Turkey, representing a developing country, is on the way to plan its adaptation activities within the context of climate change effects. This study initially proposes the main sectors under which associated adaptation practices and related action plans be listed according to the country's needs. Turkey bears 25 river basins out of which 17 are coastal watersheds. Another important characteristic of the country is that it stands variable and different climatic conditions as it is located at a transient region between Europe and Asia continents. As such, sectoral-based adaptation action plans against climate change will differ in the basins of the country according to sectoral vulnerability analyses. Upon detailed investigation of sectoral-based adaptation action plans of 7 countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Denmark from Europe, USA from America and Kenya from the Africa continent), 12 main sectors are selected for Turkey and urgent climate change adaptation actions are stated under each sector. The selection criteria involved geographical location and features of Turkey, prevailing environmental problems, climatic conditions, land-use activities, urbanization level, technical and economic development level together with socioeconomic structure and financial development of the country.
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