COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTEGRATED ECONOMIC POLICIES IN DISASTERS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
UKA 8030 INTEGRATED ECONOMIC POLICIES IN DISASTERS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Distance Learning Non-thesis Master's Degree in Disaster Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ASUMAN ALTAY

Offered to

Distance Learning Non-thesis Master's Degree in Disaster Administration

Course Objective

Main objective of thise course is an examination of economics, finance and social policies dimensions during disaster management process. In order to coordinating of integrated policies during these processes have some dilemmas should be known mechanism of institutions operations which is applying policies. Choosing of policy alternatives on disaster management process is important the period of regular or irregular. The challenge for disasters requires creating some public goods namely global public goods. In this reason, aiming of this course content offers some analysis on compare policy differences between international institutions and countries.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be aware of economic, financial and social policy proposals in disaster management.
2   Be provide the investigating of international preventive strategic approaches and principles and policies based on fundamental legislation.
3   Be able to learn the framework of coordination conditions among institutions which make policies in the disaster management process.
4   Be able to learn analyzing the policy compositions that needs in the process initially education, health, accommodation, security etc.
5   Analyzing the related practice examples.
6   Be able to know global public goods phenomena in the theoretical and practical perspectives in disaster prevention and cost minimization.
7   Be able to learn fiscal coordination among institutions which provides public services, put into practice and solve the problems.
8   Be able to learn the sources of economic, fiscal and social costs and investigate the opportunities to prompting financial sources (tax incomes, aids, grants etc.) effectively and quickly.
9   Be able to get problem defining and avoiding skills related to loss and corruptions in the policy mix experiments in the past.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to lesson and meeting, Economic, Financial and Social Dimensions of Disaster in General
2 Economic Cost of Disasters
3 Financing of Economic Cost and Its Management of Local and Global
4 The Management of Financial Cost and Obligations of Disasters
5 The Minimize of Social Costs of Disasters
6 Resource Management in Removing of Social Costs.
7 The Effectiveness of Resource Allocation and Distribution in Minimizing of Disasters Costs.
8 The Economic, Financial and Social Analysis of Local Sources I
9 The Economic, Financial and Social Analysis of Local Sources II
10 Global Public Goods in Manage of Disasters Cost: In Theory and Practice
11 Integrated Policy Dimensions in Allocation and Distribution of Global Resources
12 The Coordination of Integrated Policy and Some
13 Inefficiency of The Allocation of Local and Global Resources: Rent Seeking and Corruption
14 Efficiency and Inefficiency of Integrated Policy Management in Disaster Period

Recomended or Required Reading

Ercan Kumcu, Mahfi Eğilmez(2004), Ekonomi Politikası, Remzi Kitabevi, Istanbul.
Arif Özsağır (2013), Bilgi Ekonomisi, Seçkin Yayınevi.
A.Eker, A. Altay, M.sakal(2013), Maliye Politikası.
Abuzer Pınar(2012), Maliye politikası, Turhan Kitabevi.
M.Meriç, D.Bülbül(2013), Mali Yapı, Turhan kitabevi.
Yusuf Alper, Aysen Tokol(2011), Sosyal Politika, Dora Yayınları.

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 * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be announced.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

asuman.altay@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 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 16 16
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 120

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7
LO.1445
LO.2545
LO.3545
LO.4545
LO.5445
LO.6545
LO.7445
LO.8545
LO.9445

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