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organization and the most commonly accepted platform around the world
to assess, explain, manage and share important information about the
environmental performances of cities.
Denizli Metropolitan Municipality won an award with the 23 smart city applications
it developed in the event “The Living Area of Information Society: Resilient Cities”
organized by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change.
With further improvement of these applications, Denizli Metropolitan Municipality
came second in the World through the projects, “Water Management and Climate
Change”, in the One Planet City Challenge held by World Wildlife Fund (WWF),
which aimed to increase awareness of cities in terms of climate change, and promote
the activities against climate change. These results are concrete examples of the
practices and efforts towards becoming a resilient city.
To leave future generations a healthier and safer environment to live in, it is
essential to build climate-friendly and climate-resilient cities. To this end, local
climate change action plans should be made, CO2 emission inventories should
be prepared, and there should be regular inspections. This study created a list
of criteria through literature review on climate-friendly and climate-resilient
cities and their conceptual content. The practices by Denizli Metropolitan
Municipality implemented to render the city of Denizli resilient were also
mentioned. The purpose of the study is to take concrete steps against the
effects of climate change through maintaining sustainable environmental
policies. To this end, for Denizli Metropolitan Municipality, there is needs for
building multi-stakeholder links and cooperate to identify predictable and
unpredictable risks and to prevent these risks.
To conclude, to render the city of Denizli resilient against climate-based
uncertainties and unexpected developments, a greenhouse gas emission
inventory on sectoral basis should be prepared. Moreover, based on climate
change predictions, risk maps and risk action plans should be created,
and taking these data and “climate resilience” account, a climate sensitive
decisions to mitigate or balance greenhouse gas emissions should be made.
These decisions may involve preservation and increase of sink areas, decisions
to restrict the expansion of city macro-form, provide the integration between
all transport types, and benefitting from renewable energy sources.

References

Birleşmiş Milletler (2016) Birleşmiş Milletler İklim Değişikliği Çerçeve Sözleşmesi’nin
21. Taraflar Konferansı Paris Anlaşması COP21-12 Aralık 2015, trans. Yunus Bakihan
Çamurdan; edit. Ilgın Özkaya Özlüer, Ethemcan Turhan, Fevzi Özlüer) (Publication
of Ekoloji Kolektifi Society, Ankara).

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