dengan cara yang
bersepadu supaya kejadian hakisan pantai tidak akan bertambah.
Kami menyediakan data hidrologi seperti curahan hujan, aras air, mendapan dan data kualiti
air.
Projek
Projek Sistem Ramalan dan Amaran Banjir Bersepadu Lembah Kelang (IFFRM) adalah
projek yang mengintegrasikan Model Sistem Ramalan Banjir dan memantau isu sumber air
yang berkaitan seperti kualiti air, kemarau dan banjir lumpur. Lembangan Sungai Klang dipilih
berdasarkan lembangan sungai yang pertama mengimplementasikan konsep ini kerana
Lembah Klang merupakan kawasan pembangunan yang paling pesat di dalam negara ini.
Kuala Lumpur, bandaraya yang mempunyai jumlah populasi sebanyak 4 juta mengalami
kekerapan kejadian banjir setiap tahun dan kesemuanya belaku di Lembah Klang. Disebabkan
itu, 88 stesen hidrologi dibina di sekitar Lembangan Sg Klang bertujuan untuk merekod dan
memantau banjir, aras air, soil mosture, kualiti air, aliran air dan cuaca (menggunakan stesen
kajicuaca). Data-data yang direkod ini kemudiannya akan digunakan sebagai input untuk
membangunkan model ramalan banjir supaya model yang dibangunkan lebih efisien dan tepat
untuk dimaklumkan kepada agensi yang berkenaan seperti JPS Kuala Lumpur, JPS Selangor,
DBKL, Penguasa Tempatan , operator empangan dan pihak media. Dengan maklumat
tersebut, agensi-agensi dapat membuat keputusan dan persediaan dalam menghadapi kejadian
banjir sekaligus mengurangkan kesan banjir pada kawasan banjir.
Wilayah utara Semenanjung yang terdiri daripada Perlis, Kedah dan Pulau Pinang adalah
kawasan penting untuk pertanian terutamanya penanaman padi. Skim Pengairan Muda yang
dikenali sebagai jelapang padi Malaysia dan Projek Pembangunan Pertanian Bersepadu Pulau
Pinang secara bersama menghasilkan lebih daripada separuh pengeluaran beras negara. Walau
bagaimanapun, kawasan ini menghadapi masalah sumber air dalam beberapa dekad yang lalu
disebabkan oleh keberubahan curahan hujan dan permintaan air yang meningkat akibat
pembangunan ekonomi sosial yang pesat. Penanaman padi telah ditinggalkan atau terlewat
pada tahun 1977, 1978, 1982, 1991 dan 1998 dalam Skim Muda akibat kekurangan air.
Bekalan air domestik dan industri di kawasan telah diganggu disebabkan oleh kekangan
ketersediaan sumber air.
JPS ialah agensi kebangsaan yang bertanggungjawab terhadap hidrologi dan fungsi ramalan
banjir. JPS membina ribuan stesen hidrologi di seluruh negara dan menyelenggara pangkalan
data kebangsaan bagi hidrologi. Kebolehpercayaan mana-mana kajian sumber air akan
memerlukan data hidrologi yang mencukupi, dari segi kuantiti dan kualiti. Oleh itu adalah
amat mustahak untuk membangunkan pangkalan data hidrologi dengan set data tepat yang
lengkap. Pangkalan data yang dibina dengan cara sedemikian hendaklah digunakan untuk
mengemas kini dan memperbaiki kajian sumber air lalu.
Skop kajian adalah untuk mengkaji semula dan mengemas kini ketersediaan sumber air,
permintaan air dan status kualiti air untuk kawasan kajian menggunakan pangkalan data JPS
dan pengumpulan data lapangan tambahan, untuk mengkaji dan dicadangkan pembaikan
rangkaian hidrologi dalam kajian kawasan untuk pembangunan dan pengurusan sumber air
yang optimum, untuk mengkaji semula ketersauran dan jadual pelaksanaan bagi projek sumber
air dicadangkan di bawah NWRS (EPU 2000) di dalam kawasan kajian dan mencadangkan
kawasan yang perlu dipelihara dan ditahan daripada apa-apa projek pembangunan untuk
sumber air yang mampan.
