Mahir Yazar
Graduate Research Associate, Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network, Arizona State University
Arizona State University
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
PO Box 872402
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
Titles
- Graduate Research Associate, Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network, Arizona State University
Biography
Mahir is a PhD student in Environmental Social Science program as a Fulbright scholar. He has trained as an interdisciplinary scholar and holds degrees in Political Science (BA), International Relations (MA), and Environmental Sciences (MSc). He has spent the past several years between Istanbul and London before arriving in Phoenix and worked in an EU-Horizon 2020 funded research project, focusing urban transformation potentials and strategies of Istanbul, Shanghai, and Helsinki. His general research focus is based on urban climate change governance capacities of the local governments in the US and Turkey in order increase chances of fostering climate change implementations.
Education
- MA, International Relations, Goldsmiths University of London
- MSc, Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University
Journal Articles
In Press
Yazar, M., D. Hestad, D. Mangalagiu, T. F. Thornton, Y. Ma and A. K. Saysel. Enabling environment for regime destablization toward urban transition in megacities. Climatic Change
2022
Yazar, M. and A. York. 2022. Disentangling justice as recognition through public support for local climate adaptation policies: Insights from the Southwest US. Urban Climate 41(Jan):101079. DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2021.101079. (link )
Yazar, M., A. M. York and K. L. Larson. 2022. Adaptation, exposure, and politics: Local extreme heat and global climate change risk perceptions in the phoenix metropolitan region, USA. Cities 127(Aug):103763. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103763. (link )
2021
Yazar, M., A. M. York and G. Kyriakopoulos. 2021. Heat exposure and the climate change beliefs in a desert city: The case of Phoenix metropolitan area. Urban Climate 36(Mar):Art. 100769. DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2020.100769. (link )
Yazar, M., A. M. York and G. Kyriakopoulos. 2021. Heat exposure and the climate change beliefs in a desert city: The case of Phoenix metropolitan area. Urban Climate 36(Mar):100769. DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2020.100769. (link )
2019
Thornton, T. F., D. Mangalagiu, Y. Ma, J. Lan, M. Yazar, A. K. Saysel and A. M. Chaar. 2019. Cultural models of and for urban sustainability: Assessing beliefs about Green-Win. Climatic Change DOI: 10.1007/s10584-019-02518-2. (link )
Yazar, M., D. Hestad, D. Mangalagiu, A. K. Saysel, Y. Ma and T. F. Thornton. 2019. From urban sustainability transformations to green gentrification: Urban renewal in Gaziosmanpaşa, Istanbul. Climatic Change DOI: 10.1007/s10584-019-02509-3. (link )
2018
Kuokkanen, A. and M. Yazar. 2018. Cities in sustainablity transitions: Comparing Helsinki and Istanbul. Sustainability 10(5):1421. DOI: 10.3390/su10051421. (link )
Posters
2020
Kempf, M., E. Hartley, M. Yazar, B. Crawford and A. M. York. 2020. Co-management of marine mammals in Beringia Institutional analysis on Arctic subsistence. Poster presented at the Twenty-second Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 17, 2020, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
Yazar, M., G. Kyriakopoulos and A. M. York. 2020. Climate change beliefs in a desert city: The case of Phoenix metropolitan area. Poster presented at the Twenty-second Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 17, 2020, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
York, A. M., M. Berbés-Blázquez, M. Yazar and V. Bisht. 2020. Conceptualizing governance feedback mechanism in the contexts of long-term socioecological research in the US. Poster presented at the Twenty-second Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 17, 2020, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
2019
Yazar, M. 2019. Three dynamic scale interactions for the low-carbon urban transition: The Istanbul case. Poster presented at the The Institute for Social Science Research 15th Poster Competition, Novemeber 2019, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Yazar, M. 2019. Transformation to sustainability or green gentrification? Istanbul's urban renewal. Poster presented at the The Institute for Social Science Research 15th Poster Competition, November 2019, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
2018
Yazar, M. 2018. Transformation to sustainability or green gentrification? Istanbul’s urban renewal. Poster presented at the The Institute for Social Science Research 13th Poster Competition, December 2018, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Yazar, M. 2018. Transformation to sustainability or green gentrification? Istanbul’s urban renewal. Poster presented at the 4th Asian Conference on Urban Planning and Sustainability, April 2018, Hiroshima, Japan.
Yazar, M. and A. K. Saysel. 2018. Green businesses in Instanbul's seismic-risk driven urban renewal (UR). Poster presented at the GREEN-WIN International Conference, March 13-14, 2018, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
2016
Ma, Y., D. Hestad, D. Mangalagiu, T. F. Thornton, A. K. Saysel and M. Yazar. 2016. Enabling opportunity spaces for transformation towards sustainability (T2S) in global megacities: Comparative evidence from Shanghai and Istanbul. Poster presented at the International Conference 1.5 Degrees: Meeting the challenges of the Paris Agreement, September 20-22, 2016, University of Oxford.
Presentations
2019
Yazar, M. 2019. Urban transformation towards sustainability or planned green gentrification? Insights from urban renewal processes in Gaziosmanpasa, Instanbul. Presentation at the 49th Annual Urban Affairs Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
2018
Yazar, M. 2018. Cities in sustainability transitions: Comparing Helskini and Instanbul. Presentation at the 9th International Sustainability Transition Conference, June 2018, Manchester, UK.
Yazar, M. 2018. Transformation to sustainability or green gentrification? Istanbul’s urban renewal. Presentation at the Actions for Climate: Narratives, Win-Win Solutions and Climate Finance Conference, March 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship, 2020
Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship, 2019
Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship, 2018
Summer School Fellowship, UNIDO and Central European University Budapest, 2016
Jean Monnet Fellowship for Young Professionals, European Union, 2014
Jean Monnet Fellowship for Young Professionals, European Union, 2013
Project Commitment Fellowship, Clinton Global Initiative University, 2010
Erasmus Student Exchange Scholarship, European Union, 2009
Erasmus Student Exchange Scholarship, European Union, 2008