Safe and Resilient Communities

GLOBAL: migration to urban areas improves the living standards, health and financial prosperity of the citizens. Nevertheless, it brings challenges to a city's infrastructure, resources, security procedures and emergency response systems. Meeting these challenges is critical to the success of cities. The safe city concept has been developed to help government stakeholders and police departments assuage these demands. One way to do this is having communities who are resilient. This is because resilient communities minimize any disaster's disruption to everyday life and their local economies. Resilient communities are not only prepared to help prevent or minimize the loss or damage to life, property and the environment, but they also can quickly return people to work, reopen businesses and restore other essential services needed for a full and timely economic recovery. Therefore, this book intends to provide a clear understanding of safe cities as well as investigate the strategies in enhancing safe cities. We need to be proactive in recognizing the approach in maintaining safe cities and its implications if such strategies were not met due to radical changes ahead. Addressing these issues will call for the kind of foresight when dealing with the emergence of diversity of population in big cities and the importance of having a resilient community. This is in line with the initiatives enforced by the Government of Malaysia (GEM) in realizing 17 Sustainable Development goals which will inevitably lead to the enhancement of social well-being and significant improvement in the quality of life in Malaysia.