The Change of Land Cover and Biocapacity of CO2 Gas Emission Absorption in Gresik Urban Area

EasyChair Preprint no. 366

Abstract

Gresik urban area is dominated by industrial, housing, trade and services activities. The growth of activities contributes to the land use change from green open spaces into built-up areas. The impact of land use change influence the level of air pollution and CO2 gas emission in Gresik urban area. The previous study briefly shows that this urban area produces 50.37% of the total CO2 gas emissions.The green open space can recycle the CO2 gas emissions and can increase the absorption capacity of the CO2 gas emissions (bio-capacity). The land cover change for built-up area potentially reduces the absorption of CO2 gas emissions in Gresik urban area. Therefore the identification of the land cover change on absorption of CO2 emissions is an objective of this study. The preliminary study can formulate the strategic steps in the development of Gresik urban area that supports urban greenery and adaptive effort to respond the climate change. The study is conducted in two steps. The first step is to analysis the land cover change based on the Landsat satellite imagery analysis. The second step is to measure the dynamic change of the region’s ability (bio-capacity) to absorb CO2 emissions by using ecological footprint analysis. From the results analysis show that Gresik urban area has a high development of developed land to the North area, Manyar Sub District. The growth of the developed land is more converting the fishpond land. Bio-capacity of CO2 gas emission absorption increases from 2003 of 3.548 gha to 5.656 gha but the comparison between bio-capacity of CO2 gas emission absorption and developed land shows the declining tendency in each year. In 2003, the comparison score is 1.59 gha/ha of developed land. In 2014, the score is declining into 1.48 gha/ha or developed land.

Keyphrases: Bio-capacity, CO2 emission, ecological footprint, land cover change

@Booklet{EasyChair:366,
  author = {Achmad Ghozali and Fery Irfan Nurrahman and Eko Budi Santoso and Belinda Aulia Ulfa},
  title = {The Change of Land Cover and Biocapacity of CO2 Gas Emission Absorption in Gresik Urban Area},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 366},

  year = {EasyChair, 2018}}