GIS Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Community Resilience
Rapid urbanisation in the Upper Citarum River Basin—driven by the sprawl of the Bandung Metropolitan Area—has fundamentally transformed landscapes and ecosystems, resulting in spatially complex and socio-ecologically vulnerable environments. While numerous studies have applied Geographic Information Systems and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) to assess community resilience, this study employs a domain-based framework to foreground key socio-environmental issues. The primary objective is to evaluate geographical parameters across four resilience domains—water security, disaster resilience, environmental sustainability, and well-being—using 26 spatial indicators. Sensitivity analysis was conducted to assess the influence of input uncertainties and weighting decisions, supported by statistical methods and ethnographic insights from previous research. Factor Analysis (FA) and K-means clustering were used to classify villages into four management zones for targeted intervention recommendations. The results indicate spatial variation in resilience: villages farther from urban centres exhibit stronger environmental sustainability; areas with low population density and high natural land cover demonstrate higher water security. Disaster resilience tends to increase with greater distance from rivers and built-up zones, while well-being remains lowest in rural areas. This framework holds strong potential for adoption in other data-scarce peri-urban contexts across the Global South, supporting evidence-based resilience planning amid rapid urban expansion.
History
Year
2025Institution
Monash UniversityFaculty
Faculty of Art, Design and ArchitectureStudent type
- PhD