مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - The Flood Events in Kilis City Depending on Climate Change and Unplanned Urbanization

Abstract :

Fast over population in the world is increasing the pressures on the natural environment. Natural environment are significantly contaminated and depleted with the accelerating process of urbanization and industrialization.Ecological cycles in the natural environment are, in a large extent, being interrupted and deteriorated due to the incorrect land-use. As a result, environmental issues which are difficult to be solved are emerging day by day. Non-environmentally and non-sustainable planning and projects related to these planning make the world uninhabitable and more risky for all living things, in the world day by day. Opening areas, which are risky in terms of natural disasters and are not suitable for settling, up to settlement contribute to increase the material and moral damages caused by natural disasters. Indeed, while flood hazard and flood risk were extremely low (but Kilis has experienced 4 major flood events in the last 12 years) in Kilis in the past, settlement floods and damages based on the erosion-drought resources are increasing due to the global climate change, urbanization and incorrect land use day by day. Thereby, disasters caused more by natural process become the human originated disasters due to the human activities. In this study, the impact of development of the city on the increasing risks caused by the flood events occurred in Kilis and the link between global climate change and the storm rainfall will be discussed and evaluated. For this reason, at first the unplanned development of climate elements examined in detail in Kilis city and the connection with climate, and urbanization in Kilis set out in the flood events. In order to do this evaluation, the meteorological data, satellite images and field work was consulted.