Building resilience to the expected Marmara earthquake: Preparing for post-disaster population mobility in Istanbul

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  • Seda Yurtcanlı Duymaz image/svg+xml Istanbul University

    Assist. Prof. Dr. Seda Yurtcanlı Duymaz works at Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Urbanisation and Environmental Problems. After graduating from Marmara University Faculty of Law, she completed her master's degree in environmental law at Lyon 3 University. She received her Ph.D. (2019) in Public Law about  "Climate Change, Disasters and Human Rights: Environmental Forced Migration", in Faculty of Law from Marmara University. She participated in the projects Cities of Human Rights and the Effectiveness of the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea. She continues her studies on disaster and migration, environmental problems and human rights, climate change law, national and global environmental policy and law. Since December 2021, she coordinate the TUBITAK Project titled Environmental Forced Migration Scenario and Management of Possible Istanbul Earthquake.

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https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2023.v4si112

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Rights-Based Approach, Expected Marmara Earthquake, environmental forced migration, migration scenarios, protection obligation

Abstract

Along with other causes of migration, earthquakes have displaced millions of people worldwide over the last few decades, forcing them to move to other settlements within the country. As an "earthquake country", Turkey, where approximately 70% of its territory is located in the seismic zone, has faced a variety of environmentally forced migration that refers to a variety of demographic movements like evacuation, flight, displacement, resettlement, as well as forced migration. Disasters and disaster-related forced migrations as an aspect of survival anxiety have severe and irreversible consequences for the existence of physical security, human dignity, health, livelihoods, shelter, and social, economic, and cultural structures and processes of societies or their subunits. Therefore, disasters and disaster-induced migration, which can be defined as a process of significant vulnerability, are considered widespread and severe threats to the enjoyment and realisation of fundamental rights. Earthquake-related forced migration phenomenon is a widespread and high-risk factor, and this risk corresponds to a closer and more destructive possibility for the province of Istanbul. Therefore becomes vital to take preventive measures to mitigate the possible destructive effects as well as to eliminate the risks as much as possible. This study aims to determine whether relevant legislation is adequate to provide an effective and sufficient protection mechanism for environmental displacement that may occur in Istanbul after a significant earthquake for the purpose of “building resilience in crisis” in the view of international standards. Thus, it also emphasises the importance of the human rights approach and legal mechanisms in establishing resilience during crises. This study has been prepared by content analysing the disaster and emergency preparedness plans, policy texts, and relevant legal and regulatory provisions related to understanding and managing the earthquake-induced migration scenario in Istanbul.

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2023-12-31

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Yurtcanlı Duymaz, S. (2023). Building resilience to the expected Marmara earthquake: Preparing for post-disaster population mobility in Istanbul. Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning, 4((Special Issue), 95–108. https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2023.v4si112

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Resilience in Crisis

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