ECONOMIC RESILIENCE OF AGRIBUSINESS HOUSEHOLDS IN PUTIH RIVER REGION FOLLOWING THE 2010 MERAPI VOLCANISM EVENTS

• Main Authors: , Bujed Pamungkas, , Dr. Rini Rachmawati, M.T
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2012
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/98974/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=55528
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

Motivated by preliminary field visit findings about the presence of ability to minimise loss resulting from impacts of the 2010 Merapi volcanism events on economic activity performed by agribusiness households in Putih River region, this research aimed at constructing economic resilience theory to explain the process in which this ability developed, measuring economic resilience of agribusiness households in Putih River region, as well as developing economic resilience model. Construction of economic resilience theory adopting grounded-theory methodology explains that economic resilience emerges as a consequence from the implementation of strategies in dealing with impacts of disastrous events on business activity. These strategies, ranging from simply absorbing loss to taking variety of active measures, are shaped through the interaction of internal feature of business (contextual setting) and external situations (intervening conditions), as well as the length of business interruption. The presence of causal conditions, being physical damage, intensity of disastrous events, and disruption on utility service, also contributes influence to economic resilience. Measurement of economic resilience finds the average aggregated economic resilience in a year period of time after disaster reached 0.33, denoting maintaining of one-third normal business functioning. Level of functioning that exceeds the normal functioning level (one value) as well as that reflects the absolute cessation of economic functioning (zero value) was also found. Over three timespans disaggregated economic resilience value shows tendency of inclination with time moving away from disasters. With robust statistical model (exceeding 0.9 R2 value), the number of active measures implemented to deal with disaster impact was disclosed as the most influential factor to the development of economic resilience. Seen from the variability of time, type of measures being continuously influential was the one that involves change in business practice. Those research findings and results present the existence of immanent feature of element at risk to soften severity resulting from disasters impact. This supports the possibility of living with disaster risk and can be an underlying reason to the necessity of promoting resilience nurture as complementary to mitigation and preparedness in disaster risk management practice. Another implication of this research includesinclusionof economic resilience value or index into disaster economic loss assessment practice to gain closer proxy to truly unavoidable economic loss. This research acknowledges its weaknesses, particularly in relation to its simplistic performance of grounded-theory method. Some methodological difficulties within the work of measuring and modelling empirical economic resilience at micro-economic level are also noticed, particularly in determining appropriate parameters in both works without causing excessive burden to data collection process. Despite of these flaws, this research performs its capability in explaining economic resilience development process and conducting empirical measurement on resilience using economic purview at micro-economic level, as well as opens niches for future researches in topics of disasters� economic impact.