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A New Model in Disaster Management:
Turkish National Risk Shield Model

support services and social policy committee to the earthquake and earth
sciences committee, from the urban development and construction committee
to the urban and rural transformation committee, from the geographical
information systems and smart cities committee to the historical and cultural
heritage committee. There are a large number of academicians from geology
to civil engineering, architecture to sociology and representatives from
the bureaucrats of our ministries in these committees, which are of great
importance for the goal of resilient cities.
The aim of the Turkish National Risk Shield Model is determined as providing
academic and technical contributions by the committee, established in the
scope of the model, to the works to be carried out in the disaster zone on the
environment, urban planning and climate change issues. Contribution of this
committee is of great importance in making our country, prone to earthquake
risk by a large part of its land, prepared for all disasters such as earthquakes,
floods, landslides, fire caused by climate crisis and improving the its capability of
responding the disasters in all aspects and establishing disaster-resilient cities and
social structure. Thus, it will be possible to erase the traces of this major disaster
experienced by our country as soon as possible, to revitalize and reconstruct
our cities on the basis of a climate-friendly, resilient urbanism approach that
conserve our ancient urban traditions. Moreover, the overall preparation will be
made against disasters for sustainable urbanization and resilient Türkiye due to
the disasters faced as a result of climate crisis including the earthquakes.
These committees provide academic and technical contributions to the
studies to be conducted in the disaster zone and throughout our country on
the issues of environment, urbanization and climate change, and continue to
give academic support with their experience in the field.

4.2. The Studies Performed Within the Framework of the URK Model

4.2.1. Dolmabahçe Meeting: Declaring the Committee to the Public (3
March 2023)
In the scope of Turkish National Risk Shield Model, a committee consisting
of academicians, bureaucrats and experts was established on March 3, 2023
under the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, against all risks and
threats that have the potential to affect our country. Thus, the first meeting of
the Committee, which lasted over 7 hours, was held very efficiently producing
good results to be benefited from, and the URK Model was declared to the
public. Another important outcome of the meeting was the addition of the
Disaster Management and Policy Committee to the Policy Boards of Presidency,
consisting of 9 boards. This decision means that disaster management has
become a public policy at the highest level in our country(tccb.gov.tr , 2023).

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