The Northeast Monsoon has begun, bringing with it the prospect of prolonged heavy rainfall, flooding, landslides and other extreme weather hazards.
But when climate-related disasters strike, how much of the damage is considered unavoidable, and how much is the result of poor land planning and development, and environmental mismanagement?
What then does public accountability look like? Astro Awani’s Melisa Idris talks to Redza Zakaria, a senior lecturer at the University of Malaya’s Faculty of Law and the head of maritime law in the policy and governance unit of the university’s Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, and Dr Shuib Rambat, the director of the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Centre at the Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology in UTM.
Source: Astro Awani / YouTube
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