YEREL DÜZEYDE İKLİM DEĞİŞİKLİĞİ FARKINDALIĞI ANALİZİ / GEBZE ÖRNEĞİ

Year 2017, Volume: 10 Issue: 4, 1 - 10, 27.12.2017

Ayşe Nur Albayrak Öncü Atasayan

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to review awareness at local level about climate change as a global issue. This study evaluates ideas about the effects of socio-economic differences on individual and social awareness about climate change, faith in policies for struggling against climate change and actors which play a role in local policies. The study sample is Gebze (Kocaeli), an industrial settlement area developing under the effect of the Metropolitan Area of İstanbul. One of the important industrial centers of Turkey, Gebze embodies industrial-urban uses which increase C emissions and have a negative contribution to climate change on one hand and a population which is possibly affected by the results of climate change on the other. Ideas of climate change awareness were collected through face to face interviews in this study. The conclusions obtained from Gebze sample are expected to define the perspective of the society about climate change policies and awareness about climate change and to contribute to the process of creating policies for struggling against climate change at local level

  

Keywords

climate change, awareness, local policies

References

• MacCracken, M. C., “Global Warming: A Science Overview”, Global Warming and Energy Policy, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, sayfa 151- 159, 2001, New York.