The Use of Green Open Spaces as Climate Adaptation Effort During the Pandemic

Climate change does not only occur in general conditions, but also during a pandemic. Public green open space is seen as part of ecosystem services that play a major role in recovering from climate change, especially during the pandemic. But, higher accessibility to public green open space also means a higher risk of spreading infection due to the greater opportunity for people to meet each other. This study aims to see the use of green open spaces in Surakarta, even in pandemic Covid-19. The spatial correlation between Covid-19 cases and green open space usage will provide an overview of green open space usage in areas that has different risk of covid-19. Because green open space is an infrastructure that has the potential to be utilized by the community to improve health during a pandemic, it is also necessary to anticipate the behaviour of using green open space by the community. Therefore, in this study, the public's perception of using green open space before and after/during the pandemic will also be seen. The results shows that green open space usage in Surakarta decreased during pandemic. But, it is not because of the pandemic, but because of the weather and personal reasons.

Ecocultural city – how actual is this concept in the era of disruption of pandemic COVID-19?

This research explored the implementation of concept of Surakarta ecocultural city platform in the era of Pandemic COVID-19 in 2 case study areas of Balekambang Park as the Natural and Heritage Park and Jayengan Jewelry Kampung (JKP) as Heritage Creative Industry-based Kampung Tourism. Eco city is basically the concept to create new urban development to be more ecologically liveable and Sustainable while the cultural city refers to the city which focuses on cultural and performance for branding the city. Ecocultural city is mainly related to connectivity among people, place and culture and this concept is mostly applied in the tourism world where to maintain this sustainably this has to address people's place and its cultural relationship with biophysical aspects. Therefore, in the era of disruption of COVID-19 the ecocultural based tourist destination areas are highly affected due to the loss of tourists visiting the areas. The research found that the model of People place technology and government proposes for increasing adaptability of people to the disruption condition initiating resilient creative healthy and smart places exhalation technology for added value of tourism product and improving resilience government to adapt absorb the change collaborating multi stakeholder partnerships