Integrity of Ecosystem Through Nexus Approach

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2024-01-24

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Yapan, Bilge İrem
Alp, Emre
Şipal, Selin

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Increasing demand from population growth, industrialization, urbanization and changing living standards are putting increasing pressure on the world's natural resources. With the motivation caused by these pressures, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been proposed. The sustainability of water, energy, food and ecosystem plays a critical role in achieving the SDGs. The ecological dimension was disregarded in early integrated resource management techniques. Because assessing the value of ecosystem services which are very important for scientists and policy makers is a difficult task. However, the ecosystem is an important part of both the SDGs and the nexus concept. Hence, it should be taken into account in nexus assessments. It is a problem when four nexus components are managed separately because there is a strong relationship between them. The aim of this study is to evaluate the sustainability of Ecosystem through Nexus approach for 26 development regions in Turkiye. In the nexus assessment in Turkiye, the TOPSIS and the Obstacle Degree Method was used to determine key obstacles to integrity of the Ecosystem. By this study, supporting the strategies in the fields of water, energy, food and ecosystem in Turkiye is also aimed. Moreover, Spearman’s Rank Correlation was applied to identify synergies and tradeoffs between indicators. It is an important part of study because strategies can not be set just by looking at indicators that create obstacles. Since the four nexus components are interrelated, the synergies and tradeoffs between the indicators should also be considered.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/118087

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