Adaptive Behavior on Climate Change Event: Jakarta's Flood in 2007: The existing adaptive behavior of Jakarta society facing climate change impact and the future adaptation action - Softcover

Susandi, Armi; Pratiwi, Dwi Resti; Tamamadin, Mamad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659293156 ISBN 13: 9783659293153

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Response to reducing climate induced event such as flood is not only responsibility of community itself but also largely responsible of government agency in carrying out its mandate to be in the forefront of disaster risk management and climate risk management. Government must have adequate capacity to carry out its task for climate change adaptation because successful implementations of adaptation strategy will be depend on government’s performance particularly government in local level. Beside that the role and contribution of community organization could be effective partners of the LGU and community in responding to climate change impacts. Hence, this study would be assessing adaptation behavior of local communities as well as decision makers in climate risk areas in Jakarta to determine the set of adaptation possibilities that would be appropriate to be implemented in Jakarta. This study is important to be conducted consider the fast rapidly of climate change that inducing many disaster in this region.

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About the Author

Armi Susandi is a doctoral graduate of the University of Hamburg/Max Planck Institute for. Meteorology, Germany. He is a Head of Climate Change Center ITB, Bandung, Indonesia. Various research on climate change has been doing by him. He also served as Vice Chairman of the Working Group on Adaptation in National Council on Climate Change - Indonesia

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659293156
• ISBN 13: 9783659293153
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72