City Agencies Research Articles

Promoting the Resilience of Older Adults Through Participatory Climate Change Adaptation Planning

AbstractDespite older adults’ vulnerability to climate change, little research has investigated their preferred adaptation strategies. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into their perspective and the potential for participatory adaptation to enhance their resilience. This paper presents the results of a collaborative adaptation planning process conducted with older adults in Bridgeport, Connecticut. During two meetings, older adult participants developed recommendations following adaptation best practices. Recommendations focused on encouraging preparedness through workshops and informational materials tailored for older adults. Additional recommendations focused on enhancing community services to provide effective warning mechanisms, shelter access, ride sharing and transportation assistance, and establishing a telephone based clearinghouse for extreme weather and emergency resources for older adults. A prioritization exercise showed that the participants and city staff believed all recommendations were potentially effective and feasible. A summative evaluation showed that the participatory planning enhanced resilience by raising awareness among the older adult participants and city agencies, enhancing communication, and increasing the older adult participants’ ability to self-advocate.

A community-based system dynamics approach suggests solutions for improving healthy food access in a low-income urban environment.

Little is known about the mechanisms through which neighborhood-level factors (e.g., social support, economic opportunity) relate to suboptimal availability of healthy foods in low-income urban communities. We engaged a diverse group of chain and local food outlet owners, residents, neighborhood organizations, and city agencies based in Baltimore, MD. Eighteen participants completed a series of exercises based on a set of pre-defined scripts through an interactive, iterative group model building process over a two-day community-based workshop. This process culminated in the development of causal loop diagrams, based on participants’ perspectives, illustrating the dynamic factors in an urban neighborhood food system. Synthesis of diagrams yielded 21 factors and their embedded feedback loops. Crime played a prominent role in several feedback loops within the neighborhood food system: contributing to healthy food being “risky food,” supporting unhealthy food stores, and severing social ties important for learning about healthy food. Findings shed light on a new framework for thinking about barriers related to healthy food access and pointed to potential new avenues for intervention, such as reducing neighborhood crime.

Beyond agency and passivity: Situating a gendered articulation of urban violence in Brazil and El Salvador

This paper argues for a situated politics of women’s agency in enduring intimate partner violence (IPV) in contexts of extreme urban violence. We contend that interrogating agency as dynamic and lived facilitates an acknowledgement of the multi-scalar entanglements of violence across urban spaces. Recognising the complexities in human agency holds the potential for a radical gendered urban politics to emerge whereby people are neither simplistically victims nor pawns of violent processes, but located within dynamic ‘webs of social relations’ (Cumbers A, Helms G and Swanson K (2010) Class, agency and resistance in the old industrial city. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 42(1): 54). Drawing on feminist theory, our conceptualisation of agency serves as a lens through which we can examine the dynamic and gendered nature of urban violence as rooted in multiple social relations (McNay L (2010) Feminism and post-identity politics: The problem of agency. Constellations 17(4): 512–525). The paper draws on research in the urban peripheries of Rio de Janiero and San Salvador.

Planning for Food Access During Emergencies: Missed Meals in Philadelphia.

To illustrate the effects that minor social or environmental disruptions could have on the food access of low-income households in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and provide suggestions for how cities can better incorporate food into emergency planning. Using publicly available data and stakeholder interviews (n = 8) in 2017, we projected the number of meals that would be missed during environmental and social disruptions in Philadelphia, a major US city with a high poverty rate. As our projections in Philadelphia indicate, even just 3 days of school closures could result in as many as 405 600 missed meals for school-aged children. These scenarios provide valuable lessons for other cities to proactively plan for food access continuity in times of uncertainty. Public Health Implications. City planners and other city agencies need to include food as a routine part of emergency planning and redefine the threshold at which emergency response protocols are triggered to better ensure protection of low-income and underserved populations.

Balancing Multilevel Politics in Local Environmental Policy Choices

Although local governments are well poised to address complex environmental policy problems, balancing local and supra-local politics is a key obstacle to overcome. The authors argue that when making policy choices, local policymakers balance local and supra-local influences by exploiting uncertainty in policy goals and associated target populations. Using probit models and survey data of city and county agencies, the authors examine how local and supra-local politics influence local policy choices. Four scenarios are identified: (a) pollution prevention and regional cooperation initiatives affected by local politics, (b) outreach initiatives affected by supra-local politics, (c) transportation alternative initiatives affected by both local and supra-local politics, and (d) energy alternatives and smart growth initiatives affected by interactions between local and supra-local politics. The conclusions suggest ambiguity frames environmental policies, which is to local policymakers’ advantage when balancing contentious multilevel politics.

