Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT POLICY AND MANAGEMENT, cilt.21, sa.1, ss.1950006, 2019 (Scopus)
The impacts of global warming, environmental pollution and corrective protective policies
for climate change have been discussed by scholars for more than half a century. This
study elaborates enabling factors for municipalities that have an active role in emission
reduction and adaptation in metropolitan cities in Turkey. Annual Action Reports and
Strategic Plans of corresponding Turkish metropolitan municipalities in the second period
of Kyoto Protocol were examined with document analysis to capture their local climate
protection capacities. Secondary data were also gathered mainly from public institutions
inventory and reports to determine major external factors on municipal climate initiatives.
Ordinary Least Square regression method was used to analyse the extent of enabling
factors including socio-economic, emission and vulnerability conditions that have an
impact on local climate governance initiatives in metropolitan cities. The findings of the
study indicate that emission level and socio-economics capacity of the metropolitan cities
in Turkey have a high aspiration for greenhouse gases reduction actions, while vulnerability level of the climate change has no significant effect on municipal decision-makers
and practitioners on local climate protection governance.