In some areas of Indonesia, local wisdom of coastal communities becomes an important factor and even determines the conservation initiative and mangrove-based ecotourism destinations; Wringinputih, Muncar, Banyuwangi, for instance. As a matter of fact, shrimp farms in this particular area were developed through reclamation in the 1980’s, and in consequence, many of the mangrove forest areas performed distinctly different functions. However, shrimp farming did not last long here as most shrimps suffered to death from white spot syndrome at the beginning of 1990’s. Thus, as most businessmen went bankrupt, they just left the shrimp farms and let the environmental conditions not taken a good care. Hence, in 1997 a number of community leaders of Wringinputih expressed their concerns and initiated local wisdom in the form of mangrove forests in favor of ex-location of shrimp farms. The research data were collected through descriptive qualitative method and in-depth interviews with some community leaders, the management of mangrove forests, selected individuals to obtain valuable information on local wisdoms related to the conservation of mangrove forests and the making of ecotourism destination. As a result, Wringinputih village community eventually restored mangrove forests in favor of the shrimp farms, and this particular success can apparently be applied elsewhere. Hence, with mangrove forest restoration, other natural resources grow exponentially and many mangrove-based tourism resorts are developed. The coastal communities can accelerate through many activities and job vacancies that they eventually can improve their social welfare.

ARCO and PERTAMINA, the Indonesian State Oil and Gas Company, produced gas from reserves in the Kangean Block, about 100 miles north of the island of Bali. The block areas covers approximately 4508 sq.km. of ocean and land, including 10 islands, and consists of 14 production wells, 30 exploratory wells, 2 gas processing trains, a harbour, an air strip and other support facilities. An estimated 225 miles of subsea and 45 miles of onshore pipelines deliver produced gas to customers. Potential environmental impacts of development and operations include affects on marine life, terrestrial function ecosystems and the atmosphere. The potential impact also exist on the socio and human environment. We used social cultural needs and government regulations issues is a main tool to minimize or prevent the impact and to avoid possible reversals and disturbance to the gas development and operation itself. These tools then effectively raise many ideas on how to protect, preserve, and develop or enhance environmental quality, to integrate the company policy and commitment, and to arrive at the decision making with involving all concerned individuals, groups, or organizations in Environmental Management System (EMS) planning, implementing, and monitoring steps. These processes produced a "Top - Down Strategy" to develop and operate the Kangean block area. In addition, the strategy also tends to produce a severe imbalance between gas development on the hand, and EMS implementation on the other. To overcome the problem, we used six structural components in the EMS for Kangean block: planning/policy, project assessment, implementation, technical rigor, consultation, and institutional integrity.

Global issues of greenhouse effects include the depletion of the ozone layer and the increases ground surface temperature. Responses to these issues have been attempted to empower and enhance the role of community participation in sustainable and equitable forest resource management. Since 1993 Konservasi Alam Indonesia Lestari (KAIL) -an Indonesian NGO in Jember Regency, East Java-starts empowering the forest buffer community with MEE (Medical, Education, Ecotourism) site model. The purpose of this paper is to describe the model of MEE in empowering forest buffer communities, describe the ecological, economic and social impact of the model, and describe the collaborative forest management. The success of MEE site model reduces negative perceptions on communities that have less conservation awareness. Community-based forest resources management need to integrate ecological and economic value in achieving forest conservation and community's welfare.

Pengelolaan sampah merupakan salah satu masalah yang ada di Surabaya. Sebagai salah satu kota terbesar di Indonesia, Surabaya memiliki kepadatan penduduk yang tinggi. Dengan tingkat kepadatan penduduk yang tinggi itu Surabaya menghasilkan banyak sampah organik maupun non-organik. Maka dari itu, diperlukan pengelolaan sampah yang optimal agar tidak terjadi pencemaran lingkungan. Bank sampah adalah salah satu bentuk pendekatan yang berbasis masyarakat. Pemberdayaan masyarakat difokuskan pada pengelolaan sampah di Kelurahan Nginden Jangkungan, khususnya di RT. 04 RW. 01. Mekanisme pengelolaan sampah melalui bank sampah didasarkan atas Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup Pasal 5 No. 13 Tahun 2012 yaitu tentang Pedoman Pelaksanaan 3R. Tahapan yang pertama ialah memilah sampah sesuai dengan jenisnya, lalu dibawa ke bank sampah. Selanjutnya, warga melakukan pendaftaran dan menimbang sampah yang telah dibawanya. Total sampah yang sudah ditimbang kemudian dicatat dalam buku tabungan masyarakat.

Forest management must consider values culture of society , the aspirations and the public perception, and engage the local community in forest management with the community based forest management. One of an area that has the potential to natural resources / forest resources is Temanggung district. Program of land use under erect is a forest management system shared between the government and the villagers Perhutani forest took the form of partnership agreement aimed at welfare society. But , in agreement of land use under erect is still there is any digression namely alienation the right arable land. As for the purpose of doing this study is to find and analyze the partnership agreement between the government with the village community institute forest perhutani Wana Lestari, the cause of the village community forest transfers the right to cultivate, and And act done of Public Corporation Perhutani in overcoming problems pemindahtanganan tilled rights.