Bank Concentration and Interest Rate Margin in WAEMU Zone

ABSTRACTThe objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of banking concentration on bank margin. We adapt the specification of [Corvoisier, S., & Gropp, R. (2002). Bank concentration and retail interest rates. Journal of Banking and Finance, 26, 2155–2189] to introduce the number of agencies in capital cities and provinces. We then show that in the short term, only the big four banks have a negative influence on net interest margins in the WAEMU zone. In the long term, the number of agencies in provinces and banking risks are positively linked to bank margin. The policy of opening agencies in provinces as well as credit risk contribute to increasing the cost of long-term credit in the WAEMU zone.

A mixed methods study of satisfaction with justice and desire for revenge in survivors of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York City's World Trade Center.

This study used mixed methods to investigate satisfaction with justice and desire for revenge in a sample of employees from New York City agencies affected by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. A volunteer sample of 196 employees of eight affected agencies provided a short essay about what justice means to them in relation to the 9/11 attacks, followed by 20 quantitative questions covering personal experiences and perceptions of 9/11-related justice. Wilcoxon rank sum tests were performed for bivariate comparisons of quantitative items and qualitative thematic codes. Mixed methods analysis was used to inspect the associations of the content of all text coded for themes with quantitative categories within and across domains. Only the revenge domain showed a significant association between the quantitative category and the qualitative theme. The quantitative revenge category was positively associated with the qualitative justice through safety theme. Examination of qualitative content provided insights into the relationships with quantitative constructs. Qualitative and mixed methods research on justice and revenge in mass casualty settings add new findings to the existing literature and have the potential to contribute to the interpretation and potential expansion of topic areas assessed by quantitative scales.

Implementation of Social Security Protection for Workers at the Village Level (Research Study in Langsa-Aceh City)

The purpose of this study was to analyze the implementation of employment social security for workers at the village level through the Social Security Organizing Agency in Langsa-Aceh City. The type of research used is empirical juridical, the approach method used in this research is sociological juridical namely obtaining the truth empirically by directly reviewing the community towards the implementation of social security protection for workers at the village level. In reality the implementation of social security protection for workers at the village level has not run optimally, even though the social security contributions for the employment program are not taken from the salaries of the workers, but are funded by the government, there are 2 (two) obstacles which are internal policies of each -one of the village heads, and workers' lack of understanding of the rights to social security protection they have while externally is a lack of socialization from the Social Security Organizing Board so that misunderstandings of information received by the village head, and the election of new village heads are in the process. Efforts are made to improve socialization and provide detailed understanding to the village head about the objectives and benefits of the social security employment program for workers. Keywords: protection, social security, at the village level

Utilizing data-driven technology tools for community-led solutions to vacant properties and urban blight

As a city that has lost more than 1/3 of its population over the past 6 decades, some Baltimore neighborhoods suffer from a disproportionate number of vacant and abandoned properties, mired in issues of unclear ownership and “under-water” lien burdens. Cloudy legal and financial restrictions cause properties to cycle through a speculative system that strips them of all equity, and causes them to move out of reach for redevelopment. Evidence suggests that existing processes for addressing these issues, such as tax lien sales and foreclosures, can actually play a role in increasing vacancy rates and amplify neighborhood disinvestment (Dewar, Seymour, and Druță, 2015). Policies aimed at real property tax reform and foreclosure prevention can improve conditions, yet communities, non-profits, and city agencies in Baltimore lacked a unified data system to guide their reform and outreach efforts. One challenge is that property data are housed at various agencies, each using its own system of data storage and dissemination, making it difficult to use different datasets for a single property. The Baltimore City Open Land Data (BOLD) web application arose out of the need to streamline the data gathering process by integrating various datasets for easier use by stakeholders working to stabilize their communities, preserve homeownership, and break the cycle of vacant properties. This presentation will give an overview how BOLD was designed, a short demonstration of the application, and show how it can be used to further research the impact of tax sales and foreclosures in Baltimore City.

