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Table 2: Studies on climate change and urban growth on National Thesis Center

Year of Field of Study Type of Scheme of The stressed urban growth
Study Study Study dynamics
The spatial impacts of urban sprawl M.A. Thesis Urbanization The contribution of urban sprawl
2011 on natural resources, an example of to climate change
Istanbul, Cekmekoy
Investigation of urban heat island M.A. Thesis Meteorology The effect of population growth
2016 intensity and developing mitigation on urban heat island
strategies for Istanbul
The urban growth effects over the M.A. Thesis Urbanization The effect of population growth,
2016 local climate. Change in the case migration and economic growth
of Bursa. on climate change

Urban resilience as a policy PhD Thesis Urbanization Restriction of urban growth due
paradigm for sustainable urban to climate change/resilience
2018
planning and urban development:
The case of Istanbul
Evaluation of urban residential M.A. Thesis Urbanization The contribution of population
areas with the ecological planning growth and urban expansion to
2019
framework: The case of Meram climate change
district in Konya
The section in blue in Table 2 shows the stressed urban growth dynamics
and their relationship to urban growth. According to the table, the effects of
urban growth dynamics such as population growth and urban expansion on
climate change are discussed in the context of the city. Additionally, as seen in
Table 2, the studies covers a period from 2011 to date. It is also worth noting
that overall, M.A. level studies on the issue are small in number.
In addition to UTM, in the search on Google Scholar with the keywords,
“urban growth” and “climate change”, three studies stand out. The first of
these studies was dated 2017 and called “The urban growth effects over
the local climate. Change in the case of Bursa”. The study emphasizes that
uncontrolled growth results in changes in local land use, which affect local
climate change parameters (Moradi and Tamer, 2017: 27). Moreover, it states
that rural areas and agricultural land are also under the pressure of urban
growth, and there is a close relationship between planning decisions and urban
growth (Moradi and Tamer, 2017: 34). Similarly, the findings of the 2018 study,
“Climate Change: Global, Regional and Urban Effects” suggest that urban
growth policies have a direct effect on the increase in the effects of climate
change. The study also states that to mitigate such effects, it is important to
create climate sensitive policies in regional and urban planning (Kahraman
and Şenol, 2018: 367). In 2019, the study conducted as part of İklimIN project,
“Interactions of Climate Change, Sustainable Cities and Urban Planning” also
suggests that World cities have a growth trend. This trend, however, causes

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