Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wiwandari Handayani
wiwandari.handayani@pwk.undip.ac.id
Regional Development and Environmental Management Laboratory
Wiwandari Handayani is a professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Engineering – Diponegoro University.
Some of her appointments:
- Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Engineering – Diponegoro University since 2021
- Head of Center for Urban and Regional Resilience Research (CURE), Faculty of Engineering – Diponegoro University since 2018.
- Founding Board Member of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Center – Diponegoro University
- Founding Board of Initiative for Urban and Climate Change Environment (IUCCE)
- Expert, Climate Change – Delivery Unit, New Capital Authority (2022-2023)
- Deputy of Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), Semarang – Indonesia under the program of Global Resilient Cities Network 2014-2019
Her research focuses on urban and regional resilience, mostly in the context of disaster risk management, climate adaptation, and governance. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in urban and regional planning (UNDIP), master's degrees in urban and regional planning (ITB) and population studies (ANU-Australia), and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Stuttgart - Germany in Regional Development Planning.
She has been actively involved in works related to urban sustainability and resilience since 2011. She was on the team of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN)-Rockefeller program in Semarang City and performed as M&E coordinator for several projects implemented in 2011-2014. She contributed ideas and insights for promoting a Resilient City in Semarang and some other areas in Indonesia since 2015. Currently, she has been engaging in several networks including GCSMUS focusing on SDG 11 and NUPS focusing on Migration and Climate Change supported by the German government, and awardee of some research grants including KONEKSI from the Australian Government, KOICA-South Korea, and LUCE-USA.
Undergraduate:
- Kependudukan (Population Study)
- Perencanaan Wilayah (Regional Planning)
Postgraduate:
- Urban and Regional Planning
- Urban and Regional Planning Studio
- Governance and Planning
- Perencanaan Pengembangan Wilayah (Regional Development Planning)
- Studio Pengembangan Wilayah (Regional Development Studio)
- Tata Kelola Wilayah (Regional Governance)
- Filsafat Ilmu (Philosophy of Science)
2024 Research on Living-Lab Solutions for Responses to Complex Disasters in the Coastal City Belt between Jakarta and Semarang (in collaboration with Seoul National University, Incheon National University, Joongbu University, and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
2023 From Technical to Social-ecological Pathways for Climate Change Adaptation: Analysis of floods in Semarang (in collaboration with University of Queensland and Semarang City Government)
2023 Bolstering Planning Research and Education Towards Inclusive Urbanization in Indonesia (in collaboration with University of Hawai’i)
2023 Forced labour and climate change: keeping a focus on women and children (in collaboration with Griffith University and BRIN)
2023 Study of Sustainable Infrastructure Approach Based on Knowledge Co-Production to Improve Disaster Resilience on the North Coast of Central Java, Jepara.
2023 Optimizing the Utilization of Mangrove Coastal Forests to Support the Development of Edutourism in the Science Techno Park Teluk Awur, Jepara.
2022 Study of the Semarang City Center Area Development Model.
2022 Typology of Rural Community Migration as a Response to Climate Change in Grobogan Regency.
2022 Modeling Regional Resilience to Natural Disasters in Central Java Districts / Cities.
2021 SMUS MOOC "Climate Change Adaptation in Indonesian Cities: Promoting and Building Resilience from Below", kerjasama dengan Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (GCSMUS) – TU Berlin.
2020-2025 Building Urban Planning Pedagogy in Indonesia, in collaboration with University of Hawai’i.
2020-2022 Modeling for the Development of Disaster Risk Areas in the Java Highlands Towards Rural-Urban Resilience.
2020-2021 Metrojava 2045: a Case Study in Bottom-up Land Use Planning.
2020-2021 Covid-19 and Built Environment: An Integrated Study from the Regional-Global Perspective, in collaboration with Seoul National University.
2018-2020 Water as Leverage (WaL) for Resilient Cities Asia.
2018 Planning Resilient City: an Assessment on Disaster Management in Semarang City.
2017-2018 Study of Rural Resilience for Responsive Spatial Planning Implementation.
2016-2018 Study of Urban Development in the Northern Coastal of Central Java Province towards Resilient City Planning and Implementation.
2016-2018 Modelling of Sustainable Rural Spatial Planning Based on Resources and Biodiversity.
2016 -2017 Research for Development of Co Benefits Action Plan on Public Transport and Non-Motorized Transport for Semarang City
2016 Community Capacity Building towards Demographic Dividend: Study of Primary Sector in Central Java Province.
2016 Potential Analysis of Borderland in Bejen District.
2016 Climate Change Disaster Impact to Community Livelihood in the Northern Coastal Area of Central Java Province.
2015 – 2016 Spatial Modelling Based on Climate Change Mitigation Principle (Case of Central Java).
