New town development as a form of large-scale development is not a new phenomenon, particularly in developing countries. This development mainly takes place in peri-urban areas due to the high pressure caused by the growing population and the lack of facilities and infrastructure in city centres. As an effect, local communities who originally occupied the land often lose their rights over the property their livelihood might have relied on. Property rights can be grouped differently, classified according to different bundles: appropriation, ownership, and formality of rights. This paper investigates to what extent new town development in Indonesia has affected the property rights of local communities, in terms of the transformation of rights and security level. Moreover, it examines to what extent this transformation has been affected by urbanisation pressure. Ample attention is paid to the transformation of various bundles of rights concerning different usage of property, both residential and cultivated land. A total of 252 questionnaires were distributed to three different locations of new towns in Indonesia. A before-after analysis was employed to identify the transformation of the property rights and their security level, followed by multiple linear regression analysis to observe the influence of the urbanisation pressure to the security level. The research reveals that the transformation of property rights of local residents mainly concerns the appropriation rights. The analysis also indicates that there is a tendency that the security level decreases. Statistically, this appears to be affected by urbanisation pressure variables: type of land, land use, and occupation. With this study, we offer on the one hand a conceptual framework for assessing property rights, while on the other hand, we provide empirical evidence regarding the effects of new town development on property rights transformation and its security level.

Peri-urban development has both potential and consequences. It has consequences in terms of changes in the condition of livelihood assets and quality of life (QoL) of local communities, while it has benefits because it generates new urban activities. In theory, these impacts vary in significance for peri-urban with diverse characteristics. Therefore, this research aims to investigate and compare the impact of new town development on local communities in various peri-urban areas. Ample attention is given to two new town development projects: Metro Tanjung Bunga (MTB) in a coastal area and Kota Baru Parahyangan (KBP) in an inland area of Indonesia. There were 150 respondents involved from 13 kampungs (enclaves). The research begins with a qualitative descriptive analysis to determine the impact of development and continues with a t-test to validate and compare the magnitude of the impact in the two peri-urban areas. The findings show that the development of the new towns has resulted in a decrease in livelihood assets and community QoL levels. An intriguing finding also demonstrates that the two peri-urban areas have significantly different development impacts: coastal peri-urban communities experienced a more significant decrease in QoL than non-coastal peri-urban communities. This research would enrich the discussions about peri-urban transformation, effects of the process on local communities and sustainability of these effects in developing countries.

Kota Palu Sulawesi Tengah adalah salah satu wilayah di Indonesia yang rentan terhadap bencanatsunami dan perlu memiliki suatu rencana tindakan preventif dan mitigasi untuk mengurangi potensiresiko. Studi ini menganalisa zona genangan tsunami dan implikasinya terkait kegiatan mitigasibencana di Kota Palu. Studi ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif menggunakan Sistem InformasiGeografis (SIG) untuk memetakan wilayah yang rawan bencana tsunami. Studi ini menggunakan costdistance untuk memodelkan bencana tsunami, serta menggunakan spatial analyst dan network analystuntuk menganalisa tingkat bahaya, kerentanan, dan resiko bencana tsunami, serta penentuan ruteevakuasi. Analisis mengindikasikan berikut ini: (1) Kota Palu memiliki potensi yang besar terhadaprendaman tsunami, (2) kawasan bahaya tsunami mencakup 9,63% dari total luas kota, (3) kawasanrentan tsunami 9,83% total luas kota, (4) kawasan resiko tsunami 3,83% total luas kota, dan (5)terdapat 50 shelter sebagai lokasi evakuasi dan 108 rute evakuasi di seluruh kota. Kawasan terbangundi wilayah pesisir Teluk Palu teridentifikasi memiliki tingkat resiko bencana tsunami yang tinggi. Jalurevakuasi yang ada tersebar melalui kawasan terbangun dengan jumlah rute yang berbanding lurusdengan kepadatan pendudukKata kunci: permodelan tsunami, resiko, shelter, rute evakuasi, Kota Palu

