Browsing by Author "Karadeniz, N."

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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.
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.