In Search for Sustainable Coastal Management: A Case Study of Semarang, Indonesia

2nd International Conference on Tropical and Coastal Region Eco Development 2016

地球科学;生态环境科学

Hadi, Sudharto P.^1

Study Program of Environmental Studies, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia^1

关键词: Coastal management;    coastal problems;    Environmental problems;    government and community initiatives;    Land subsidence;    Mutual assistance;    Property value;    Pumping systems;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/55/1/012054/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/55/1/012054

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

As a coastal town, Semarang is currently facing environmental problems such as flood, tidal flood (locally called rob), coastal abrasion, emerging land, land subsidence and sea water intrusion. These phenomena severely affect to citizen, community and corporate, disrupting day to day activities, threatening people's health, causing economics' burden and reducing property value. Government policies in dealing with these problem are focused on its phenomena such as normalizing river for flood and building polder systems for tidal flood. Impacted people have been implementing various initiatives. People in Tanah Mas Estate set up collective efforts to reduce tidal flood by building pumping system project, while people in Kampong Tambaklorok conduct a regular mutual assistance in cleaning of waste and sedimentation, rehabilitating of local drainages and dikes, reconstructing of local streets and also maintaining of pumping system. People in Mangunharjo, the district of Tugu build a coastal belt and cultivate mangrove. Various government and local initiatives have been effective in dealing with flood and tidal flood temporarily. More comprehensive approaches and focused on the sources of problems are required to achieve sustainable coastal management.