DEVELOPMENT AND COASTAL ENVIRONMENT CHANGE, WILL HAVE A MEETING POINT? CASE STUDY OF COASTAL ZONE OF WEST JAVA PROVINCE, INDONESIA

This article covers coastal environments which are globally in threat by anthropogenic impacts, yet how these impacts are determined by economic expansion is not well explicit. The main objective is to highlight recent dataset to measure coastal trends and inspect the role of economic growth in West Java's coastal degradation since the 1989 to 2019. Every coastal human impacts examined increased over time have thus motivated considerable research. This paper describes conflict analysis revealed important relationships between most impacts and economic activities across temporal and spatial scales. In particular, when influences of population growth were addressed by analyzing per capita impacts, and when population density was included as explanatory variables. This study can be considered as a first -step towards developing a multiple coastal area use plan in West Java. However, future coastal use plans will require more information on emerging uses. We suggest that a stronger conservation ethic and shift in thinking from prioritizing short-term economic development to considering how environment services sustain economic growth would promote conservation of coastal environments. Without strict conservation efforts, continuing economic growth will further degrade West Java's coastal environments.