- E-postmahir.yazar@uib.no
- BesøksadresseFosswinckels gate 6Lauritz Meltzers hus5007 Bergen
- PostadressePostboks 78025020 Bergen
I am an environmental social scientist working at the intersection of human and environmental geography. My research focuses on the politics and governance of sustainability transformations and institutional dynamics of climate change at multi-scales (e.g., at the household, neighborhood, city, nation-state, and international levels).
Involving in two research projects (CINTRAN and LOCALNET), my research focuses on analyzing how interest groups and the battle over clean energy and progressive climate policy play out in the European context. I am also an affiliated scientist in the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-term Ecological Research (CAP-LTER) program and NSF-funded ARC-NAV: Arctic Robust Communities Navigating Adaptation to Variability at Arizona State University (ASU).
I hold a Ph.D. in Environmental Social Science from Arizona State University with Fulbright scholarships.
- (2023). The nested hierarchy of urban vulnerability within land use policies fails to address climate injustices in Turkey. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 30-46.
- (2023). The green divide and heat exposure: urban transformation projects in Istanbul. Frontiers in Environmental Science.
- (2023). Populist far right discursive-institutional tactics in European regional decarbonization. Political Geography.
- (2023). Nature-based solutions through collective actions for spatial justice in urban green commons. Environmental Science and Policy. 228-237.
- (2023). Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey. Global Environmental Change.
- (2022). Urban climate resilience and water insecurity: future scenarios of water supply and demand in Istanbul. Urban Water Journal.
- (2022). Right-wing and populist support for climate mitigation policies: Evidence from Poland and its carbon-intensive Silesia region. Regional Sustainability. 281-293.
- (2022). Norm domestication challenges for local climate actions: A lesson from Arizona, USA. Environmental Policy and Governance.
- (2022). Governance learning from collective actions for just climate adaptation in cities. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.
- (2022). Disentangling justice as recognition through public support for local climate adaptation policies: Insights from the Southwest US. Urban Climate.
- (2022). Adaptation, exposure, and politics: Local extreme heat and global climate change risk perceptions in the phoenix metropolitan region, USA. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning. 1-10.
- (2023). Carbon-intensive jobs, voting, and climate policy.
- (2023). Environmental injustices unfold in urban sustainability projects in Istanbul. 7 sider.
- (2022). Leveraging shadow networks for procedural justice. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.
Se fullstendig oversikt over publikasjoner i CRIStin.
Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)
16. Yazar, M., Daloglu, I., Baykal, E., Haarstad, H. (2023). Diffusion of global climate policy: national depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey. Global Environmental Change, (81): 102699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102699
15. Yazar, M., Haarstad, H. (2023). Populist far right discursive-institutional tactics in European regional decarbonization. Political Geography, (105): 102936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102936
14. Yazar, M., York, A. (2023). Nature-based solutions through collective actions for spatial justice in urban green commons. Environmental Science and Policy, 145, 228-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.04.016
13. Yazar, M., Hermwille, L., & Haarstad, H. (2022). Right-wing and populist support for climate mitigation policies: Evidence from Poland and its carbon-intensive Silesia region. Regional Sustainability, 3(4), 281-293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.001
12. Yazar, M. (2022). Norm domestication challenges for local climate actions: A lesson from Arizona, USA. Environmental Policy and Governance. https://10.1002/eet.2038
11. Yazar, M., Haarstad, H., Drengenes, LL., York, A. (2022). Governance learning from collective actions for just climate adaptation in cities. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2022.932070
10. York, A., & Yazar, M. (2022). Leveraging Shadow Networks for Procedural Justice. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101190
9. Yazar, M., York, A., Larson, L.K. (2022). Adaptation, exposure, and politics. Local extreme heat and global climate change risk perceptions in the Phoenix Metropolita Region, USA. CITIES, 103763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103763
8. Daloglu-Cetinkaya, I., Yazar, M., Kilinc, S. & Guven, B. (2022). Urban climate resilience and water insecurity: future scenarios of water supply and demand in Istanbul. Urban Water Journal, 10.1080/1573062X.2022.2066548
7. Yazar, M., York, A.M. (2022). Disentangling justice as recognition through public support for local climate adaptation policies: Insights from the Southwest US. Urban Climate, Volume 41, 101079, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.101079.
6. Yazar, M., York, A.M. (2021). Urban Climate Governance under the Central Government Shadow: Evidence from Istanbul. Journal of Urban Affairs. 1-17 https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2021.1915151
5. Yazar, M., York, A.M., Kyriakopoulos, G. (2021). Heat Exposure and the Climate Change Beliefs in a Desert City: The case of Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Urban Climate 36:100769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2020.100769
4. Yazar, M., Hestad, D., Mangalagiu, D., Thornton, T., Ma, Y., Saysel, A. (2020). Enabling Environment for Regime Destabilization toward Urban Transition in Megacities: Comparing Shanghai and Istanbul. Climatic Change 160(4): 727-752. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02726-1
3. Yazar, M., Hestad, D., Mangalagiu, D., Saysel, A., Ma, Y., Thornton, T. (2019). Urban Transformation towards Sustainability or Planned Green Gentrification? Insight from urban renewal processes in Gaziosmanpasa, Istanbul. Climatic Change 160(4): 637-653. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02509-3
2. Thornton, T., Mangalagiu, D., Ma, Y., Lan, J., Yazar, M., Saysel, A., Chaar, AM. (2019). Cultural models of and for urban sustainability: Assessing beliefs about Green-Win. Climatic Change160(4): 521-537. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02518-23
1. Kuokkanen, A. and Yazar, M. (2018). Cities in sustainability transitions: Comparing Helsinki and Istanbul. Sustainability 10(5):1421. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10051421
Book Chapters
1. Yazar, M. (2023). Environmental injustices unfold in urban sustainability projects in Istanbul. In Sustainability at Speed: Pathways through the climate emergency. (Eds.) Håvard Haarstad et al. UCL Press, London.