Jurnal Wilayah dan Lingkungan (Dec 2016)

Penguatan Ekosistem Pesisir: Monitoring dan Pembelajaran Pembangunan Alat Pemecah Ombak (APO) di Kota Semarang

  • Reny Yesiana,
  • Itsna Yuni Hidayati,
  • Gunawan Wicaksono

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14710/jwl.4.3.199-212
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 3
pp. 1999 – 212

Abstract

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Climate change has become one of the causes of environmental damage and needs to be anticipated. In Indonesia, including in the Semarang City, the impact caused by climate change also occurs. Damage ponds and mangrove forests due to the erosion and sea level rise are examples of the climate change impact. The significant impact of climate change is exacerbated by the lack of public knowledge related to the threat of climate change. It significantly affects to the decreasing income of farmers. These fact underlie the Mercy Corps Indonesia in cooperation with the government of Semarang and the Bintari Foundation to develop activities aimed to strengthening the protection of coastal areas through the development of seawalls through the program named "Enhancing Coastal Community Resilience by Strengthening Mangrove Ecosystem Services and Developing Sustainable Livelihood in Semarang City". Construction of seawalls in the form of tires seawalls and Hybrid Engineering (HE) is completed in 2016. Construction of seawalls certainly has an impact on community in coastal areas. This article aims to review the monitoring and the lesson learned of seawalls construction of the development on the seawalls for the communities in coastal areas, especially in the Genuk and Tugu Sub-district. The methods used in this study is a mix method research by descriptive approach so that the study is more emphasis on the analysis of the measurable facts the description, which supported by information unearthed in the community through interviews and extracting information from archives on reports that had been prepared previously containing seawalls development progress. The research results show that seawalls development provides many positive effects for the community, so that they consciously perform maintenance independently for the positive impact they can receive for the long term.

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