The local community in Lembeh Island, North Sulawesi depend on natural resources that is affected by climate change, such as fisheries and agriculture, and therefore their vulnerability to climate change needed to be assessed.
A vulnerability and resilience survey was done in three villages in Lembeh Island, which were Kareko, Pintu Kota, and Pasir Panjang. Questionnaires survey with parameters of the sensitivity, exposure, and adaptive capacity were done to 90 households. Results showed that the most vulnerable village is Pintu Kota. This is due to the decline of the fisheries outcomes that affected by extreme weathers as the result of the climate change itself. Aside from that, the local community in Pintu Kota Village was lack of information and knowledge about the mitigation and adaptation strategy to the natural disaster and climate change effect. On the other side, the most resilient village is Pasir Panjang, this is due to most households there usually have members with several alternative livelihoods, so that the local community of Pasir Panjang have the ability and skill to survive toward the impact of the ecological disaster and climate change. Since Lembeh Island experienced a high exposure to climate change, the local community need to cope with and adapt to it. Therefore, this study output addressed the government and other related institutions to promote better mitigation and adaptation strategy towards ecological disaster and climate change impacts.

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