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Chapter 2: "The Permanent Maxillary and Mandibular Premolar Teeth"\n
Chapter 3: "Dental Anatomical Features and Caries: A Relationship to be Investigated"\n
Chapter 4: "Anatomy Applied to Block Anaesthesia"\n
Chapter 5: "Treatment Considerations for Missing Teeth"\n
Chapter 6: "Anatomical and Functional Restoration of the Compromised Occlusion: From Theory to Materials"\n
Chapter 7: "Evaluation of the Anatomy of the Lower First Premolar"\n
Chapter 8: "A Comparative Study of the Validity and Reproducibility of Mesiodistal Tooth Size and Dental Arch with the iTero Intraoral Scanner and the Traditional Method"\n
Chapter 9: "Identification of Lower Central Incisors"\n
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Irregular and unsound urban development is the common problem of all urban settlements today. The increasing continuation of this problem is inevitable in this order, where the economy-ecology balance is not taken into consideration and economic concerns always win.
Urban growth, the density of which is continuing increasingly with the population increase that has taken place in urban areas in the recent years, leads to the vanishing of an extremely limited number of natural resources and to the occurrence of irregular and unsound urban areas, along with impairing the agricultural lands (Brueckner et al., 2001).
When considered from another perspective, it might be stated that urbanization gained momentum with the industrial revolution. When urbanization and industrialization are evaluated together in this context, it follows that the share of industrialization in the concentration of the population in urban areas and in the environmental pressure it creates is a fact which cannot be ignored (Aksu, 2011). The technological development, the population increase and the rapid change in cities that particularly occurred upon the industrial revolution have upset the ecological balance; consequently, the process of rapid degradation of natural resources commenced. Having continued with a gradual increase in the need for new living spaces and areas of use, this process of degradation has substantially altered the working of the ecosystem with either conscious or unconscious planning.
It is impossible to make up for the natural resources which have been used up due to the degraded ecosystem; furthermore, the vital impacts of this process are increasing day by day. The cities and industrial areas (technoecosystems) which continue to develop on natural areas especially due to the shortcomings/mistakes in city planning are striking as one of the most important results of this situation.
Technoecosystems are ecosystems which occur with the rearrangement of natural ecosystems and on which urban-industrial societies live. Being relatively new on the earth, these systems provide their power from advanced technologies and non-self-renewing energy resources. In order for urban-industrial formations to survive on the earth with limited resources, it is imperative that they be made more compatible with the natural ecosystem than that of today and that an order which benefits both parties be created without the impairment of the working of the ecosystem (Odum and Barrett, 2008).
In conclusion, upon the impairment of the working of the ecosystem, the fertile agricultural lands which are particularly impossible to reclaim have been confronted with the danger of degradation and vanishing, along with the natural areas that must absolutely be conserved within the ecosystem. Therefore, preservation of the ecological balance and the concept of ecological landscape planning that developed accordingly are the primary issues on which one must strongly dwell today.
Considering the principle of integration of the urban ecosystem with the natural ecosystem, this study dwells on the impacts of improper use due to wrong urban development on the natural environment and the concept of ecological landscape planning. Within this scope, the subjects “Improper Land Use, Planning and the Planning Hierarchy in Turkey, Ecological/Environmentally-Sensitive Landscape Planning and its Importance, and the Relationship between Sustainable Urbanization and Ecological Planning” were included in the study.
At the next stage of the study, the losses of fertile agricultural lands resulting from the lands which were opened to development at the city center of Çanakkale, selected in order to explain the matter with a concrete example, are contained in the study with numerical expressions and figures. At the final stage, an overall evaluation of the planning hierarchy on the urban scale in our country was made, and the legal and administrative gaps in the improper use of the land were investigated thoroughly. Accordingly, the reasons for, the consequences of and the solutions to improper land uses frequently taking place in urban area planning were discussed.
The importance attached, and the priority given, to the environment and to urban ecological planning varies by society. Furthermore, it is possible to see the variations in the perspectives of the environment at various stages. Urban development is defined with the increase in production and consumption following the industrial revolution with the assumption that the natural resources were endless and with intensive construction activities. This stage involves some extravagant energy and land use at this stage. The growth of the city against agricultural lands is regarded as an essential indication of development (Eke, 2000).
Especially the process of metropolitanization causes cities to grow rapidly in the space and sprawl over extensive areas and to predominate, economically and socially, in all surrounding urban and rural communities. As a result of this, the natural resources remaining within the metropolitan area enter the process of being used up rapidly. This manifests itself with the unplanned and uncontrolled growth particularly against the rapid population increase in the metropolises of developing countries (Sezgin and Varol, 2012).
By the phenomenon of urbanization which appeared in this process of growth, the sprawl of cities, the absolute necessity for establishing new settlements and the fact that urban lands could easily be turned into a matter of speculation resulted in the rapid inclusion of fertile agricultural lands in urban lands (Keleş and Hamamcı, 1993).
The rapid decrease in agricultural lands upon rapid urbanization and industrialization is a phenomenon which is observed worldwide besides in our country. The construction activities of industrial establishments, roads which are their infrastructure, sports facilities and entertainment centers take place in fertile agricultural lands generally with the justification that they bring fewer economic losses (Çepel, 2008).
The reasons for improper use, meaning the use of agricultural land for nonagricultural purposes, include the gradual increase in urbanization, the rapidly developing industry and investments accordingly, and, finally, the gaps in laws and regulations. The economic earnings that develop depending on the construction of houses in rapidly growing areas where urban development is intensively felt are always higher and less risky than the yield of the activities to be carried out in agricultural lands, which manifests itself as the most primary reason why such areas are preferred as urban settlements.
Improper use generally takes place on the fertile agricultural lands which are generally Class I to Class IV agricultural lands, where any plant can grow, which are plain, which are well-drained, where the soil depth is high, and which definitely should not be used for nonagricultural purposes.
In this way, urbanization, one of the most serious threats for the world’s biodiversity, most dramatically and permanently alters land use in our country, as it does worldwide (Ricketts and Imhoff, 2003; Yli-Pelkonen and Niemelä, 2006).
Upon the industrial branch which developed afterwards, the identification of these lands, which continued to exist as urban development areas, as areas convenient for any nonagricultural investment and their use for these purposes were supported. Since no laws or regulations to prevent all these things and to protect fertile agricultural lands have been made or since, even if they have been made, they lack the necessary restrictions, the improper use of fertile agricultural lands continues as a great national problem.
With a wide variety of definitions, planning is an integrated system which involves a series of chaotic cases in theory and practice and which depends on various laws and regulations besides being a multidirectional and comprehensive concept. According to the definition by Keleş (1972), planning is regarded as the whole of decisions about the actions in the future, whereas planning also involves the absolute necessity for the rational use of the available resources and information. The process of preparation of the series of decisions aiming at attaining the targets which have been specified regarding the activities to take place in the future as a whole via the optimum means is called planning (Akay, 2009).
Article 166 of the 1982 Constitution is entitled “Planning” and assigns the state the task of planning which ensures “economic, social and cultural development, particularly the rapid development of industry and agriculture at the national level in a balanced and compatible way, and the efficient use of national resources by making their inventory and evaluation”.
There are numerous laws, statutes, regulations and circulars which direct development in our country, with the most determinative one being the Development Law No. 3194 and the regulations affiliated to it. Depending on the variety of the objects intended to be planned, a large number of types of plans are encountered in the development law. Some of these types of plans were organized in the Development Law No. 3194, while some of them were left to Article 4 of the law and the regulations to be made with special laws. It is possible to classify the plans which arise from the provisions of the Development Law as “types of plans for general purposes” and the plans which are for special purposes and which are envisaged for the areas that are the subject of a different planning regime as “types of plans for special purposes” (Table 1) (Erdem and Coşkun, 2009). Of the following types of plans, Upper-Scale Plans, the Physical Plan of the Country, the Regional Plan and the Land Use Plan are types of socio-economic and ecological plans, while the remaining plans are called “types of physical plans”.
