Study of environmental carrying capacity in Pemalang Regency

Abstract

Abstract To achieve sustainable development goals, the environment is one of the aspects that is taken into account. Environmental problems such as population growth, changes in land use, climate change lead to a decrease in the carrying capacity of the environment for the community. Pemalang Regency is included in the administrative area of Central Java Province, Indonesia. This writing aims to determine the extent of the Environmental Carrying Capacity in Pemalang Regency in the sector of water resources and land availability, as well as the resilience of the Environmental Carrying Capacity to the projected population growth in Pemalang Regency. This study found that the water resources sector has deficit since the first year of projected population growth in 2020. While in the land availability sector, it was found that the surplus condition occurred in the first year of projected population growth from 2020 to 2022