B. Ayça Ataç

In her research and teaching, Ayça focuses on climate change and property rights.

In her PhD thesis, she delves into property owners' perceptions of flood damage and land policy interventions of the public authorities in response to the effects of climate change.

Furthermore, Ayça analyzes changes in land-use, landownership, and population density in urban and natural areas using Geographical Information System (GIS) technologies.

Education

• 2017 – 2021 (Master’s Degree) : Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Department of Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments
• 2016 – 2017 (Erasmus Scholarship) : Technische Universität Dortmund, Department of Spatial Planning
• 2014 – 2018 (Minor Degree) : Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing
• 2012 – 2017 (Bachelor’s Degree) : Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning

Professional Experience

• 2021 – present (Research Assistant) :  TU Dortmund University, Department of Spatial Planning
  • Teaching
    • Supervisor of a student project - "A01 / They Don't Care About Us: Land Policy in the Era of Climate Change" (2023/24)
    • Supervisor of a student project - "A01 / Living in the water: Property and climate change" (2021/22)
  • Lectures
    • Master's Seminar on '"property rights, land policy and climate change" (wintersemester 2022/23)
• 2018 – 2021 (Project Manager) : Netcad Software Company in Ankara

Ataç, B.  Ayça, & Hartmann, Thomas (2022). Climate change and property rights: Challenges for land policy. In: P. Pereira & C. S. S. Ferreira (Eds.), Urban Soil and Water Degradation. Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/bs.apmp.2022.10.013

Ataç, B. Ayça 2021. “Reading the Complexity of The ‘Fringe’ From a Perspective of Territorial and Historical Change: The Case of Datça, Muğla.” Middle East Technical University, Ankara. (Master Thesis)

Ataç, B. Ayça, Cenan, D., Çetinkaya, A., Şahin, N., Sanli, K., Koç, Z., Kısa, A. (2020). “Methodology of the Turkey’s National Geographic Information System Integration Project”. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Open Science Index 164, International Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 14(8), 196 - 204.

Ataç, B. Ayça, & Çamiçi, S. (2018). “Examination of Orthoimagery Data Specification According to the INSPIRE Directive”. Remote Sensing and GIS Symposium, Eskişehir. (Conference Paper)

Esenboğa, A. E., Ataç, B. Ayça, Memiş, C. E., Ergenekon E. D., Hatiçoğlu M., and Özok, S. 2019. The Transformation into a Metropolitan City by Law: The Law No. 6360 and the Example of Eskişehir (in Turkish: Yasayla Metrolopiten Kent Olmak: 6360 Sayılı Kanun ve Eskişehir Örneği). edited by Ersoy, M. and Şengül, H.T. Middle East Technical University, Department of Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments. (Unpublished Book)

2023 / Coordinator of LAND4FLOOD Conference PhD Workshop hosted by the "Land Policy and Land Management" research group, Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University

2023 / Speaker at the LAND4FLOOD Conference in Dortmund. Presentation held: "Balancing Effectiveness and Justice: Resettlement of Property Owners in Flooded Areas"

2023 / Speaker at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) in Ann Arbor. Presentation held: "Unpacking Property Owners’ Perceptions of Flood Damage"

2023 / Participant of a PhD workshop on the 17th Annual Conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) in Ann Arbor. 

2022 / Speaker at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) in Ghent. Presentation held: "Climate Change and Landowners: Plural Perspectives of Property in Land"

2022 / Participant of a PhD workshop on the 16th Annual Conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) in Ghent. 

2020 / Speaker at the 22nd International Conference on Geoplanning and GIS (ICGGIS 2020) in Barcelona. Presentation held: "Methodology of the Turkey's National Geographic Information System Integration Project"

2019 / Moderator of Turkey’s National Geographic Information System (TUCBS) Training Workshop organized by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization and Netcad Software Company

2018 / Participant of a conference on the establishment of Turkey’s National Geographic Information System (TUCBS) organized by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization and the Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)

2018 / Contestant in the Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems Symposium 2018 in Eskişehir

2015 / Participant in the World Urbanism Colloquium in Turkey