A STUDY OF PERI URBAN AIR QUALITY AND LAND USE CHANGES USING GIS APPLICATION IN YOGYAKARTA CITY, INDONESIA

Gunawan, Sintha Prima Widowati (2008) A STUDY OF PERI URBAN AIR QUALITY AND LAND USE CHANGES USING GIS APPLICATION IN YOGYAKARTA CITY, INDONESIA. Masters thesis, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.

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Abstract

The rapid development has shifted the urbanization to the peri-urban area. This has enhanced quality of life in the socio-economic aspects. On the contrary, the UN found that the urban lifestyles have been the major cause of the environmental degradation due to the consumption patterns of the natural resources. This has contested the principle of the sustainable development which suggests the socio-economic enhancement should go along with environmental protection. Furthermore, the city now is not only a place for physical development, but also for developing the people capacity thus it must provide a viable environment for working as well as for contented living. The uncontrolled suburbs-sprawl in the northern fringe of Yogyakarta Urban Area has caused enormous loss of agricultural lands and indicated an adverse effect to the ambient air quality due to vehicular emission. According to the Provincial Environmental Impact Control Agency, one of the monitoring stations in northern peri-urban area recorded overlimit ambient lead level in 2004. The ambient lead pollution issue has been raised because the leaded gasoline is still widely distributed in Yogyakarta City and 95% of the motorized vehicles are using this fuel. This occurrence should alert the urban planners that integrated planning is a must in order to have a livable city. This study will try to seek the correlation of land use changes and transportation factors to the ambient lead level in peri urban area using multiple linearregressions method with the aid of remote sensing technology and GIS application for land use changes identification. Thus, it will facilitate the planners and decision makers to deal with lead pollution issue in the northern fringe of Yogyakarta Urban Area.

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