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Volume 9, Issue 4
1 October 2000
Disaster Prevention and Management Cover Image for Volume 9, Issue 4
Technical Paper| October 01 2000

Transnational forest fire fighting: the Malaysian experience

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6100
Print ISSN: 0965-3562
© MCB UP Limited
2000
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal (2000) 9 (4): 282–287.
https://doi.org/10.1108/09653560010351970

The forest fire experiences of Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand in 1997 are reviewed. The problems of transnational co‐operation in such cases are examined and the resulting joint lessons are presented.

Keywords: Fire, Forestry, Disaster management, Malaysia
© MCB UP Limited
2000
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