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Urban Growth - Climate Change

environmental, social, economic and ecological consequences. It was seen
through the literature review that these result are related to climate change
(Nichols et al, 2003: 297; Lu, 2017: 7; Mandal et al, 2019: 1711).
In addition to the focal points in literature, the issues of hydrology, sea levels,
basin, coastal cities, urban drainage and natural threats such as flooding are
also discussed. These issues were examined according to different scenarios
in the case of failure to control urban growth. It was discussed that urban
growth may damage natural resources and speed up the formation of new
development / urban areas. (Lu, 2017: 7; Mandal et al, 2019: 1711). In order to
prevent this, compact city and low-carbon city approaches were mentioned (La
Rosa and Privitera, 2013: 9; Ren et al, 2020: 205). According to Ren et al (2020:
207), land use policies can be managed through protecting natural resources
and taking urban growth under control. Moreover, it was emphasized that
climate change adaptation policies would be possible through fertile land use
policies towards mitigating risks related to climate (La Rosa and Privitera, 2013:
7). Moreover, mismanagement of fertile land causes a decrease yield. Thus, it
is emphasized that land use planning decisions have great importance (Halmy
et al, 2015: 106). For this reason, it was suggested that land use decisions
should be reconsidered for climate change adaptation and controlled urban
growth.
Likewise, O’Donnell (2019: 111) stated that land use policies are at the
center of climate change policies as local administrations try to adapt to
climate change through land use planning (Halmy et al, 2015: 110). On the
other hand, urban land owners resist land use planning due to their desire for
urban growth (Kahn et al, 2017: 17). For this reason it is essential to prepare
comprehensive and applicable plans for everyone. McDonald et al (2011:
6314) state that urban planners play a key role in developing a land use plan
adapted to climate. It is stressed that urban planners should develop their
land use plans focusing on climate by taking social inclusiveness, spatial
distribution and order, environmental and ecological systems and economic
stability into consideration (O’Donnell; 2019: 112; NCER, 2014:11).
At the second stage of literature review, an advanced search for the
keywords, “urban growth” and “climate change” was made in the National
Thesis Center (UTM) database. In the search based on the prerequisite that
the keywords appear in the abstracts, 5 studies were reached. These studies
are shown in Table 2.

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