A review on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: Gaps of governance in Malaysia

The purpose of this article is to examine the current gaps in Malaysia practices on disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change. This study used the search in Science Direct, Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar to conduct a literature assessment of journal articles published in the last decade on disaster risk reduction, climate change, and governance under specific conditions. DRR and CCA's purview includes the overarching topic of search. As global climate factors have changed, the number and severity of climate-related disasters has enormously increased. Adapting the strategy to the disaster risk reduction objective and factoring in climate change are essential for optimal disaster risk governance.

The analysis shows that the topic is important, and each year there are more studies conducted on it. There has been a lot of talk about incorporating climate change into disaster risk reduction policies, and Malaysia should do more to integrate climate change into the disaster risk governance system. Given the paucity of research into Malaysian governance policy, the time is right to look into the current strategies and identify the key actors who should be responsible for deriving it.