ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the methodology adopted for the National Slope Master Plan (NSMP) study, the challenges posed to ensure the relevancy and the effectiveness of the plan. A series of landslide events since 1993 has resulted in a number of deaths and property extensive destruction. In Malaysia, most of the high consequence slope failures involved man-made slopes. The Bukit Lanjan slope failure was the last straw that triggered the Malaysian Government to take an initiative to establish a body that would deal explicitly with slopes. The NSMP study was officially inaugurated in March 2006. However, the groundwork for the NSMP study began a year earlier. The scope of work for the NSMP was comprehensive and given the relatively short period to cover all aspects of slope management and developments the task of ensuring that the NSMP is relevant and applicable to the nation’s slope management is quite daunting.
