Abstract

In the last century, population growth and natural

resource losses, ignoring the protection-use balance

and the degradation of sensitive ecosystems have once

again revealed the importance of planning strategies.

Basins are sensitive surface units significantly affected

by such changes. Although water basins are divided

into geographic boundaries, such as the sub-basins and

surface units, they function as systems where physical,

ecological, and biological interactions between macro

and micro scales remain uninterrupted. One of these

basins, namely ‘Konya Closed Basin,’ has a sensitive

terrestrial and aquatic environments that have

experienced significant ecological degradation,

threatening its ecosystem sustainability. The primary

issue addressed in this paper is the ecological

degradation basin, which has been driven by both

anthropogenic and natural factors. Current planning

models in the basin have led to the basin to become a

focus of urban expansion. Consequently, inappropriate

land-use decisions that do not align with the basin's

geographical characteristics have disrupted its natural

balance that makes it necessary to search for a new

planning model that can be implemented in the basin.

For t his r eason, i t i s e mphasized a nd a pplied i n t he

research that the ‘Ecological-Based Basin Planning’

approach, which is the recommendation model with

the intervention scales, principles, analysis-synthesis

processes, ecological intervention techniques are

necessary to ensure the sustainability of the basin in

the physical planning. As a tool for implementing this

planning model, ‘Ecological-Based Master Plan,’ aims

to address the ecological degradation in the study area

while promoting a long-term perspective that

prioritizes a ‘conservation’ approach in planning.

Keywords: Water basin, Ecological planning, Konya

Closed Basin