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

Sema Yılmaz Genç1, Arian Behradfar2, Rui Alexandre Castanho3,4,5,6*, DerviÅŸ Kırıkkaleli7, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez3,4,8and LuÃs Loures3、9

1Department of Marketing and Advertising, Ali Rıza Veziroglu Vocational School, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey

2Department of Geomatics and Spatial Information Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3VALORIZA - Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Portalegre, Portugal

4CITUR - Madeira - Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, Funchal-Madeira, Portugal

5Faculty of Applied Sciences, WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland

6School of Business and Economics and CEEAplA, University of Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

7Department of Banking and Finance, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, European University of Lefke, Lefke, Northern Cyprus, Turkey

8Agricultural School, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

9CinTurs-Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Corresponding author Email:semayilmazgenc@gmail.com

DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.16.1.11

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.

Land-Use Changes; Regional Studies; Socio-Economy; Territorial Planning

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Genc s Y, Behradfar A, Castanho A. R, Kırıkkaleli D, Gómez J. M. N, Loures L. Land Use Changes in Turkish Territories: Patterns, Directions and Socio-Economic Impacts on Territorial Management. Curr World Environ 2021;16(1). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.16.1.11

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Genc s Y, Behradfar A, Castanho A. R, Kırıkkaleli D, Gómez J. M. N, Loures L. Land Use Changes in Turkish Territories: Patterns, Directions and Socio-Economic Impacts on Territorial Management. Curr World Environ 2021;16(1). Available From :https://bit.ly/3rF8C0n

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