Compositing climate change vulnerability of a Mediterranean region using spatiotemporally dynamic proxies for ecological and socioeconomic impacts and stabilities

Demirkesen, Ali Can; Evrendilek, Fatih

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“…In the study, the GWP areas in the Alaşehir sub-basin were determined by using a multi-criteria approach, in other words, a weighted image overlay method that focuses on a GIS method integrated with RS (Demirkesen and Evrendilek 2017), and the accuracy and efficiency of the results obtained at the end of the study were checked. In this context, the data used, the sources of the data, and the procedures applied to the data are summarized in Fig.…”

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“…The area chosen for the study is the Alaşehir sub-basin, located in the Gediz River basin in western Turkey, because this area has a rich GWP with an aquifer under fertile agricultural alluvial soils and it is also under the GWPR due to industrial settlements over there. This study involves the determination of the GWP by considering multi-proxies as multi-criteria used by a weighted image overlay analysis (Demirkesen and Evrendilek 2017). A multicriteria evaluation approach is required to incorporate more than one proxy into the analysis.…”

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Investigation of groundwater potential and groundwater pollution risk using the multi-criteria method: a case study (the Alaşehir sub-basin, western Turkey)

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Determination of the groundwater potential (GWP) and groundwater pollution risk (GWPR) areas is a very important tool in the semi-arid regions in the world. Like many countries in the world, most of the major settlements in the cities of Turkey are located in permeable alluvial plains. Therefore, significant groundwater pollution is encountered in an alluvial plain containing settlements and industrial sites. This study focuses on the determination of the GWP and GWPR areas in the Alaşehir sub-basin, which is one of the economically important districts of the Aegean region, located in the Gediz River basin in western Turkey. In this study, the GWP and the GWPR areas were identified and a GWP index map was generated. The GWP areas in the study basin were determined using different proxies as a multi-criteria method based on geographic information system (GIS) integrated with remote sensing (RS). The result of the study indicates that the most GWP locations in the basin are seen in the west and southeast of the study region. Based on these results, it is understood that the significant GWP and GWPR areas are near the big settlement districts such as Alaşehir and Salihli. In particular, the 115-ha organized industrial zone located in the Salihli district is an important factor of the potential for consuming and contaminating water resources. This study method is so important for the selection of both city and industrial areas as well as for regional environmental planning in terms of the GWPR management.Keywords Groundwater resources . Pollution risk . Multi-criteria method . DRASTIC methods . Gediz River basin * Ali Can Demirkesen

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“…Increased human health vulnerability to climate change is associated with many factors including rapid population growth, (as in the case of China) poverty and hunger, poor health, low levels of education, and lack of access to information on climate change (Demirkesen and Evrendilek 2017;Füssel and Klein 2006). It has been shown that the elderly (people who are 65 years or older) are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of heat waves (Li et al 2017b).…”

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Direct and indirect health impacts of climate change on the vulnerable elderly population in East China

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The latest scientific advances on the impacts of climate change on the health of the elderly in East China were reviewed consulting peer-reviewed publications from 2000 to 2017. The direct impacts of climate change result from rising temperatures, heat waves, and increases in the frequency of complex extreme weather events such as windstorms, floods, and droughts. The health and social consequences of these events are far reaching, ranging from reduced labour productivity and heat-related deaths through to direct physical injury during extreme weather events, the spread of infectious diseases, and mental health effects following widespread flooding or prolonged drought. Research has indicated that climate change will have the greatest impact on vulnerable groups of people, including the elderly population. However, there is a dearth of empirical evidence, a lack of focus on vulnerable segments of the population (especially elderly), limited understanding of how health status will change in the future, and lack of acknowledgement of how different regions in China vary in terms of the consequences of climate change. The main risk in East China that climate change may exacerbate is flooding (sea level rise, coastal and riverine, flood risk). However in some regions of East China such as in the provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu, Hebei, and Shandong the biggest climate change risk is considered to be drought. Main health risks linked to climate change are evident as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases (heat stroke, exhaustion, and asthma), often caused by interactions between heat wave episodes and concurrent poor air quality.

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“…A number of rivers, canals and creeks are spread over this division forming like a net. The area is vulnerable to cyclone, flood, drainage congestion, river erosion, and river sedimentation [12] [13]. Main rivers are Arial Kha, Bishkhali, Burishwar, Tentulia, Paira, Haringhata, Baleshwar, Kirtankhola, Katcha Lohalia and Agunmukha.…”

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Environmental Change and Its Impacts on Lives and Livelihoods of South-Central Coastal Districts of Bangladesh

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The coastal region of Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to disasters due to its geographical location and cover about 20% of total land area and over 30% of the cultivated lands of the country. The coastal ecosystem of Bangladesh encompasses a highly functional and structurally diverse ecology e.g. the world's largest mangroves forest (the Sundarbans), dunes, wetlands, beaches, and coral reefs. It provides a wide range of goods and services to the people of Bangladesh due to its dynamic natural environment. Climate related change represents potential additional stress on systems and the ecology in coastal zones is gradually being degraded. These bio-geophysical possessions will have subsequent effects on ecosystems and in time affect socio-economic systems in the coastal zone. Coastal zone have already been facing numerous climate change effects such as floods, salinity intrusion, river bank erosion, cold waves, cyclone, tornado, arsenic contamination in ground water and water logging; are gradually escalating by climate change and creating risks for the coastal people in Bangladesh. Research study is concerned with climate change related risks and hazards that affects the inhabitants of coastal Bangladesh. The study findings revealed that the climate change has affected the livelihood of coastal people in many sectors including scarcity of pure drinking water, extreme poverty, health problems, malnutrition, damage in crop cultivation, poultry, vegetables garden and fisheries. Elsewhere, it also created a state of unemployment among the peoples of coastal communities. As a result, the affected people are losing their means of livelihoods and forced to take several alternative ways to survive with the adverse impact of climate change associated disasters. Research paper reveals that the coastal community people try to solve their problems through embracing and exploring alternative employments. To reduce the impacts there are two options in the coastal zone of Bangladesh is that mitigation and adaptation. The country has very limited scope for mitigation cause of mitigation involves global efforts to execute and adaptation is more indigenous. As a result, effective adaptation policies and mitigation measures should be built-up and implemented to minimize climate related impacts on Bangladesh.

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Compositing climate change vulnerability of a Mediterranean region using spatiotemporally dynamic proxies for ecological and socioeconomic impacts and stabilities

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Investigation of groundwater potential and groundwater pollution risk using the multi-criteria method: a case study (the Alaşehir sub-basin, western Turkey)

Investigation of groundwater potential and groundwater pollution risk using the multi-criteria method: a case study (the Alaşehir sub-basin, western Turkey)

Direct and indirect health impacts of climate change on the vulnerable elderly population in East China

Environmental Change and Its Impacts on Lives and Livelihoods of South-Central Coastal Districts of Bangladesh

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