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

• Expansion of early warning observation stations for all types of disasters
in 81 provinces,
• Widespreading of disaster knowledge courses in secondary,
undergraduate and postgraduate education, implementing these
studies in order to raise awareness of our citizens,
• Conducting all communication from a single source under the
coordination of AFAD and urgently carrying out efficiency studies on
fixed and mobile base stations in our cities,
• Implementing the regulation that will make the soil survey work and
public supervision mandatory,
• If required, taking the necessary steps to make the use of raft foundation
mandatory in some regions,
• Implementation of the planning process, with determination, which
includes all the works including the prohibition of construction in
stream beds and areas at high risk of liquefaction, reduction of number
of floors etc. in Türkiye,
• Using all kinds of new technologies in removing, transporting,
reinforcing and restructuring process of public service buildings from
risky areas,
• Developing unmanned aerial and ground vehicles capable of
approaching and even navigating in the buildings at the moment of
disaster,
• Preparing the building inventory of Türkiye, and completion of the risk
situation with damage assessment,
• Allowing the entire institution to benefit from this information in the
digital database,
• Implementation of the building identification certificate system by
conducting regular inspections of buildings,
• Subjecting all buildings in Türkiye to periodic inspection,
• Expansion of the use of energy-efficient, climate-sensitive, zero-waste
compatible and ecological materials in construction in 81 provinces,
• The realization of a new disaster-centered financial structure and a new
incentive system in order to make Türkiye a disaster-resilient country
• Making obligatory the occupational liability insurance and competent
engineering practice.

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