CLIMATE S ROLE IN CHANGING THE FACE OF THE EARTH AND THE SPATIAL CONFLICT PROBLEMS: A PRELIMINARY STUDYON THE CIMANUK WATERSHED

Abstract

The increasedglobal climate directly affects theface of the earth. In addition
to result in shifting of season and extremeweather, the relatively rapid change
in temperaturebeing climate element also gives impact on intensity of geomorphology
process (weathering, erosion, sedimentation). This paper describes how the
escalated climate affects the process 'of weathering and erosion as well as change
in delta mainland size and its contribution to the emergence of spatial conflict.
DAS Cimanukwas selected as the study case area. The escalated air temperature
for a long period directly escalates the acceleration of rock weathering, which in
turn accelerates the erosion of weathered rock due to rainfall to be sediment
material through erosion process. During period of 1963 - 2002, Cimanuk delta
area enlarged more than 350.000 m2/year. This new land, which is formed by
weathering and erosion processes in the Cimanuk River Basin through peels of
land surfacepredicted to be averagely more then 10 em/year. In the last, the new
landformed by geomorphologic processes triggering the new source of conflict
potentially.