Types of Plans for General Purposes | Types of Plans for Special Purposes |
Upper-Scale Plans | The Development Plan for Conservation (1:5,000 and 1:1,000) |
The Physical Plan of the Country (A five-year development plan) | The Development Plan for Tourism (1:5,000 and 1:1,000) |
The Regional Plan (1:200,000, 1:50,000, 1:25,000, and 1:10,000) Natural resource inventory/analysis, Socio-economic resource inventory/analysis | The Plan for a Special Environmental Conservation Zone (1:25,000, 1:5,000, and 1:1,000) |
The Land Use Plan (Conservation, Agriculture, Forest, Recreation, Settlement, Industry, etc.) | The Development Plan for Rehabilitation (1:5,000 and 1:1,000) |
The Metropolitan Master Plan (1:50,000) | The Village Settlement Plan (1:1,000) |
The Environmental Order Plan (1:25,000) | The Forestland Development Plan |
The Master Plan (1:5,000) | The Coastal Development Plan |
The Implementation Development Plan (1:1,000) | The Development Plan for Mass Housing Areas |
Complementary plans which bring change | Planning in Agricultural Lands |
The Additional Plan | Planning of Pastures, etc. |
The Partial Development Plan | National Park Planning |
The Revision Development Plan | Planning in Industrial Sites |
An Amendment to the Plan | Planning in Water Basins |
Types of plans (Atabay, 2003; Erdem and Coşkun, 2009)
Even though most of the above-mentioned types of plans are in some way contained in the law, the majority are the types of plans with no implementation in practice. In Article 6, entitled “the Planning Hierarchy”, of the second section entitled “Fundamental Principles on Development Plans” in the Development Law No. 3194 that was shaped with an understanding which was extremely far from conserving the natural resources and that was primarily organized in order to ensure the shaping of urban living spaces, it is laid down that “Plans are prepared as “Regional Plans” in terms of the area they cover and their purposes, whereas development plans are prepared as “Master Plans” and “Implementation Development Plans”. In other words, spatial plans are collected in two main ranks as Upper-Scale Plans (the Regional Plan) and Lower-Scale Plans (Development Plans), although not clearly defined in the law. Development Plans are subdivided into two as “the Master Plan” and “the Implementation Development Plan”. Another type of plan included in Article 5 of the law, entitled “Definitions”, is “the Environmental Order Plan”. This type of plan should again be regarded as an upper-scale plan type both owing to the content provided in the definition and because it is not included in the definition of “Development Plans”. In conclusion, when the related articles of the Development Law are evaluated together, it is possible to speak of three main plan ranks, namely Regional Plans, Environmental Order Plans and Development Plans, although not defined systematically (Ersoy, 2006).
The types of plans and their definitions which are contained in the law are as follows (Ercoşkun et al., 2004; Erdem and Coşkun, 2009; Demirel, 2010; the Ministry of Environment and City Planning, 2012):
Regional Plan: The State Planning Organization (SPO) makes the regional plans which must reveal the socio-economic development trends and the potential of settlements for development, or it has them made, when it considers necessary. Having appeared on the agenda following the establishment of the SPO after the 1960s, this plan hierarchy did not draw significant interest. Even if it is mentioned in the Development Law, it is not definite how a plan will be made or will gain legality, and it is not obligatory to make it either.
Metropolitan Area Plans: “Metropolitan Area Plans”, which are not contained in “Definitions” and “the Planning Hierarchy” in the Development Law No. 3194 but which are mentioned in Article 9 of the law although they must follow regional plans in the hierarchy of plans, are plans that must be between regional plans and environmental order plans in terms of scope and scale.
Environmental Order Plan: In Article 5 of the law, it was stated that “it is a plan which determines the decisions on settlement and land use, such as housing, industry, agriculture, tourism and transportation, in agreement with national and regional plan decisions”; however, no specific scale was mentioned. On the other hand, the scale of an Environmental Order Plan was specified as 1:25,000, 1:50,000, 1:100,000 or 1:200,000 in “the Regulation on Plan-Making” enacted depending on the same law and it was laid down that it was required to comply with regional plan decisions, if available. Aiming on the one hand to conserve natural resources and cultural, historical and environmental assets, but on the other, to guide settlement demands, this plan has a quality of directing the low-ranking plans.
Development Plans: These plans are organized in accordance with the resolutions on the higher-level regional or environmental order plans and bring details concerning the implementation. Development plans are spatial arrangements which are developed on the present maps so as to find the best solutions that might be provided among urban functions, such as residing, working, resting and transportation, by meeting social and cultural needs in order to provide good quality of life by offering the required standards of living to the residents of a particular locality. The municipalities concerned make these plans, or have them made, and these plans come into force after having been approved by the municipal assembly. “The requirement for the ensuring of compliance of development plans with regional plan and environmental plan decisions (if available)” is mentioned in Article 8/b of the law. Development plans are basically implemented at two stages, i.e. the master plan and the implementation development plan. In Article 5 of the Development Law, it is stated that “implementation development plans will be drawn according to the fundamental principles of the master plan, and master plans will be organized to form the basis for the preparation of implementation development plans”:
Master Plan: It is a plan which is recorded on the existing maps in agreement with the regional or environmental order plans, which is explained with a detailed report drawn up to form the basis for the preparation of implementation development plans, and which is prepared on the scales of 1:25,000, 1:5,000 and 1:2,000 with the new regulations. It includes the general ways of use of land pieces drawn with their cadastral status being recorded, if available, the types of regions, the future population density of regions, the building density, the development direction and size of various settlements as well as their principles, their transportation systems, and the solution to problems.
Implementation Development Plan: It is a plan on a scale of 1:1,000 which is drawn on the approved present maps – with the cadastral status being recorded, if available – according to the master plan and which shows in detail the city blocks of various regions, their density and order, the roads and the implementation stages that will form the basis for the development implementation programs required for implementation and other information. Moreover, in addition to this plan, the Revision Development Plan, the Additional Development Plan and the Partial Development Plan are also made when any type of plan on any scale fails to respond to the need or when it is impossible to implement it.
As also understood from these definitions and as also stated previously, when the recent legal regulations are read altogether, it is comprehended that the planning system in force consists of three main ranks, namely Regional Plans, Environmental Order Plans, and Development Plans. “The Physical Plan of the Country” at the top of the planning hierarchy is the planning which is not included in the law and has no implementation either. Instead, “Development Plans”, which had been in five-year periods until 2009 and which have been covering a seven-year process since 2009, are prepared by the SPO. No plan concepts or approaches at the national level are included in the spatial planning system in force in our country; furthermore, the expressions about Regional Plans are extremely inadequate. Regional planning is a rank whose technical content and sanctions have entirely been left in uncertainty. The section which defines the plans in the Development Law in force contains no elaborate explanation with respect to “Regional Plans” that are the second upper-scale plans and that are indicated as the first step of the legal plan hierarchy. It is clearly seen that these plans, stated to be made by the SPO in the law, must be on the scales of 1:100,000 and above, despite the presence of no provisions on this matter in the law. Nevertheless, not enough plans on this scale have been made in our country; moreover, since there is no legal regulation in the materialization of the projects drawn up, no reality could be achieved about their implementation (Ersoy, 2006; Akay, 2009).
Although the concept of “Environmental Order Plan”, an upper-scale plan, is very frequently considered and discussed, it has not been finalized and clarified yet by which institution it will be prepared (Demirel, 2010). Especially the development about making an “Environmental Order Plan” is continually being disrupted due to the confusion of authority between the central government and the local government (Yılmaz, 2007).
Although the master plan and the implementation development plan are completely far from ecological concern in terms of their ways of implementation in our country, these plans are made to organize the utilization of soil (Keleş, 2012). However, “the Environmental Order Plan”, “the Master Plan” and “the Implementation Development Plan” should be ecological plans for environmental conservation. These plans should envisage the conservation, planning and management of sensitive ecosystems and the areas with naturally and culturally unique features. According to the existing planning system, some shortcomings and some cases which contradict with the definitions of plans occur in practice.
In fact, environmental order plans should not be the magnified copies of regional plans; master plans should not be the magnified copies of environmental order plans; and implementation development plans should not be the magnified copies of master plans. These plans must be documents whereby abstract-to-concrete plan decisions are taken and which contain different features and details (Ersoy, 2006). Thus, the inclusion of ecological planning in the planning hierarchy in the existing system (Table 2) appears an obligation (Tozar and Ayaşlıgil, 2008).
Brought forward as a solution to/remedy for the consequence that all of these approaches and the planning ranks also contained in the legal legislation nationwide are inadequate and up against a brick wall at some point, ecological landscape planning is one of the planning approaches, the importance of which is gradually increasing today and which might prevent the systematic destruction of natural resources.
Upon the population increase and the phenomena of urbanization and industrialization which developed accordingly, all living environments and the natural assets which must be conserved have been endangered by the intensive pressure of the unlimited use by people. It is impossible to stop this bad course with standard planning approaches. Therefore, ecological planning is the most important approach among the approaches set forth in order to conserve and reclaim the ecosystem which is degrading rapidly today.
Name of the Plan | Planning Area | Scale | Authority of Plan-Making | Authority of Plan Approval | Legal Basis |
Regional Plan | Region | Uncertain | The State Planning Organization | The State Planning Organization | Development Law No. 3194 |
Provincial Environmental Order Plan | The area which remains within the provincial boundaries | Uncertain | The Special Provincial Administration | The Special Provincial Administration and the Municipality concerned | Special Provincial Administration Law No. 5302 |
Metropolitan Development Plan | Metropolitan Area | Uncertain | The Ministry of Environment and City Planning | The Ministry of Environment and City Planning | Development Law No. 3194 |
Environmental Order Plan | Basin and Region | 1:50,000 1:100,000 | The Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs | The Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs | Environment Law No. 2872 which was amended by Law No. 5491 |
Master Plan | The area which remains within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Municipality | 1:25,000 | Metropolitan Municipality | Metropolitan Municipality | Metropolitan Municipality Law No. 5216 |
Master Plan | The Municipality and the Adjacent Area | 1:5,000 1:2,000 | All Municipalities | The municipality concerned | Development Law No. 3194 |
Implementation Development Plan | The Municipality and the Adjacent Area | 1:1,000 | All municipalities other than the Metropolitan Municipalities | The municipality concerned | Development Law No. 3194 |
The existing planning hierarchy in our country (adapted from Ersoy, 2006)
Elimination of the pressure on resources and the carrying out of planning that is suitable for this are prerequisites for the economical use, and sustainability, of natural resources. In the ecological landscape planning studies which have substantially developed in the recent years, it is recommended not to disregard ecological convenience in land uses by developing a multidirectional way of ecological arrangement and planning (Dramstad et al., 1996; Makhzoumi and Pungetti, 1999; Ndubisi; 2002). In ecologically-based land uses, particularly the conservation of natural resources should be the fundamental objective, and the principle of integration of natural areas into the conventional urban land use planning should be adopted. The aim of ecological planning, in which the ecology-economy balance is absolutely taken into consideration in planning studies, is to utilize a region at the optimum level according to the existing physical factors and open it to multidirectional use (Cook, 1991; McHarg, 1992; Colding, 2007).
