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WHERE DO STRONG WINDS AND STORMS STAND
IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE? 1

Zerrin Toprak KARAMAN-Özlem ÇAKIR
Meriç Aziz BERGE
ABSTRACT
Climate changes create damaging effects in many regions on a global scale.
Although climate changes manifest themselves in the form of drought
experienced in terms of global warming, extreme weather or extreme climatic
events also appear as unexpected, unusual, severe, or non-seasonal weather
conditions, ın other words extreme climate events. Main responsibilities of the
public administration are preparing, updating, and publicly sharing the provincial
strategic action plans to raise social awareness regarding the knowledge of
different types of disasters, preparation for these types, planning, timely and
appropriate intervention, management and restructuring. The fact that the
storms, which are the subject of this study, turn into disasters and cause loss of life
and property show that it is urgent necessity to develop institutional strategies
in this regard. As a first step in creating these strategic action plans, individual,
institutional and social resilience needs to be built around storms-which should
be acknowledged as a type of disaster. The planning of financial management,
public administration taking responsibility, public compliance to necessary
instructions, sectoral preparation, and etc. will constitute the important pillars of
these strategies. Consequently, with the concept of “Resilient Cities” significant
contributions will be made in preventing losses caused by disasters caused by
extreme weather events.
Keywords: Climate Change, Storms, Disaster, Disaster administration,
Resilient Cities.

1 “Multi-Disciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Study Philosophy in Integrated Disaster Manage-
ment: An Approach for Storms”; Proje no: 2020 KB.MLT.010, BAP Project Team: Zerrin Toprak
Karaman, Özlem Çakır, Meriç Aziz Berge, Oğuz Sancakdar, Ergun Laflı, Gözde Emekli, Mehmet
Doğan, Emin Koç, Aytaç Duran, Orçun Çobangil, Yakup Özkaya, Kıvanç Demirci.

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