Wind energy is an eco-friendly, renewable, domestic, and infinite resource. These factors render the construction of wind turbines appealing to nations, prompting numerous governments to implement incentives to augment their installed capacity of wind turbines. Alongside augmenting the installed capacity of wind turbines, identifying suitable locations for their installation is crucial for optimizing turbine performance. This study aims to evaluate potential sites for wind power plant installation via a GIS, a mapping technique. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was employed to assess the locations, including both quantitative and qualitative aspects that significantly impact the wind farm suitability map. Utilizing the GIS methodology, all datasets were examined through height and raster transformations of land surface temperature, plant density index, air pressure, humidity, wind speed, air temperature, land cover, solar radiation, aspect, slope, and topographical characteristics, resulting in the creation of a wind farm map. The correlation between the five-year meteorological data and environmental parameters (wind direction, daily wind speed, daily maximum and minimum air temperatures, daily relative humidity, daily average air temperature, solar radiation duration, daily cloud cover, air humidity, and air pressure) influencing the wind power plant in Iğdır province, including Iğdır Airport, Karakoyunlu, Aralık, and Tuzluca districts, was analyzed. If wind energy towers are installed at 1 km intervals across an area of roughly 858,180 hectares in Igdir province, an estimated 858,180 GWh of wind energy can be generated. The GIS-derived wind power plant map indicates that the installation sites for wind power plants are located in regions susceptible to wind erosion.

This study focuses on determining the thermal comfort conditions of seasonal agricultural workers during the hot periods of the year when agricultural production is intense in the Aksu/Türkiye region, which is characterized by the Csa climate type according to the Köppen–Geiger climate classification. In this study, the thermal comfort conditions of seasonal agricultural workers working on open farmlands were evaluated in ten-day, monthly, and seasonal periods for 6 months between 5:00 and 21:00 h using the modified Physiological Equivalent Temperature (mPET) index in the Rayman Pro software according to their activity energy during work. The results of the study reveal that increased activity energy leads to a decrease in thermal comfort conditions of agricultural workers, mPET values of agricultural workers engaged in soil cultivation (Group II) are 2.1 to 2.9 °C higher than the mPET values of workers engaged in plant care and harvesting (Group I), and the agricultural workers in Group II are exposed to more heat stress. The thermal comfort conditions of agricultural workers in Group I deteriorate between 09:00 and 16:00 h with mPET values between 34.1 and 35.3 °C and those of agricultural workers in Group II deteriorate between 08:00 and 17:00 h with mPET values between 34.3 and 37.7 °C. In this context, the daily comfortable working time in the morning and afternoon was found to be 9 h for Group I and 7 h for Group II. Overall, determining the comfortable working hours of agricultural workers in regions with different climate types in future studies will be an important resource for decision-makers in developing strategies to protect the health and increase the productivity of agricultural workers.

Çoğunlukla, göz ardı edilen bir grup olan engelliler, erişilebilirlik standartlarının sağlanamaması sebebiyle sınırlandırılmakta, ulaşmak istediklerine ulaşamamakta ve yapmak istedikleri birçok faaliyete ya da aktiviteye katılamamaktadır. Erişilebilirliğin sağlanamaması çok sayıda sorunu beraberinde getirmektedir. Kent ölçeğinden bina ölçeğine kadar tüm alanların erişilebilir olması engelli bireylerin toplumsal katılımını kolaylaştırmaktadır. Engelli bireyler de engelli olamayanlar gibi haklara sahiptir. Kamusal dış mekanlardan biri olan açık yeşil alanlardan yararlanmak da bu haklar arasında sayılmaktadır. Engelsiz parkların ülkemizde giderek yaygınlaşması ile engelli çocuklar ve bireyler için kısmen oyun, dinlenme, eğlenme, gezme olanağı sunulmaktadır. Bu bağlamda çalışmada, Eskişehir ve Diyarbakır’da bulunan engelsiz parkların karşılaştırılması yapılmakta ve erişilebilirlik açısından uygunluğu değerlendirilmektedir. Engelsiz parkların farklı engel gruplarına hizmet edecek nitelikte olması ve engelli çocukların diğer çocuklar ile birlikte oyun oynamalarına olanak verecek şekilde düzenlenmesi gereklidir. Ülke genelinde engelli sayısı ve nüfusu dikkate alan yeterli büyüklükte engelsiz parklara ihtiyaç duyulmaktadır. “Herkes için tasarım” prensibi açık ve yeşil alanlar başta olmak üzere tüm alanlarda yaygınlaştırılmalıdır. Böylelikle engelsiz parkların erişilebilirliği sağlanarak engelli bireylerin yaşam kalitesi artırılmış olacaktır.

Wind energy is a renewable, sustainable, and localized power source. These features motivate countries to adopt wind turbines, with many nations employing incentives to enhance the installed capacity of these systems. The selection of locations for wind turbine installations is crucial for optimizing turbine performance and augmenting installed capacity. This study examined 20 distinct places in the province of Erzurum as potential locations for the development of wind power installations. This research identified prospective locations for the development of wind power facilities in Erzurum, Turkey, employing a geographic information‐based multicriteria decision‐making (MCDM) methodology and a geographic information system (GIS). The plan incorporated topographical, structural, climatic, and environmental factors, including wind velocity, land cover classification, gradient, closeness to land and substations, transportation networks, communities, fault lines, power grids, and erosion areas. A wind farm suitability map was created using a weighted process questionnaire and assessed criteria maps, employing the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). The result map shows that 83.052% of the total area is designated as favorable, while 15.858% is rated as most favorable. This study highlighted the erosion criterion for the first time. This investigation utilized 17 criteria. The aim is to locate a wind power facility in a more suitable site by employing these characteristics. In district‐level evaluations of the wind power plant suitability map, İspir province occupies the top position.