Introduction

From century to century, civilization’s adaptation of resilience in the context of natural disasters, i.e., floods, changes its coping capacities/mechanism and emphasizes the fact that not everyone lives and experiences the phenomenon of flood disasters in remote villages in global south and global north countries. Such one of the southern hemisphere countries, an inland and south-border communities and a female land (a sacred-mother land or so-called ‘Tanah sakral mama adat’ in Bahasa Indonesia or '‘Rai lulik loomota lalawar imbei uma ferik' in Tetum-Malaka language) i.e., Malaka-Timor Indonesia, borders the Timor-Leste region is an example that our planet is still not doing well. People who live and adapt to flood disaster situations and who have their own risk perception in Malaka-Timor are adhered to and implemented their local wisdom in defining and understanding what resilience is, what flooding is, what coping capacity is, and what sustainability is. Thus, the perceptions and perspectives of the global community, both western communities in Northern Hemisphere Countries, and eastern communities from other Asian regions and other Southern Hemisphere Countries, will vary and differ regarding the exact contextual definition of what flooding is with the trajectory of understanding of sustainability, resilience, flooding, and coping capacity. Understanding the correct definition of the types of resilience, flood disasters and sustainability in the integrated empirical and discussion’s study in this book also provides a series of complex integrative analyses. Does community resilience contextually in Timor Indonesia consist of/have a series of implementations of what type of resilience and how to overcome it? Is the empirical study of resilience, which is the ability of communities who experienced the flood hazards to adapt, the same as the contextual definition of coping capacity? To differentiate our fundamental understanding of resilience and coping capacity as well as sustainability from resilience elements, the concept of sustainability is on the path of understanding both resilience and coping capacity for a long-run adaptation efforts to cope with flood disasters and build flood resilience.