Vulnerability represents an inequity relationship between the physical and non-physical threats which are openly accepted by community and their capability to overcome these threats. Vulnerability can be categorized into social, economic, and environmental. Social and economic vulnerability occurs when the population income continues to decline and there is a loss of interactions/relationships among population community. Moreover, the environmental vulnerability is caused by the depletion of natural resources and environmental degradation. These changes affects to the significant impacts to their livelihoods. These conditions occur in Mangunharjo sub-disctrict, Semarang. To address these vulnerabilities, community in these areas adapts and modifies their social and economic livelihoods. This paper aims to analyze the modification of social-economic activity. It is important to develop the social-economic resilience. The result shows that modification of social-economic activity, such as their livelihood systems and activities, their income and their social relationships. However, there some differences in the social and economic adaptation based on natural resource and non-natural resources to build resilience

Ketidakmampuan kota utama dalam menerima tekanan akibat peningkatan aktivitas perkotaan telah mendorong terjadinya perluasan pembangunan ke daerah pinggiran. Fenomena ini juga terlihat pada daerah pinggiran Kota Jakarta dan Kota Bekasi dengan adanya pembangunan Kota Harapan Indah (KHI) yang dianggap sebagai solusi untuk memecahkan permasalahan perkotaan, memperluas ketersediaan perumahan dan infrastruktur, dan mengurangi disparitas antara kota utama dan daerah pinggiran kota. Pembangunan skala besar selain mengubah fisik kawasan pinggiran, juga tampak memberikan konsekuensi terhadap kondisi sosial-ekonomi masyarakat lokal. Mereka yang awalnya mendiami dan menggantungkan kehidupannya pada kawasan tersebut tampak mengalami pemindahan baik secara langsung (primary displacement) maupun tidak langsung (secondary displacement). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi dampak pembangunan kota baru terhadap perubahan fisik kawasan dan kondisi ekonomi masyarakat yang mengalami pemindahan akibat pembangunan. Selain itu penelitian ini juga menginvestigasi bagaimana hubungan antara karakteristik ekonomi masyarakat lokal yang mengalami pemindahan dengan tipe dan penyebab pemindahan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan memanfaatkan GIS untuk overlay data spasial dan pengujian statistik chi-square. Hasil temuan membuktikan bahwa terjadi perubahan fisik kawasan berupa perubahan penggunaan lahan yang signifikan untuk pemenuhan kebutuhan perumahan dan infrastruktur perkotaan. Selain itu, sebesar 89% masyarakat lokal mengalami tipe pemindahan langsung akibat pembangunan kota baru. Hasil statistik memperlihatkan bahwa tipe pemindahan berkorelasi kuat dengan jenis pekerjaan setelah pemindahan maupun jumlah pendapatan setelah pemindahan. Sedangkan penyebab masyarakat lokal mengalami pemindahan berhubungan erat dengan jenis pekerjaan setelah pemindahan, serta pendapatan baik sebelum dan setelah pemindahan.

Flash-flood is considered as one of the most common natural disasters in Grenada, a tropical small state island in Caribbean Island. Grenada has several areas which are susceptible to flooding. One of them is Gouyave town which is located in the north-west of Grenada. Its land-use types are highly dominated by green areas, especially in the upper-part of the region. The built-up areas can only be found in the lower-part of Gouyave watershed, near the coastal area. However, there were many land conversions from natural land-use types into built-up areas in the upper-part region. They affected the decrease of water infiltration and the increase of potential run-off, making these areas susceptible to flash-flood. In addition, it is also influenced by the phenomenon of climate change. Changes in extreme temperature increase higher potential of hurricanes or wind-storm, directly related to the potential escalation of flash-flood. To develop effective mitigation strategies, understanding the behavior of flash-flood is required. The purpose of this paper was to observe the behavior of flash-flood in Gouyave watershed in various return periods using OpenLISEM software. It was used to develop and analyse the flash-flood characteristics. The result showed that the climatic condition (rainfall intensity) and land-use are influential to the flash-flood event. Flash-flood occurs in 35 and 100 years return period. Flash-flood inundates Gouyave’s area in long duration, with below 1 m flood depth. The flood propagation time is slow. This condition is also influenced by the narrower and longer of Gouyave basin shape. To develop flash-flood reduction strategies, the overall understanding of flash-flood behavior is important. If the mitigation strategy is adapted to their behavior, the implementation will be more optimum.