
Climate Change and Resilient Cities
Chapter from the book:
Turan,
V.
(ed.)
2025.
Urbanization, Environment and Migration Policies.
Synopsis
Climate change increases the carbon gas density in the atmosphere as a result of excessive fossil fuel use. The increasing carbon density in the atmosphere increases the world temperature by reducing the output of the rays during the reflection of the rays coming from the sun to the surface back to space. The atmosphere creates a greenhouse effect for the world with increasing carbon density. Increasing temperature causes many negativities for the world. One of the most important of these negativities is climate change. Climate change is one of the most important problems that threaten ecosystems, people and people's living spaces due to its negative consequences. Cities, where the population is densely gathered, are the settlements where the negativities of climate change make themselves felt the most. Cities are the settlements where greenhouse gas production is intense, thus causing anthropogenic climate change. However, cities are the places where the effects of climate change are felt the most, especially because of their high population density. Since cities are the settlements most affected by climate change, it is necessary to develop policies appropriate to this new situation in order to reduce the vulnerability of cities against the negative consequences of climate change and to increase their adaptation capacity. Policies should be developed to ensure that cities, from transport systems to infrastructure systems, are designed in accordance with the new changing climate situation. With the policies to be developed, cities will become resilient against environmental problems, especially climate change. In this part, analyses the effects of climate change on cities and which policies should be implemented to increase the resilience capacity of cities against these effects through textual analysis method.