The ecological landscape planning studies date back to very ancient times, and the first and most fundamental work on this subject is “Design with Nature” – the most important planning book of the 20th century by McHarg (Akpınar, 2008). Ecological planning differs from physical plans in that it aims at a balanced organization among land uses. This is achieved when all existing and potential uses in an area maintain the negative impacts with the environment and among themselves at the minimum level (Kocataş, 2010).
So far, various definitions and explanations have been set forth on ecological planning/urban ecological planning – the most influential means of the protection of the nature, its development, and carrying it to the future. The following are some of these definitions with common goals:
According to Stitt (2009), ecological planning is defined as “the use of natural and socio-cultural information so as to suggest various probabilities and restrictions in the process of decision-making regarding the use of natural resources” (Özügül and Atabay, 2006).
Ecological landscape planning is an area of expertise within the scope of landscape planning studies and focuses on making a connection between ecological patterns and the processes. Moreover, it also encompasses social and economic dimensions in terms of human activities and cultural values. In conclusion, ecological landscape planning bases its research and plan suggestions on ecological spatial units (Akpınar, 2008).
On the one hand urbanization, industrialization and technological developments provide societies with better living conditions, but on the other, they lead to the degradation of the natural environment and cause natural resources to be used up and the environmental pollution to increase. It is these factors which make it imperative to attach more importance to cities in environmental conservation studies and to adopt an ecological approach in city planning (Eke, 2000).
The ecological planning approach in urban areas can be summarized as an approach to a sustainable urban life which prioritizes the methods and implementations that support the evaluation and development of urban data according to natural, i.e. ecological, criteria as well as conservation and reuse (Gül and Polat, 2009).
The natural environment and landscape have been evaluated in an integrated way in physical planning in the recent years when the environmental problems have reached the most advanced dimensions. Ecological planning is a planning process in which the favorable/restrictive conditions of an area and biophysical and socio-cultural data are used when determining the optimum places for land use in areas which have not degraded yet (Tozar and Ayaşlıgil, 2008). In other words, it is a planning approach which provides an opportunity of choosing the living space that is optimum in terms of natural potential among our living spaces and therefore has sustainability and which entails the spatial organization of different types of land uses (Çelikyay, 2005).
Ecological landscape planning is a process which encompasses land use planning besides decision-making with respect to the way of, and strategies for, using natural resources. Additionally, it is the whole of the objectives which the society wishes to attain in planning and the process of physical change resulting from the implementation of these objectives (Marsh, 1997; Steiner, 2000).
Ecological planning is one of the basic sections of physical planning, and it is generally related to the arrangement of the physical space for ecological objectives. The primary purpose of this planning is to enhance the optimum and continuous efficiency of the natural and artificial environments in all special physical planning. In other words, it refers to filtering special plan objectives (all wishes regarding the physical structure) through the filter of ecological planning that is the complementary planning (Köseoğlu, 1982).
Çelikyay (2006) states that the aim of ecological evaluations is to determine the negative effects of human actions and physical factors on natural resources. Ecological planning both is a link between the process of spatial planning which is particularly directed to land use and the process of effect evaluation for natural resources and constitutes the foundation of the effective management of natural resources.
The ecological planning approach envisages preventing environmental problems just before they occur and arranging the spaces where one will live accordingly. In this planning approach, first of all, natural-local resources are determined and the uses are arranged considering the features of these resources. The objective is not to repress the resource with the planning made but to prevent the damage caused by the uses through planning according to the resource (Uğur, 2009). Accordingly, ecological planning is the process of examining the physical and social factors about the determination of the optimum place for the types of land uses selected in order to reveal the opportunities of, and barriers to, decision-making regarding the use of natural resources (Akpınar, 2008).
According to Atabay (2003), when there is sustainability in planning, first of all, it is necessary to set forth the sustainable development strategies which are based on the natural environment, which is only possible through ecological planning. Atabay (2005) states that particularly country-, region- and basin-based “Ecological Master Plans” are needed in order to ensure the sustainable conservation and use of natural resources.
In conclusion, the ability of urban settlements to survive is directly correlated with the concept of sustainable development that also depends on the conservation and use of natural resources (Cheng and Hu, 2009). In other words, urban sustainability can be achieved as a result of the conservation-use balance provided with ecological landscape planning.
Urbanization, expressed as the rate of people living in urban areas, displays rapid growth, with the values reaching about 80% in most European countries today (Antrop, 2004).
The population increase in the world began to manifest itself in all regions in the midst of the 18th century and went on increasing rapidly in the 1950s in particular. Recently, the world’s population has approached 7 billion people, and this figure is estimated to reach 10.5 billion in 2050 (Kocataş, 2010; Aksu, 2011). Although it was expressed by Niemelä (1999) that 60% of the world’s population lived in cities as of 2005, in the Sustainable Cities Development Report (2009) that was prepared by the United Nations in 2009, it was stated that urban and rural populations were first equalized in the history of the world in 2008 and that 70% of the world’s population would live in urban areas in 2050 (Aydın, 2010).
Sustainable development has become an important problem of the agenda since the Conference of the United Nations that was held in Rio in 1992. According to “the Report of the Commission on Environment and Development”, also known as “the Brundtland Report”, prepared in 1987 by the United Nations, sustainable development is defined as “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (WCED, 1987).
According to “the Sustainable Cities Development Report” prepared in 2009 by the United Nations, it is stated that for sustainable development, far more ambitious policies are needed today for development and in order to limit the energy consumption and it is stressed that the first thing to do is to reduce pollution and conserve natural areas and arable lands (Naess, 2001).
The main problems resulting from urbanization – one of the basic features of the European civilizations – are the upsetting of the ecological balance for reasons, such as the increase in building as a result of the human activities depending on the population increase and the improper use of natural areas, and the vital changes that have developed accordingly (Antrop, 2004; Berry, 2008).
Particularly when the losses of green areas and natural resources are considered today, it is evident that urban development over the urban nature is gradually increasing and that urbanization is an issue which should be considered with care (Yli-Pelkonen and Kohl, 2005). The concept of ecological landscape planning, which occurred as the minimization of the problems urbanization caused in the natural environment and as an organization that supported a sustainable urban life and on which various studies have been made for long years, is regarded as the only solution to the problems caused by urbanization.
Nevertheless, although the economic and ecological approaches are complementary when measuring sustainable development (Rennings and Wiggering, 1997), there has been a continuous conflict between economic gains and the ecological balance since the past. The natural areas which were opened to use with economic concerns are now confronted with many problems with the rapidly increasing urban development. Introducing a real solution to all those land uses which remain between two contradictory dimensions as ecological conservation and the economic life today, ecological planning advocates that natural resources such as water, air, soil and vegetation must definitely be conserved (Van Lier, 1998), for these natural areas are particularly in a position to be the lungs of urban ecosystems.
Urban ecosystems are able to survive by obtaining their large amounts of food, water, energy, minerals and other needs from nearby or distant agricultural lands, forests, mines and water basins. As urban areas grow, the need for resources and pollution create a gradually increasing pressure on water resources, aquatic regions, estuaries, forests, cultivated & planted lands, and untouched rural areas (Erdem, 2000).
As also seen in Figure 1, when the relationship of cities with the environment is considered, their first-degree dependence on the neighboring ecosystems is striking. Cities meet their vital needs such as raw material, water, food and energy first of all from the ecosystems located on their fringe, and they leave their wastes again in these areas. That is to say, first of all, the conservation and continuity of these natural areas are indispensable for the continuity of cities (Aydın, 2010).
The relationship among natural, structural and social environments (Aydın, 2010)
Particularly from the environmental problems cities have caused in the recent years, it follows that the city must also be in harmony with its environment and that cities must also be considered an ecosystem. Every entity that is randomly (in an unplanned and uncontrolled way) and rapidly growing without considering the bearing capacity of the life support system means that it is also preparing its own end rapidly. When the infrastructure necessary to support and carry on this rapid growth is unavailable, every rapid growth will inevitably be followed by a rapid end. As Odum and Barrett (2008) also state, the natural ecosystem and the urban ecosystem must absolutely be integrated in the understanding of sustainable city planning (Figure 2).
The schematic integration of ecologically-based land use (Van Lier, 1998)
It is impossible to speak of any sustainable society and environment with sustainable urban planning as long as it is failed to conserve and develop natural resources. The environment and natural resources are important restrictive elements today and at the point of the possibility of meeting social and economic needs of the future generations (Cheng and Hu, 2009) (Figure 3).
