Assessing Method to Identifying Water Resilience Against Natural and Climate Change Hazards.

¹ Master Program of Environmental Science, School of Postgraduate Studies, Diponegoro University, Semarang - Indonesia
² Department of urban and Regional Planning, Faculty Engineering, Diponegoro University, Semarang - Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: maryono@pwk.undip.ac.id

Abstract

A geographic region may become vulnerable toward water resources in a variety of ways. Common issues arise when man-made infrastructure such as housing, industrial, agriculture and other spatial land use policy implementation exceeds more than desired level. Vulnerability of a region due to water resources could be interpreted as the inability of the region to sustaining economic and social activity associated to socio-economic water availability. This study assess four aspects of water resilience: water quantity, water distribution, water quality, and water requirements. Literature review then followed by interview with academic expert used as method of study. This study found that four aspect of water vulnerability mostly have been applied to asses water resource vulnerability. Each aspect have a specific characteristic and could be define more specific and detail indicator according to the local content.