Program Pemantauan Kemarau telah dibangunkan pada awal tahun 2001, lanjutan peristiwa
kemarau pada tahun 1998. Antara inisiatif yang pertama ialah mewujudkan Laman Sesawang
(dikenali sebagai InfoKemarau) secara keseluruhan memfokuskan perlaksanaan pemantauan
kemarau. Objektif utama adalah untuk membantu agensi-agensi yang berkaitan dalam
membuat persediaan awal dalam menghadapi situasi kemarau. Pada tahun 2013, Laman
Sesawang ini telah ditambahbaik dengan penambahan Maklumat berkaitan kemarau di
Malaysia.
JPS Malaysia telah diberi tanggungjawab untuk melaporkan paras air sungai dan paras air
Empangan. Sebanyak 41 stesen hujan telah dipilih untuk memantau taburan hujan. Selain itu,
21 stesen aras air dipilih untuk memantau paras Empangan dan 25 stesen selebihnya untuk
paras sungai.
JPS Malaysia juga menggunakan Standard Precipition Index (SPI), aras air sungai dan aras air
Empangan sebagai maklumat untuk memantau kemarau Hidrologi. Kemarau Hidrologi adalah
terma yang digunakan untuk mengenalpasti pengurangan berterusan kadaralir sungai, paras air
empangan dan taburan hujan. Situasi kemarau hidrologi berlaku apabila penurunan
berterusan kadaralir sungai dan paras air empangan. Situasi kemarau hidrologi diukur daripada
perubahan seperti dibawah:-
a) Hujan
b) Kadaralir Sungai
Apabila kadaralir sungai berada di bawah normal untuk sekurang-kurangnya 2 bulan dalam
tempoh 3 bulan berturut-turut melebihi 5 Tahun Kadar Alir Rendah (Waspada), kejadian
kemarau telah berlaku. JPS Malaysia melaporkan kadaralir rendah sungai harian (7-day Low
Flow 2 Years, 5 Years, 10 Years & 20 Years) secara online untuk 25 stesen di Semenanjung
Malaysia.
c) Paras Empangan
Kejadian kemarau berlaku apabila penurunan paras air empangan berterusan berada di bawah
paras normal untuk tempoh 3 bulan berturut- turut. JPS Malaysia melaporkan 21 paras air
Empangan termasuk maklumat paras air maksimum, peratusan baki simpanan, dan paras air
minimum. Maklumat ini juga boleh dicapai di laman sesawang Infokemarau.
Melalui laman sesawang ini, agensi-agensi berkaitan dan orang awam akan mendapat maklumat
awal sebelum berlakunya kemarau serta boleh mengambil tindakan bagi mengurangkan risiko
akibat kemarau terutama kesan kepada bekalan air domestik, perindustrian dan juga pertanian.
Manual saliran bandar yang pertama, 'Tatacara Perancangan dan Reka Bentuk No. 1:Piawaian
dan Tatacara Reka Bentuk Saliran Bandar untuk Semenanjung Malaysia telah dicetak oleh JPS
pada tahun 1975.Manual ini telah disediakan sebagai garis panduan untuk jurutera dalam
mereka bentuk sistem saliran dan telah dirujuk oleh pelbagai agensi di peringkat persekutuan
dan negeri untuk mendapatkan syarat-syarat saliran yang diperlukan bagi apa-apa
pembangunan di kawasan bandar. Manual telah digunakan sebagai garis panduan selama lebih
daripada dua puluh lima tahun dan sejak penerbitannya, perubahan tidak pernah dibuat
walaupun telah ada banyak pembangunan teknologi yang baru dalam saliran bandar.
Empangan - Aktiviti
Kali Terakhir Dikemaskini pada Isnin, 05 Oktober 2015 09:30
Pada masa ini JPS menguruskan 15 empangan yang terletak di pelbagai negeri untuk
memenuhi peranan jabatan dalam menyediakan air pengairan yang mencukupi, tebatan banjir
dan penahanan kelodak. Lebih banyak empangan dijadualkan untuk pelaksanaan pada masa
depan bagi memenuhi permintaan yang sentiasa meningkat dan harapan sosial orang awam
tatkala negara berusaha untuk menjadi negara maju pada tahun 2020.