The relationship of the environment with economy and social development (Cheng and Hu, 2009)
Today sustainable city planning and sustainable development are concepts which are widely used in the development of urban areas and in environmental issues (Yli-Pelkonen and Niemelä, 2005). Sustainable city planning, a phenomenon with economic and social dimensions besides its ecological dimension (Figure 4), is an understanding of planning that is developed against the use of the environment as a resource without attaching importance to its consumption and loss. It is a contemporary evaluation which considers not only the addressing of the environment only to the users of that period and its provision of the most benefits but also the right of the future generations to use the environmental resources (Ercoşkun, 2005).
A simple conceptual framework to ensure urban sustainability - The connection between the human-social system and the ecological system in the planning process (Yli-Pelkonen and Niemelä, 2005)
As Lyle (1993) also states, the cities of the future must embrace the ecology of the landscape that surrounds them (Odum and Barrett, 2008). The conservation of natural habitats has gradually gained importance depending on the increase in people’s sensitivity to the conservation of the natural environment particularly in the last fifty years. Accordingly, ecology and ecological landscape planning approaches have gained importance as a response to the questions of how sustainable cities can be formed and how improper land uses will be prevented.
In conclusion, the first thing to do in city planning that is based on the conservation of the ecological structure is to determine the natural and cultural resource inventory of the area and to carry out planning accordingly. An ecologically-based planning approach is also imperative for the sound development of cities besides the conservation of natural & cultural resources (Niemelä, 1999; Termorshuizen et al., 2007).
The city center of Çanakkale, selected as the sample area, is located between 40º 09ʹ and 40º 18ʹ northern latitudes and 26º 33ʹ and 26º 48ʹ eastern longitudes and covers an area of about 17.83 km² (Figure 5). The sample area was specified as the municipal boundaries of the central district of Çanakkale (Çanakkale Municipality, 2011).
The geographical location of the sample area, Çanakkale, Turkey
Improperly. Used Natural Areas According to the Development Plan Periods
At this stage of the study, first of all, the areas with a development plan at the city center of Çanakkale selected as the sample area, were classified into five periods by utilizing Koç (2006), and they were digitized by means of the GISs (the Geographic Information Systems) and computerized. Accordingly, the development periods in Çanakkale can be listed by date as follows (Figure 6): a) Areas with a Development Plan in the First Period (between 1949 and 1963) b) Areas with a Development Plan in the Second Period (between 1963 and 1978) c) Areas with a Development Plan in the Third Period (between 1978 and 1984) d) Areas with a Development Plan in the Fourth Period (between 1984 and 1993) e) Areas with a Development Plan in the Fifth Period (between 1993 and 1995).
Secondly, “the Previous Land Use Map” included in “the Land Inventory” on a scale of 1:100,000 in the Report on the Provincial Land Asset of Çanakkale, prepared in 1999 by the Directorate General of Village Services, was digitized by means of the GIS and computerized in order to express concretely the amount of the loss of agricultural lands according to all development periods.
At this point, attention should be drawn to the fact that the soil classification was entirely amended by “the Soil Conservation and Land Law” No. 5403, and different definitions were made under the headings of absolute agricultural lands, planted agricultural lands, marginal agricultural lands, pasture, forest, settlements, and other areas (such as rushy areas, marshes, and rocky areas). There is a “Land Asset Map” that was prepared in 2008 according to this new type of classification by the Provincial Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry of Çanakkale. However, in order to express the loss of fertile agricultural lands more clearly at this stage, a re-classification was made according to the law concerned besides using “the Previous Land Use Map” with an earlier date, i.e. 1999. According to this classification, the uses were collected under the headings of urban area (settlement, recreation, and airport), agriculture (irrigated and rain-fed agricultural lands), planted agriculture (olive, fruit, and vineyard), forest, and pasture.
Distribution of the areas with a development plan by development plan period
To express the losses of fertile lands of the development periods more clearly and to show the periodic losses of each development period, the five development periods and “the Previous Land Use Map” were overlapped in the computer medium by means of the GIS. To what use the boundary of each development period corresponds on the previous land use map and their numerical values are provided in the following maps and tables (Figures 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11; Tables 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7).
The loss of fertile agricultural lands in the areas with a development plan in the first period
The loss of fertile agricultural lands in the areas with a development plan in the second period
Quality of the Area | Covering Area (km²) | Covering Percentage (%) |
Urban Area | 1.32 | 46.48 |
Agriculture (Irrigated and rain-fed) | 1.52 | 53.52 |
Total | 2.84 | 100.00 |
Distribution of the losses of fertile agricultural lands in the areas with a development plan in the first period
Quality of the Area | Covering Area (km²) | Covering Percentage (%) |
Urban Area | 3.48 | 82.46 |
Agriculture (Irrigated and rain-fed) | 0.54 | 12.80 |
Planted agriculture | 0.20 | 4.74 |
Total | 4.22 | 100.00 |
Distribution of the losses of fertile agricultural lands in the areas with a development plan in the second period
The loss of fertile agricultural lands in the areas with a development plan in the third period
Quality of the Area | Covering Area (km²) | Covering Percentage (%) |
Urban Area | 2.86 | 76.68 |
Agriculture (Irrigated and rain-fed) | 0.09 | 2.41 |
Planted Agriculture | 0.61 | 16.35 |
Pasture | 0.17 | 4.56 |
Total | 3.73 | 100.00 |
Distribution of the losses of fertile agricultural lands in the areas with a development plan in the third period
The loss of fertile agricultural lands in the areas with a development plan in the fourth period
Quality of the Area | Kaplama Alanı (km²) | Kaplama Yüzdesi (%) |
Urban Area | 1.17 | 40.91 |
Agriculture (Irrigated and rain-fed) | 1.69 | 59.09 |
Total | 2.86 | 100.00 |
Distribution of the losses of fertile agricultural lands in the areas with a development plan in the fourth period
The loss of fertile agricultural lands in the areas with a development plan in the fifth period
Quality of the Area | Covering Area (km²) | Covering Percentage (%) |
Urban Area | 0.19 | 4.71 |
Agriculture (Irrigated and rain-fed) | 1.84 | 45.66 |
Planted Agriculture | 1.27 | 31.51 |
Pasture | 0.71 | 17.62 |
Forest | 0.02 | 0.50 |
Total | 4.03 | 100.00 |
Distribution of the losses of fertile agricultural lands in the areas with a development plan in the fifth period
Even though there were losses of fertile lands in the second and third periods as well, serious losses took place especially in the first, fourth and fifth development periods. While it is observed that as the city expanded towards its fringes, these losses were in irrigated and rain-fed absolute agricultural lands in particular, the planted agricultural lands also experienced significant losses, along with the areas that were opened to development.
The following is the numerical distribution of the land asset in all areas with a development plan – i.e. the sample area – according to the data by the Directorate General of Village Services (1999) (Figure 12, Table 8).
When all the areas opened to development as of 2011 are considered according to the table above, it is seen that only 50.59% of the land asset map corresponds to the urban area. When the other land uses are considered, it is seen that 31.91% are rain-fed and irrigated agricultural lands and 11.67% are planted agricultural (olive, vineyard, and garden) lands. There is a small amount of pasture areas in an area with a rate of 4.93%.
The previous land use in areas with a development plan
Quality of the Area | Covering Area (km²) | Covering Percentage (%) |
Urban Area | 9.02 | 50.59 |
Agriculture (Irrigated and rain-fed) | 5.69 | 31.91 |
Planted Agriculture | 2.08 | 11.67 |
Pasture | 0.88 | 4.93 |
Forest | 0.02 | 0.11 |
The Sarıçay Stream | 0.14 | 0.79 |
Total | 17.83 | 100.00 |
The previous land use at the city center of Çanakkale (km²/%)
Accordingly, as also understood from this table, the master and implementation development plans of the entire sample area with a size of 17.83 km² were made and, as a result, the areas transformed into an urban settlement by being used improperly are 7.77 km² of fertile agricultural lands (43.58%) – 5.69 km² of irrigated and rain-fed agriculture and 2.08 km² of planted agriculture. From this result, it is understood that almost half of the entire area has a “fertile agricultural land” status and that an area with such a dimension has been transformed completely into an urban area with the master and implementation development plans prepared.
As also understood from the tables and figures, quite substantial losses of fertile agricultural lands took place in all development periods. The Master and Implementation Development Plans of all areas with a development plan, also indicated in periods above, were made and the activities of house construction are still ongoing in the agricultural lands located in these areas. Although the agricultural activities are still ongoing in the fertile lands which have remained in a small amount within the city, all of these lands have been excluded from the agricultural land status and transformed into an urban area with the development plans made (Figure 13).
The agricultural lands with a development plan at the city center, Çanakkale, Turkey (a-b: on the Çanakkale-Lapseki ring road, c-d: Şekerpınar locality, e-f: around the airport in Barbaros District)
At this stage of the study, “the Existing Land Use Map” prepared in 2011 (Çanakkale Municipality, 2011) was used as the basic data so as to make a clearer and more accurate evaluation. At the next stage, to detect the areas used improperly, the boundary of “the Previous Land Use Map (1999)” and “the Existing Land Use Map (2011)” were overlapped in the GIS medium. Accordingly, how much of the industrial and settlement areas currently in use was used improperly and excluded from the agricultural land status was expressed with concrete data (Figures 14 and 15, Table 9).
