Sustainable Livelihood-Based Coastal Area Development Model in Surabaya Coastal City, Indonesia

Multidimensional poverty that is closely related to the social, economical and environmental vulnerability remains happen among fisherman society as. This occurs among the fisherman society who live in coastal area of Surabaya city as well. Therefore, there should be effective effort in managing, allocating and utilizing resources available in the coastal area continuously. Such efforts should be done to reduce the poverty and vulnerability of fisherman community by using coastal area sustainble development model. This research uses differensial statistical method through Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analysis. This analysis is conducted in three steps: path diagram, testing each variable, selecting input matrix and model estimation.The result showed that there were direct influences of sustainable livelihood assets toward coastal area development in Surabaya city. Keywords: Fisherman’s Poverty, sustainable livelihood approach (SLA), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)