Vulnerability of Mountains People of Papua to the Climate Change

ABSTRACT

Global climate change effects have different intensities on people‘s life related to the degree of vulnerability to the change. The avaibility of natural resources like forest, water and other resources have taken role to the people‘s vulnerability. Mountain people is a community that might vulnerable to the climate change because of depending on natural resouces for their life socially, economically and culturally. The research was conducted in two villages on Arfak Mountains and two villages of Jayawijaya district at more than 1,500 m asl. The research method was descriptive with semi-structural interviewed technique in order to predict the vulnerability of local people to the climate change. Data were analized by tabulation and scorings. The result of the research showed that local people of Arfak Mountains and Wamena are relatively vulnerable when extremely climate change occur like raising on temperature and rainfall. The scores identify people of Arfak Mountains and Wamena sensitivity as quite sensitive to sensitive related to social, economics and biofisic of the location. Their main source of income, agriculture, and place where they live will be affected because their position on slope which is at big risks of erosion and flood. Where as, people in Wamena, the district of Jayawijaya, experience adversity sometimes and lost their source of income, sweet potato, because of unpredictable flood.

Keywords: climate change, vulnerability, Arfak Mountains people, Wamena

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Judul Seri

Proceeding INAFOR (International Conference of Indonesia Forestry Researchers) 2011

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: ., 2012

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575-584

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English

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978-979-8452-45-1

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