Sürdürülebilir Yeşil Kampüs Koleksiyonu / Sustainable Green Campus Collection
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Report İzmir Institute of Technology Sustainability Report 2023(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2023)The IZTECH Sustainable Green Campus Coordinatorship was founded in 2014. A search conference for a sustainable living campus with the tagline “happy campus” was held with the campus actors’ collective participation. However, it was not until December 2019 that a Framework on Sustainable Campus was defined. IZTECH has decided to apply the UI GreenMetric for critical self-evaluation and development in the field of sustainability in 2020 and continued to do so in 2021 and 2022 as well. With the motto of “happy campus, happy peninsula, happy Izmir,” the IZTECH Sustainable Green Campus Coordination group was formed. It consists of 12 academics including our rector, our academicians who are expert in the field and young and enthusiastic teaching assistants. Most importantly, our Coordinatorship continues today thanks to the support of eco motion and numerous other student communities. As a result, we are able to assure the sustainability of our campus through bottom-up development.Report İzmir Institute of Technology Sustainability Report 2022(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2022)İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) aims at creating a sustainable and resilient campus environment that outreaches the boundaries of the campus in order to serve the in-campus and out-campus communities alike. In line with this main aim, IZTECH has initiated application to the Greenmetric World University Ranking that was developed by Universitas Indonesia. Therefore, IZTECH has undertaken a gap analysis in terms of its sustainability performance by determining the current situation and the future targets. There were 6 main topics to investigate and eventually improve: Setting and Infrastructure, Energy and Climate, Waste, Water, Transportation, Education and Research. October 2022 marks IZTECH’s third year of application to the Greenmetric Ranking. • In its first year IZTECH was ranked 217th out of 912 institutions. • In its second year, IZTECH was ranked 198th out of 956. In order to determine the scopes to develop and improve from each ranking IZTECH endeavors to create a sustainable campus environment. With a motto of “happy campus, happy peninsula, happy Izmir”, the IZTECH Sustainable Green working group was set up – consisting of 35 volunteering academics, employers, researchers, assistants as well as 15 students from the Eco-motion Student initiative - for a sustainable future.Report İzmir Institute of Technology Sustainability Report 2021(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2021)İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) aims at creating a sustainable and resilient campus environment that outreaches the boundaries of the campus in order to serve the in-campus and out-campus communities alike. In line with this main aim, IZTECH has initiated application to the Greenmetric World University Ranking that was developed by Universitas Indonesia. Therefore, IZTECH has undertaken a gap analysis in terms of its sustainability performance by determining the current situation and the future targets. There were 6 main topics to investigate and eventually improve: Setting and Infrastructure, Energy and Climate, Waste, Water, Transportation, Education and Research. October 2021 marks IZTECH’s second year of application to the Greenmetric Ranking. In its first year IZTECH was ranked 217th out of 912 institutions. In order to determine the scopes to develop and improve from each rankingIZTECH endeavors to create a sustainable campus environmentArticle Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 3Integrating Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Natural Capital Security and Urban Ecosystem Carbon Metabolism(Springer Verlag, 2018) Demirkesen, Ali Can; Evrendilek, FatihThe purpose of the study is to address and quantify the increase in urban expansion and carbon (C) metabolism burden on ecosystem service value (ESV), net ecosystem productivity (NEP), and C storage of urban footprint. Urban footprint is required to meet the demands arising from economic consumption and production as well as waste accumulation and assimilation. Spatiotemporal changes in main land covers (LCs) were detected using remotely sensed data (Landsat 5 and 8, and digital elevation model) between 1987 and 2016. Changes in ESV and C influx, efflux and pools associated with LC dynamics were approximated using global proxies for a western Mediterranean region in Turkey of 54,162 km2. Urban expansion over the 29-year period decreased ESV by 22% ($7.28 ± 0.4 billion), NEP by 4.3% (2.3 ± 9 Gg C), and total ecosystem C pool by 10.9% (1008.3 ± 1006 Gg C) and led to a 62.8% appropriation of the total NEP (50.1 ± 51 Gg C) of the urban footprint in 2016. The main cause of the environmental degradation across the study region was the loss of the seminatural areas. Our findings emphasize that the deterioration rate of ecosystems should be slowed down by natural capital-friendly decisions and should not exceed rehabilitation rate of damaged ecosystems in the face of rapidly increasing burdens of the cities on their footprint.Article Citation - WoS: 9Citation - Scopus: 12Compositing Climate Change Vulnerability of a Mediterranean Region Using Spatiotemporally Dynamic Proxies for Ecological and Socioeconomic Impacts and Stabilities(Springer Verlag, 2017) Demirkesen, Ali Can; Evrendilek, FatihThe study presents a new methodology to quantify spatiotemporal dynamics of climate change vulnerability at a regional scale adopting a new conceptual model of vulnerability as a function of climate change impacts, ecological stability, and socioeconomic stability. Spatiotemporal trends of equally weighted proxy variables for the three vulnerability components were generated to develop a composite climate change vulnerability index (CCVI) for a Mediterranean region of Turkey combining Landsat time series data, digital elevation model (DEM)-derived data, ordinary kriging, and geographical information system. Climate change impact was based on spatiotemporal trends of August land surface temperature (LST) between 1987 and 2016. Ecological stability was based on DEM, slope, aspect, and spatiotemporal trends of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), while socioeconomic stability was quantified as a function of spatiotemporal trends of land cover, population density, per capita gross domestic product, and illiteracy. The zones ranked on the five classes of no-to-extreme vulnerability were identified where highly and moderately vulnerable lands covered 0.02% (12 km2) and 11.8% (6374 km2) of the study region, respectively, mostly occurring in the interior central part. The adoption of this composite CCVI approach is expected to lead to spatiotemporally dynamic policy recommendations towards sustainability and tailor preventive and mitigative measures to locally specific characteristics of coupled ecological–socioeconomic systems.Master Thesis Participatory Planning Support System for Assessment of Spatial Conflicts in Izmir Peninsula(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2014) Yazdani, Hamidreza; Saygin, Mustafa ÖmürDevelopment strategies and their possible impacts over time as a consequences of proposed spatial development are one of the main concerns of planners in planning process. Understanding the impact of these changes on environment and balanced management to distribute resources are essential indicators for planning approach aiming to achieve the sustainable development. A precise, accurate and up-to-date data in addition to reliable spatial analysis are basic requirements of sustainable decision making. A Planning support system (PSS) is mainly based on collecting, monitoring, analyzing data and evaluating the impacts of alternative planning scenarios using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for contributing spatial decisions. This study offers an approach to evaluate possible conflicts between development strategies in an environmentally sensitive areas. The approach is based on a PSS which integrated collaboratively weighted scenarios and natural assets. The study identify a framework for Co-production of data, evaluation of model outcomes and ranking natural and regional assets in cooperation of interest groups by utilizing Delphi survey in a conflict model of Esri ArcGIS. This model reveals impact level of development strategies on environmentally sensitive area and geographically map the conflicts of these strategies on each other and nature. The outcomes of model assist decision makers to produce alternative approaches for sensitive areas where conflicts of different polices are inevitable. Additionally the model utilize public participation in both gathering data and evaluating spatial analysis. This lead to a more adoptable planning practice where planners reach to public knowledge about region and guaranty guaranty consensuses in spatial decision making.