Vulnerability of Volcanic Ternate Island : Towards Ecosystem Based Disaster Risk Management

[ABSTRACT]Ternate is a volcanic island amongst North Moluccas Island, which belongs to North Maluku Province. It is a volcanic ecosystem island centered on Gamalama Volcano. The island and its inhabitants are prone to volcanic eruption; hence vulnerability studies are essential for this area. This study applied vulnerability assessment using Indonesian Disaster Management Board standard regulation known as Regulation of (Peraturan Kepala) BNPB No. 2/2012 about risk assessment. There are four vulnerabilities assessed namely economic, social, physical/infrastructure, and environment vulnerability. Weighting method is implemented on each vulnerability score, where social vulnerability considered as the highest weighting factor. Environment vulnerability is the lowest weighting factor in consideration that environment suffered less compare to other element at risk. Based on the calculation, the highest vulnerability is in the urban area while the rural area less vulnerable. As volcanic ecosystem based island, Ternate inhabitants depend on their ecosystem services to support their livelihood. Therefore, this study argued and proposed to apply ecosystem based disaster risk management upon Ternate as volcanic island to minimize its vulnerability.

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/107929/

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/107929/ceresIntlSympo-24-P952.pdf

Chiba University. Center for Environmental Remote Sensing

千葉大学環境リモートセンシング研究センター

会議発表用資料

Proceedings of the CEReS international symposium = CEReS国際シンポジウム資料集

24

952

960

2016-11-21

publisher

環境リモートセンシング研究センター「CEReSシンポジウム資料集」