Projek empangan walaupun biasanya akan melibatkan kos modal yang tinggi umumnya akan
memberi pulangan sosial dan kewangan yang tinggi. Walau bagaimanapun, kegagalan
empangan selalunya mengakibatkan bencana dengan kehilangan nyawa dan harta yang besar
dan oleh itu strukturnya perlu diuruskan dengan betul bagi menjamin keutuhannya pada
sepanjang masa. Menyedari betapa pentingnya keperluan untuk menjaga agar empangan
selamat, usaha kemudiannya telah dimulakan ke arah ini dan pada bulan Mei 1987 Unit
Pemantauan Empangan (sekarang dinamakan semula kepada Unit Empangan) adalah
ditubuhkan pada Cawangan Penyelidikan JPS (sekarang ini tidak wujud lagi) dengan objektif-
objektif berikut:
untuk membantu semua pengendali empangan JPS dalam pengawasan keselamatan empangan
untuk membantu semua pengendali empangan JPS dalam pemeriksaan keselamatan
empangan
Aktiviti Utama
1. Pemantauan keselamatan empangan
2. Pemeriksaan keselamatan empangan
3. Pengeluaran prosidur, piawaian dan garispanduan yang berkaitan dengan keselamatan
empangan
4. Penyediaan bajet
3. NAHRIM (INSTITUT PENYELIDIKAN HIDRAULIK KEBANGSAAN
MALAYSIA)
PERKHIDMATAN
PENYELIDIKAN
Naik Taraf Makmal Hidraulik dan Instrumentasi Serta Makmal Kualiti Air
Kemudahan dan Peralatan Makmal Hidraulik dan Instrumentasi
Program Penyelidikan dan Pembangunan Bagi Meningkatkan Kualiti Air dan
Persekitarannya
Pembangunan Pusat Gedung Data Hidraulik Kebangsaan Malaysia Fasa III dan Menaik
taraf Kemudahan ICT Bagi Menyokong K-Ekonomi
Penyelidikan Pengurusan Lembangan Sungai
Kajian Lanjutan Impak Perubahan Iklim ke atas Sumber Air Malaysia
Perkhidmatan Analisis (Analytical Capability)
Ringkasan Kajian Kolam Lembap Mini Bagi Pengurusan Kuantiti Air (Puchong Kinrara,
Selangor)
Ringkasan Kajian Sistem Saliran Mesra Alam (Kota Damansara, Selangor)
Ringkasan Projek Pembangunan Sistem Ramalan Banjir Menggunakan Infoworks
Floodworks (Kajian Kes: Sungai Ulu Melaka, Langkawi, Malaysia)
Ringkasan Projek Pembangunan Peta Risiko Banjir Melalui Pemodelan Sungai Muar Dua
Dimensi
Study of the Impact of Climate Change on Hydrologic Regime and Water Resources of
Sabah and Sarawak
Climate Projection Downscaling for Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah-Sarawak Using Hadley
Centre Precis Model
Desk Study on River Buffer Zone in Malaysia: Policy, By Laws and Incentives
Study on The Potential of Rainwater Utilisation in Supplementing Water Demand in
Industry In Terms of Quantity & Quality
A Desktop Study on Impact of Rainwater Utilization Systems on Flood Reduction and
Supplementing Public Water Supply for Non Potable Use on a Regional Scale in Sg.
Damansara Catchment.
A Desktop Study on Water Demand Management for an Industrial Area in Malaysia
Pelanggan utamanya adalah dari sektor awam dan swasta yang terlibat dalam industri bidang air.
Berikut ialah perkhidmatan perundingan secara umum mengikut pusat kajian :
1. Sungai
2. Pantai
7. Geohidrologi
Penilaian Kesan Makro Alam Sekeliling Penambakan Pantai di Melaka dengan kerjasama
KTA Tenaga Sdn Bhd untuk Kerajaan Negeri Melaka.
Penilaian Kesan Makro Alam Sekeliling Penambakan Pantai di Kedah dengan kerjasama
Institut Kejuruteraan Pantai dan Lepas Pantai Universiti Teknologi Malaysia(COEI) untuk
Kerajaan Negeri Kedah.
Kajian Rancangan Pembangunan Bersepadu Di Kawasan Tanah Gambut Persisiran Pantai
di Sarawak dengan kerjasama Sime Darby Sdn Bhd untuk Kerajaan Negeri Sarawak.
Penilaian Kesan Makro Alam Sekeliling Penambakan Pantai di Selangor dengan kerjasama
Via Natura Sdn Bhd untuk Kerajaan Negeri Selangor.
Garis Panduan Pengurusan Tasik Putrajaya dengan kerjasama KTA Tenaga Sdn Bhd
untuk Perbadanan Putrajaya.
Pembangunan Pelabuhan Perikanan di Sg. Tumbirat, Kuching, Sarawak untuk Lembaga
Kemajuan Perikanan Malaysia (LKIM).
