Participation, the key to less vulnerability and more resilience
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2017-09
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Indonesia is a country that is known for its large amount of historically active volcanoes, 76 to be precise. One of these volcanoes is the Merapi near Yogyakarta. The Merapi recently erupted in 2015 causing several deaths and destroyed many livelihoods. It is estimated that the Merapi volcano will erupt every one to five years in the near future. The eruptions can cause serious damage to livelihoods, is dangerous for people and can even cause dead. The most dominant destructive outcomes in the case of the Merapi are lahars. The lahar that comes from the mountain easily flows into the river bed that causes extreme water heights and flooding’s downstream. My research area will be around the Code river in Yogyakarta, because that is the area that suffers most from the lahars caused by the Merapi. The degree of suffering of this neighbourhood is not only caused by their location, but also by other factors like their economic problems and low level of education. These factors combined with others make the Code river area more vulnerable and less resilient towards the occurrence of a lahar. Mitigation of the lahars can be organised by urban planning. The urban planning system in Yogyakarta tries to make Yogyakarta less vulnerable and more resilient against the occurrence of a lahar by using a modernist approach of urban planning. Another more recent approach to urban planning is the postmodernist approach. This is an approach with more community-led planning. This research will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of both planning systems and use this knowledge to come to a better use of urban planning and thereby to a better solution for the Code Rive Area and other areas that struggle with the same problems.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen