Evaluation of Environmental Performance Using the Green City Index in Depok City, Indonesia

Abstract

Green City Index as a reference to measure environmental performance and improve environmental quality. The growth and development of cities raises environmental problems, especially for cities that have strong connections to the capital of Indonesia such as Depok City. This study aims to obtain the value of environmental performance in the city of Depok with quantitative methods based on the Green City Index with eight assessment categories. The results of this study indicate that the environmental performance of the City of Depok with an average percentage of all categories of 50.2%. Average performance falls into six categories, namely, Energy and CO2, Land Use and Building, Waste, Sanitation, Air Quality and Environmental Governance. While the below average performance in the Transport and Waste category and above average performance in the Water category. For the assessment of community perceptions through the Index of Happiness obtained by 60% of happy people, 23% of people are very happy and 17% of people less happy about the state of the surrounding environment. So it can be concluded that the majority of the people of Depok City are happy living in Depok City with the current environmental conditions.