Coastal Community Economic Empowerment Strategy in Merauke Regency

Community economic empowerment is an important approach to realize a balanced, developing and just economic structure, to realize a successful economic empowerment, community business capacity must become strong and independent, and in sync with community’s best potential and product, in this paper is coastal community. The purpose of this study is how the main strategies and work programs that need to be taken to improve the economy of the community in Merauke Regency by optimally utilizing coastal community resources and knowing the inhibiting and supporting factors of empowerment. Qualitative research method with a SWOT analysis tool with a focus on data sources based on the results of interviews and discussions with the fisheries service and fisheries business actors. The results of the study explain that the increase in fisherman productivity has the highest weight value which is carried out by increasing the role of capital assistance and market intervention, verified by the efforts of coastal communities.

Celebrating a Heterogeneous Community: The Ebibi Festival of the Epe People

The Ijebu people and their rituals have been the subject of several scholarly studies, but existing work concentrates on the larger and more prominent Ijebu communities. Little attention has been paid to the more obscure communities, particularly those in the riverine areas. This article examines the coastal community of Epe, divided into an Ijebu and a Lagos "town," through a study of the Ijebu Ebibi festival. It pays attention to the origin and plural nature of the community, to participation in the various communal events, and it offers a comparison between the coastal and upland Ijebu communities. Other areas of focus include the aesthetics and didacticism of oral performances, moral codes and communal self-reliance. The article concludes that Ebibi is a festival that delineates community both through bringing together multiple performances, styles, and social groups in Ijebu Epe, by highlighting differences between different Ijebu communities that celebrate Ebibi, and by confirming the boundary between Ijebu and Lagos Epe.

Vulnerable Territories: The Perpetually Shifting Edge

<p>New Zealand’s coastline is rapidly receding. The increased threat of rising sea levels continues to erode the shore line causing extensive and irreparable damage to thousands of coastal properties, often dismantling communities and the kiwi dream of living near the ocean. With global temperatures continuing to rise, all of our coastal communities are at risk. The current measure of response to this issue is through managed retreat, the removal and relocation of all ‘at risk’ buildings in coastal hazard zones. While this approach is successful in preserving the physical structures, it remains an undesirable solution that forces homeowners to abandon their community and the coastline for the safety of higher ground. The retreat is hampered among debate within the effected regions as the forced detachment of long standing communities often results in the loss of ‘sense of place’ that living within a coastal community enables. This thesis proposes that Haumoana in Hawkes Bay offers the fitting location to introduce an alternative coastal community model that actively responds to the impending hazards whilst retaining the societal poetics. Situated just south of the nearby communities of Te Awanga and Haumoana, two of the most at-risk coastal regions in New Zealand that are currently facing the prospect of dismantlement. The site was specifically chosen due to the fact that erosion is predicted to diminish half its usable land over the next century, this thesis will investigate the potential risks to the respective coastline, the role that this would play in an adaptive community, and the possible design options that can respond and enhance a future sustainable landscape. This thesis argues that a coastal community can be designed to actively adapt and respond to the threat of erosion rather than being dismantled through retreat; that by adopting design principles that protect the land on which they are placed, the coastal hazards of the region can be lessened; and that an adaptive community model can be achieved whilst retaining the ‘sense of place’ that coastal community’s exhibit. The thesis proposes that this can be achieved by incorporating and reinforcing natural features of the coast into the architectural design at various scales; accommodating for, and adapting to the imminent threat of erosion; and by invoking principles of sustainable design in company with adaptive planning and resilient design, thereby pushing the standards of coastal planning beyond typical practice.</p>

Vulnerable Territories: The Perpetually Shifting Edge

<p>New Zealand’s coastline is rapidly receding. The increased threat of rising sea levels continues to erode the shore line causing extensive and irreparable damage to thousands of coastal properties, often dismantling communities and the kiwi dream of living near the ocean. With global temperatures continuing to rise, all of our coastal communities are at risk. The current measure of response to this issue is through managed retreat, the removal and relocation of all ‘at risk’ buildings in coastal hazard zones. While this approach is successful in preserving the physical structures, it remains an undesirable solution that forces homeowners to abandon their community and the coastline for the safety of higher ground. The retreat is hampered among debate within the effected regions as the forced detachment of long standing communities often results in the loss of ‘sense of place’ that living within a coastal community enables. This thesis proposes that Haumoana in Hawkes Bay offers the fitting location to introduce an alternative coastal community model that actively responds to the impending hazards whilst retaining the societal poetics. Situated just south of the nearby communities of Te Awanga and Haumoana, two of the most at-risk coastal regions in New Zealand that are currently facing the prospect of dismantlement. The site was specifically chosen due to the fact that erosion is predicted to diminish half its usable land over the next century, this thesis will investigate the potential risks to the respective coastline, the role that this would play in an adaptive community, and the possible design options that can respond and enhance a future sustainable landscape. This thesis argues that a coastal community can be designed to actively adapt and respond to the threat of erosion rather than being dismantled through retreat; that by adopting design principles that protect the land on which they are placed, the coastal hazards of the region can be lessened; and that an adaptive community model can be achieved whilst retaining the ‘sense of place’ that coastal community’s exhibit. The thesis proposes that this can be achieved by incorporating and reinforcing natural features of the coast into the architectural design at various scales; accommodating for, and adapting to the imminent threat of erosion; and by invoking principles of sustainable design in company with adaptive planning and resilient design, thereby pushing the standards of coastal planning beyond typical practice.</p>

