Environment & Ecosystem Science (EES) 4(2) (2020) 100-104 Quick Response Code Access this article online Website: www.environecosystem.com DOI: 10.26480/ees.02.2020.100.104 Cite The Article: Ahmad Nazrul Madri, Rodeano Roslee, Mohd Fauzi Zikiri (2020).Landslide Vulnerability Assesment (Lvas) In Luyang Area, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Environment & Ecosystem Science, 4(2): 100-104. ISSN: 2521-0882 (Print) ISSN: 2521-0483 (Online) CODEN: EESND2 RESEARCH ARTICLE Environment & Ecosystem Science (EES) DOI: http://doi.org/10.26480/ees.02.2020.100.104 LANDSLIDE VULNERABILITY ASSESMENT (LVAs) IN LUYANG AREA, KOTA KINABALU, SABAH, MALAYSIA Ahmad Nazrul Madri a,b , Rodeano Roslee b,c *, Mohd Fauzi Zikiri a,b a Department of Public of Work (Sabah State), Slope Branch, Sembulan Road, 88538 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. b Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Faculty of Science and Natural Resources, UMS Road, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. c Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Natural Disaster Research Centre (NDRC), UMS Road, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. *Correspondence Author Email: rodeano@ums.edu.my This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ARTICLE DETAILS ABSTRACT Article History: Received 27 September 2020 Accepted 28 October 2020 Available online 12 November 2020 Landslide issues in Malaysia is successfully attract the interest and attention of stakeholders and the community of scientists to reduce the risk. Landslides are influenced by many factors that range from the intensity, duration and extent of a triggering factor (e.g. earthquake and rainfall) to the local physical conditions such as landform, morphological, geological materials and structures, hydrological and land uses. In this paper, we present the results of the Landslide Vulnerability Assessment (LVAs). Vulnerability is defined as the degree of losses of a given element at risk of being exposed to the occurrence of a landslides of a given magnitude or intensity, and often expressed on a scale of 0 (no loss) to 1 (total loss). The selection of the best LVAs depends on the exposed elements, landslide types and the scale of analysis. The concept of LVAs also refers to the feasibility of elements at risks on engineering structures, infrastructure facilities, communication systems, commercial (including insurance disclosures) and social. The vulnerability parameters include in assessing LVAs in this study are 1) physical implication (building structures, internal materials, property damage, infrastructural facilities and stabilization actions), social status (injury, fatalities, safety, loss of accommodation and public awareness) and interference on environment (affected period, daily operation & diversity). LVAs for study area produced by combining or overlaid of all Physical Vulnerability (Vp), Social Vulnerability (Vs) and Environmental Vulnerability (Ve) maps. The results for the Total of LVAs indicates that 30% (0.90 sq.m) of the study area classified as Very Low, 8% (0.24 sq.m) as Low, 8% (0.24 sq.m) as Moderate, 28% (0.84 sq.m) as High, 8% (0.24 sq.m) as Very High and 18% (0.54 sq.m) as Extremely High. Landslide Vulnerability level at a "high" to "very high" degree can leave an impact on individuals and society. This study found that residential, commercial, public and industrial infrastructure has higher vulnerability rather than the agricultural and forestry areas. This LVAs approach is suitable as a guideline for preliminary development planning, control and manage the landslide hazard / risk in the study area and potentially to be extended with different background environments. KEYWORDS Landslide Vulnerability Assessment (LVAs), Elements at Risk & Kota Kinabalu 1. INTRODUCTION The occurrence of landslide shows a growing trend in the future although much effort has been made to reduce the risk. Global climate change, human ignorance, population growth, ecosystem damage and environmental quality deterioration have contributed to the increased degree of hazard and risk of landslides. In Malaysia, the issue of landslide successfully attract the interest and attention of stakeholders and the community of scientists to reduce the risk. Authorities as well as individuals or organizations have spent millions of ringgit to treat the risk of landslides. Landslide are an important issue in urban areas and hills that are vulnerable to tropical storm threats and prolonged rainy seasons. This disaster is usually associated with other geological disasters such as floods and earthquake. Vulnerability concept was developed in the context of natural disasters research over the last 30 years; this means that the more days it is becoming increasingly diverse. The explanation for this wide diversity also being doubled and takes the relationship between the human and natures which was triggered by issues of dynamic, multi-dimensional and multi- scalar such as globalization and climate change or the global environment (Rodeano and Tajul, 2012; Rodeano et al., 2017). Due to the absence of border globalization, the various disciplines which differ in their background have defined some sense of vulnerability and as a result there are many mixed methodology and conceptualization of vulnerability (Aleotti and Chowdhur, 1999). Since the early 1980s, have indicates that the term "vulnerability" which not only covers the areas of natural disasters, but also applied in other fields such as business, psychology or health society (Timmerman, 1981; Fuchs et al., 2007). Landslide Vulnerability Assessment (LVAs) references can be found in very much quantities. LVAs studies is depends on (a) a runoff; (b) the volume and velocity of slides; (c) risk elements (properties) such as buildings and other infrastructure facilities (nature and proximity against