'She has to be Prepared to Improve Herself': Shaping Femininities in Transnational Marriage Agencies in Russia

Petra Heyse – Departement Taalkunde (IPrA Research Center), Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. Email: petra.heyse@gmail.com
 This article draws on a broader research project that scrutinizes online / offline representational practices on transnational matchmaking websites featuring so-called 'Russian brides'. The central research question is: how are recurrent online representations related to gender (in intersection with other identity categories) co-constructed in the daily interactions between matchmaking staff and female clients on the floor of a marriage agency. To these aims, the researcher conducted participant observation in a transnational marriage agency in a Russian city and used linguistic ethnographic methodologies. The analysis for this article concentrates on the routine argumentative strategies that are used by matchmaking personnel to legitimate their intermediating role to Russian-speaking female clients in the case agency on the basis of in-depth interviews with agency staff and female clients. The analysis of discursive positioning in interviews with translators and female clients sheds light on the social order that is discursively created. This order is functional in defining and reproducing the commercial dependencies between matchmaking staff and female clients in a transnational globalized industry. This study demonstrates the way in which: (a) matchmaking personnel in the case study constructs subject positions in discourse – i. e. of transnational matchmaking experts and of female clients – by drawing on commonsensical public discourses of difference that encompass gender, age and nationality, and (b) matchmaking personnel affiliates with its clients by conceiving the matchmaking approach as an increasingly popular genre of self-improvement for Russian-speaking women.

Rescaling and reframing poverty: Financial coaching and the pedagogical spaces of financial inclusion in Boston, Massachusetts

After the financial crisis, concerns about consumer financial protection and financial security in the United States (US) resulted in a renewed interest in promoting financial education. Targeting primarily low and moderate-income (LMI) participants, financial literacy and capability programs have been supported by national nonprofit organizations, as well as by city, state and federal agencies. While these programs have grown exponentially and now appear in major cities across the US, little is known about their everyday implementation. This article focuses on financial literacy and capability programs in the greater metropolitan area of Boston, Massachusetts to offer a close read of these under-examined nonprofit spaces of financial empowerment and inclusion in the US context.Based on over 180 hours of participant observation and 45 semi-structured interviews during 14 months of in-depth qualitative research, this article identifies and analyzes a recent change in financial education from group-based workshops to a model of one-on-one financial coaching. In documenting the “coaching turn”, this article offers a novel focus on the nonprofit spaces of financial inclusion and empowerment. As part of this, I examine how these programs shape personal financial habits and expand access to financial products and services for their LMI clients. By focusing on the spaces where the financial practices of populations at the margins of the financial economy are actively being shaped, this research reveals how the active growth of the financial sector is contingent upon making previously unfit market actors into viable debtors in the pedagogical spaces of financial inclusion. This research therefore shows how financial literacy and capability programs are expanding the reach of finance, especially into the lives of LMI populations. As such, this article offers insights into the evolving geographies of financial inclusion and exclusion and is an important complement to literature in geography on the social and scalar relations of financialization.

Influence of discipline on employee performance in regional disaster management agency kota Sungai Penuh

This study aims to determine the effect of discipline on the performance of employees at the Regional Disaster Management Agency of Sungai Penuh City, to know the amount of influence discipline on the performance of employees at the Regional Disaster Management Agency of Sungai Penuh City. This type of research is quantitative research to see the influence between independent variables (independent) with dependent variable (dependent). In this study the researcher wanted to see the effect of discipline on the performance of employees at the Regional Disaster Management Agency of Sungai Penuh City. The results of this study are: obtained Ha value received on the significance and ? (0.05)> 0.05 (significikacy) means there is a significant effect of discipline on the performance of employees at the Regional Disaster Management Agency of Sungai Penuh City. then the better the discipline the better the performance of employees. The influence of discipline on the performance of employees At the Regional Disaster Management Agency in kota Sungai Penuh city City is influenced by factors other than discipline.

