Impact of Coastal Erosion and Tidal Flood to Land Loss at Sriwulan Village, Sayung, Demak, Central Java Province

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10.2991/icge-16.2017.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Coastal erosion, tidal flood, land loss, perception

Abstract

This study was aimed to (1) determine the hazard level of coastal erosion and tidal flood, (2) total land loss due to coastal erosion and tidal flood, (3) the people perception against coastal erosion and tidal flood disaster in Sriwulan village, Sayung Sub-district, Demak, Central Java Province. The study was conducted by analyzing and overlapping maps, observing the field and interviewing the residents. The results showed that (1) most of the Sriwulan village was inundated by tidal flood every day from a few centimeters to more than 1 meter, (2) during the period of 2003 to 2016 there had been 60 hectares land loss, consisted of 51 hectares of fishpond and 9 hectares of settlement, (3) residents were disturbed by the coastal erosion and tidal flood; however, the government had not taken any concrete moves toward these problems yet.

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© 2017, 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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AU  - Chatarina Muryani
AU  - Setya Nugraha
AU  - Singgih Prihadi
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Impact of Coastal Erosion and Tidal Flood to Land Loss at Sriwulan Village, Sayung, Demak, Central Java Province
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Geography and Education (ICGE 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 53
EP  - 56
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icge-16.2017.10
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