Land Use Changes in Turkish Territories: Patterns, Directions and Socio-Economic Impacts on Territorial Management

Sema Yılmaz Genç,José Manuel Naranjo Gómez,Derviş Kırıkkaleli,Arian Behradfar,Rui Alexandre Castanho,Luís Loures

doi:10.12944/cwe.16.1.11

Abstract

Human activities have been changing the Earth's cover at an unparalleled scale. In this regard, and cover mapping is a decisive advantage for several kinds of research. Also, the outcomes from these investigations could be applied to plan a sustainable regional governance policy. This article studied land-use changes in the Turkish Territories in 1990, 2000, 2012, and 2018 using the Coordination of Information on the Environment (CORINE) data. The results showed a significant and gradual land-use change from agricultural to mostly artificial surfaces. The majority of land-use changes are related to industrial and commercial units and construction sites. The most degraded agricultural land uses are non-irrigated arable land and pastures, while there is an increasing trend in permanently irrigated land. This study's outcome can be considered a surveying baseline for the comparative analysis of similar works for different land-use change trends in Europe or worldwide. Landuse change studies are reliable tools to evaluate the human activities and footprint of proposed strategies and policies in a territory. This article also enables us to understand that Turkey's decisive actors should design development policies to encourage industrial investments and agricultural ventures in Turkey and adapt the land-use/land cover strategies to mitigate agricultural land fragmentation.

Highlights

Land systems comprise all methods and actions linked to the human use of land, including technological and organizational advances and orderings and the advantages obtained from land, and the unintended social and environmental consequences of societal actions
Results and Discussion we will represent the results for land use change analysis of Turkey in the years of 1990, 2000, 2006, 2012, and 2018 with the help of different plots and tables obtained from GIS tools and CORINE Land Cover (CLC)
This article dealt with Turkey's land-use changes in the years 1990, 2000, 2006, 2012, and 2018

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Introduction

Land systems comprise all methods and actions linked to the human use of land, including technological and organizational advances and orderings and the advantages obtained from land, and the unintended social and environmental consequences of societal actions. These systems have significant implications that lead to change in the land cover.[1] Land use and land cover change are the main catalyst forces of global environmental change and are of significant concern because of their impact on various socioeconomic sectors. Human activities have been perceived as changing the Earth’s surface at an unprecedented rate and on broad scales. Such transformations are related to providing essential resources and materials.[3]

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