Leveraging City Data to Understand the Opioid Epidemic in Philadelphia

ObjectiveTo match fatal overdose information across city data sources to understand which systems overdose decedents may have interacted with prior to their deathIntroductionPhiladelphia is in the midst of a drug epidemic that killed 702 Philadelphians in 2015, 907 in 2016, and is on trajectory to kill 1,200 in 2017. Opioids are involved in the majority of fatal overdoses, contributing to 80% of overdose deaths in 2016. In 2016, the age-adjusted death rate for opioid-involved overdoses was 40.4 deaths per 100,000 residents, up from 17.9 deaths per 100,000 residents in 2010. Despite the epidemiologic work accomplished to date, gaps in knowledge still exist, especially for vulnerable populations such as those with serious mental illness or those who were ever incarcerated, homeless, or within the juvenile justice system. Matching individuals who died of an overdose across city systems could provide insight into missed opportunities for interventions. Findings will help inform policy for those systems that serve clients at highest risk for overdose.MethodsIndividuals who succumbed to fatal overdoses involving opioids between January 1, 2012 and June 30, 2016 were matched to other city data systems going back to January 1, 2000. Descriptions of city systems that were matched to fatal overdose data is provided in Table 1. Frequencies were calculated to determine the number of individuals who received services or received services in the three years prior to death, as indicated by one of the city systems.ResultsBetween January 1, 2012 and June 30, 2016, 2,163 individuals died from an opioid-involved overdose. Overdose decedents were predominately male (69.1%), between the ages of 25-34 (28.0%), and white, non-Hispanic (63.5%). Heroin was the most common opioid detected in the system found in 67.1% of overdose decedents. In the years prior to death, 75.4% of individuals had received a service provided by a city agency and 61.6% had received a service within the three years immediately prior to death. Overdose decedents utilized the most services from Community Behavioral Health (CBH), a managed care organization providing behavioral health services for Philadelphia’s Medicaid population, both ever (59.5%) and in the three years prior to death (46.2%). Many decedents were also incarcerated within the Department of Prisons with 50.4% ever incarcerated and 27.9% incarcerated in the three years prior to death (Table 2). Additionally, 20.9% and 17.5% of overdose decedents had a positive STD or hepatitis C test, respectively, ever reported to the Department of Public Health (Table 3).ConclusionsThis match of overdose decedents to other city systems highlights missed opportunities to help individuals who struggle with opioid dependence. Historically, Philadelphia has taken a recovery oriented approach to drug use, which focuses on drug treatment, and these data suggest that this approach is not sufficient for preventing subsequent fatal overdose. A harm reduction approach, which seeks to reduce the harms of drug use through interventions such as overdose reversal training and naloxone distribution, needle and syringe exchange, and education on safe injection practices, needs to be prioritized in this epidemic alongside recovery oriented practices.

Genesis of Antibiotic Resistance (AR) XXXII Effective Implementation of “Best Manufacturing Practices (BMP)” in coal mining relegates Particulate Matter (PM) inflicted alteration in Commensal Microbial Genome consequential antibiotic resistance (AR)

To determine the probability and its impact of PM from coal mining industry on Commensal Microbial Genome consequential antibiotic resistance (AR), a guided field trip to the North American Coal Corporation – Camino Real Fuels, LLC, Eagle Pass (CRF‐EP), has been completed. The established and implemented BMP at CRF‐EP mitigate and/or minimize the PM and its role in sustainability of soil, water, air and biodiversity are presented here. Air Monitoring Stations are placed throughout the site to analyze the quality, wind flow direction, barometer pressure, also ambient temperature. The air monitors collect data for 24 hours, every 6 days. A meteorological station is set up to collect data every 15 minutes. First, they do the mining to rescue and relocate the wildlife to areas evaluated then approved as receptor sites. Secondly, they clear the area then remove the topsoil and the subsoil. Then the process of drilling and breaking the overburden. The overburden is loaded into haul trucks until the layers of coal are visible, clearing the overburden from the site using the dozer to move it to the old pit where it was. Once the topsoil is removed, then the subsoil, which is about four feet under, then the overburden to get to the surface of the coal scene. When all the layers of coal are loaded and are taken out, they take it through haul trucks so it can be transported to dump sites for final disposal. Next, they take it to the coal preparation plant which is a facility that washes coal of soil and rock. Once it is washed, they crush it into graded sized chunks so it can be easy to handle and prepared for proper discharge to transport to market. At last, the coal is loaded into train cranes to be sent back to Mexico, the staff members explained it takes about eight hours to load and it is done every 24 to 36 hours. After all that process is finished, they start by covering the area the way it was taken out. The environmental group goes and starts the seeding in order for the final stage, which is the reclamation plan, to take effect. The land is restored from the whole mining process for the vegetation to go back to its natural state. With the growth in depth of mines, the movement and the spreading of particulate matter (PM) are very difficult to see due to wrong ventilation. The water that is found near the coal mines, also known as surface water control, help in suppressing the dust. With the dust suppressed, it is no longer able to contaminate the atmosphere. By reclaiming the land used in the coal mining process, the landowners will be able to have their lands back just as if nothing ever happened. Just as important as the reclamation stage of the coal mining process, the mining company also has strict regulations in place in order to minimize the impact the operation has in the surrounding environment. In this site they use trucks using a water mister to control and minimize the dust so that no particulate matter is formed. Once the coal has been removed, a Reclamation Plan is then followed. This plan (or timeline) is used to set goals to accomplish final bond release. The post‐mine conditions are monitored over a period of 10 years and are compared with the baseline conditions. As pointed out by the professional representing the CRF, it has complied with all regulatory criteria. Taken together, CRF‐EP demonstrated that the probability of formation and dissemination of PM from the mining site is minimum as monitored by vigilant internal measures and as well the city, state, and federal agencies.Support or Funding InformationSupported by the Professional Development Funds to Subburaj KannanThis abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.