Kajian Sumber Pasir Laut Negara di Selat Melaka untuk Kementerian Perusahaan Utama.
I. Melatih dan melengkapkan rakyat dengan ilmu pertahanan awam ke arah kesiapsiagaan
menghadapi ancaman musuh, kecemasan dan bencana.
II. Melaksanakan tugas menyelamat, perlindungan dan khidmat kemanusiaan dari
sebarang ancaman musuh, bencana dan kecemasan.
III. Menggubal dan menyusun modul-modul latihan yang terkini dan komprehensif bagi
Angkatan Pertahanan Awam.
IV. Menubuh dan mentadbir urus Angkatan Pertahanan Awam melalui perkhidmatan dan
logistik yang relevan dan terkini.
V. Mengenalpasti dan mengkaji ancaman serta mengawal risiko yang boleh memberi
impak terhadap keselamatan rakyat dan negara.
VI. Menyediakan perkhidmatan kecemasan dan khidmat bantuan kemanusiaan di seluruh
negara.
VII. Menilai dan menyebar maklumat, khidmat nasihat serta amaran kepada orang awam
berkaitan sebarang ancaman musuh, kecemasan dan bencana.
VIII. Melaksana dan menambahbaik dasar-dasar pertahanan awam berpandukan punca
kuasa yang ditetapkan.
IX. Merekuisisi aset dan fasiliti bagi tujuan pertahanan awam.
X. Peranan Pertahanan Awam
XI. Melatih seramai mungkin rakyat yang mempunyai pengetahuan dalam aspek
keselamatan dan Pertahanan Awam Seksyen 3(2)c Akta Pertahanan Awam 1951
(Akta 221).
XII. Mengelola, menubuh, menyenggara, melengkapi, melatih dan mendisiplin Angkatan
dan Perkhidmatan Pertahanan Awam Seksyen 3(2)a Akta 221.
XIII. Melakukan kerja bantuan bencana atau memberi perlindungan bagi menjamin
keselamatan nyawa, orang atau harta benda penduduk awam sekiranya berlaku atau
akan berlaku bencana serta memudahkan pemulihan mangsa selepas bencana tersebut-
Seksyen 8(1) Akta 221.
Fungsi
I. Untuk mengurus dan mereka bentuk pembangunan tebatan banjir menggunakan kaedah
berstruktur
II. Untuk mengurus dan memusatkan rancangan pengurusan banjir menggunakan kaedah
tidak berstruktur
III. Untuk menguruskan belanjawan tebatan banjir
Piagam Pelanggan
Carta Organisasi
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62502 Putrajaya
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Petrajaya
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Sarawak
Fax: 082-442511
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Selangor
70000 Seremban
Negeri Sembilan
Tel: 06-7625504
Fax: 06-7637717
Majlis Keselamatan Negara Negeri Melaka
Menara Persekutuan
75450 Melaka
Tel: 06-2345555
Fax: 06-2345551
Jalan Greentown
30770 Ipoh
Fax: 05-2555660
10300 Georgetown
Pulau Pinang
Tel: 04-2505428
Fax: 04-2615429
Alor Setar
Fax: --
Majlis Keselamatan Negara Negeri Perlis
01000 Perlis
Fax: 04-9768766
Tel: 09-7481173
Fax: 09-744122
Fax: 09-6233236
Majlis Keselamatan Negara Negeri Pahang
Jalan Mahkota
25000 Kuantan
Fax: 09-5161440
Aras 6, Blok A
Jalan UMS
Sabah
Fax: 088-488510
Tingkat 8, Blok 4
Fax: 087-418075
Tingkat 1 & 2
Tel: 04-7334213
Tel: 07-2236670
Tingkat 6, Fasa 1,
Tel: 04-7001408
Kelantan
Tel: 09-7419730
\KPKK NEGERI MELAKA
Melaka
Tel: 06-2345580
70300 Seremban
Negeri Sembilan
Tel: 06-6017914
25000 Kuantan
Pahang
Tel: 09-5141843
Perak
Tel: 05-2549540
01000 Kangar
Perlis
Tel: 04-9775997
KPKK NEGERI PULAU PINANG
Jalan Anson
10400, Georgetown
Pulau Pinang
Tel: 04-2279257
Aras 6, Blok A
Jalan UMS
Sabah
Tel: 088-488441
Sarawak
Tel: 082-253143
Selangor
Tel: 03-55447828
Terengganu
Tel: 09-6242553
62502 Putrajaya
Tel: 03-88726132
Tel: 087-408737
Bagi Pejabat Daerah pula, antara langkah-langkah yang masih belum dilaksanakan ialah
perkongsian maklumat jenayah dengan PDRM melalui GIS-based mapping, penyediaan penggera
keselamatan, penyediaan bollard, penyediaan papan tanda peringatan jenayah serta penyediaan
cermin keselamatan di lokasi berkemungkinan berlakunya jenayah.
