Sample of Sariyer district in Istanbul in the fight of natural disasters

Since the very beginning of creation of humanbeing in the universe, man has faced different natural disasters. For some of the natural disasters, when they will occur can be predicted. But most of them can not, unfortunately. Nature has been in continuous change and transformation. Thanks to developing technology, we can predict and calculate when the natural disaster will occur beforehand. Occurrence of an unpredicted natural disaster endangers the whole ecosystem including living and non-living things. When the people and other creatures face this kind of unpredicted natural disasters, they are often caught off-guard. Even if necessary precautions are taken, they may not work due to extreme hazards. The majority of the countries in the world organizes Naturel Disaster Management Systems to keep the risk of natural disaster in the lowest level. In Turkey, similar measures are taken by central and local authorities, as well. The point here is to diminish loss of lives and properties to the lowest level during the disaster. Nowadays, in Turkey and the rest of the world, an integrated disaster plan is implemented as current disaster system. The integrated disaster plan consists of four stages. Instead of taking these four stages separately, coordination with each other ensures efficiency of disaster management system. In this study, disaster recovery and disaster management in Sariyer are taken into consideration. In the first part of the study, we identify the relevant terminology and provide the explanations of the terms about natural disaster types. In the second part, Sariyer which is a distinct in the Istanbul is advertized and general information about disaster management types in local distincts is provided. As third an final, informations about recovery plans and past natural disaster experienced in Sariyer is explained. Keywords: Natural Disaster, Disaster, Natural Disaster Management, Earthquake, Storm