A matter of capacity: climate change and the urban challenges for Turkey

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2017-05-01

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Balaban, Osman

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47939

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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY

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https://doi.org/10.1017/npt.2017.22

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O. Balaban, “A matter of capacity: climate change and the urban challenges for Turkey,” NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY, pp. 159–162, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47939.