Research & Development
Annual Report 2018
UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN
Centre for Disaster Risk Reduction
(CDRR)
CENTRE INFO
| Centre Name: |
Centre for Disaster Risk Reduction |
| Chairperson: | Ir. Dr. Huang Yuk Feng |
| Description of Centre: | Center for DRR was established in 2014 at UTAR as a multidisciplinary research centre to bring out integral DRR research outcomes from various faculties & organizations to society. Scientific & technological study on Risk Assessment, social & scientific study of Risk Management, and human & technological study of Risk Communication form the central pillars of our research. |
| Research Area: | Our current research areas focus on topics as proposed by the available expertise and resources based on the current Malaysian societal challenges and global impact factors. This bottom up approach can spurred the academicscreativities as the researchers have free hand to exploit ideas and interests based on their professional know how. However, we will continuously monitoring the national and global activities to make sure we deliver to what the Malaysian society needs in the future. We have to maintain comprehensive integration and implementation of the DRR from community level to global level, by using a DRR framework of Risk Assessment, Risk Management and Risk Communication. |
