ABSTRACT
Recent decades have seen a gradual change in how the nexus between land, water, and human communities are understood within the domain of natural resource management and urban planning, avoiding sectorial understandings that do not provide sufficient insight and understanding. The pace of this change continues to be hindered by our inability to suitably understand and address the complexity intrinsic to the systems and interactions that underpin this nexus, simultaneously slowing our ability to adaptively manage them sustainably. This chapter analyses how water and land management are interrelated when looking at the urban growth of Semarang, Indonesia. It proposes an approach utilising a systems view or approach to better integrate the various static and dynamic aspects of how these resources interact, instead of a management landscape comprised primarily of hard borders or boundaries.
