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ECLAS 2023 CONFERENCE, Brno, Czech Republic, 10 - 13 September 2023, pp.42
While the impact of climate change has been felt all over the
world, green infrastructure (GI) has been an emerging planning
approach in particular for human settlements. Urban areas are
most affected by global climate change which is one of the most
critical challenges to urban societies and settlements. Rising temperatures and decreasing precipitation triggered by unexpected
weather abnormalities exaggerates the already existing pressures of anthropogenic activities on the urban environment, especially in the Mediterranean. To make cities sustainable, healthy
and more viable and most crucially resilient to climate change,
green infrastructure helps us to incorporate both the natural and
the built environment. Urbanisation has risen up in Turkey by
1950’s when migration from the village to the cities took place.
But it was after 1980’s urban environments face with gradual and
constructive exploitations over valuable natural feature in, on the
periphery and outside of the cities. On the other hand green infrastructure is based on the existence of and connectivity between
natural areas and features, public and private open green spaces in urban landscapes. On the contrary, the ongoing process
on urban planning aims to provide a certain amount (measured
in m²) of public green space per capita rather that maintaining
the link between all green spaces. Antalya is a coastal tourist city
on the Mediterranean and most prone to climate change impacts.
Recently, a long dry period put heavy pressures on water sources
and high demand on urban green spaces. The aim of this study
to evaluate green infrastructure components in Antalya priory to
and after the urbanisation to understand the loss in potential and
existing green infrastructure at the crossroad of time, and to discuss possibilities for a sustainable urban development in Antalya
as a Mediterranean city that resilient to climate change