Abstract
The massive development of new capital city (NCC) in East Kalimantan inevitably will create land use change from previously dominated by forest to urbanized area. As consequences, the built-up area development in a forest rich island therefore will bring disruption to the ecosystem, impacting on the services provided, and causing adverse impacts to human life. This paper assesses the potential impacts resulted by NCC development on environmental services disruption. We limit our scope of study in three environmental services, namely: flood prevention, water provision, and fire prevention. Unavoidable impact of climate change on environment and human life will undoubtedly worsen the environmental services disruptions resulted from the city development. Using the spatial analysis on the watershed ecosystem, fire hot spot and peat land distribution, we identified the potential risk area. On the other hand, we also identified the high conservation value area within the planned NCC region and how significant the changing landscape impacts to the ecosystem services provision if the proportion of the built-up area of NCC take places. Based on those findings, the paper suggests the climate-sensitive design as the urban planning approach to minimize the impacts of built-up conversion. We expect that our paper will enrich the discussion on the urban-nature development and contribute to the planning discourse of NCC development. Keyword: Ecosystem Services, The Capital, Indonesia
