COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISASTER ADMINISTRATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AFY 6024 CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISASTER ADMINISTRATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Disaster Administration

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ZERRIN TOPRAK KARAMAN

Offered to

Disaster Administration

Course Objective

Climate change is the major global problem that will effect the world in future. And also climate change is an important fact of disaster management as a technological disaster. It is important to prepare and to apply compomiser global strategies despite political regimes and ideologies. In this lesson it is aimed to analyze common strategies and internatonal roles about climate change beside its effects and dimensions

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to know effects and dimensions of climate change
2   Being able to perceive roles of international orgazations and actors about climate change
3   Being able to learn future strategies about climate change
4   Being able to learn the relationship between disaster administration and climate change
5   Being able to make additions to climate change and disaster administration strategies of future

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General information about the lesson
2 Climate change concpet, dimensions and importance of climate change
3 Compromise/conflict scenairos at global level about climate change
4 Effects of climate change on humanity and nature: flood, famine, drought
5 Effects of climate change on agriculture
6 Global climate change strategies and treaties
7 Montreal Protocol and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
8 Kyoto Protoco
9 Post-Kyoto negotiations, IPCC and CANCUN
10 2020 and 2050 targets of EU and EU s climate change strategy
11 UNDP, Dünya Bankası ve OEC, FAO, WHO, Greenpeace, WWF
12 Technology transfer at new climate change negotiations
13 Analyze of the climate change in terms of disaster management
14 Analyze of the climate change in terms of disaster management

Recomended or Required Reading

Yunus Emre Özer, Climate Change", "Encyclopaedia of Corporate Social Responsibility",DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8,Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Almanya,(2013), p.355-362,
Ulusal Iklim Değişikliği Strateji Belgesi 2010-2020
Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Iklim Değişikliği Eylem Planı 2011-202
JOEL B. SMITH, HANS-JOACHIM SCHELLNHUBER,M. MONIRUL QADER MIRZA, Vulnerability to Climate Change and Reasons for Concern: A Synthesis, http://www.cee.mtu.edu/~reh/papers/pubs/non_Honrath
/ipcc01/wg2_impacts_adaptation_and_vulnerability/wg2TARchap19.pdf
http://www.eea.europa.eu//themes/climate/dc
http://www.ipcc.ch/
Zerrin Toprak, Çevre Yönetimi ve Politikası, Izmir 2012.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

To remind the topics of the previous lesson for 15 minutes.
To give a general overview on the topic of the current week.
To give a lecture accompanied by a presentation prepared using the materials provided by the basic course book and other resources.
To make control-oriented brainstorming practices during some weeks.
To support the course topics with sample event examinations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + RST* 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 48 48
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 182

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1455
LO.2455
LO.3455
LO.4455
LO.5455

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