Journal of Advanced Civil and Environmental Engineering
Vol 3, No 1 (2020): April

Analysis of Flood Vulnerability Assessment in Urban Area (Case Study: North Semarang District)

Undayani Cita Sari (Diponegoro University)
Raden Harya Dananjaya (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Mar 2020

Abstract

The disasters occurred in Semarang, as the capital city of Central Java, must be considered. This is because it can cause various impacts that can affect the wheels of government. One of the problems which continously occur in the Semarang city is flood. Flood can cause a variety of damage and losses both of material and non-material. This flood can be caused by various factors. In this study, analysed the causes of flooding that occurred in the Semarang City. The location in this study specifically was in the North Semarang District. Analysis was done using scoring analysis with approach method based on preview research. The scoring method performed by Haryani et al. (2012) was adopted in this study. This method used five variables. The variables were rainfall, land coverage, slope shape, land system, and elevation. According to analysis, it shows that four of five variables which are land coverage, slope shape, land system, and elevation, which related to topography and land use, have maximum score to influence the occurrence of flooding in North Semarang District. Accordingly, the North Semarang Subdistrict is categorized as prone to flood hazard. Moreover, with a lot of human activities as result of increasing the population growth, it influences the land use of North Semarang District which further increases the vulnerability of North Semarang District to flooding.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JACEE

Publisher

Subject

Civil Engineering, Building, Construction & Architecture Environmental Science

Description

Journal of Advanced Civil & Environmental Engineering invites and welcomes the submission of advanced research and review papers, innovations and developed selected conference papers that have never been previously publicized. This journal provides publications and a forum to the academics, scholars ...