Depletion or destruction of a potentially renewable resource such as soil, grassland, forest, or wildlife by using it at a faster rate than it is naturally replenished. If such use continues, the resource can become nonrenewable on a human time scale or nonexistent (extinct).
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An Ecological Assessment Analysis: The Kanlidere River in North Cyprus
Gökçen Firdevs Yücel (Istanbul Aydın University, Turkey), Bilge Işık (Istanbul Aydın University, Turkey), and Nevter Zafer Cömert (Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus)
Copyright: © 2018
|Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4186-8.ch017
Abstract
This chapter analyzes the case study of Kanlidere watershed in Cyprus to explore a potential “reintroducing” of the river to its surrounding residential communities (and, on a broader level, to society), in an effective protection and restoration approach of the environment. The Kanlidere (Pedios) is Cyprus' longest river where its watershed has considerable importance for the environmental sustainability of Northern Cyprus. There has been waste, vegetation, and other materials accumulated in the riverbed over many years of neglect, which led to thick vegetation growth and water pooling. This chapter examines the site in order to preserve its overall ecological health, facilitating the improvement of the communities in the future.