Urban resilience to floods in parts of Makassar, Indonesia

The Makassar Strait Tsunamigenic Region, Indonesia

The Makassar Strait region has had the highest frequency of historical tsunami events for Indonesia. The strait has a seismic activity due to the convergence of four tectonic plates that produces a complex mixture of structures. The main tsunamigenic features in the Makassar Strait are the Palu-Koro and Pasternoster transform fault zones, which form the boundaries of the Makassar trough. Analys...

Enhancing Community Resilience to Floods in Iran: The Case of Post-Disaster Neka

The frequency and impacts of floods have increased in Iran in the past few decades. As flood events are in most instances associated with human activities, mitigating their impacts requires non-structural and community-based initiative alongside structural measures. In this connection, the concept of community resilience has been advanced in recent times, which attaches importance to interactio...

Risk factors for poor tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Makassar, Indonesia.

Resistant tuberculosis is an important public health problem in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 1,582 smear positive tuberculosis patients registered with the National Tuberculosis Program during 2007 in Makassar, Indonesia, to assess risk factors associated with poor tuberculosis treatment outcomes. Of the 1,582 patients, 265 had a poor treatment outcome...

Green Open Space Housing Public Company Panakkukang Makassar Indonesia

This study is a field research that aims to determine the extent of green open spaces that serve asneighborhood parks in Housing Public Company Panakkukang, which consists of three areas: Toddopuli, Tidung,and Tamalate. Population in this study, is the third of the areas. The selected sample is Tamalate, arguing that thearea is in the middle and is central to the whole Housing Public Company Pa...

Planning for urban floods.