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Urban Resilience Practices To Climate
Change: Case Of Denizli

c. Determining Actions towards Creating Resilience
The most important strategies for cities against climate change are mitigation
of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to the effects of climate change
(Figure 1) (Tuğaç, 2022: 43). It is suggested that it is possible to build resilient cities
against climate change and develop climate change mitigation and adaptation
policies through urban planning. Thus, the necessity for environmental policy
planning that supports adaptation to climate change threats and effects is
emphasized. (Karacan and Gökçe, 2020: 226). To build resilient cities against
uncertainties and unexpected developments resulting from climate change,
there is a need not only for the mitigation of climate change risks, threats and
effects, but also for the adaptation to them. Mitigation focuses on the causes
of climate change and aims to reduce them and take them under control, while
adaptation focuses on climate change and aims to get prepared for the climate
change risks and threats as well as increase adaptation capacity.
Decrease
Emissions Mitigation
lead to
Climate change

The Effects Decrease
of Climate Adaptation
Change
on
Urban Systems

Strategies towards a sustainable environment

Figure 1: The relationships between urban system, climate changes, mitigation and
adaptation (Füssel et al, 2006: 315)
d. Engaging Local Stakeholders in the Process
Especially in recent years, local governments have been playing important
roles in setting climate change policies. While the Local Climate Change Action
Plans (LCCAP) prepared by local governments initially involved only mitigation
of greenhouse gas emissions , actions for adaptation to climate change, which is
an important need, have started to be included within the scope of the LCCAPs
prepared in recent years. When adaptation to the effects climate change are
taken into consideration, the local characteristics stand out. This is because the
local effects of climate change vary from one region to another. This results in
taking different mitigation and adaptation measures through local governments
as part of LCCAP (Kern and Alber, 2009: 174; Stone et al, 2012: 267).

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