Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ECLAS 2025, Nitra, Slovakya, 6 - 11 Eylül 2025, ss.82-83, (Özet Bildiri)
he earthquake that struck 11 provinces in Turkey on 6 February 2023 affected an area of 110,000 km2, resulting in the deaths of more than 50,700 people, the displacement of 3.3 million people, and the homelessness of millions more. The provinces affected by the earthquake are also significant regions, renowned for their diversity of agricultural products and extensive agricultural areas. In the aftermath of the disaster, agricultural areas were rapidly transformed into non-ecological lands, a process that was encouraged. This was especially evident in rural areas on the urban periphery, where the rate of legal and illegal construction increased significantly. Consequently, the metabolic rift between rural and urban areas, which already existed in ecological and social dimensions, deepened further with the impact of the disaster. The primary objective of this research is to assess the transformation process in agricultural landscapes in urban-rural belts in cities exposed to disaster through the conceptual framework of metabolic rift. In this context, the components of hazard, vulnerability, emergency and risk that constitute disaster are examined by adapting them to agricultural landscapes. Disasters are accompanied by tragedies of both displacement and voluntary or involuntary displacement. The absence of a robust agricultural policy engenders a situation where the recovery of society, predominantly reliant on an agricultural economy, remains unattainable. Consequently, the vulnerability of both society and agricultural practices is escalating. This, in turn, exacerbates the degree of rupture between agriculture and people. From this perspective, the insecure and resistless conditions between urban and rural areas that will be created by the metabolic rupture deepened by the speculations and practices on agricultural landscapes after the earthquake in Malatya are called into question