The existing land use
The previous land use and improper land uses
Improper land uses
As understood from the figures and the table above, of the urban settlement area in current use which is totally 15.51 km², 8.20 km² (46.42%) with a fertile agricultural land status have been used improperly and opened to settlement. It has been detected that of the industrial area again in current use which is 0.46 km², 0.43 km2 (93.48%) must indeed be used for settlement.
“All living things are either directly or indirectly soil-dependent for survival. In other words, soil is a natural space in which all plant species and intra-soil living things survive and a natural resource by which food is provided” (Kocataş, 2010).
As a result of the population which has piled up in cities, urbanization gave rise to the need for accommodation. This led to the use of the land for nonagricultural purposes and caused the housing sector to capture the land. The limited arable lands and the gradually increasing improper use of these lands gave rise to a serious problem of degradation and loss of agricultural lands (Keleş and Hamamcı, 1993; Ercoşkun and Karaaslan, 2009).
The perception of the concept of “Development” merely as the opening of new settlement zones to development in the process of planning of cities or settlements leads to consequences that are impossible to compensate for in the ecological dimension in terms of cities. The important thing here is the materialization of upper-scale plan decisions by local governments and the production of policies for conservation. In this context, the upper-scale plan decisions developed in line with the objectives and strategies concerning both the city and the conservation of the components of the city are of vital importance to the prevention of the consequences concerned (Erdem and Meşhur, 2005).
Today the uncontrolled growth of cities and the issue of how they can respond to the needs of the public are among the significant planning problems of countries. The most important issue that must be carried out in order for settlements to display regular and planned development is how development affairs will be done with a joint interdisciplinary study in the light of technological and scientific developments (Akay, 2007). The planning hierarchy in our country is just a ball of problems in this sense. The entry of institutions into each other’s area of authority with the continually amended laws and regulations further complicates the already complicated system; consequently, our natural resource assets are being destroyed day by day.
The most serious problem in the planning hierarchy is the absence of Regional Plans that must be made by the State Planning Organization (SPO). “The decisions & main strategies, whose main headings are given as the ensuring of interregional balanced development by using the regional potential and the determination of where public investments and the private capital will be located and which should be decided by Regional Plans” have unfortunately been assumed by the Environmental Order Plans (Demirel, 2010). Furthermore, Environmental Order Plans are not made with a continuous and serious approach but only when they are considered necessary by the authorized institutions. However, the physical plan which is directive and binding at the highest level in Turkey is “the Environmental Order Plan” (Akay, 2007; Cengiz and Gönüz, 2011).
The fact that “the Regional Plan” and “the Environmental Order Plan”, upper-scale plans, are made only when considered necessary by central governments according to the Development Law can be expressed as another serious problem. Many urban and metropolitan settlements do not have such a planning approach. This negative situation prevents the formation of an integrated and a sound strategic planning approach. For the formation of the sound planning approach concerned, the plan decisions from the upper scale to the lower scale should be consistent with each other. At this point, within the framework of the principle of “graded coexistence” of plans, each lower-scale plan must contain more information and details than the one upper-scale plan. An original plan which also encompasses the new information and data required by the respective original scale of lower-scale plans but which preserves the main decisions of the one upper scale is expected (Öztürk, 2004; Ersoy, 2006).
Atabay (2005) expressed
“the inclusion of provisions like ‘The State Planning Organization makes the regional and basin plans to be prepared in order to determine socio-economic development trends, the potential of settlements for development, sectoral objectives and activities, and the distribution of infrastructural services unique to these activities, or has them made, when it considers necessary’, its definition by ignoring natural resources, and its leaving of this important planning stage optional”,
in Paragraph a of Article 8 in the Development Law No. 3194 with respect to regional planning, as a great shortcoming for the Development Law.
At this point, although the inclusion of some decisions in the law makes no sense, leaving of the planning decisions directly concerning the conservation of natural resources to arbitrary administration is striking as an extremely disadvantageous approach with no sanctions.
Additionally, there is quite great chaos in our country about the planning hierarchy which is a serious problem. Accordingly, “the Special Provincial Administration Law” No. 5302, which came into force in 2005, is essential in terms of the affiliating of public services to single administration and, through this law, the authority of “the Provincial Environmental Order Plan-Making and Approving” was granted to “the Special Provincial Administrations”, appearing the most influential institutions today (Demirel, 2010). With the “Law on Environment” No. 2872, amended by Law No. 5491, the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs was empowered to make “the Environmental Order Plan”. When the recent case in the authority of plan-making is considered, it is the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs which is empowered to make “the Environmental Order Plan” on the scales of 1:100,000 and 1:50,000; it is the Ministry of Environment and City Planning which is empowered to make “the Metropolitan Area Plan” on a scale of 1:50,000; and it is the Metropolitan Municipalities which are empowered to make “the Provincial Environmental Order Plan” on a scale of 1:25,000 and “the Master Plan” and “the Implementation Development Plan”, which are lower-scale plans, in metropolitan provinces.
At this point, it appears an appropriate decision that the plans on a scale of 1:25,000 have been organized as an obligation particularly for metropolitan municipalities, regarding “the Provincial Environmental Order Plan” – one of the most important rings of upper-scale planning. Nevertheless, the failure to form a relationship between the authority of the central government that is empowered concerning “the Environmental Order Plan” and “the Provincial Environmental Order Plan” which local governments are empowered to make upon this recent regulation paves the way for the probability of the occurrence of some problems on this matter (Yılmaz, 2007).
In addition, the chaos experienced in the planning hierarchy in our country worsened upon the transfer of the authority of making Master and Implementation Development Plans to metropolitan and district municipalities from the central governments with the Development Law No. 3194. With this amendment in the law, rent-based approaches in the division of city block lots and implementations of poor quality in building increased substantially.
While the need for integrated ecological planning in this process is evident, it is extremely saddening that only the understanding of city planning generally predominates in the society in general and in the governments and that the efforts remain on a personal scale. The fact that planning has been stuck between “the Master Plan” and “the Implementation Development Plan”, two plans implemented only in practice, causes this vicious circle to continue. However, within the scope of the conservation and development of natural and cultural resource assets found within the settlements, the plans with a special purpose (such as the Development Plan for Conservation, the Plan for Tourism & Recreation, the Special Environmental Conservation Plan, the Development Plan for Rehabilitation, the Agricultural Land Conservation Plan, and Land Consolidation) must absolutely be produced and materialized by the local governments concerned, along with upper-scale plans (such as the Environmental Order Plan and the Regional Plan), with adhering to the planning hierarchy and first of all with an approach that aims to conserve and carry on the ecological balance (Cengiz and Gönüz, 2011).
It should be the main goal to carry out upper-scale planning studies at a level whereby the balance between urban sprawl and the natural ecosystem can be achieved, make them widespread, and turn them into a state policy. At this point, when the legal regulations in the planning hierarchy are considered, there is no doubt that the confusion of authority among the institutions which results from empowering several institutions to make certain plans will soon give rise to various problems as well, although the developments about upper-scale planning in particular are promising.
The actual problem in the continuation of the chaos experienced in the legal process is experienced in the process following the completion of these plans. It is an essential and functional requirement for the creation of sustainable cities that primarily the professional group of landscape architecture have a say in taking the decisions on land use accurately, particularly in landscape and ecological planning (Atıl et al., 2005). The fact that naturalists are not included in the team in these projects that are predominantly prepared for the objective of using natural and cultural resources by conserving them causes these plans, which are made in some way, to fail to attain their target in practice (Demirel, 2010). Besides, various professional disciplines about the matter (e.g. Geographer and Biologist) should also have a say in decisions and implementations when taking planning decisions and preparing plans. The necessity for target-oriented interdisciplinary studies should be kept at a high level in city planning studies which aim at preserving the ecological balance (Sılaydın, 2007; Cengiz and Gönüz, 2011).
At this stage, planners must first of all regard ecology and environmental assets as an integral part of their professional ethics and disciplines in the context of their position and the task(s) they have assumed in the society (Arapkirlioğlu, 2003).
One of the most important and negative results of urbanization is the continuous increase in the need for new urban areas. The generally pursued urbanization policies pit economy and ecology against each other, and this event culminates in the destruction of the natural environment. Nevertheless, “ecology” is the element which must rank first in the formation of urban environments (Tunçer and Ercoşkun, 2007).
Economic concerns are remarkable as the primary factors in the opening of fertile agricultural lands to development. Especially the problem of opening fertile agricultural lands to development is because the professional disciplines that are specialized in the subject do not take part in the teams which prepare all these planning approaches and these plans.
Article 45 of the 1982 Constitution contains the provision
“The state is liable to prevent the improper use and destruction of agricultural lands as well as meadows and pastures”.
Besides, the provision
“Agricultural lands cannot be planned in order to be used for nonagricultural purposes without obtaining the permits stated in the Soil Conservation and Land Use Law” in Paragraph c of Article 8 in the Development Law No. 3194 regarding the preparation of plans and putting them into effect supports this expression too.
