Browsing by Author "Baylan, E."

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Co-Management of Natural Resource Management: Participatory Planning and Collaborative Approach
(Centenary University, 2016) Baylan, E.; Karadeniz, N.
In the face of dynamic and complex ecological, socio-cultural and economic processes natural resources are within, traditional planning approaches have fallen short in sustainable management of natural resources. Difficulties and risks thusly experienced have brought forward participatory planning approaches that are based on communicative actions in planners’ and stakeholders’ roles during physical planning and decision making processes related to natural resources. Though participatory approaches and applications are effort and time demanding, they produce functional and lasting solutions which satisfy the environmental, social and economic demands and needs of the stakeholders. In this article, notions which bring various parties together -like communication, coordination, cooperation and collaboration- for various reasons were explained first with a focus on the term of collaboration as it forms the basis of active participation. Then, the differences between traditional and participatory planning approaches were reviewed, and various levels of participatory decision-making processes were explained in terms of Arnstein’s participation ladder and expectations from/promises of participation. Within this framework, this article delivers information about (a) the collaborative natural resource management approach that provides active participation opportunity to stakeholders during decision-making processes related to natural resources, (b) phases of this approach, and (c) related collaborative processes and structures which can be used in various circumstances. The paper concludes by reflecting the implications for research and practice on collaboration in natural resource management. © 2016, Centenary University. All rights reserved.
Cultural Landscape and Place Attachment: Case of Van City (Turkey)
(Centenary University, 2019) Baylan, E.
The relations between individuals, society and landscape can be understood and predicted through landscapes that are a kind of document about past, present and future with their tangible and intangible heritage values. Relations with cultural landscape through their natural and cultural heritage values provide a wide range of benefits from physical, mental and cognitive development to economic development to individuals and societies. In this article, it is aimed to determine the relations of the inhabitants of the city of Van with the landscape within the framework of the UNESCO Historical Urban Landscape (HUL) Recommendation in order to inform the participatory approach to Van cultural landscape management. For this purpose, a survey conducted with 254 inhabitants living in the center of Van city and its close vicinity in order to identify; the importance given to natural and cultural heritage, survey participants’ sense of place, level of knowing the folk songs and the relations between these variables were examined. The frequencies and significance scores as well as the spatial densities of these variables were determined and the relationships between them were examined by Pearson correlation analysis. The findings showed that both the important natural and cultural heritage and the important cultural landscapes for the participants are mainly the areas which provide multiple benefits such as recreation, scenery, learning about history and nature and sense of place. In this context, Van Lake and its surroundings, Muradiye Waterfall, Akdamar Church and Van Castle and its surroundings are the prominent places. In terms of sense of place, participants’ place attachment to Van is above the average and there is a high meaningful correlation between participants’ place identity and sense of place. The first two folk songs in terms of level of recognition by the survey participants have shown that natural and cultural heritage of Van have importance in their attachment to Van and Van identity. In this context, it should be ensured that the users can establish stronger connections with all the heritage features of Van in order to transfer Van cultural landscape’s tangible and intangible heritage values to the future. © 2019, Centenary University. All rights reserved.
Identifying Landscape Values and Stakeholder Conflicts for the Protection of Landscape Multifunctionality: the Case of Eksisu Wetlands (Turkey)
(Aloki Applied Ecological Research and Forensic inst Ltd, 2018) Baylan, E.; Karadeniz, N.
The aim of this study was to identify and define the multiple benefits that Eksisu Wetlands (Upper-Euphrates Basin) provides to its local stakeholders, and the major problems and sectors/stakeholders in conflict that shape the area in order to inform the collaborative landscape planning process for the wetlands. Landscape value mapping and analysis of the stakeholders and conflicts between them were employed, as were statistical analysis of the linkages between the perceived benefits of the landscape and land use/land cover characteristics. Stakeholder analysis showed that the governmental institutions have more decision-making power than user group of the wetlands. Drainage control, over grazing, abstraction of sand-gravel from the river bed, environmental pollution and the lack of will to use the available legislative and administrative mechanisms are the primary factors that threaten the Eksisu Wetlands and its multifunctionality. Among the landscape values examined, future value was considered the most important by the stakeholders. Two sets of landscape service bundles were identified; use and non-use landscape values; option landscape values-that are linked to Eksisu Wetlands. Conflict between the nature conservation and agriculture sectors and, conflict between the stakeholders over provisioning, regulatory, and cultural services are two primary conflict issues that were identified in the drainage basin of the wetlands. Habitat protection and improvement, and protecting and improving the area's regulating and cultural functions were proposed as priorities for the collaborative management of the area.