Urban climate governance under the national government shadow: Evidence from Istanbul

Yazar, Mahir; York, Abigail M.

doi:10.1080/07352166.2021.1915151

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“…The unequal distribution of and limited access to green spaces in socio-economically deprived neighbourhoods consequently increase vulnerability and affect locals' adaptive capacity during and after extreme weather events. For instance, the expected increase in average annual temperature in Istanbul is between 1 and 4.5°C, coupled with an additional 1-2°C increase due to the heat-island effect triggered by the megacity's urban density (Yazar & York, 2021).…”

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“…Some studies focused more on the decentralization of environmental decision-making scaling down to lower-level governments and out to extra-governmental actors under neoliberalism [16,17]. Researchers argued that states were no longer the key decision-making source in environmental matters [18]. Rather, non-state actors (ie.…”

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The Changing Roles of the Local Government in Environmental Governance in Guangzhou, China

Yang,

Huang,

Xue

2023

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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While environmental governance has been a significant tool to deal with the environmental changes in both developed and developing countries, it is variegated and locally embedded [1,2]. Local government is essential in facilitating environmental governance because environmental problems sets the obstacles to local economic growth and social development [3,4].While some governments are relatively passive with regard to environmental governance, some scholars have observed government-led or government-driven models in environmental governance [5][6][7][8]. In these cases, local governments do not promote environmental improvement but have a central role in environmental governance.The government entities at all levels of China play a leading role in formulating and implementing environmental regulations, and made improvement in environment. Environmental governance by nonstate actors in China primarily depends on the role of the governments in managing environmental problems

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“…The socially excluded urban transformation projects may cause green divides between wealthy and low-income neighborhoods, exacerbating exposure to urban-related climate impacts, such as extreme heat, especially for marginalized communities (Bolin et al, 2013;Hsu et al, 2021). Scholars focused on urban climate adaptation and planning have documented that exclusionary land use policies spurred by urban regime coalitions, including political elites and private developers, can worsen spatial inequalities (Bolin et al, 2013;Fainstein, 2018;Yazar and York, 2021;Kearl and Voger, 2023). As a result, exclusionary zoning and land use policies coupled with the threats posed by climate change increase displacements and higher exposures to urban climate impacts among vulnerable urban communities (Bolitho and Miller, 2017;Fainstein, 2018).…”

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The green divide and heat exposure: urban transformation projects in istanbul

Yazar,

Daloglu Cetinkaya,

Iban

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Extreme heat events are happening more frequently and with greater severity, causing significant negative consequences, especially for vulnerable urban populations around the globe. Heat stress is even more common in cities with dense and irregular planning and lacking urban blue-green infrastructures. This study investigates the greening and cooling effects of five selected urban transformation projects and their surrounding areas (within a 10-min walking distance) in Istanbul from 2013 to 2021, with a focus on environmental justice and climate adaptation planning perspectives. By employing temporal analysis of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST) values derived from Landsat data sets to detect changes in these five selected urban transformation projects in the megacity of Türkiye, Istanbul, this study finds that the distribution of green infrastructures (e.g., tree canopy) is only limited to project sites of long-running and state-supported urban transformation projects in Istanbul. Consequently, the unequal distribution of green infrastructures creates cooling effects only for the locals residing in the new residential projects. However, the surrounding areas have less urban green infrastructure and are exposed more to the urban heat over time. Urban development policies and planning highly contribute to increasing the climate vulnerabilities among those who do not benefit from the recently developed residential units in Istanbul. Such a trend can affect adaptive capacity of vulnerable communities and redress environmental injustices in urban planning in the megacity of Istanbul.

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Urban climate governance under the national government shadow: Evidence from Istanbul

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