The laws and regulations enacted to ensure the prevention of the destruction of fertile agricultural lands in particular and the natural resources in our country are full of legal & administrative gaps which will lead to extremely restricted and wrong implementations in terms of content. The recent example of this is striking with many aspects in “the Soil Conservation and Land Law” No. 5403 that came into force on 03.07.2005. Even though in the law it seems that the improper use of agricultural lands is prevented, the law actually contains various clear expressions on the facilitation of using these lands for other purposes. In fact, the first thing to do in such laws should be to determine the fundamental principles to encourage the use of agricultural land for agricultural purposes and make this widespread but not to determine the fundamental principles for the improper use of agricultural land.
It is an inevitable outcome that the phenomena of house and industry are always in front of agriculture in the urban growth patterns due to their economic yield. Thus, to increase the economic yield of agricultural land besides its conservation, new regulations should be made in “the Soil Conservation and Land Law” No. 5403 that is in force now for this purpose or various legal and administrative studies should be made on this matter.
The conservation of natural areas before all depends on the use of land in a way which is suitable for the nature. This approach basically contains the division of national territories into “Land Use Capacity Classes” in terms of suitability for various purposes of use (Kışlalıoğlu and Berkes, 2009). This is indeed a sound approach for the conservation of national territories and for utilizing them more accurately. Previously made by the Directorates General of Village Services, these plans have not been made for long years. Upon the establishment of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in 2011, it was expressed that studies such as land planning and soil classification would be carried out by the Department of Agricultural Land Utilization of the Directorate General of Agricultural Reform that was affiliated to this ministry. Nevertheless, the problems occurring in practice and their outcomes are more important than the making of such plans by the institutions concerned. That is, the articles on
“ensuring the use of an agricultural land basically in agriculture and the allocation of an agricultural land for nonagricultural purposes under the condition that this be confined to obligatory cases” and “evaluating the demands for nonagricultural land use” among the duties of the Directorate General of Agricultural Reform actually confirm that agricultural lands have not been taken under conservation yet and are in some way left to nonagricultural sectors.
It is possible to multiply such examples in the law. It is obvious that it is not enough to enact laws for an efficient implementation and a successful outcome on this matter. In conclusion, the laws and regulations on the matter are inadequate and open to exploitation to the same extent. In order for urban formation to survive, there is a need for radical change in the vision of urban planning. In this new planning vision, it should be ensured that cities form harmonious integrity with the nature and with their environment (Ercoşkun and Karaaslan, 2009). It is impossible to preserve the ecological balance with the standard understanding of city planning; moreover, this integrity is only possible through the integration of the phenomenon of “Ecological Planning” into the existing planning system in our country.
Especially the planning studies which remain only on the urban scale are stuck at some point and remain inadequate to produce the expected solutions. The true implementation of ecological planning is only possible within a planning system that continues systematically from the highest rank to the lowest rank and that will take place on an integrated scale. On the other hand, the ecological planning studies considered within a narrow scope by ignoring the integrated scale serve the process of postponing the problem rather than a solution. As Sılaydın (2007) also states, the ecological conservation studies produced on the urban scale only become meaningful within an integrated ecological planning construct based on natural boundaries (e.g. the basin boundary).
Losses of natural areas will continue increasingly as long as urban planning decisions are defined independently of upper-scale plans and as long as upper-scale plans are not included in the planning hierarchy. At this point, the ecologically-based “Regional Plans” which preserve their place as upper-scale plans in the planning hierarchy in our country but which lack adequate implementations must be materialized comprehensively.
Besides, “the Basin Plan” is also recommended as an upper-scale plan rank in some studies. Basins define the natural boundaries required for the conservation of the water cycle and the natural resources depending on it. Basin-based planning is an important stage of the planning understanding for the conservation of natural resources. Thus, a planning rank with the mental power of comprehending the nature in an integrated way for ecological planning is formed with “the Basin Plan”. Besides the fact that “Basin Plans” are of great importance to national and regional planning, it is useful to underline that “the Ecological Basin Master Plan” is an indispensable method in the context of the sustainable development of a country. The basin-based planning understanding has not been included in any planning rank yet. However, it is an issue which “the Regional Development Commission” – a working sub-commission of the State Planning Organization (SPO) – strongly considers (Sılaydın, 2007; Efe and Aydın, 2009; Küçükali and Atabay, 2013).
In conclusion, the running out of natural resources is striking as one of the most serious ecological problems at the present. A wrong understanding of city planning is expressed as one of the most fundamental causes of this problem, for the selection of locations for the ways of land use in the present city planning is done without considering the existence of natural resources.
In addition, the natural areas in our country are continuing to be damaged rapidly as “Ecologically-Based Landscape Plans” have not been included in the legal processes and upper-scale plans implemented in our country yet and as the implementations in the law remain inadequate (Şahin, 2009).
Turkey has turned “the European Landscape Convention”, a framework convention on the conservation, management and planning of natural and cultural landscapes as a whole, into a part of its domestic law with Law No. 4881, dated 10/06/2003. Thus, it is also extremely important that the environmentally-sensitive/ecological planning approach introduced by the convention to the planning understanding be integrated into the legal process and be applicable (Erdem and Coşkun, 2009).
However, although a period of nine years passed, there have not been any constructive studies that support the convention either in the plan hierarchy or in laws and regulations. This is saddening in terms of the development of the process concerned and worrisome in terms of the timeout experienced. The fact that ecological conservation now remains merely in theory postpones the solution process, and more concrete approaches are needed at this point. As Turan (2007) also states, the conditions of the European Landscape Convention and the infrastructures brought about by the conditions (such as laws and regulations and institutions) should be interpreted very carefully at the current stage and materialized rapidly. In this context, the requirements of the convention should be formulated with landscape architects, city planners, jurists, and the other disciplines concerned, and they should take their part on the regional scale.
Our country is not at an irreversible point yet with respect to the prevention of improper land uses and the allocation of the necessary place to “Ecological Landscape Planning” studies in the planning hierarchy. The prevention of improper land uses for new development areas in particular and the endeavors on the matter by local governments stand out at this point. The full inclusion of “Ecological Landscape Planning” in the plan hierarchy is an extremely important step for the sustainable city planning understanding. In this context, first of all, the phenomenon we call “Ecological Consciousness” must descend to the public level, and the nongovernmental organizations must do what falls to them regarding this matter.
The circular economy promotes sustainability by combining the hierarchy of reduction, reuse and recycling, considering economic and environmental issues [1]. The use of post-consumer materials to manufacture new ones for a new production cycle to minimize the waste of natural resources is the goal of the circular economy [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. The same can be said of plastic, an important class of materials that meets many of society’s needs.
\nPlastics are present in our daily life under different forms and applications, such as office supplies, toys, footwear, civil construction, electrical and electronic components, aerospace, food, the medical and textile industries, packaging, paint and varnish, as well as the automotive industry, among others. This array of applications is due to their desirable properties in a range of sectors [7, 8].
\nHowever, not all plastics return to the production cycle after use. In 2015, only 9% of plastics produced worldwide were recycled, 12% incinerated and the rest buried in landfills [9]. Recycling causes less environmental impact, as reported by Bernardo et al. [10], who assessed recycling in terms of global warming and total energy use, concluding that plastic materials generally display environmental and economic advantages over conventional materials throughout their life cycle, from raw material extraction to synthesis, transformation, transport, use, recovery and destination. Duval and Maclean [11] also found a decline in greenhouse gas emissions and energy required during recycling [12]. Mechanical recycling involves the addition of virgin or recycled material to maintain properties [13].
\nPlastics can be recycled in different ways, including mechanically, chemically and energetically. Chemical recycling involves physical processes, such as remolding [14, 15, 16], and the final product is a monomer or oligomer that can be used in the synthesis of other products. In energy recycling, the energy released from the burning of waste material is reused [14].
\nClosed-loop recycling occurs when the recycled material replaces the virgin material in the same production cycle as the original product [17, 18]. Open-loop recycling is when the recycled product is used in a different production cycle, that is, the product to be recycled is used to manufacture a product different from the original [17, 19, 20].
\nA crucial point to stimulate recycling is the search for a different market for the recycled material and more environmentally sustainable processes. Traditionally, recycled products compete with virgin material, which may hinder their market entry. Scientific studies that focus on recycling should also seek to obtain more economically feasible and technically useful recycled products.
\nThe most widely used and manufactured plastics are high-density polyethylene (HDPE), polypropylene (PP), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) and polystyrene (PS) [9]. In the automotive industry, PP is used to manufacture the following items: car trunk lids; battery trays and boxes; heater boxes; tool boxes; seat belt buckling boxes; rear view mirror boxes; electric junction boxes; hubcaps; carpets; battery guards (protection against short circuit); steering wheel covers; shock absorber covers; vacuum hoses; air hoses; consoles; bumpers; glove boxes, among several other uses [21, 22, 23, 24].
\nTo comply with the main technical demands of automobile manufacturers, PP compounds must exhibit a suitable balance between stiffness and tenacity, with good thermal resistance, as well as fewer imported raw materials, thereby achieving more competitive prices. In addition to these properties, PP shows good processability [24, 25, 26].