Bagi mencapai sasaran NKRA, Kabinet telah mengarahkan melalui NKRA LAB agar semua PBT
melaksanakan langkah-langkah berikut:
Mulai tahun 2010, format pelaporan pelaksanaan Program Bandar Selamat akan berdasarkan
kepada kadar pengurangan jenayah, berbanding pelaksanaan jumlah langkah.
I. Bandar yang bebas daripada keganasan seperti curi ragut, pecah rumah, kecurian dan
sebagainya yang menyebabkan kehilangan nyawa dan trauma, kerosakan harta benda dan
sosial;
II. Bandar yang bebas daripada bencana alam seperti banjir dan tanah runtuh;
III. Bandar yang bebas daripada kemerosotan sosial dan moral seperti penagihan dadah,
jenayah kolar putih, rasuah, salah guna kuasa, integriti dan kerosakan moral; dan
IV. Bandar yang bebas daripada segala jenis kemalangan dalam dan luar bangunan seperti
kebakaran dan kemalangan jalan raya.
The Centre
The Centre for Community Disaster Research is a trans-disciplinary centre for research,
education, and outreach related to natural, social, technological and economic disasters.
The Centre is mandated with promoting rigorous academic research that is led by
community need and involves university researchers, students, community groups,
government stakeholders, and end-users of research as meaningful partners.
The Need
Following the catastrophic Southern Alberta flood of 2013, the CCDR grew out of
widespread recognition that communities across Alberta, Canada, and the world will
increasingly need to plan and prepare for extreme events. The Centre strives to generate
academic research, sustained discussions, programming, and policy recommendations that
will help to mitigate disaster risk, lessen vulnerability, and contribute to community
resilience. Catastrophic events create new questions the CCDR creates the answers.
Through our events and projects, the CCDR hopes to reduce community vulnerability to
disasters, catastrophes, and crises, while promoting just and equitable recoveries when
unfortunate events do occur.
What We Do
The CCDR works to fund, support, and promote research projects on disasters, disaster
recovery, and post-disaster resilience. We also support initiatives that teach about disasters
and crises, including field schools, internships, honours thesis projects, and service-learning
projects. Finally, we are a hub for community debate about public policy, resilience
initiatives, the needs of first responders, and best practices for communication during times
of disaster. We host frequent seminars, brown-bags, guest speakers, symposia, and panels
that promote this crucial dialogue. You can check out the Centre's annual report for more
information.
The CCDR is proud to be able to fund and support a number of new and innovative projects,
spanning a wide array of areas. From crisis communication to family coping strategies, to
business continuity in a post-disaster environment, our Faculty Affiliates and Partners are
advancing the field in numerous ways. Below, we are proud to highlight a few of the new and
ongoing projects supported directly by the Centre.
2017
Over the past several years three major natural disasters have struck the province of Alberta;
the: Slave Lake fires, High River floods and Fort McMurray fire. When a disaster strikes all
community residents are asked to follow provincial emergency evacuation procedures and this
often includes a move to and stay at an evacuation centre. Evacuation centres are meant for all
community members and therefore, people who use an evacuation centre might know each
other. Estranged family members may come across one another in an evacuation centre. In
some cases, women, who have fled an abusive relationship, might come across a partner that is
unsafe to them. Fleeing is no longer possible since there is no alternative. In this research we
hope to glean information about the ways in which evacuation protocols and practice impact
women who are fleeing abuse and inform policy and practice at evacuation centers as well as
first and second stage shelters.
2016
The Fort McMurray wildfire of 2016 activated the largest charitable response in Canadian Red
Cross post-war history, with over a million donations from Canadians and over $136 million in
funds. The Alberta Wildfire Donation Centre has sent over 850 pallets worth of donations to
the Fort McMurray. From fundraising barbeques to veterinary services, fuel and clothing to
time and dollars, Albertans have demonstrated an unmatched care and concern from the
residents of Fort McMurray and surrounding communities. This timely research project will try
to explain Albertans generosity in relation to this disaster. What is the role of social media in
promoting generosity? To what degree can this generosity be explained by a spirit of care
amongst Albertans? The researchers purchased space on the Alberta Survey 2016. The survey
collected data in late June through early August 2016 about social media uses to follow news
about the wildfire, level of concern for those displaced by the fire, as well as donating,
volunteering, and other efforts to support those displaced by or fighting the wildfire. The
research will help researchers and charitable organizations understand the conditions under
which people are willing to help those in need.
