Natural disasters, which seriously threat human lives
and settlements, take place quite frequently in Turkey due to the country’s geographical
and physical characteristics. Since natural disasters are not preventable
phenomena, the establishment and management of a proper relation between the disasters
and planning processes is a highly important requirement in terms of minimizing
the possible damages that may occur. In this sense, it is necessary to determine
the measures to reduce the risks of disaster exposure, and to make plan and
design decisions accordingly. However, disaster preparedness is not just limited
to that. Preparedness for post-disaster crisis management and determination of
the locations that are suitable for post-disaster assembly areas is of great
significance. From this point, green areas play an important role in the
post-disaster period, as providing proper locations to be used as assembly
areas. Especially, after the 1999 Gölcük and 2011 Van earthquakes in Turkey, the necessity
of planning and using green and open spaces as post-disaster assembly locations
has been a matter of interest. The approach of planning and designing green
areas as evacuation and assembly spaces provides significant opportunities to
establish safe and healthy temporary residence areas for the people suffering
from the consequences of the disasters. In this paper, the successful examples
of using green areas for the mentioned purposes will be investigated and the
possibilities of utilizing green areas as post-disaster assembly areas will be evaluated
in order to increase the preparedness for disasters in Turkey.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Engineering |
Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | June 18, 2018 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 Volume: 4 Issue: 1 |