COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CLIMATE CHANGE AND STRATEGIC APPROACHES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 6084 CLIMATE CHANGE AND STRATEGIC APPROACHES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÖKHAN TENIKLER

Offered to

Public Administration

Course Objective

Climate change is the major global problem that will effect the world in future. 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 evaluate the position of Türkiye about climate change
5   Being able to make additions to climate change 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 Protocol
9 Post-Kyoto negotiations, IPCC and CANCUN
10 2020 and 2050 targets of EU and EU s climate change strategy
11 UNDP, World Bank and OECD
12 FAO, WHO, Greenpeace, WWF
13 Technology transfer at new climate change negotiations
14 General evaluation and reminder, reviewing the degree of achievement of the learning outcomes of the course by making a situation analysis of the period.

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 2011-2023

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.
To analyze the given case studies.
To internalize the knowledge of students through homework applications.

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)

yunusemre.ozer@deu.edu.tr

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 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 174

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1545
LO.2545
LO.3544
LO.4455
LO.5454

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