Climate Change Adaptation in Indonesia Cities: Promoting and Building Resilience from Below

Climate Change Adaptation in Indonesia Cities: Promoting and Building Resilience from Below

This lecture will discuss climate change resilience through its concept, practice, and tools that help critically address the emerging problems and introduce solutions from below to create a resilient community, enabling citizens to become agents for change and foster a climate change resilience culture. This lecture offers six components as the focus: Introduction to climate change resilience; urban vs. rural resilience; resilience from below; experiences from Semarang City related to waste management and flood early warning system; experiences from Pekalongan related to sanitation and access to clean water; and tools/instruments in Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) and application of spatial analyses.