According to the Method of Gulez Evaluation of the Recreational Potential of Kafkasör Urban Forest

• Main Authors: Hilal Yılmaz, Banu Karaşah, Esin Erdoğan Yüksel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Artvin Çoruh Üniversitesi 2009-04-01
• Series: Artvin Çoruh Üniversitesi Orman Fakültesi Dergisi
• Online Access: http://ofd.artvin.edu.tr/issue/2259/29759

Urban people not only attempt to satisfy their hunger for nature by performing some recreational activities in natural areas in their proximities but also they challenge to regain disappeared natural areas in and around their cities in order to make residential areas more liveable. When considered the conditions today, urban trees and forests have turned out to be obligatory facilities for urban people since they provide not only recreational services but also contributions to city aesthetics, public health (with clean air and oxygen supply), human psychology, city and national economy and urban ecology. In this study, it was aimed to determine the existent recreational potentials of Kafkasör urban forest in Artvin city by evaluating the recreational conditions of urban forests. For this aim, recreational value of Artvin Urban Forest tried to be calculated according to Gülez’s method in order to determine existent potentials of recreational areas. As the result of the study, it was found that recreational potential rate of the area was 66.9 %, which shows the area has high recreational potential. The most important factor affecting this high potential was found to be the landscape characteristics the area has and recreational facilities the area provides.