\nAn important supplier of materials to the automotive industry is the industrial sector responsible for manufacturing laminated and tempered glass used in motor vehicle windows (laminated glass for windshields and tempered for the other windows). However, in the tempering and laminating processes an industrial residue consisting of glass powder is generated and disposed of in landfills, with no specific use for this material [27]. In addition to the origin of glass powder in laminating and tempering processes [28], the windows that are removed from automobiles are also discarded when they cannot be reused. In such cases, these parts can be collected and recovered, then submitted to separation processes (polymer protection film) and grinding. The glass powder produced can be incorporated into polymer materials, resulting in composites with different properties [29].
\nIncorporating mineral loads into PP has been the object of studies on the production of materials with different properties [30, 31]. Improving the properties of the final product depends on the type of load, particle size of the mineral load being used and degree of dispersion of these particles in the polymer matrix. The most widely used commercial mineral loads are talcum and calcium carbonate [32, 33, 34].
\nThis study describes the addition of glass powder to a PP matrix in order to obtain reinforcement properties and compare them with those of conventional composites. The aim is to acquire different properties in the polypropylene composites and reuse a residue (in this case, glass powder). We also assessed the effect of adding recycled polypropylene on the final properties of composites in order to reuse both industrial (glass powder) and urban residue (PP recycled from packaging).
\nPolymers have been increasingly used in a number of applications as a substitute for traditional materials such as metal and ceramic, as homopolymers; formulated with additives, in the form of mixtures and polymer composites; or simply for their different properties, such as lightness, low transformation cost, resistance to corrosion, optimal thermal and electric insulation and easy conformation into complex shapes [33].
\nIn general, the mechanical properties of polymers are not suitable in a number of applications owing to their lower resistance compared to metals and ceramics. However, the thermoplastic industry is growing due to ecological issues, in addition to the promising potential of these materials as mixtures or a composite matrix [35].
\nCompound systems formed by the combination of two polymer materials (mixtures) or a polymer material and a load (composites) are of significant technological interest due to the cost–benefit ratio. In both cases, the material consists of a continuous (matrix) and disperse phase, whose properties depend on good interaction between them [35].
\nThe properties of interest for the automotive industry can be modified with studies on improving the polymer matrix, load, and polymer-load interface, among others. The interface is a link between the surface of the load and the matrix, and since the matrix receives the reinforcement, there is close contact between them, and there may or may not be adhesion. For a same combination of materials, different adhesion mechanisms can occur, such as mechanical, chemical, and electrostatic adhesion and by interdiffusion. The degree of reinforcement or improvement in mechanical behavior depends on a strong matrix-particle interface bond [36, 37].
\nThe stress–strain behavior of many reinforced polymers or plastics can be changed by adhesion promoters and interfacial coupling agents (such as maleic anhydride) that alter adhesion and the nature of the matrix-load interface [38].
\nPolypropylene (PP) is a recyclable thermoplastic, that is, it melts when heated and hardens again when cooled, in a reversible process. Moreover, PP is easily mixed, primarily with organic reinforcing loads such as natural or inorganic fibers, including calcium carbonate, clay and talcum, and is widely used in structural applications [39, 40, 41].
\nThe use of modified PP, especially for applications in the automotive industry, requires a suitable balance between stiffness and tenacity. In this scenario, the process of incorporating elastomeric materials, as well as mineral loads such as talcum and calcium carbonate (CaCO3), into the PP matrix has been widely used to achieve different properties [42, 43].
\nNanofillers, such as silica and calcium carbonate nanoparticles, have been added to improve the final properties of the PP matrix [44, 45].
\nThe use of glass in a polypropylene matrix has been extensively studied and employed its glass fiber form in materials in which mechanical properties such as tensile strength and resistance to impact are important [46, 47].
\nThere are several groups of glass, including silica, oxynitride and phosphate, but the first is the most important raw material used in composites [48]. Short E-glass fibers, obtained from a mixture of Si, Al, B, Ca and Mg oxides, are normally used as reinforcement for thermoplastics due to their low cost when compared to aramid and carbon [49], in addition to better impact strength and stiffness [50].
\nThe interfacial interaction of glass composites with a thermoplastic matrix is often very weak. Particularly with polyolefin polymers such as polypropylene, there is little or no chemical reaction between the glass and the matrix. The interest in polypropylene for applications as a matrix in composites has been growing and the adhesion of this nonpolar polymer to the glass surface, which is also nonpolar, is a daunting challenge [51, 52].
\nIn addition to the use of glass fiber, there are also glass microsphere applications [53]; however, residual glass powder remains a poorly explored load as reinforcement.
\nInitiatives to develop more sustainable technological innovations and ecologically responsible management programs have been driven by a growth in environmental awareness and increasingly rigid legislation. The accumulation of plastic waste caused by the increase in per capital consumption of thermoplastic resins has prompted enormous research and efforts to substitute traditional thermoplastics [54].
\nTo improve the production process, it is necessary to diagnose the flowchart of the process and manage inputs (water, energy, raw materials, etc.) and outputs (products, residues, effluents, atmospheric emissions, etc.). In general, inputs are natural resources that often cause environmental impact, such as ecosystem destruction, atmospheric pollution, etc. Outputs are environmental liabilities created by activities and residual materials (solid, liquid or gas) that, if not suitably managed, may cause permanent environmental impacts [55].
\nA sustainable production process contains a circular flow, where outputs are reintegrated into the process, which reduces impacts and costs in the generation of inputs and the destination and treatment of outputs. Recycling is an example of this type of sustainable production strategy and is therefore an attempt to reuse the material, natural resources and entropy expenditures in the production of a solid residue, reintroducing it into a new production process, thereby transforming the output of a process into the input of the same or another process [55].
\nThe automotive industry is attempting to transform the car into a more sustainable and efficient product, not only in terms of the environment, but also from the consumer’s financial standpoint. As such, the automotive industry has been working within the so-called DFE (Design for the Environment), that is, designing for the environment and introducing environmental variables in all the production strategies of the factory, such as product design (automobiles and parts), the process (manufacture of parts and assembly) and associated technologies (material treatment, painting, etc.) [28].
\nIt is important to underscore that all participants in the life cycle of a product have shared responsibility. Thus, manufacturers, importers, distributors, merchants, consumers and public cleaning concessionaires should promote the reuse of solid residues, transfer them to the production chain, reduce residue generation and encourage the development of products derived from recycled materials. The automotive industry, like all companies, is responsible for the entire process, from acquiring raw materials to discarding components, such as bumpers. Moreover, polypropylene is present in many automobile components.
\nThe grade of the Virgin polypropylene (PP) was H 605. The values for the PP properties presented in Table 1 were provided by the Braskem Company.
\nProperties | \nASTM standard | \nProperty value | \n
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Density, g/cm3 | \nD 792 | \n0.905 | \n
MFI (230°C, 2.16 Kg), g/10 min | \nD 1238 | \n2.1 | \n
Flexural modulus (1%), MPa | \nD 790 | \n1600 | \n
Yield stress, MPa | \nD 638 | \n37 | \n
Rockwell hardness (R) | \nD 785 | \n101 | \n
Impact strength (Izod, 23°C) | \nD 256 | \n45 | \n
Polypropylene H605 properties.
BRASKEM company data sheet.
The post-industrial polypropylene (PPr) was a washed and ground material supplied by the Poli Injet Company (Brazil), while the residue came from the packaging industry. The properties of PPr are: melt temperature (Tm) of 161°C, crystallinity degree (χc) of 32%, and melt flow index (MFI) of 4.83 g/10 min (230°C/2.16 Kg). The methodologies to evaluate these properties are described below.
\nThe glass powder (GP) used in this study was supplied by the Massfix Company (Brazil) and is ground from windshield scraps. Figure 1 shows the morphology of GP samples examined under a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The GP sample is composed of irregular-shaped particles with a broad size distribution.
\nSEM micrographs of glass powder (GP) particles.
Polypropylene modified with maleic-anhydride (PPMA), and Polybond 3200 with 1 wt% of maleic anhydride (MA) were supplied by the Chemtura Company (USA). The melt flow rate specified by the supplier is 115 g/10 min at 190°C under 2.16 Kg.
\nTable 2 shows the compositions of the blends and composites. GP, PP, PPr, and PPMA were dried in an oven at 60°C for 24 h before extrusion. Next, each composition was processed in a twin-screw extruder (TeckTril, L/D = 36, screw diameter = 20 mm) at a screw speed of 400 RPM and temperature profile of 90/120/150/160/185/200/220/240/260/260°C. The materials underwent injection molding to produce appropriate specimens for stress and impact strength tests, which were performed according to ASTM D638 and ASTM D256 standards, respectively. Injection molding was carried out in an Arburg 270 S injection machine, using a temperature profile of 210/215/220/230/230°C. The injection and molding pressures were 1000 and 180 Bar, respectively. The mold temperature was 30°C, with a cooling time of 30 seconds.
