Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Impact Actions in Türkiye

This chapter briefly touches on the general definition and causes of climate change. Then, it discusses the climate change adaptation situation in Türkiye, focusing mainly on the education sector. It mentions the vital need for education and disaster and emergency risk management, including climate change, in the curricula. Education is the tool from an early age until the end of a university degree to create climatic and disaster awareness. The main sources of information in the chapter are secondary data and a scan of the available literature and documentation. The chapter ends with an overall glance at the actions to be taken in the Turkish education sector.