Industrial Activities Impacts on the Settlement Environmental Quality: A Case Study of Kwadungan Village, Kediri Regency, Indonesia

Abstract

Around the world, there has been tremendous industrial development, greatly aided by a variety of industries, including manufacturing, services, and infrastructure. Globalization, technological advances, and government initiatives to combat poverty and promote economic development are some of the causes driving this increase. Industrial activities have an impact on various aspects of the settlement environmental quality. Kwadungan Village is in the industrial area of Kediri Regency. Its location in the industrial area makes the settlements directly exposed to industrial activities. Therefore, a study on the environmental quality of settlements that includes an assessment of the industrial activity impacts is needed to formulate regional settlements policies. This study aims to (1) assess the settlement environmental quality, (2) analyze the effect of industrial activities on settlement environmental quality. Samples were selected using stratified random sampling method and the samples size was 306 samples. Data processing used scoring techniques from the questionnaire data. While the effect of industrial activity on the settlement environmental quality is known from the ordinal logistic regression test with a 5% error rate. The results showed that the environmental quality of settlements in Kwadungan Village was dominated by the moderate settlement environmental quality class, which is 35%. Then, the good class is 33% and the bad class is 32%. In addition, industrial activities strongly influence by 52.4% on settlement environmental quality in Kwadungan Village.