2016
Many families in Fort McMurray have children who have been through the traumatic
experience of leaving their home, community, city, and routines due to wildfire destroying their
home and community. Traumatic events cause terror, intense fear, horror, helplessness, and
physical stress reactions. Traumatic events are profound experiences that change the way
children, adolescents and adults see themselves and their world. From the time the trauma
occurred, people with post-traumatic stress experience it in all stages of their life and in their
day-to-day activities parenting, working, socializing, attending appointments, and interpersonal
relationships.
Funded and supported by the CCDR, Michelle Briegel- Kranjcevic and The Centre for Child
Well Being (CCWB) at Mount Royal University are looking at the effect of trauma informed
programs and post-traumatic stress for children, youth, and families displaced from the Fort
McMurray wildfire. The CCWB is providing a 3 stream approach for children, adolescents
and parents. Each program is supported by extensive evidence and strategies around physical
literacy and physical activity, the neurosequential model of therapeutics (NMT), healing after
trauma, relationship, community, and self-esteem building and overall holistic development,
and therapeutic expressive arts. Throughout this project the facilitators from the CCWB want
to ensure educated approaches during programming by way of gaining knowledge and
understanding of therapeutic activity programming and facilitation.
A Peer Support and Mentoring Pilot Project for Community Service Providers and
Children/Youth in Fort McMurray, Alberta: Developing Collaborative Support for
Community Resilience and Disaster Recovery
2016
The May 2016 wildfires in Fort McMurray will be recognized as among the worst natural
disasters to affect the province of Alberta. Other recent disaster events, like the 2013 Southern
Alberta flood, demonstrate the risks and vulnerabilities experienced by some members of
society, as well as their strengths and resiliency capacities. There is an important need to
further knowledge of disasters in the Canadian context in order to strengthen long-term
disaster recovery efforts. Communities affected by natural disasters increase their capacity to
deliver services and programs to meet human and community needs in the recovery period.
Disaster-impacted individuals are also resilient and can act as mechanisms of support and
powerful catalysts for change in their communities in the post-disaster environment.
However, it is not known how local communities with disaster recovery experience may
contribute to resilience-building processes in partnership with other disaster-affected
communities. The goal of this study is to better understand community resilience through a
peer support/ mentoring pilot project between two disaster-affected communities. Utilizing a
qualitative methodology, community service providers (18+ years of age) and youth (18-24
years of age) from High River, Alberta (which experienced the flood in 2013) and Fort
McMurray, Alberta (which experienced the wildfire in 2016) will be recruited to participate in
the peer support/mentoring pilot project in order to share experiences and lessons learned in a
collaborative, supportive, and safe environment. This study aims to support disaster recovery
processes and efforts by sharing knowledge and experience between those impacted by
disaster, gaining an understanding of community resilience in post-disaster contexts; improving
knowledge of peer support and mentoring in disaster recovery; and strengthening networks and
linkages between community influencers, youth, and stakeholders in Alberta.
Fort McMurray - Stories of rejuvenation from the people, the forests, and the scientists
2016
This is a science communication project that will focus on stories of rejuvenation after the fires
in Fort McMurray. Science communication is a branch of journalism that primarily tells stories
from the scientists or sciences perspective. With help from the CCDR Quick Response
Research Grant, I will research and tell stories about the rejuvenation of the forests around the
city and how the fires impacted the scientists working in those forests.
The goal is to relate stories about how people cope with the loss of their physical surroundings
in the natural world from a personal and scientific perspective and look at how they re-build in
the aftermath.
Hydraulic fracturing activities have been expanding rapidly across the globe in recent years, and
many citizens and organizations have begun to express concern about the social,
environmental, and health effects of such activities. Very little social scientific research has
been done, however, that could provide scientific confirmation of the nature of social impacts,
and the capacity of local communities to contribute to decision-making regarding such
activities. This project is intended to offer a social scientific understanding of the impacts of
hydraulic fracturing in Alberta, adopting a qualitative approach that involves personal
interviews. A small sample of local residents living in communities in Alberta near recent
hydraulic fracturing development are being invited to share their personal perceptions,
impacts, and responses to hydraulic fracturing development activities in their communities.
