Mopping the floor without turning off the faucet: Climate Change, Land Subsidence and Spatial justice in the Coastal Urban Community of Tambak Lorok, Semarang
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2022-08-31
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The majority of human population is living along coastlines. In light of climate change, their location is becoming increasingly compromised by sea level rise. In Tambak Lorok, a coastal urban community in Central-Java, the soil is sinking due to ground water depletion. This adds to the environmental hazards of sea-level rise, resulting in daily floods. To establish the occurrence of spatial injustice and its effects on impacts of environmental hazards, local inhabitants and experts were interviewed. It was found that the people of Tambak Lorok raise their dwellings every three to five years to cope with floods. Moreover, it was found that the impact of environmental hazards is influenced by vulnerability. Vulnerability is unequally divided over space and is affected by income and behaviour. This spatial inequality is connected to spatial injustice. This results in larger impact of environmental dangers on poorer communities in the Global South. It is concluded that spatial justice, or rather the lack of it, affects the direction and severity of impacts of environmental hazards over spaces and peoples. The poor will structurally be impacted more severely by environmental hazards, due to spatial injustice.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen