To a large extent, natural phenomenon like earthquakes, floods, lanslides and etc
may seem &ldquo / natural events&rdquo / which are out of human control. In fact, the sociopolitical
structure is the main cause of earth tremors which turn into disasters. What is notable
and striking is that, because of institutional and social vulnerabilities and little or
misguided efforts for disaster loss mitigation, natural events may turn into disasters
resulting negative and devastating consequences. Institutional vulnerabilities connote a
lack of local administrations&rsquo / capacity for disaster mitigation planning, furthermore
awareness for accreting local stakeholders for disaster loss reduction. Social
vulnerabilities, refers to miss-knowledge and lack of awareness for disasters in the
society. In Turkey, it is hard to say that there has never been efforts for disaster loss
reduction, whereas / the main focus of the state agencies has been on post-disaster
emergency relief, literally wound healing for decades. Generally speaking, localities
which experience a disaster may encounter significant losses in development, hence a
significant decrease in local capacities which takes enormous resources to restore. The
housing stock and urban fabric, which inherit an historical background weaved by missguided
disaster policy that only focus on post-disaster emergency relief phase, pictures
the extent of the problem in Turkey. In addition, both &ldquo / institutional errors which lead to
underachievement in disaster policy and practice&rdquo / and &ldquo / opportunities for building robust
and resilient forms of institutions&rdquo / come into local agenda. Errors, which might have
been altered by long term and comprehensive modes of local planning for disasters, may
lead to underachievement by local agents. To achieve such a model, we are in need to
carry out qualitative and quantitative data collecting and analyzing techniques in
different phases. The two analysis techniques are in-depth interviews (IDI) and drawing
Concept Maps that will be conducted in the analyses process with local respondents
selected by snowball technique.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612619/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2010 |
| Creators | Koc, Ersan |
| Contributors | Pinarcioglu, Melih |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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