Study site description: Eskisehir, Turkey

Table of Contents

1. Responsible partner
2. General Information
   1. Main reasons for selecting this site
   2. Participating local partner institutions:
3. Bio-physical description
4. Socio-economic description
5. Institutional and political setting
6. Relevant end-users / stakeholder groups
7. Past and ongoing projects

General Information

The Eskişehir region is situated in the inner NW Anatolian region (Figure 1) and suffers from a variety of land degradation processes, such as erosion by water, erosion by wind, salinization and urbanization. An increasingly drier continental climate together with very weak natural vegetative cover accentuates the on-going degradation processes.

Figure 1: Location of and land use properties in the vicinity of the Eskişehir study site

The Eskişehir study site is found in the north of the Eskişehir plain and covers about 90 km² surface area (Figure 2).

Figure 2: Landscape in vicinity of Eskişehir study site.