Development of landscape restoration and management strategy in büyük melen river basin

Restoration of environment destroyed by human interference that is a candidate of being the most important science and art topic of 21st century is among the nature/ bio-technique/landscape restoration issues. Purpose of the researchers is to develop some landscape restoration and management strategies, to emphasize necessity of totalitarian lands instead of point lands within the scope of landscape restoration studies by making evaluations and analysis about the man-made and nature-sourced interferences in basin. Research field includes the catchment area between Düzce Efteni Lake wetland area in Big Melen river basin in West Black Sea basin and Black Sea. In addition to this, Big Melen River is really important for the nation because it is a water supply for Big Melen Dam supplying drinking water to İstanbul. In the research analysis were made aimed at the function of landscape such as water permeability in basin and risk of erosion. The problems and solution offers about each basin were presented by identifying visual landscapes based upon main river stem usage. In the research it is tested in 35 spot with t test whether data obtained from land and the evaluations made in office are correspond with each other by creating form of 'River Immediate Environment Visual Habitat Quality Evaluation'. As a result of the analysis it is found that there is no significant difference. As a consequence in Big Melen Basin with reference to the evaluations of basin and main river stem, strategies have been developed in 3 main title related to existing land usage, protected areas according to water pollution control regulations and around main river stem and visual landscapes based upon land usage. Apart from these, as a result of obtained information, developments of some management strategies are provided. In the light of all evaluations, it is precipitated that evaluations of landscape restoration in the basin will put certain responsibilities on different shareholders in the concerned basin and the problems will be solved together