12 articles in this issue
Tjuk Kuswartojo
Cities percieved having strategic role for implementing global program onsustainable development as established through Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro by 1992. It is realized that cities are fundamental for economic opportunities and social interaction, a... see more
Mukaryanti Mukaryanti
The pattern of the land, natural resources and environment used will influence the sustainability of a city. Nowadays, many cities in Indonesia have been developed without consideration of ecological aspects. The development of built areas that tends to b... see more
Chay Asdak
The concept of carrying capacity of water resource is applied as amanagement tool for the operationalization of sustainable regional planning.Carrying capacity of a region, comprising its supportive and assimilativecapacities, is defined as the ability to... see more
Alinda Medrial Zain
Urban green space plays several roles in balancing the urban ecosystem and maintaining the environment sustainability. Firstly, the urban green space plays a valuable role in prevention of flooding. Trees restrain the movement of sediment and run off. Sec... see more
Didit Okta Pribadi
Urban and regional development needs space and land which then replaces the existence of natural space. The loss of natural space does not give negative impacts as long as it does not exceed ecological carrying capacity.Unfortunately, urban and regional d... see more
Nawa Suwedi
Regional Spatial Planning (RTRW) of a city or a region becomesimportant due to limitation of land, while land necessity is increasing. Inorder to achive the sustainable city / region, the attention to natur... see more
Tri Harso Karyono
Modern life and modern technology require vast use of energy. The use ofenergy in the cities has been dramatically escalated within the last decades. Since most of energy consumed by people live in urban areas is from the non-renewable resources like foss... see more
HMHB Henky Sutanto
The Tropical Eco-City Concept brings ideas of the possibility to achieve 11and 12 targets of the Millennium Development Goal in tropical humid climate such as Indonesia by continually overcome the challenges of fresh water supply and a waste free communit... see more
Ikbal M.Eng
Mixed sludge generated from wastewater treatment plant increases annually.Organic content as COD of the mixed sludge is about 20.000mg/l, which isconsidered to be high-strength wastewater. Due to the sludge have high watercontent, it cannot self-burn. In ... see more
Achmad Hasan
Chlorine is a chemical substance, which has been used in many industriesfor a long time, especially in the pulp and paper industry and drinking watertreatment. Chlorine has been used in making dye, medicine, plastic, solvent and dry clean. In the sector o... see more
Nusa Idaman Said
According to PDAM survey in Jakarta, Surabaya and other cities, surfacewater resources didn’t meet standard quality anymore for raw drinking water.Synthetic detergents, mostly anionic detergents have been widely used inIndonesia over past three decades, s... see more
Maryadi Maryadi
The growth of the oil palm industry in Indonesia has been phenomenal. With only 106.000 ha planted in 1968, it has increased to more than 3,393 million ha in 2000. Fertilizer has played a major role in contributing to the advancement of sustainable oil pa... see more