A Toward Sustainable Built Environment: A Gender-Eco Friendly Master Plan of A Sinking Village for Climate Change Adaptation

Abstract

Demak Regency is one of several cities that are submerged by tidal flooding disasters caused by climate change, especially in Sriwulan Village, Sayung District, which threatens the sustainable built environment and also the women in the village. Even though the built environment has been disturbed by climate change, women can adapt and take the initiative during disaster events, including taking the place of their jobless husbands as breadwinners during the Covid-19 pandemic. A gender-responsive village master plan could become a crucial issue in village development, especially for the ones impacted by disasters. Therefore, this research is located in Sriwulan village, Sayung District, Demak Regency which wants to create a gender eco-friendly master plan for Sriwulan village for a sustainable built environment. A descriptive-qualitative method was conducted to produce a gender eco-friendly Sriwulan village’s master plan. The result found a rapid increase in tidal flooding inundation and level in Sriwulan village. It was also reported that women have a limited role in tidal flooding disaster risk reduction and adaptation because of insufficient information, training, and workshop about climate change, disaster risk reduction, and adaptation. In conclusion, women should be given the opportunity as an actor in leading the community to cope with the climate change impact for a better future by increasing their capability and fair knowledge. In the future, village life will be prolonged by the “Gender Eco-Friendly Master Plan for Sustainable Built Environment of Sriwulan Village” which will change Sriwulan to a prospective Eco-Tourism Village.