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Figure 1. Planning Stages for Climate Change (UN Habitat, 2014)
The spatial pattern of the climate and the level of its temporal impact and
the change process are seen as a critical gap in the decisions to be made for
cities and regions. The temporal-spatial change in climate zones provides a
useful perspective in the production of planning strategies for spatial decision-
making. Spatial planning can be guiding in disaster management processes,
transportation and energy strategies and sectoral developments on the macro
scale; and in design decisions, energy saving, material selection on micro scale.
Climate parameters are the basic inventory for analyzing temporal change.
However, reading and interpreting changing climatic values temporally-
spatially is a need for the management of rapidly growing, spreading, leaping
and developing urban patterns. It is a useful guide especially in countries, such
as Türkiye, where the risk is high on disasters that are/are not related to climate
change. Temporal-spatial studies help to reduce the level of vulnerability of
cities, regions and countries in a multidimensional way in a social, physical and
economic terms. Moreover, in today’s technological conditions, remote sensing
and geographical information systems (GIS) also facilitate the geographical
analysis of non-spatial values.

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