Natural hazards are the reality of today& / #8217 / s world, which considerably affect
people& / #8217 / s living conditions. As they cannot be prevented, the basic
precautions should be taken before the occurrence to protect people. At
this point, the preparedness for any threat is really important, which does
decrease destructive effects of the hazard for communities and shorten
recovery interventions. In terms of preparedness, identification of
vulnerable people in the community gives an important contribution for
better planning in disaster management.
In this respect, this thesis aims to develop a methodology in order to
define vulnerable groups in terms of their social conditions for any possible
hazard, with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. Moreover,
the thesis aims to find out an interrelation between hazards and
vulnerability, to build awareness about identification of socially
vulnerable groups in the pre- and post-disaster planning.
A case study area is selected in earthquake-prone Pendik, Istanbul, in
order to find the contribution of the assessment. A study is carried out to
describe social vulnerability levels in the study area using GIS. Criterion
standardization, weighting and combining are accomplished by multi
criteria evaluation methods. These calculations are supported with five
explorative spatial data analyses to understand global trends and spatial
interactions of the study data. The objectivity of the assessment and the
complicated structure of the study data are also discussed. The main
outcomes of the methodology and its applications in the case study area
show that, the southeast part of Pendik is socially vulnerable to any
possible hazard.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1252196/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 December 2003 |
| Creators | Gungor Haki, Zeynep |
| Contributors | Akyurek, Zuhal |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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