City-Based Risk Assessment of Sea Level Rise Using Topographic and Census Data for the Turkish Coastal Zone

Kuleli, Tuncay

doi:10.1007/s12237-009-9248-7

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“…This includes coastal flats, estuaries and bays over which most coastal cities, harbours and resorts are located. Similarly, in Turkey, numerous coastal cities and villages are located within the 0-10 m elevation zone and are vulnerable to SLR (Kuleli, 2010). In terms of potential land loss, the Mediterranean coast of Turkey is the most vulnerable, with islands of the eastern Mediterranean being particularly affected.…”

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Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

Zittis

Almazroui

Alpert

et al. 2022

Reviews of Geophysics

264

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 The Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East region is warming almost two times faster than the global average and more rapidly than other inhabited parts of the world. Climate projections indicate a future warming that is particularly strong in the summer, associated with unprecedented heat extremes. Total precipitation will likely decrease in many regions, particularly in the eastern Mediterranean. Virtually all socio-economic sectors will be critically affected by the projected changes.

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Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

Zittis

Almazroui

Alpert

et al. 2022

Reviews of Geophysics

264

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“…Although coastal cities cover less than 5% of the country, at least 30 million people inhabit these places and the population is still growing at a rapid rate (Karaca & Nicholls 2008). Recent national and local scale investigations in Turkey have shown that some coastal areas, particularly the low lying deltaic plains, are highly vulnerable to the future sea level rise (Demirkesen et al 2008;Karaca & Nicholls 2008;Alpar 2009;Kuleli et al 2009;Kuleli 2010). The vulnerability of the Turkish coastal areas to permanent inundation was quantified by Demirkesen et al (2008) based on the synthetic scenarios of constant sea level changes and the digital elevation model acquired by shuttle radar topography mission (SRTM).…”

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Evaluation of entomopathogenic fungi against the sycamore lace bug, Corythucha ciliata (Say) (Hemiptera: Tingidae)

Sevim¹,

Demir²,

Sönmez³

et al. 2013

Turk J Agric For

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IntroductionCoastal zones, considered to be a valuable economic and environmental resource for human and marine habitats, are the most dynamic natural environment of any region on earth. Changes in the ocean-climate system and increasing human activities in these regions make the coastal areas more susceptible to natural hazards and more costly to live in. One of the most serious problems is the accelerated sea level rise and its resulting physical impacts on the coastal zones. Any rise in the mean sea level may result in the retreat of unprotected coastlines due to coastal inundation, erosion, and increased storm flooding (Nicholls et al. 1995). As emphasized in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4), the global sea level rose by 1.8 to 3.1 mm/year during the last century and present estimates of future rise range from 18 cm to 59 cm by the year 2100 (Solomon et al. 2007). Low lying areas such as beach ridges, coastal plains, deltas, estuaries, lagoons, and bays would be the areas that would suffer the most as a result of the enhanced sea level rise. Thus, it is essential to quantify the response of coastal systems to sea level change, as well as to assess the potential threats posed to human and marine biodiversity.A near global comparative analysis by Dasgupta et al. (2007) regarding the impact of permanent inundation due to sea level rise on 84 developing countries revealed that hundreds of millions of people in the developing world are likely to be displaced by a sea level rise of 1 to 5 m within this century. Accompanying economic and ecological damage will be severe for many. Approximately 0.3% (194,000 km 2 ) of the territory of the 84 developing countries would be impacted by a 1-m rise. This would increase to 1.2% in areas where the sea level rose 5 m. Nearly 56 million people (approximately 1.28% of the population) in these countries would be impacted under a 1-m rise scenario. This would increase to 89 million people for 2 m and 245 million people (approximately 5.57%) for a 5-m rise. The impact of sea level rise on gross domestic product (GDP) is slightly greater than the impact on population, because GDP per capita is generally above average for coastal populations and cities. Wetlands would experience significant impact even with a 1-m rise. Up to 7.3% of wetlands in the 84 countries would be impacted Abstract: With the rising sea level becoming a more pressing issue to coastal areas, a comprehensive analysis has been conducted to assess the vulnerability of the Çukurova Delta under the projected inundation by the end of the century. The level of inundation was estimated from a multimission satellite altimetry sea level anomaly and significant wave height data between September 1992 and February 2012. Superposed to the clear annual oscillation with 6.2 cm amplitude peaking around the beginning of October, the mean sea level signal exhibits a positive trend of 3.4 ± 0.1 mm/year over the altimetric data period. The extreme wave height with a 100-year ...

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“…And then the impacts of infrastructure and economic investments in case of the basins (the Göksu basin connecting inner Anatolia to Mediterranean which includes a delta protected by International Ramsar Convention, the Bakırçay basin in West Anatolia and Anatolian side of Istanbul basin oriented towards the Black Sea covering a shore land and water through which includes a natural site) from Turkey pointed out in Fig. 1 are explained, taking the sea level rise study results of Kuleli [11], Kuleli et al [12], Alpar [13], Demirkesen et al [14] for Turkey into consideration. Subsequently, the implications of infrastructure and economic investments being applied and/or envisaged at regional and local scale and their reciprocal interactions with the natural (water, air, soil, etc.)…”

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Proposing a Holistic Basin-Scale as a Strategy of Smart Planning in Adaptation to Climate Change

Hamamcıoğlu¹,

Yenen²

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Forthcoming expected results due to the phenomenon of global warming require adaptation strategies and precautions promptly to be taken on international, national and local scales. With reference to this urgent circumstance, policy frameworks executed by the international organizations, governments and ministries of nations on the consequences of adaptation to climate change have been on the agenda over the last decade. This study is derived from Turkey's policy of approach that excludes the investments of infrastructure and economic sectors from the scope of the National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan (2011) as a critic from the perspective of balanced development that is also an instrument of sustainability. Therefore, to clarify this deficiency, factors of infrastructure and economic sectors exacerbating the process of climate change and their mutual interaction with other sectors and nature is identified and discussed over remarkable samples from three geographically and socio-economically different basins in Turkey, studied since 2005 by the researchers of this paper. In order to coordinate adaptation to climate change, this study designates: (1) the essential role of water-soil-vegetation integrity of the life cycle with human activities, (2) controllable and observable scale for the management of risks and hazardous events, (3) opportunity to determine capacities and thresholds based on cross-sector interaction in terms of the characteristics of the local natural environment and (4) co-existence of communities and settlement system patterns sharing a fate of union of particular bases for implementing holistic basinscale as a strategy of smart planning. As a result, compelling impacts of climate change once again verify and remind us of the significance of interdisciplinary and holistic political decision-making and modules that should involve all sectors in the strategy of smart planning for the future.

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City-Based Risk Assessment of Sea Level Rise Using Topographic and Census Data for the Turkish Coastal Zone

Cited by 23 publications

References 9 publications

Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

Evaluation of entomopathogenic fungi against the sycamore lace bug, Corythucha ciliata (Say) (Hemiptera: Tingidae)

Proposing a Holistic Basin-Scale as a Strategy of Smart Planning in Adaptation to Climate Change

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