Sustainability Development Environment: Improving Social Economy in Kalikondang Village, Demak Regency

Abstract

Success in upgrading slums over time will tend to return to slums. This is due to unrelated economic, social, and environmental aspects. The newly upgraded Kalikondang Village tends to experience this problem because the economic sector does not support sustainability. Based on these problems, the purpose of this study is to find a sustainable model for settlement development and maintenance in Kalikondang Village, Demak Regency. The research method uses a mixed-method with a concurrent embedded model. Quantitative and qualitative descriptive analysis techniques by combining two existing forms of data with the literature. The results showed that the model of a sustainable development environment in the village of Kalikondang was to increase the economic sector first with new business dwellers, supported by increased institutional capacity at the community level as business managers. Both sectors will result in an increased income of citizens, so they can be managed by institutions in the community for sustainable development and environmental preservation. The research contribution is a model of the form of economic, social, and environmental sector relations which is the development of the theory of sustainable housing.

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