2016
The Centre for Community Disaster Research has launched a quick-response grant program to
help researchers do work in the context of the recent Fort McMurray wildfire. We are
guaranteeing one-week turnaround time on the grant application. (up to $15,000) to support
research, teaching initiatives, outreach programs, or policy development related to Fort
McMurray, the surrounding area, and the recent wildfire. We anticipate these projects will be
very early-stage and therefore do not expect a well-rounded literature review yetsimply an
idea for research on this developing situation.
All faculty members at MRU (and affiliates/associates of the Centre) are eligible for the CCDR
grant program, regardless of previous affiliation with the CCDR. If you have any questions
about the grant program, please contact CCDR Director, Tim Haney, at thaney@mtroyal.ca.
Evacuating Family Pets from the Fort McMurray Wildfire
2016
Utilizing the Quick Response Research Grant from the CCDR, Dr. Kim Williams is recruiting
adults (18+) who were/are involved in saving family pets from the Fort Mac wildfire for short,
informal interviews of approximately 45-60 minutes each. I'd like to talk to anyone from official
emergency management personnel and first responders to representatives from animal rescue
organizations and the owners/guardians of pets affected by the evacuation of Fort McMurray. If
you've been involved in any capacity with getting pets to safety in the wake of the Fort Mac
wildfire, I want to hear your -- and their -- story!
The goal is to hear about whats working and whats not from those who are directly involved
so that, together, we can help create province-wide best practices for emergency pet evacuation
from community disasters.
Were Ready! Neighbourhood Disaster Preparedness and Response Program Pilot Project
2015
The Were Ready! Community Disaster Preparedness Pilot Project was successfully
implemented May 28 and 29, 2016 in the Town of High River for an ethnic community and a
geographic community. Participants rated the activities highly, which were designed to be fun
and engaging to build social connections, expressing they want more of these workshops and to
continue working with their communities to further develop emergency plans. Participants felt
they learned a lot, including that "It is better to be together, than alone."
Principle Investigators: Eva Bogdan (University of Alberta) and Stephanie Sodero (Memorial
University)
Increasing Preparedness in Calgarys Youth for Natural Disasters
June 2015
Spearheaded by Dr. Katherine Boggs of the MRU Department of Earth Sciences, this project
will develop two outreach programs designed to guide local high school and elementary school
students towards preparing themselves and their families in case of natural disasters in the local
area and when traveling. These programs are intended to guide entire communities to better
preparedness through education of the youth, who will hopefully guide their families towards
improved planning in case of natural disasters. The effectiveness of such an approach was
demonstrated by then-10 year old Tilley Smith who convinced her parents to evacuate the
beach at Phuket, Thailand prior to the arrival of the 2004 tsunami. Tilley recognized the signs
of an approaching tsunami because of a geography class two weeks prior to her family
Christmas vacation. Tilley's actions saved at least 100 lives.
These two outreach programs are being modified from a class project in the MRU GEOL
1101 and GEOL 1109 courses where MRU students develop their own models for surviving
natural disasters. The high school portion will be embedded within a new Alberta Geology
program that will be piloted at a Calgary high school in September, 2016 (natural disasters and
preparedness will be a significant component of this course). The elementary school program
is the new grade 5/6 stage which will involve comparing and contrasting the impact of the 2005
and 2013 floods on the local landscape and creating risk maps for south Calgary. These risk
maps will be contributed to the local communities and CEMA to assist in disaster response
planning for south Calgary.
Student Research Assistants: German Contreras, Courtney Stange, hundreds of Calgary grades
3 to 12 students
June 2015
Led by CCDR Faculty Affiliate Patricia Kostouros of the MRU Department of Child and
Youth Studies, the project will help us understand experience of students who have witnessed
the suffering of others in a post-secondary classroom. This inquiry will be posed to a particular
population of students; those already interested in the sociology of disaster. The main question
under investigation is: what can students experiences of encountering the suffering of others, in
their course curriculum, tell us about learning and inform teaching practice in relation to using
materials that depict the suffering of others? Questions to assist in gaining this information as a
starting point for interviews would be: what worked in the delivery of materials that depict
suffering and what could have been done differently in a pedagogical sense?
