COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CLIMATE CHANGE AND MT STRATEGIES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DDD 6010 CLIMATE CHANGE AND MT STRATEGIES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Maritime Security, Safety and Environmental Management

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR YUSUF ZORBA

Offered to

Maritime Security, Safety and Environmental Management

Course Objective

Evaluation of the marine environment, maritime business and maritime security in the way of functions of the marine transportation and analysis of the climate changes effects on ecology, jeo-politics and global force terms as a result of increasing industry with globalisation are the main aims.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Analyse of the consequences of climate change with scientific research
2   2. Analysis of new developments in terms of maritime transport and evaluation of a systematic approach
3   3. To develop new approaches using strategic decision-making processes for assesing existing and future conditions critical perspectives and to determine strategies
4   4. Strategic evaluation of the climate changes in terms of the maritime safety and security
5   5. Evaluation of the development of environmental awareness by synthesizing the effects of climate change

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 EXPLANATION OF THE CONCEPT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND A GENERAL OUTLOOK OF RESEARCH ON CLIMATE CHANGE
2 SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS / DIFFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE
3 APPROACHES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND COUNTRIES: UN
4 APPROACHES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND COUNTRIES: EU, USA, RUSSIA; CHINESE
5 INVESTIGATION OF CLIMATE AND CLIMATE TRENDS, HAZARDS, POSSIBLE RESULTS, IN TERMS OF GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM AND BALANCE
6 STRATEGIC CLIMATE CHANGE THEORIES / APPROACHES
7 STRATEGIC CLIMATE CHANGE THEORIES THE IMPACT AND ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE OCEANS
8 ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGRICULTURE
9 CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMANITY
10 CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL ENERGY SECURITY
11 EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR
12 INVESTIGATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION STRATEGIES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MARITIME TRANSPORTATION
13 APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN TERMS OF SUSTAINABILITY OF MARITIME TRANSPORTATION
14 PRESENTATION OF RESEARCH AND STUDIES ON CLIMATE CHANGE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE

Recomended or Required Reading

- Managing the Global Commons: The Economics of Climate Change, William D. Nordhaus, 1994
- Climate Change and Water, Bates, B.; Kundzewicz, Z. W.; Wu, S.; Palutikof, J.
- The Economics of Climate Change, Nicholas Stern, UK
- The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change , A. Dessler and E. Parson, Cambridge, UK
- Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options, Marilyn A. Brown and Benjamin K. Sovacool

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Homework, presentation, practices, researchs

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 * 0.20 + STT* 0.40 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + RST* 0.40


*** 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)

yusuf.zorba@deu.edu.tr / 0.232.3018156

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 12 5 60
Preparation for midterm exam 3 5 15
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 7 7
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.135333
LO.253
LO.33333
LO.433
LO.533

CONTACT INFORMATION
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Cumhuriyet Bulvarı No: 144 35210 Alsancak / İZMİR
Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

Copyright 2015 DEÜ. BİD

HOME / ABOUT US / DEGREE PROGRAMMES / GENERAL INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS