Lately, due to advance technology, some of natural disasters could be forecasted, therefore the people can decide where to go to avoid the disasters. However, people in Aek Latong North Sumatra did different thing. They just stayed in their villages or regions without moving to anticipate the impact that might happen. This research was aimed to identify the local wisdom of Aek Latong society in facing, mitigating, and adapting the disaster, especially soil movement disaster in their region. This research was conducted through 3 steps (preparation, main survey, and data analyses). At the first step (preparation) was conducted to get secondary data about Aek Latong, such as geographical position, natural condition, type of natural disaster, society and the tradition. The second step (main survey) was conducted by directly interviewing the people in Aek Latong how they face, mitigate, and adapt the disaster happening. The third step was data analyses. Based on data resulted, Aek Latong society has a strong belief inherited from their ancients that everything come from the almighty God, therefore they have to face it. They believe that God has specific purposes to do so for them, they do not have to easily give up. Then, they also mitigate and adapt the disaster by earlier checking the signs of disaster and following the advice given, besides they did not construct building and do farming activities in sloping area and in the river bank. It could be concluded that Aek Latong society was able to face, mitigate, and adapt to the natural disaster in their region by their belief, knowledge, as well as by following the advice given.

This study aims to analyze the creative city management system and the factors that influence the development of creative cities. This study uses mixed methods to develop, produce, and test product validity at the top level of management. This research involved 52 respondents consisting of academics, businessmen, government officials, media, and aggregators as multistakeholder representatives (Hexa-Helix) in Padang. Measurement analysis study using PLS-SEM with STATA. The results of the study show that Padang has the potential to develop through optimizing a sustainable, environmentally-based, creative city management system. The goodness of fit test shows a R-squared of 0.972, and it can be said that the model is very good because it fulfills the good fit model indicator with a value close to 1 based on the SEM parameters. The conclusion is that creative cities are influenced by human resources in multi-stakeholder synergy and human resources (HR) formed with the hexa helix can influence the development of creative cities.

Silokek village is rich in potential who are at Sijunjung Regency, West Sumatra Province. This area, known as the MUSIDUGA (Muaro Silokek & Durian Gadang), has the natural resources in the form of the river which flows between steep limestone hills and beautiful, so that the area proposed to become one of geopark. Problems are found namely the limitations of the community in the management of potential of Natural Resources Company Silokek Village. Yet its optimal strength/ability society (hope/the local wisdom, yet high in the management of community spirit). In this research, the author discusses about how to build a strategy management and maintenance potential of silokek village – based on local wisdom. As for the method does is SWOT, internally and externally. On strategic Management, divided into: Actuating (A), Planning (P), Organization (O), Controling (C). At the end of the study, obtained by the method of development potential Silokek Village based on local wisdom with the concept of sustainable development (Ecologic, Social Culture & Economic) with goals “sustainability” through improved skills human resources and Maintenance Management Strategic (MMS).

Cities are centers of high natural resource utilization activities that contribute to the development of global environmental issues. Urban planning should be integrated with environmental planning in order to achieve sustainable development. This study aims to examine the position of the ecological urban concept in the concept of city ecology and sustainable cities. The method used in this study is a literature review of publications related to the concept of ecocity, urban ecology and sustainable city. The concept of green city development seeks to answer the issue of climate change through adaptation and mitigation actions, through attributes: green planning and design, green open space, green waste, green transportation, green water, green energy, green building, and green community.

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