Integrated urban water resource management for climate resilience: lessons from Indonesia
"More and more people live in cities, many in informal settings where disaster risk and appropriate land use is not sufficiently understood. Meanwhile climate change is impacting life in cities. Climate related hazards like extreme heat, droughts, and floods are already common, and likely to get worse. The risks from climate change are no longer future, or long term concerns, but are affecting many of us now.
Cities across the Asia Pacific region need to change existing policy and practice, or develop new ones to cope with a changing climate and increasing disaster risk. One such city is Pekalongan, an Indonesian city home to 300,000 people. In order to understand the risks facing Pekalongan, and identify solutions, Mercy Corps Indonesia partnered with local and regional government and research institutes to carry out a climate risk and impact assessment. The increase in frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall, along with sea level rise, is leading to more flooding. Land subsidence, caused by excessive ground water extraction, is further exacerbating the severity of floods. Most of Pekalongan City is expected to be inundated by 2035."
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