COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ENVIRONMENT ECONOMICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKT 5069 ENVIRONMENT ECONOMICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Economics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Economics

Course Objective

To represent environmental problems, to increase the awareness and sensitiveness on these problems, to present political instruments and solutions for these problems. To aim the efficient attendance of the students.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to explain main concepts about the environmental economics
2   To be able to analyse the environmental problems, actors, principles and aims of environmental policies and develop solutions for the environmental problems
3   To be able to make observations and researches in a working group, to determine the environmental problems in the places where they can reach or live, and to improve the capability of implementing new solution
4   To be able to provide the support of the relevant decision making units to the projects which have been prepared to solve the predetermined environmental problems.
5   To be able to analyse the economic and social effects of environmental pollution
6   To be able to understand that both environmental problems and the solutions to these problems represent multi-dimensional and closely integrated systems

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to environmental economics and main concepts
2 Renewable and non-renewable natural resources and environmental pollution. The increasing importance of the renewable energy resources
3 The main natural resources in Turkey and all over the world and projections for the future
4 Air pollution and its environmental consequences
5 Water pollution and its environmental consequences, water economics
6 Earth pollution and its environmental consequences Erosion and its environmental consequences
7 Noise nuisance and its environmental consequences
8 Environmental pollution created by solid waste, waste management Dangerous poisonous wastes and their importance Environmental impact assessment
9 Global warming Climate and ecosystem change
10 Midterm exam
11 Nuclear energy and its environmental consequences Hydro-electric energy and its environmental consequences
12 Sustainable development and its relation with the environment and urban transformation Sustainable development and its relation with the environment in the EU Sustainable economic welfare index
13 International Environmental Organizations and their activities Green marketing
14 Social and economic consequences of environmental pollution

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Sources:
Basa K. , Durman M., Önder H. (2007). Doğal Kaynakların ve Çevrenin Ekonomik Analizi,
Alfa Aktüel Yayınları.
Konacan A.R. (2007). Çevre Ekonomisi Politikası. E.Ü., IIBF Yayınları.
Supplementary Sources:
Kula E. (2004). Economics of Natural Resources, The Enviroment.
Chapman and Hall David W. Peorce, R. Turner (1989) Economics of Natural Resources and
The Enviroment. The Johns Hopkins University Pres.
Başol K., (1995). Doğal Kaynaklar Ekonomisi (Doğal Kaynaklar, Enerji ve Çevre
Sorunları), Anadolu Matbaası, 5. Baskı.
Kuyulukçu, N. (1998), doğal Kaynaklar ve Çevre Ekonomisi, Filiz Kitabevi, Istanbul.
Brown L.R., (2003): Eko Ekonomi, Dünyadan Yeni Bir Ekonomi Kurmak, Çeviren: A. Yeşim
Erkan, Tema Vakfı Yayınları, Istanbul.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The lecture is given by the lecturer through ppt presentations enriched by relevant printed sources. In addition to that, students are expected to make discussion groups so as to conduct observations, applied studies, and projects concerning the selected research topics

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

Main Sources:
Basa K. , Durman M., Önder H. (2007). Doğal Kaynakların ve Çevrenin Ekonomik Analizi,
Alfa Aktüel Yayınları.
Konacan A.R. (2007). Çevre Ekonomisi Politikası. E.Ü., IIBF Yayınları.
Supplementary Sources:
Kula E. (2004). Economics of Natural Resources, The Enviroment.
Chapman and Hall David W. Peorce, R. Turner (1989) Economics of Natural Resources and
The Enviroment. The Johns Hopkins University Pres.
Başol K., (1995). Doğal Kaynaklar Ekonomisi (Doğal Kaynaklar, Enerji ve Çevre
Sorunları), Anadolu Matbaası, 5. Baskı.
Kuyulukçu, N. (1998), doğal Kaynaklar ve Çevre Ekonomisi, Filiz Kitabevi, Istanbul.
Brown L.R., (2003): Eko Ekonomi, Dünyadan Yeni Bir Ekonomi Kurmak, Çeviren: A. Yeşim
Erkan, Tema Vakfı Yayınları, Istanbul.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

husnu.erkan@deu.edu.tr, +90 232 420 41 80

Office Hours

Wednesday 13:00-15:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 15 15
Preparation for Final Exam 1 20 20
Preparing Assignments 1 25 25
Reading 1 15 15
Mid-Term 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 146

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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