Welcome to the "Sustainability Knowledge Promotion Project for Indonesia".

Sustainability-K-Governance or S-K-G serves as a knowledge platform which promotes and shares
sustainability knowledge such as: Sustainability research in Indonesia; Disaster risk reduction; Natural
hazards research; Human dimension of early warning systems; Community based disaster risk
reduction; Climate change adaptation; Climate change mitigation; Rural and urban development;
Green technology in Indonesia in different sectors; Local sustainable development research;
Humanitarian emergency; Risk sensitive rehabilitation and reconstruction
Sustainability Knowledge Promotion Project - Indonesia
S-K-G serves as knowledge platforms on sustainability, climate change adaptation, disaster reduction and green technological research in Indonesia
Recent PhD thesis/dissertation in disaster studies with focus on Indonesia:

  • PhD Dissertation. "Tsunami Risk Assesment Using Scenario-based Approach, Geomorphological
    Analysis and GIS" by Djati Mardiatno (Geographie, Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Austria)
  • PhD Dissertation. "Systems Analysis of Social Resilience against. Volcanic Risks: Case Studies of Mt.
    Merapi, Indonesia and Mt. Sakurajima, Japan" by Saut Sagala (Kyoto University). PDF
  • PhD dissertation: Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applied to Tsunami Modeling: TsunaFLASH" at Uni-Bremen
    by Widodo Setiyo Pranowo. PDF
  • PhD dissertation: Tsunami Risk and Vulnerability: Remote Sensing and GIS Approaches for Surface
    Roughness Determination, Settlement Mapping and Population Distribution Modeling. Dissertation, LMU
    München: Faculty of Geosciences by M. Rokhis Khomarudin. PDF
  • PhD dissertation: "Assessing Building Vulnerability to Tsunami Hazard Using Integrative Remote Sensing
    and GIS Approaches" LMU München: Faculty of Geosciences. Sumaryono, PDF
  • PhD diss.: Institutional Vulnerability and Governance of Disaster Risk Reduction: Macro, Meso and Micro
    Scale Assessment (With Case Studies from Indonesia) PDF
  • PhD dissertation "Administrative Resilience: Evaluating The Adaptive Capacity Of Administrative Systems
    That Operate In Dynamic And Uncertain Conditions"  Graduate School Of Public And International Affairs
    University of Pittsburgh.  by Thomas Haase. PDF
  • PhD dissertation: "Disaster risk preparedness: the role of risk governance, multi-institutional
    arrangements and polycentric frameworks for a resilient tsunami early warning system in Indonesia." by  
    Denis Changseng. Uni-Bonn, Germany. PDF
  • PhD dissertation: "Characteristics of Suspended Sediment Transport off River Mouth and Inlet" at
    Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan - By Syamsiddik. PDF
  • PhD dissertation: The Strategic Planning of Post Disaster Reconstruction (A Case Study of Banda Aceh’s
    Reconstruction), School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, The University of
    Queensland. By Aulia Sofyan 2010 PDF
  • PhD dissertation: "Becoming Better ‘Men’ and ‘Women’: Negotiating Normativity through Gender
    Mainstreaming in Post-Tsunami Reconstruction Initiatives in Aceh, Indonesia" at Aberystwyth University by
    Marjanaa Jauhola 2010. PDF
  • Past, present and future morphological development of a tsunami-affected coast: A case study of Banda
    Aceh. University of Twente by Ella Meilianda PDF.
  • Architecture and the politics of identity in Indonesia: a study of the cultural history of Aceh. School of
    Architecture, University of Adelaide. Izziah Hasan 2009. PDF
  • Food security, vulnerability, and recovery; the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in Aceh,
    Indonesia. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Gerald J. And Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy,
    Sally Abbott 2010. PDF
PhD/EngD Crowd-Computing For Disaster
Response And Recovery. Apply..

3 PhD scholarship at Manchester University -
Humanitarianism and Conflict Apply...

Scholarship - Flood Management Course,
Netherlands 2012. Apply...

Summer Academy in Munchen, 2012. More..
PhD Scholarship in Disaster Management
2012: GRISP Japan. Info..

UNU IAS is accepting research proposal for
2012. Info..

DANIDA PhD Scholarship 2012. More...

Australia. PhD Scholarship for research in
either the Environmental or Maritime History
of Southeast Asia (incl. Natural hazards) PDF

ESRC PhD The Economic Valuation Of Flood
Risk University of Birmingham - Birmingham
Business School  Click for more information..
CBDRR Studies on Indonesia
Flood research on Jakarta
  • Texier 2008. Floods in Jakarta: when the extreme
    reveals daily structural constraints and
    mismanagement Disaster Prevention and
    Management. Vol. 17 No. 3, pp. 358-372.
  • Caljouw et al 2005. Flooding in Jakarta: Towards a
    blue city with improved water management. Bijdragen
    tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 161-4 pp. 454-484.
Tsunami research on Indonesia
Disaster policy studies on Indonesia
Research on Padang
Research on Aceh
Research on Merapi
Climate research on Papua and West Papua





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