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Resilient Cities In Turkey For Sustainable
Economic Development

There are certain targets for each sustainable development goal. These
targets include indicators that need to be controlled when realizing SDGs.
Certain goals have been identified to render human settlements secure,
inclusive, resilient and sustainable. These goals are expected to be reached
by 2030. They include:
• Providing all people with access to sufficient, safe, sustainable housing
and essential services, and improving shanty towns.
• Attaching importance to the needs of all people, especially vulnerable
people, women, children, the elderly, and the disabled, increasing road
safety, developing public transport systems and providing everyone
with safe, economical, sustainable and accessible transport systems.
• Developing pluralistic, holistic and sustainable settlement planning
through comprehensive and sustainable urbanization.
• Increasing efforts to preserve and take ownership of the cultural and
natural heritage of the world.
• Focusing on protecting the poor and the vulnerable, decreasing the
number of deaths and injuries due to disasters including water-related
ones to a considerable extent, and decreasing the relative share of
economic losses in global GDP.
• Attaching importance to managing municipal waste as well as other
types of waste and to air quality, mitigation of the negative effects per
person in cities,
• Providing safe, inclusive and accessible green and public spaces
particularly for the elderly, women and the disabled,
• Strengthening national and regional development planning and
supporting the economic, social and environmental positive relations
in urban, peri-urban, and rural areas.
• Adopting a holistic policy and plan that takes inclusiveness, source
efficiency, adaptation to climate change, mitigation of climate change,
and resilience to disasters into considerations, which will increase the
number of cities and settlements that apply these policies and plans to
a great extent; thoroughly developing and applying a holistic disaster
risk management that adopts Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction 2015-2030,
• Supporting the least developing countries with means to provide
sustainability through local materials and the construction of durable
buildings, including financial and technical aid. In this respect, there
are certain indicators worth considering during the process of realizing
these goals.

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