Abstract:
Watershed management is a planned effort to manage natural environmental factors that are disrupted for river flow and resulting in a change or retention of the watershed resources. Therefore watersheds management is very important in order to gain high productivity and sustainability. Watershed management should be designed as an integrated and sustainable management model. Watershed management should consider the social, economic and institutional aspects of society to address the needs and minimize the conflict of interest among stakeholders, as well as damage control in watershed area. This paper aim is to understand the socio-economic and institutional dynamics in integrated and sustainable watershed management. The method used in this paper presented is through a literature study. The results showed that ownership, pattern of agricultural land use and development of Bajawa city contributed to social economic vulnerability of the watershed. Institutions at the village, kabupaten and central levels have less role in integrated and sustainable watershed management because the conservation activities, especially in the upper watershed, are very low. Therefore, the strategic improvement for integrated and sustainable Aesesa Flores watershed management strongly depend on the institutional aspects
