Climate Change-Related Natural Disasters: Environmental Effects and Sustainable Monitoring

Year 2023, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 113 - 125, 31.12.2023

Hüseyin Cüce

Abstract

Disasters are unanticipated, abrupt, dramatic events that cause significant damage. Serious issues arise during post-disaster crisis management as a result of the inadequate planning that preceded the disasters that our nation has suffered in the past. Ensuring sustained monitoring with an understanding that concentrates resource use prior to the disaster and prioritizes risk avoidance is crucial for reducing the environmental harm caused by disasters. International cooperation, rational environmental policies and sustainable monitoring are necessary to increase disaster resilience in the face of a changing climate. Before, during, or after a disaster, the present situation can be monitored using satellite technology or remote sensing (RS) techniques. While the geographic information systems (GIS) offer an appropriate framework for integrating and analyzing the different types of data sources required for disaster monitoring, they may also be utilized to provide baseline data against which future changes can be compared.

Keywords

Natural Disaster, Climate Change, Sustainable Monitoring, GIS, Remote Sensing

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