\nComponent (%wt) | \nPP | \nPPr1 | \nPPr3 | \nPPr1/GP | \nPPr3/GP | \nPPr1/GP/PPMA | \nPPr3/GP/PPMA | \n
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PP | \n100 | \n90 | \n70 | \n85 | \n65 | \n75 | \n55 | \n
PPr | \n— | \n10 | \n30 | \n10 | \n30 | \n10 | \n30 | \n
GP | \n— | \n— | \n— | \n5 | \n5 | \n5 | \n5 | \n
PPMA | \n— | \n— | \n— | \n— | \n— | \n10 | \n10 | \n
PP, PPr, glass powder and PPMA blends and (or) composites composition.
Tensile properties were measured using a universal testing machine (EMIC, DL3000) based on ASTM D-638. Izod pendulum impact resistance was determined using a CEAST Resil Impactor tester based on ASTM D256. The data related to all the mechanical properties were based on the average of eight tested specimens.
\nMelting temperature (Tm), melt enthalpy (ΔHm) and crystallinity degree (χc) of the materials were determined using a Differential Scanning Calorimeter (STA 6000, Perkin Elmer) during the second heating scan. Samples weighing between 25 and 30 mg were heated from room temperature to 300°C at a heating rate of 10°C/min (first heating scan). The temperature was then lowered to 30°C at a heating rate of 10°C/min, and the samples submitted to a second heating scan under the same conditions as the first. Crystallinity degree was calculated using Eq. (1).
where ΔHm is the endothermic enthalpy, ΔH100% the theoretical melting enthalpy of 100% crystalline PP (209 J/g) [56], and wt% the amount of PP in the blend or composite.
\nThe cryogenic-fractured surface morphology of the materials was examined under a scanning electron microscope (SEM, FEI, Quanta 400, accelerating voltage at 25 kV, 800X). The fractured samples were coated with gold.
\nThe statistical analysis of the results was performed using STATISTICA 6 software. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was applied to test for significant differences between the means. Residual normality and homogeneity of variances (Cochran C and Bartlett methods) were determined before univariate tests of significance and Fisher\'s least significant difference (LSD) test, using a significance level of α = 0.05.
\nFigure 2 shows the cryogenic fractured specimen for comparison between PP, PPr1/GP, and PPr3/GP. Poor interaction can be observed between the polymer matrix and glass particles due to the presence of small voids, gaps, and unattached particles.
\nSEM micrographs of neat PP, PPr1/GP (90/10%w/w) and PPr3/GP (70/30%w/w) composites.
The addition of PPMA in GP/PPr composites resulted in the smoothing of fractured surfaces (Figure 3). Furthermore, unattached particles, micro-voids and the gap between the matrix and the filler were slightly reduced. As such, filler-matrix interaction improved due to the addition of the coupling agent. Table 3 shows the thermal properties of composites containing GP.
\nSEM micrographs in two sizes (100 and 50 μm) of PP/PPr1/GP/PPMA (75/10/5/10%w/w/w/w) and PPr3/GP (55/30/5/10%w/w/w/w) composites.
Property | \nPP | \nPPr1/GP | \nPPr3/GP | \nPPr1/GP/PPMA | \nPPr3/GP/PPMA | \n
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Tm (°C) | \n166 | \n165 | \n127/165 | \n126/165 | \n126/164 | \n
ΔHm (J/g) | \n81.6 | \n88.0 | \n72.6 | \n68.8 | \n72.6 | \n
χc (%) | \n39 | \n44 | \n37 | \n35 | \n37 | \n
Thermal properties of PP and PP/PPr/GP-base composites.
The melting temperatures (Tm) of all samples were similar to those of neat PP, except for the presence of a small endothermic peak in some composites at 127°C. Based on literature data [57], the small peak at 127°C can be attributed to the polyethylene and contamination in PPr, which is very common due to the difficulty in separating PP from PE during the recycling process.
\nIn general, the composites showed similar crystallinity degrees (χc) to those of neat PP (Table 3). The results are noteworthy because they suggest that the presence of post-consumer materials (PPr and GP) did not disturb the crystal formation of the final composite, which leads to the assumption that the final properties of the composite are maintained, even with the addition of post-consumer materials.
\nMaterial tensile properties are important for both engineering and packaging applications, since they represent the ability of materials to withstand the load transferred in the longitudinal direction. Impact strength is essential to engineering applications, due to the need to bear high loads for very short periods of time. Thus, tensile properties are vital in evaluating bags or mooring ropes, while impact strength is a critical feature in recycled plastic fencing, furniture and automobile parts. Tensile properties, mean values and confidence intervals (Fisher’s LSD test) are shown in Figures 4, 5, 6, 7.
\nElastic modulus of PP and PP/PPr/GP-base composites.
Stress x strain curves of composites samples with: (a) 0% and (b) 10% of PPMA.
Yield properties of PP and PP/PPr/GP-base composites: (a) yield stress and (b) yield strain.
Impact strength of PP and PP/PPr/GP-base composites.
With respect to elastic modulus (Figure 4), a comparison between PPr1, PPr3, and PP showed that elastic modulus, which is related to composite rigidity, tends to decrease with the addition of PPr, but this effect is only significant for the composite with 30%wt of PPr. However, when recycled filler (GP) was added to PP/PPr blends, the modulus rose until the mean composite modulus values were equal to those of virgin PP. This finding suggests that the previous decline in stiffness observed in PP/PPr blends can be solved by adding glass powder.
\nBy contrast, the improvement in elastic modulus was reversed when PPMA was added to PP/PPr/GP composites. This is significant because good cohesion between the matrix and GP, as shown in Figure 3, was expected to improve the tmodulus of the composite. One reason that may explain the previous undesirable result is the high amount of PPMA used as plasticizer. In other words, the amount of PPMA exceeded what was needed to coat the particle surfaces, diffusing in the polymer matrix and influencing plasticizer properties or those of a third polymer component.
\nYield stress is the maximum stress at which the material begins to exhibit permanent deformation. As the elastic limit shifts, the material does not return to its original dimensions after the applied stress is removed. This property is particularly important for automotive applications. The yield stress of composites is illustrated on median stress x strain curves (Figure 5), showing the PPMA effect.
\nYield properties (Figure 6) are generally in accordance with the modulus trend, that is, the higher the stiffness, the greater the stress and lower the strain at the yield point of the material. This behavior became evident when virgin PP was compared to PPr/GP composites. For products whose performance is highly dependent on tensile properties, the PPr3/GP sample remains the best option, considering elastic modulus, yield and environmental aspects, since the properties are very similar to those of neat PP even with the addition of 30% PPr and 5%wt of GP.
\nWith respect to the automotive applications of plastic materials, acceptable impact strength is one of the requirements and, in the case of composites, this property is highly sensitive to particle/matrix debonding during mechanical energy dissipation. Figure 7 shows the mean values and confidence intervals of impact strength.
\nThe PPr1/GP/PPMA sample showed somewhat better results compared to virgin PP, with a P-value of 0.0838, indicating no significant difference between results. The use of PPMA as a coupling agent for GP could be optimized to improve the impact strength of composites.
\nIn the present study, the PPMA grade used exhibited a maleic anhydride level of 1.0% by weight, but other grades with higher levels and greater affinity to GP could be tested in future research.
\nCompared to virgin resin, blends of PP with PPr demonstrated poor impact properties (Figure 7). In addition to higher impurity levels, PPr is expected to show lower molecular weight than PP, and both factors can contribute to failure in recycled material blends. Fukuhara et al. [58] evaluated isotactic polypropylene with different molecular weight and observed less Izod impact strength in samples with lower molecular weights. Furthermore, any structural particularity in PPr able to influence PP crystalline morphology can modify mechanical properties. Xu et al. [59] studied the relationship between spherulite size and crystallinity in the impact strength of PP samples with several different nucleating agents. The authors reported that impact strength was primarily controlled by spherulite size for samples with low crystallinity. For high crystalline samples, crystallinity itself is the decisive factor in strength. The authors also observed that impact strength is greater in PP samples with small spherulites and lower crystallinity. Nevertheless, no clear relationship between the degree of crystallinity and impact strength of samples was observed in the present study (Table 3, Figure 7). As such, other factors, such as impurity content, may exert the greatest influence on impact results. Given that products such as furniture and automobile parts require high impact strength, suitable coupling agents should be added to recycled composites in order to enhance their properties.
\nThe greatest challenge to plastics in the automotive industry is in recycling. Some automotive manufacturers, such as Ford and Toyota, are recycling their vehicles plastics and reusing in the new vehicles, for example, old or damaged bumpers are recycled and reused in bumper reinforcement cores [60].
\nAccording to the results presented, it can be concluded that the properties did not vary significantly as a function of composition. Since the objective was to produce lower cost composites (incorporating recycled PP and glass powder) and more sustainable materials without significant loss of properties, this result is within the parameters established. In other words, it was possible to recover post-consumer materials, replacing the virgin resin without significant loss of mechanical integrity in the final product. The addition of maleated polypropylene (PPMA) was shown to significantly improve the toughness of the material.
\nIn conclusion, based on the properties analyzed and the sustainable appeal of the new products, the powder-based composites displayed potential for use in various applications in the automotive industry, replacing conventional materials.
\nThe authors would like to thank Massfix company for donating the glass powder (GP), Poli Injet company for supplied the post-industrial polypropylene (PPr) and Braskem company for donating the virgin polypropylene, and PIBIC/UFRJ for the scholarship grants.
\nThe authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this paper.
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