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Evaluation Of Vulnerability On Turkish Coastal Provinces With Gis

flood and overflow, coastal erosion, the concentration of urban uses around
coastal areas due to the elevation of land, and the increase in land reclamation
practices, and the rise in sea levels due to land reclamation utilized in certain
structures, and the high percentage of elderly population. The reason for the
medium level vulnerability of Çanakkale include the risk of earthquakes, forest
fires, and the existence of big infrastructure investments. Bursa is a vulnerable
coastal due to earthquake risk, the population density above the rate of
children in the population, and the increased forest fires caused by large
industrial facilities. The two factors that increase the vulnerability of Balıkesir
are the risk of earthquakes and the high percentage of elderly population.
In Kocaeli and Sakarya, earthquake risk, increased population growth and
unemployment increases vulnerability. In Aydın, the main reasons for the
vulnerability of the city area earthquake risk, land elevation, coastal erosion,
and the high percentage of the elderly and children in the population (Figure
2).
The vulnerability levels of Turkish coastal cities show physical, spatial,
economic and social differences. According to physical vulnerability
assessment, depending on the frequency of drought, lack of rain, seasonal
anomalies, coastal erosion, forest fires, floods and overflows, all cities with a
coast to the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea as well as Kastamonu, which has
a coast to Black Sea are highly vulnerable (Figure 3).

Figure 3: The study of the physical vulnerability levels of coastal cities in Türkiye.

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