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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 * , Derviş Kırıkkaleli7 , José Manuel Naranjo Gómez3,4,8 and Luís Loures3,9

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8 Agricultural School, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

9 CinTurs-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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