Evaluating coastal scenery using fuzzy logic: Application at selected sites in Western Black Sea coastal region of Turkey

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2010-05-01

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Ergin, Ayşen
Sahin, Fatma

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Coastal areas of the world are under treat due to the conflicting requirements of functions such as habitation and/or recreation, which affect the strategic asset of coastal scenery itself. Coastal managers, together with planners, need coastal landscape inventories, where the quality of coastal scenery is a part of the inventory. In order to provide an evidence-based approach for sound coastal management decisions, Ergin et al. (2004, 2006) developed a novel technique 'coastal scenic evaluation' (CSE), which addresses the evaluation of coastal scenery. The CSE technique utilizes fuzzy logic to derive values obtained from a checklist of 26 physical and human parameters. The methodology enables the calculation of an evaluation index (D), which categorizes the scenic values of coastal sites into five distinct classes. Using this technique, coastal scenic evaluations were carried out at 34 selected sites on the Western Black Sea coast of Turkey. Based on the calculated D values, a five-class differentiation was obtained for the selected sites, to provide baseline information for any envisaged subsequent management plans for these areas.

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Environmental Engineering, Ocean Engineering

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48329

Journal

OCEAN ENGINEERING

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2010.02.003

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Department of Civil Engineering, Article

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A. Ergin and F. Sahin, “Evaluating coastal scenery using fuzzy logic: Application at selected sites in Western Black Sea coastal region of Turkey,” OCEAN ENGINEERING, pp. 583–591, 2010, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48329.