Bringing the quarries in the highway landscape to the ecosystem

Year 2025, Volume: 34 Issue: 1, 48 - 57, 20.06.2025

İrem Betül Aydın , Mehmet Ali Kırpık , Mustafa Kemal Altunoğlu

https://doi.org/10.53447/communc.1616660

Abstract

The aim of this study is to reveal the current situation of 56 quarries in the provinces of Kars, Iğdır and Ardahan. In addition, after the function of supplying materials from the quarries is completed, the necessary landscaping repair works are carried out to determine what can be done to bring them into the ecosystem. In this study, a survey consisting of 16 questions was applied to a total of 150 people, 50 of whom lived where the quarries were located, 50 of whom lived in the city centre and 50 of whom were quarry technical personnel. In the study, quarries were examined on site and obtained data were analyzed statistically by SPSS programme. In addition, the environmental impacts of quarries, their damage to nature and their effects on users were determined. As a result of the study, in order to integrate quarries into the ecosystem in the highway landscape, methods of land use, planting and recreation without endangering traffic, life and property safety were suggested.

Keywords

Biology , highways , landscape architecture , ecology

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