Adaptive Behavior on Climate Change Event: Jakarta's Flood in 2007

Response to reducing climate induced event such as flood is not only responsibility of community itself but also largely responsible of government agency in carrying out its mandate to be in the forefront of disaster risk management and climate risk management. Government must have adequate capacity to carry out its task for climate change adaptation because successful implementations of adaptation strategy will be depend on government s performance particularly government in local level. Beside that the role and contribution of community organization could be effective partners of the LGU and community in responding to climate change impacts. Hence, this study would be assessing adaptation behavior of local communities as well as decision makers in climate risk areas in Jakarta to determine the set of adaptation possibilities that would be appropriate to be implemented in Jakarta. This study is important to be conducted consider the fast rapidly of climate change that inducing many disaster in this region.

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Armi Susandi is a doctoral graduate of the University of Hamburg/Max Planck Institute for. Meteorology, Germany. He is a Head of Climate Change Center ITB, Bandung, Indonesia. Various research on climate change has been doing by him. He also served as Vice Chairman of the Working Group on Adaptation in National Council on Climate Change - Indonesia