A Self-Adaptive Method for Mapping Coastal Bathymetry On-The-Fly from Wave Field Video

Mapping coastal bathymetry from remote sensing becomes increasingly more attractive for the coastal community. It is facilitated by a rising availability of drone and satellite data, advances in data science, and an open-source mindset. Coastal bathymetry, but also wave directions, celerity and near-surface currents can simultaneously be derived from aerial video of a wave field. However, the required video processing is usually extensive, requires skilled supervision, and is tailored to a fieldsite. This study proposes a video-processing algorithm that resolves these issues. It automatically adapts to the video data and continuously returns mapping updates and thereby aims to make wave-based remote sensing more inclusive to the coastal community. The code architecture for the first time includes the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) to reduce the data complexity of wavefield video. The DMD is paired with loss-functions to handle spectral noise and a novel spectral storage system and Kalman filter to achieve fast converging measurements. The algorithm is showcased for fieldsites in the USA, the UK, the Netherlands, and Australia. The performance with respect to mapping bathymetry was validated using ground truth data. It was demonstrated that merely 32 s of video footage is needed for a first mapping update with average depth errors of 0.9–2.6 m. These further reduced to 0.5–1.4 m as the videos continued and more mapping updates were returned. Simultaneously, coherent maps for wave direction and celerity were achieved as well as maps of local near-surface currents. The algorithm is capable of mapping the coastal parameters on-the-fly and thereby offers analysis of video feeds, such as from drones or operational camera installations. Hence, the innovative application of analysis techniques like the DMD enables both accurate and unprecedentedly fast coastal reconnaissance. The source code and data of this article are openly available.

Assessing local community resilience to tsunami in a small port (Case Study: Sadeng Port, Indonesia)

Coastal community is vulnerable to hazards including tsunami hazard. Coastal communities suffer the most both physical and psychological impacts. The main purpose of this research to assess local community resilience to tsunami in small port which has a unique characteristic. Main data of this research was collected by field observation and interview. Interview process were addressed to key persons and households. USAID coastal community assessment is used as main method in this research. There are eight elements of resilience for coastal community resilience: governance, society and economy, coastal resource management, land use and structural design, risk knowledge, warning and evacuation, emergency response and disaster recovery. The results show that overall rating for eight elements of community resilience is 2,5 or 50 %. It is only halfway to reach an ideal criterion for community resilience. Strong elements in this community are risk knowledge and warning and evacuation, while weak elements are society and economy, coastal resource management, and disaster recovery. The community should gain more effort especially in developing a sustainable economy and strengthening integration among stakeholders for disaster recovery.

IDENTIFIKASI KESEJAHTERAAN MELALUI PENDEKATAN PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT PESISIR DI KABUPATEN KEPULAUAN MERANTI

The potential extent of the waters in Indonesia does not guarantee the welfare of the community. Precisely for people living in coastal areas, accessibility to the utilization of coastal resources is still low due to high poverty rates, lack of education, and a culture of market access that focuses on household management. Related to that, this article was written with the aim of identifying the level of welfare and empowerment of coastal communities in Meranti Islands Regency. Based on literature studies, the characteristics of coastal communities are unique but unproductive, resulting in marginalization and low economic levels of coastal communities. The results of this article show that coastal communities need systematic efforts to urge dimensional change through empowerment as an approach to achieve the goals of development of prosperous, fair and prosperous communities as well as strategies that can be used in empowerment. Coastal community empowerment is carried out by paying attention to indicators of coastal community welfare and factors of needs, income, challenges and potential resources (SW0T Analysis) owned by coastal communities in Meranti Islands Regency. Through the results of this literature, information will be obtained on characteristics, identification of welfare levels and strategies of coastal community empowerment approaches. The sources of information in this article are collected from various reference sources such as journals, books with related studies, websites such as Google search, google scholar and scimago as well as some articles derived from other desktop research. Then the secondary data is analyzed systematically review and identified by analyzing SWOT descriptively from references related to the study that the authors found.