November 2014
CCDR Director, Dr. Tim Haney, partnered with the Emergency Social Services Network of
Alberta (ESSNA) to analyze data from a Learning Event that ESSNA held following the
catastrophic 2013 Southern Alberta Flood. The purpose of the event was to learn about what
worked for emergency social services staff during the flood, what failed, and what can be
improved to ensure a better response should an event such as the flood ever happen again. His
work with ESSNA culminated in this report, which the CCDR and ESSNA co-presented at the
annual Stakeholder Summit of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency (AEMA)in
Edmonton, November 2014.
Disaster Service-Learning
2014
Growing out of the 2013 sociology field school to New Orleans, Dr. Tim Haney collected data
on students experiences of doing service-learning work in the context of an ongoing disaster
recovery. This work culminated in the book chapter Learning from Disaster: Post-Katrina
New Orleans as a Sociological Classroom.
February 2014
The 2013 Field School in the Sociology of Disaster students, who traveled to New Orleans,
eagerly partnered with the Urban Conservancy on their StayLocal! campaign, aimed at helping
small, locally owned businesses survive and thrive in the post-Katrina business climate. The
students helped design a survey, carried out their survey with the help of local business owners,
and analyzed data for StayLocal!, culminating in this report documenting the needs, struggles,
and successes of the small business community eight years after the costliest disaster in U.S.
history.
AS THE new secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways, Mark Villar should
prove his worth and show that he is the right man for the job. He should prioritize, as one of
his major projects, a solution to the frequent flooding at the entrance to the Central Business
District in Makati.
For decades, after every heavy downpour, Gil Puyat Avenue (formerly Buendia) and De la
Rosa Street in Barangay Pio del Pilar always get inundated with knee-high flood water,
inconveniencing motorists and pedestrians, alike.
As a major gateway to Ayala Avenue, this portion of Makati should be flood-free, especially
during the rainy season.
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The good secretary should find ways in solving this pestering problem of flooding in this part of
the city. Motorists and pedestrians, especially office workers, have already suffered a lot.
Enough is enough.
A tsunami hurtling toward Manila Bay can generate waves up to two stories high and submerge
the city up to 4 to 5 kilometers inland. This means that areas like the University of Santo
Tomas campus on Espaa Boulevard, already flood-prone as it is, will be inundated within
minutes, this time by debris and sea water.
This is one of the worst-case scenarios that the Manila city government will use when it holds
its first citywide disaster drill next Wednesday, an activity made urgent by the 5.7-magnitude
earthquake that hit the capital and other parts of Luzon on the night of June 25.
We will create worst-case scenarios using disaster imagination to test the disaster preparedness
and contingency plans of establishments, Johnny Yu, head of the Manila Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management Office, said in a press briefing Friday at the newly opened
command center inside city hall.
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More than half of the establishments in Manila, including hotels, schools and hospitals, are
expected to join the drill, which is being held in line with National Disaster Consciousness
Month.
In the morning, the first scenario will be an earthquake caused by the movement of the West
Valley fault line. The drill would test the city officials preparedness for fires and road
accidents.
Citing a study conducted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency from 2000 to 2004,
Yu said a magnitude 7.2 earthquake could result in 300,000 collapsed structures and 500,000
casualties in Metro Manila alone. Land use has increased so were looking at double or triple
that number, he said.
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The second scenario, which will be applied in the afternoon, will be based on a quake and
tsunami triggered by the movement of the Manila Trench.
The city government currently has more than 20 emergency responders on standby, as well as
disaster response equipment that include rescue boats, amphibious vehicles, rescue vans and
portable heavy-duty lighting systems.
Street activity during disasters can be monitored by city hall through closed circuit television
cameras and accessed by the public through the recently launched Go Manila app, Vice Mayor
Isko Moreno said during the same briefing.
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Theres a challenge in livestreaming during bad weather. But whats important is youll have a
visual of an actual scenario, be it traffic, flood or accident, he said.
In Makati City, the local government will suspend operations this Monday afternoon also for
an earthquake drill.
In a statement Friday, city hall advised the public that it would suspend work on June 30 from
1 p.m. onward, as a mass evacuation drill would involve power shutdowns in all local
government offices to simulate a tremor-induced blackout.
Several streets would also be closed for the drills, namely Cardona, Angono and F. Zobel,
from the corner of Osmea Highway to the corner of J. P. Rizal; Hormiga, from the corner of
Angono to Antipolo; and Buencamino, Ma. Aurora, and Zenaida.