Climate-related disasters such as floods and tidal floods impact livelihood systems in coastal areas everywhere, particularly in developing countries, resulting in a certain degree of livelihood vulnerability. In this paper, we examine the spatial exposure and livelihood vulnerability level of Tegal, a city in Central Java, Indonesia. Data were collected from 100 household samples distributed in the study area. Two types of assessment were performed: a spatial assessment with distance analysis and a vulnerability assessment using the Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI). The results of the study show that 33.80% of the settlement area and 22.25% of the fishery area are vulnerable to tidal floods. Climate-related disasters also threaten 32.20% of the households sampled, whose members work mostly as fishermen and rely on coastal resources for their livelihood. A key finding of the study is that the community is highly vulnerable with a low adaptive capacity level. This calls for more decisive policy interventions to enhance the community's adaptive capacity and reduce its exposure level.
<em>Disaster is an event that suddenly or slowly occurs caused by human, nature, or even both. Disaster is not only related to the physical environment where disaster found but also to the livelihood of the community. Coastal rural is vulnerable to the coastal disaster such as flood and tidal flood due to their high dependency on the coastal resources. The vulnerability assessment of the coastal rural is very important in order to identify the level of vulnerability and to recommend crucial strategies to reduce the risk of disaster exposure in the future. This study aims to identify the socio-economic vulnerability in the rural coastal community of Demak Regency. Vulnerability assessment was carried out through a spatial explicit modeling. The results show that 33 (thirty-three) villages or about 42% were categorized as most vulnerable. While, 45 (forty-five) others or about 59% are less vulnerable. Therefore, efforts on the disaster mitigation are necessary to be done to reduce the exposure impact to the coastal rural community. </em>
Abstrak: Bencana alam merupakan suatu atau serangkaian kejadian yang terjadi secara tibatiba ataupun perlahan oleh manusia, alam, atau keduanya. Bencana alam di wilayah pedesaan pesisir tidak hanya berkaitan dengan kondisi wilayah dimana bencana itu terjadi, melainkan juga berkaitan dengan pola kehidupan dan penghidupan masyarakatnya. Di sisi lain, kondisi sosial ekonomi masyarakat pedesaan di pesisir lebih rentan terhadap paparan bencana mengingat ketergantungan yang tinggi terhadap sumber daya pesisir. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji bagaimana kerentanan sosio-ekonomi masyarakat pedesaan di pesisir Kabupaten Demak terhadap paparan bencana banjir dan rob. Kerentanan yang dimaksud dinilai secara spasial pada unit desa yang tersebar di 4 (empat) Kecamatan di wilayah pesisir Demak. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa sebanyak 33 desa atau sekitar 42% dari 78 desa yang dikaji terkategori sebagai paling rentan secara sosio-ekonomi. Sementara itu, 45 desa yang lain atau sekitar 58% terkategori tidak begitu rentan. Dari hasil penelitian yang didapatkan, diperlukan upaya lebih lanjut untuk menangani masyarakat yang terkategori paling rentan tersebut agar dapat lebih tanggap dari dampak bencana banjir dan rob.Kata Kunci: bencana banjir dan rob, kerentanan sosio-ekonomi, masyarakat pesisir pedesaan
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