2015 Method Development for Disaggregating Population data for Climate Change Adaptation Analysis.
SELECTED PUBLICATION IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS (IN THE LAST 5 YEARS)
Handayani, W., Dewi, S. P., & Septiarani, B. (2023). Toward adaptive water governance: An examination on stakeholders engagement and interactions in Semarang City, Indonesia. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 25(2), 1914–1943. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02124-w
Sejati, A. W., Putri, S. N. A. K., Tyas, W. P., Buchori, I., Handayani, W., Basuki, Y., Barbarossa, G., & Husna, I. N. (2023). Predicting urban carrying capacity to support sustainable tourism using GIS. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events. https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2023.2279065
Maddalene, T., Youngblood, K., Abas, A., Browder, K., Cecchini, E., Finder, S., Gaidhani, S., Handayani, W., Hoang, N. X., Jaiswal, K., Martin, E., Menon, S., O’Brien, Q., Roy, P., Septiarani, B., Trung, N. H., Voltmer, C., Werner, M., Wong, R., & Jambeck, J. R. (2023). Circularity in cities: A comparative tool to inform prevention of plastic pollution. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2023.107156
Putri, I. H. S., Buchori, I., & Handayani, W. (2023). Land use change and precipitation implication to hydro-meteorological disasters in Central Java: an overview. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 14(1), 100–114. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-12-2020-0125
Dewi, R. S., Handayani, W., Pratama, I. P., De Vries, W. T., Rudiarto, I., & Artiningsih, A. (2023). Assessing Flood Vulnerability from Rapid Urban Growth: A Case of Central Java — Indonesia. Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2345748123500203
Handayani, W., Insani, T. D., Fisher, M., Gim, T.-H. T., Mardhotillah, S., & Adam, U. E. (2022). Effects of COVID-19 restriction measures in Indonesia: A comparative spatial and policy analysis of selected urban agglomerations. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103015
Putri, I. H. S., Buchori, I., & Handayani, W. (2022). Hydrometeorological Disaster Assessment: Study of Risk and Loss Assessment of Disaster Events in Central Java. Sustainability and Climate Change, 15(6), 446–460. https://doi.org/10.1089/scc.2022.0098
Insani, T. D., Rudiarto, I., Handayani, W., & Wijaya, H. B. (2022). Rural livelihood resilience on multiple dimensions: a case study from selected coastal areas in Central Java. World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 18(2), 176–193. https://doi.org/10.1504/WRSTSD.2022.121303
Prabawani, B., Handayani, W., Ariyanti, D., & Afifah, D. N. (2022). Indonesian women in a circular economy: Waste management programs. In Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Challenges and Potential Solutions: Anticipatory Governance, Planning and Dialogue. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85140278350&partnerID=40&md5=fbd03195d1834a34a8b1d621d541b8c7
Insani, T. D., Handayani, W., Astuti, M. F. K., Basuki, K. H., & Setiadji, B. H. (2021). A performance study of bus rapid transit lite: Toward a resilient Semarang City. Transport Problems, 16(3), 105–118. https://doi.org/10.21307/TP-2021-045
Astuti, M. F. K., & Handayani, W. (2020). Livelihood vulnerability in Tambak Lorok, Semarang: an assessment of mixed rural-urban neighborhood; [Vulnerabilität des Lebensunterhalts in Tambak Lorok, Semarang: Bewertung einer gemischt ländlich-urbanen Nachbarschaft]. Review of Regional Research, 40(2), 137–157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10037-020-00142-7
Handayani, W., Chigbu, U. E., Rudiarto, I., & Surya Putri, I. H. (2020). Urbanization and increasing flood risk in the Northern Coast of Central Java-Indonesia: An assessment towards better land use policy and flood management. Land, 9(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/LAND9100343
Septiarani, B., & Handayani, W. (2020). Community Group networking on the Community-based Adaptation measure in Tapak Village, Semarang coastal area. Indonesian Journal of Geography, 35(2), 181–189. https://doi.org/10.22146/IJG.39053
- International Society of City and Regional Planners
- Indonesian Planning Association
- Global Resilient Cities Network
- Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability - (GCSMUS htps://gcsmus.org/)
- Paradigm Shift in the Migration Society – (NUPS https://www.tu.berlin/en/isr/nups/about)
Head of Center for Urban and Regional Resilience Research (CURE), Faculty of Engineering – Diponegoro University since 2018.
Founding Board Member of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Center – Diponegoro University.
Deputy of Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), Semarang – Indonesia under the program of Global Resilient Cities Network 2014-2019
Head of the research division in the Initiative for Urban Climate Change and Environment (IUCCE) since 2014.
Trainers of National Development Planning Board (BAPPENAS) - Public Private Partnerships and Planning & Budgeting - Non-Degree Programs