Vulnerability of Turkish coasts to accelerated sea-level rise

Alpar, Bedri

doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.05.021

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“…Such tsunamis may pose an important threat to the coastal settlements and installations especially located in the gulfs of Izmit and Gemlik, the Kapıdag Peninsula and on the shores of Istanbul and Gelibolu. Tides are not important in the Sea of Marmara but higher sea-levels due to storm surges may cause tsunamis to become more damaging (Alpar, 2009). Therefore, tsunamis are of practical interest in risk assessment, disaster management and mitigation.…”

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Revision of the tsunami catalogue affecting Turkish coasts and surrounding regions

Altınok

Alpar

Özer

et al. 2011

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. The coasts of Turkey have been hit by tsunamis in the past. The first national earthquake-tsunami catalogues were compiled in the early 1980s while the most up-to-date tsunami catalogues are mainly the products of recent European projects. The EU projects GITEC and GITEC-TWO (Genesis and Impact of Tsunamis on the European Coasts) and TRANSFER (Tsunami Risk ANd Strategies For the European Region) have added important contributions in establishing and developing unified criteria for tsunami parameterisation, standards for the quality of the data, the data format and the database general architecture. On the basis of these new aspects and based on recent marine geophysical data, tsunamigenic earthquakes, tsunami intensities and their reliability have been revised. The current version of the database contains 134 events, most of which have affected the Turkish coasts seriously during the last 3500 years. The reliability index of 76 events was "probable" and "definite", so that they could be used for assessment of the risk along the Turkish coastal region and for implementation of prevention policies.

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“…The consequences of such events, in view of increasing coastal urbanization, can be extremely serious. The Turkish coasts are about 8300-km-long with many territorial divisions found along the low-lying coasts where about one third of the population lives (Alpar, 2009).…”

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Revision of the tsunami catalogue affecting Turkish coasts and surrounding regions

Altınok

Alpar

Özer

et al. 2011

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…Beyond qualitative assessments of coastal vulnerability (e.g. Paskoff, 2004;Lebbe et al, 2008;Alpar, 2009), the challenge in mapping coastal vulnerability is to combine all of this heterogeneous information into one single map in a structured way, and to appropriately integrate the opinion of experts when data are insufficient to directly solve the problem (e.g. Fairbanks and Jakeways, 2006;Vinchon et al, 2009;Hanson et al, 2010).…”

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An AHP-derived method for mapping the physical vulnerability of coastal areas at regional scales

Cozannet

Garçin

Bulteau

et al. 2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Assessing coastal vulnerability to climate change at regional scales is now mandatory in France since the adoption of recent laws to support adaptation to climate change. However, there is presently no commonly recognised method to assess accurately how sea level rise will modify coastal processes in the coming decades. Therefore, many assessments of the physical component of coastal vulnerability are presently based on a combined use of data (e.g. digital elevation models, historical shoreline and coastal geomorphology datasets), simple models and expert opinion. In this study, we assess the applicability and usefulness of a multi-criteria decision-mapping method (the analytical hierarchy process, AHP) to map physical coastal vulnerability to erosion and flooding in a structured way. We apply the method in two regions of France: the coastal zones of Languedoc-Roussillon (north-western Mediterranean, France) and the island of La Réunion (south-western Indian Ocean), notably using the regional geological maps. As expected, the results show not only the greater vulnerability of sand spits, estuaries and low-lying areas near to coastal lagoons in both regions, but also that of a thin strip of erodible cliffs exposed to waves in La Réunion. Despite gaps in knowledge and data, the method is found to provide a flexible and transportable framework to represent and aggregate existing knowledge and to support long-term coastal zone planning through the integration of such studies into existing adaptation schemes

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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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Vulnerability of Turkish coasts to accelerated sea-level rise

Cited by 43 publications

References 13 publications

Revision of the tsunami catalogue affecting Turkish coasts and surrounding regions

Revision of the tsunami catalogue affecting Turkish coasts and surrounding regions

An AHP-derived method for mapping the physical vulnerability of coastal areas at regional scales

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

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