PHYSICAL RESILIENCE ASSESSMENT OF COASTAL SETTLEMENTS IN SEMARANG CITY, INDONESIA
Santy Paulla Dewi , Novia Sari Ristanti , Rina Kurniati

Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University

Abstract

The Semarang coastal areas face water and sediment-related disasters such as flood, land subsidence and erosion that threatening the livelihood of its communities and undermine coastal resources and quality of environment. Likewise, lack of adequate infrastructure and facilities make the coastal area included as slum area. Hence, living in slum settlement and facing water-related disasters makes people more vulnerable and difficult to face disasters. Therefore, thid study focuses on the assessment of the physical quality of settlements as part of physical capital that reduces vulnerability and increases the community^s adaptive capacity to overcoming adversities. The study adopted quantitative approach through the scoring and descriptive comparative analysis by comparing the physical condition of each resilient settlement based on a set of indicator.

Keywords: assessment, coastal settlements, physical resilience indicators

Topic: Energy Conservation and Efficiency