Economic Impact of Flood Disaster Between 1980-2015 Years: The Sample of Turkey

Abstract

Disasters are generally events that affecting communities the normal life and human activities with stopping and interrupting, causing physical, economical and social losses. After earthquakes,over flows and floods have great importance because most of life and property losses occured after water overflows. Due to the geographic location of our country, disasters like earthquakes, landslides, floods are often seen. In this study, flood disasters that occurred between the years of 1980-2015 in Turkey, which in that year and what happened in the city, and how the loss of life and property as a result it has been emphasized that occur. Among this years, overflow floods and river floods were occured in our country, affected 1775.520 person and cause a total of 2195.500 ('000 ABD $) damage.