A Comparative Study of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation on Flood Management between Ayutthaya City (Thailand) and Samarinda City (Indonesia)

Increased population and urban growth have made converting open spaces that can cause flooding. Thailand and Indonesia are two of the most prone areas to various types of disaster but especially to floods. However, the climate change is the significance factor impact to floods risk. The climate change makes direct and indirect effects to floods. In addition, adaptation and mitigation to climate change are an important aspect to reduce and prevent the impact of floods. This paper tries to explore flood management in Ayutthaya, Thailand and Samarinda, Indonesia. Primary and secondary data are used in this paper. This objective of this paper is done by using qualitative analysis. This paper shows that the flood risk on both cities has same characteristics and indicates that the role of government of Ayutthaya also stronger than Samarinda. The comparison shows that flood management especially on adaptation is main challenges for Indonesia government that will require further plan to establish how manage water, and increase adaptive capacity for reduce the flood damage. This paper provides us to understand the important of climate change adaptation in real cases. As flood hazard, we learn about the impact of big flood causing to damage loss in many sectors, and we also learn to assess the risk by assess vulnerability and adaptive capacity.