Managed Participation: City Agencies and Micropolitics in Participatory Budgeting

As participatory budgeting (PB) processes proliferate around the globe and within the United States, there remain questions regarding PB’s contested role as an empowering, pro-poor tool for social justice. This analysis of the New York City PB process focuses on the interactions between everyday participants in PB and city agency representatives, the bureaucrats involved in the process. In New York, PB has successfully broadened notions of stakeholdership for many constituents. Still, the agencies’ micropolitical practices—especially regarding contested politics and local versus technical knowledge—help to forward a model of managed participation, sidelining deliberative aspects of the process. Combined with a context of austerity, these practices limit the ability of such participatory institutions to retain volunteer participants, as well as the ability of constituents to substantively shape state priorities.

Federal and State Preemption of Local Privacy Regulation

In recent years, cities have started to regulate the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data by local government agencies. Much of this regulatory activity involves setting limits on police department acquisition and/or use of surveillance equipment and technology or establishing privacy principles safeguarding all data collection and use by city agencies. Obviously, the prospects for successful local policymaking in the privacy arena (“privacy localism”) extend no further than the preemptive effect of applicable federal and/or state law. If federal electronic surveillance law preempts local surveillance ordinances or city privacy laws, that’s game, set, and match. State preemption of privacy localism poses an even greater threat given that cities derive their power to govern not from any federal sources of law but from state constitutional and statutory provisions as interpreted by state courts. Thus, states can override local privacy initiatives in either of two ways: by enacting laws that preempt local privacy laws or withdrawing city authority to adopt such laws. In short, quite apart from its substantive merits, the success or failure of privacy localism largely rests on cities finding ways to avoid preemption and maintain local power. This Article examines in detail the threat of federal and state overrides of privacy localism. This is a narrow perspective on privacy localism but of vital importance for the reason just given: federal — and especially state — preemption has the capacity to stop local privacy regulation in its tracks. The inquiry into federal preemption of local privacy regulation requires a review of over two dozen federal privacy statutes. This turns out to be quite manageable because so few of them bear directly on local surveillance ordinances or local regulation of city data practices (which are the principle concerns of privacy localism). State preemption is harder to tackle given that there are approximately 700 state privacy laws, which makes for a crowded regulatory arena with a seemingly endless capacity to override local privacy law. The sheer number of state laws requires some simplifying assumptions to guide the state preemption analysis. Because Seattle and New York city are leading the way in regulating local police use of surveillance technologies and local data practices, this Article will mostly focus on Washington and New York state laws regulating (1) video cameras and/or facial recognition, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and drones; and (2) government records or personal data collected by government agencies insofar as they overlap with Seattle and New York City’s locally adopted privacy rules.

