The Influence of Groundwater Basin Existence Towards The Urban Development In Java

Abstract

Groundwater is one of natural water resource that most commonly used to support the human activity. It plays an important role in shaping both physical and non-physical urban development aspect. The different availability of groundwater supply could lead into the different development rates of each area, especially in Java. The correlation between the existence of groundwater basin (CAT) and its influence to urban development could be used as base consideration to propose the development typology. Defining development typologies and what variable could distinct the developments in CAT and non-CAT area using discriminant analysis and remote sensing approach. Furthermore, there are three stages need to observe, i.e.: identify urban-rural area delineation change, defines development rates, and the last is defining discriminate variable which have significantly different means across the urban development in CAT and Non-CAT area. The observation reveals that in order to find the correlation between CAT existence and development rate, the eight-development typology has been establish. The typology is conduct regard to the development rate that categorizes in zero growth, slow growth, moderate growth, and fast growth both in CAT and Non-CAT. While, according to the result of discriminant analysis there are six variables that could distinct the urban developments in CAT and non-CAT, i.e.: proportion of dry land farm, status area, wet-land farm, built up area, agricultural household, and road density.