Wave-Driven Set-Up of Fluid Mud: Demak, Indonesia

Demak is a regency within the province of Central Java, Indonesia, with a mud-mangrove coast bordering the Java Sea. The region is facing a rapid retreat of the coastline, threatening the livelihood of a large part of the population. The main cause of the erosion is the deforestation of the green belt of mangroves. This has disturbed the...

Socio-Hydrology of Keduang Sub-basin in Central Java, Indonesia using case study approach: Understanding the relation between hydrology of Keduang sub-basin and social aspects using qualitative case study

Since coined in 2011, socio-hydrology studies have been dominated with mathematical models developed by mostly hydrologists, which often did not take social aspects into account so seriously. Some people argued that more attention into the social part of socio-hydrology should be given, because often the social aspects were too oversimplified....