Urban Resilience and Poverty in Malaysia

Abstract

This article is a systematic review paper that focuses on urban resilience studies in Malaysia. Generally, resilience is not a new concept that has attracted scholars to conduct numerous relevant studies. Unfortunately, the majority of earlier studies did not consider the urban resilience perspectives towards poverty in Malaysia. This article utilizes three journal databases, Scopus, Web of Science, and MyCite for the review of the current research. The Transparent Reporting of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses method known as Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) was adopted in this article. As a result, 10 articles have been systematically studied as a result of the search efforts. Most crucially, the review was able to develop four key topics based on thematic analyses, including economic resilience, social resilience, environmental resilience, and institutional resilience. However, there are still limited numbers of literature available on urban community resilience in Malaysia and also literature on community resilience towards poverty as compared to studies on resilience towards disaster. In short, the finding of this study hopefully can be a good baseline for the related stakeholders and policymakers in formulating action plans and strategies related to urban and poverty planning in the upcoming years.