The Role of Coastal Women in Coastal Environmental Management

DOI

10.2991/agc-18.2019.22How to use a DOI?

Keywords

role, coastal women, coastal environmental management

Abstract

This paper aims to identify and describe the role of coastal women in coastal environmental management. The study was conducted on coastal communities living along the Malabro Beach Area – Tapak Padri in Bengkulu City. Collected based data from some informants selected by snowball sampling techniques including groups of women traders, fishermen, and village tourism management groups. Meanwhile, the required data is collected through group focused discussion techniques, interviews, and observations. Data analysis was done out simultaneously along with the process collecting data using analytical techniques that are commonly applied in qualitative research. Research produces information that the role of coastal women in coastal environmental management includes, (1) efforts to institutionalize values in the community and future generations, namely the efforts made by coastal women to socialize as well as pass on values about environmental cleanliness to community members and future generations, ( 2) behavior keep to maintain environmental cleanliness, namely the form of coastal women's behavior in maintaining the cleanliness of the environment as one of the coastal environmental management efforts. Forms of behavior to maintain environmental cleanliness are: waste management and not throwing garbage, arranging business premises, not polluting sewers, and providing clean water sources, (3) complying with prevailing restrictions, namely is attitude and behavior of coastal women to the rules and applicable sanctions, including not throwing garbage in coastal areas, both on the beach, the sea and even sewers around their homes, no longer “membuang air besar” (BAB) on the beach, not allowed to cut down trees and not to take coral in the sea.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Heni Nopianti
AU  - Sri Handayani Hanum
PY  - 2019/01
DA  - 2019/01
TI  - The Role of Coastal Women in Coastal Environmental Management
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Aceh Global Conference (AGC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 144
EP  - 147
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/agc-18.2019.22
DO  - 10.2991/agc-18.2019.22
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