THE TIDAL FLOOD-AFFECTED COMMUNITY’S PERCEPTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IN PASIRKRATONKRAMAT SUB-DISTRICT PEKALONGAN

Muh Aris Marfai,Eviana Rosida,Sudrajat

doi:10.26480/ees.02.2020.62.67

Abstract

Pekalongan City, particularly North Pekalongan District, lies adjacently to the Java Sea. This situation shapes the vulnerability of the District to tidal floods, which have been occurring since 2005. Tidal floods negatively affect the community, as well as the inundated environment. Since 2016, the flooding has reached the areas in Pekalongan Barat District, especially Pasirkratonkramat Sub-District. It affected 1,435 households distributed in 13 Community Units. This research analyzed the community perception of the quality of the environment inundated by tidal floods, including the biophysical and the socio-economic environments. It used questionnaire and performed interviews with 93 heads of household as the respondents, as well as field observation that produced qualitative data of environmental quality. The results of this research presented the tidal flood-affected community’s perception of environmental quality, which was determined by education, income, and length of residence in tidal flood-prone locations. Furthermore, the results of community’s perception of environmental quality analyses using measuring instruments and statistical tests, i.e., chi-square test and binary logistic regression, supported the research analysis.

Highlights

Environmental science can be defined as a study about the physical, nonliving and living, surrounding of a society with which it has a reciprocal relationship (Boersema and Reijnders 2009)
This study examined the perception of the community affected by tidal floods in Pasirkratonkramat Sub-District, Pekalongan Barat District, Pekalongan City
The results show that as many as 91.4% of respondents stated that the environmental quality in Pasirkratonkramat Sub-District which was affected by tidal flood was bad, while 8.6% of respondents stated that the quality of the environment quality was good

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Introduction

Environmental science can be defined as a study about the physical, nonliving and living, surrounding of a society with which it has a reciprocal relationship (Boersema and Reijnders 2009). The environment within the ecosystem and ecological framework is a dynamic space with a variety of interactions and a series of processes that take place inside. From an ecological and environmental perspective, environmental degradation is characterized by a decrease in the quality and quantity of the conditions of land, water, air, soil and other physical aspects that can cause crisis, environmental problems and decreasing the quality of the environment from time to time (Marfai and King 2008, Marfai 2013). Global warming which followed by climate change has become a new disaster in the world. Global warming is moving slowly but clearly and has permanent impact. Global warming has caused the melting of polar ice caps. Increasing sea water temperature causes sea water to expand that the volume of sea water become higher (Marfai 2003, IPCC 2007, Diposaptono et al 2009, Marfai 2011, Rif’an et al 2012)

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