Impacts of Urbanization on Flood and Soil Erosion Hazards in Istanbul, Turkey

Due to the inappropriate planning and explosive population growth in urban areas, especially in developing countries, sustainable and disaster-safe urbanization has become the most important challenge for governments. Urbanization presents benefits in different ways but has led simultaneously to cha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Özacar, Biricik Gözde
Other Authors: Yool, Stephen R.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2013
Subjects:
GIS
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/307006