DATE2019-01-08 12:44:24
IDABSTRACT2014/519
CONTACTsemihademirbas@gmail.com
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TITLECLIMATE FRIENDLY URBAN PARKS: A CASE STUDY WITH NATIVE FLORA
AUTHORSSEMIHA DEMIRBAS CAGLAYAN (1,2)|ZUHAL DILAVER (3)|GULIN OZDEMIR (1)|EMEL BAYLAN (4)
AFFILIATIONS
  1. LANDSCAPE RESEARCH SOCIETY, ANKARA, TURKEY
  2. MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE , ANKARA, TURKEY
  3. ANKARA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, ANKARA, TURKEY
  4. 100. YIL UNIVERSITY, VAN, TURKEY
ABSTRACTGlobal climate change has adverse effects both regionally and locally. Urban areas with its dense population and artificial surfaces are one of the most vulnerable places. Each sector should develop adaptation measures in order to strengthen its capability of struggle with the irrepressible effects of climate change. Urban green areas have important roles within this climate change adaptation strategies. The drought and the aridity which we have experienced generally in summer time in Turkey in recent years brings into consideration that it is necessary to use water tolerant and local plants in urban landscape designs instead of high water demand plants and also the need of information and awareness on “xseriscape” landscape designs and xseriscape plants. However currently the applications which consider water shortage and drought problems are very scarce in urban green areas of Ankara. The municipalities that are responsible for designing and constructing green areas and the firms which counter the demand of foliage plants of municipalities donot consider the situation. Generally intolerant plants which are not included by local flora are used in landscape designs. One of the important reason of this situation is the community of interest do not have enough information and awareness about climate change, drought, dealing the drought problem and xseriscape plants subjects. Climate friendly urban parks Project is the first hard adaptation Project for Çankaya Municipality. Within these Project 5 bushes that are native to Ankara flora are produced and planted in urban parks within these region. Those water tolerant plants which cannot be found in plant nurseries are Genista sessilifolia DC., Colutea cilicica, Cotoneaster numuleria , Rhus coriaria and Viburnum lantana. We experimented the production process in 3 different mediums and 3 different doses of root developer hormones. The most successful plant for all mediums and all doses is Colutea cilicica. The target group of the project are the managers and staff in parks and environment departments in municipalities of Ankara who are responsible for designing urban parks and production of plant material; the representatives of firms who are dealing with plant production in Ankara; and university students who are attending to landscape architecture and agriculture engineer departments in Ankara.
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