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EVALUATION OF VULNERABILITY ON TURKISH
COASTAL PROVINCES WITH GIS

Hilal TULAN IŞILDAR-Özge YALÇINER ERCOŞKUN

ABSTRACT
Türkiye’s coastal provinces are dynamic geographical locations with rich
natural resource potential and biodiversity, offering significant economic
opportunities for society. However, the effects of climate change and the
increase in anthropogenic activities put pressure on coastal areas. As these
pressures affect the ecological patterns of natural systems, the ability of
coastal environments to reduce and absorb the effects of climate change is
diminishing. Ecological factors such as sea level rise, coastal erosion, flood
and overflow disasters, increase in salinity in water resources, natural disasters
increase the vulnerability of coastal provinces day by day. In addition,
increasing industrial and tourism activities due to rapid urbanization, coastal
infill, important energy and transportation policies cause social, economic,
environmental and spatial problems. This process; shows that coastal resilience
should be the primary design and planning principle to guide all future
development and infrastructure decisions. Determining the vulnerability of
coastal provinces in Türkiye, which has 8333 km of coastline and 28 coastal
provinces, is very important in terms of resilience spatial planning studies.
In this study, 28 provinces with a coastline in Türkiye; It is aimed to make a
vulnerability analysis. With the support of Geographic Information Systems
(GIS), a coastal information system consisting of physical, spatial, economic
and social indicators was created. The data in this information system were
synthesized in GIS. Solution proposals have been developed for coastal
resilience in provinces with high vulnerability.
Keywords: Coastal Provinces, Vulnerability, Resilience, Geographic
Information Systems (GIS), Türkiye.

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