Impacts of Downtown Developments to Facilitate Environmental Sustainability and Presence of Core and Frame: A Case Study of Saddar, Karachi, Pakistan

A real sustainable world and a livable environment for everyone is currently needed and becoming an extraordinarily challenging task. Sustainability for whom-who benefits and who loses? The increasing environmental problems are also hampering the sustainability. The remarkable increase in population and severe food shortages has brought unprecedented burden on land.Land is considered as space, territory, location, ecosystem, reserve and human habitat above all. Land-use provides a basis for identification of different functional zones in the city thus providing a framework for shaping the internal structure of a city. The best-planned development of any area is possible when the problems of that area are well understood, well documented and closely monitored. Systematic information on land-use / land cover classes, environmental problems and the available arrangement is critically important for future planning of an area.The rationale of this study is to indicate the presence of core and frame in the downtown area of Saddar, Karachi and to examine how finished downtown developments are designed to facilitate environmental sustainability. The field inventory has been conducted to find out the functional and physical developments and sustainability of the study area. In addition the process models have been applied to find out the environmental sustainability. The results of filed investigations show that Saddar does not fulfill the requirement of any of the classical land use models. With reference to the planned development of the core area, zoning laws should be applied to place the functions properly to their respective location. The main problems should be considered as prime matters for the city planners and agencies.

From “Rust Belt” to “Fresh Coast”: Remaking the City through Food Justice and Urban Agriculture

Rising levels of urban food insecurity and diet-related disease have led to many inquiries into the urban food environment and its relation to health. Community-based food activism and urban agriculture (UA) provide alternatives to conventional food systems and promote food justice. Forms of food activism include community gardens, farmers' markets, antihunger initiatives, legislative advocacy, food literacy campaigns, and organic food consumption. Although many benefits are noted, scholars also contend that food activism often serves to bolster neoliberal structures by encouraging neoliberal citizen subjectivities or engaging in localized activities that do not directly challenge broader structural injustices. To the extent that neoliberalization is a racist (and racialized) process, the reproduction of neoliberal structures contributes to reproducing racial difference. This article examines the complexities of food activism within the context of neoliberal governance, with particular attention to the role of the local entrepreneurial state and its interactions with nonstate actors. City government and private development agencies promote UA as a means of neoliberal economic development that operates via public–private partnership to revitalize and generate value from central city neighborhoods. In so doing, these actors appropriate discourses from community-based UA organizations to legitimize their political–economic interests. Community-based organizations in turn recognize these interests and engage strategically with the city and private agencies to survive in the context of heightened resource competition and performance pressures within the nonprofit sector. Our research is based on seven years of fieldwork in Milwaukee, collecting data through intensive semistructured interviews, participant observations, and documents analysis.

Dynamic Modeling of Failure Events in Preventative Pipe Maintenance

Urban water supply network is ubiquitous and indispensable to city dwellers, especially in the era of global urbanization. Preventative maintenance of water pipes, especially in urban-scale networks, thus becomes a vital importance. To achieve this goal, failure prediction that aims to pro-actively pinpoint those “most-risky-to-fail” pipes becomes critical and has been attracting wide attention from government, academia, and industry. Different from classification-, regression-, or ranking-based methods, this paper adopts a point process-based framework that incorporates both the past failure event data and individual pipe-specific profile including physical, environmental, and operational covariants. In particular, based on a common wisdom of previous work that the failure event sequences typically exhibit temporal clustering distribution, we use mutual-exciting point process to model such triggering effects for different failure types. Our system is deployed as a platform commissioned by the water agency in a metropolitan city in Asia, and achieves state-of-the-art performance on an urban-scale pipe network. Our model is generic and thus can be applied to other industrial scenarios for event prediction.

Development risk analysis method for tsunami disaster

After tsunami disaster hit Aceh and Mentawai Island, Indonesia Government prepare disaster prevention plan for the areas that could be hit by tsunami disaster. Government has predicted that 19 areas could hit by tsunami disaster if big earthquake occur in that areas. Based on that condition, Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) in several cities has prepared the evacuation facilities to reduce the effect of tsunami if the disaster is occurred. Although, the evacuation facilities have been built, however the risk from the impact of tsunami in that areas are still could not be measured. This paper shows the method to measure tsunami disaster risk, and method to determine the priorities handling tsunami impacts in certain area. This risk analysis method was developed based on risk analysis method developed by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The risk of tsunami disaster is determined based on three parameters, i.e: threat of tsunami, vulnerability of people, infrastructure and agriculture, the inundation impact of tsunami. The priorities of tsunami risk handling to the affected areas are determined based on the Risk Prioritisation Index (RPI). The RPI values could be determined from the risk analysis values. The RPI values indicate the risk exposure rank in the tsunami affected areas. From analysis RPI value of each area, Government could determine the area that should be prioritising prevention to facing tsunami disaster because of the high risk level that could be occurred in that area.