Climate Change

Biography

Biography: Sulistyawati Suyanto

Abstract

Adaptation is a process for adjusting with the changing of climate by reducing the risk level to human. A Stakeholder is people who have an interest in climate change neither the actor nor impacted people, included in the stakeholder are the policy maker and the community. This research aim is to know the current situation of climate change in Gunungkidul, Indonesia and assesses stakeholder perception regarding climate change and to capture climate change adaptation in local level. Qualitative approach using FGD and workshop applied as method to encompass perception among stakeholder. The result of FGD strengthened by the secondary data. The current climate change situation in Gunungkidul was known from the precipitation number in the last 10 years that seems to fluctuate. The people said experiencing with climate change restricted to changing of weather and food security. Adaptation model in farmer, i.e. adjusting the plantation time and choose the crop that survive in dry (need less of water). An entrepreneur, they develop adaptation to climate change with creating business that’s not influenced by changing climate. For the breeder, they did an adaptation by making preserved fodder like silage. And for government employees stated that their life didn’t influence by climate change. From this research, we concluded that Gunungkidul is experience with climate change in many sectors. People in Gunungkidul already did adaptation to climate change based on their local wisdom. So that, they need support from the policy maker to improving this adaptation effort.