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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / KPİTZ527 - KAMU POLİTİKASI VE İŞLETMECİLİĞİ (YL) (TEZSİZ)

Code: KPİTZ527 Course Title: ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND POLICIES Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department KAMU POLİTİKASI VE İŞLETMECİLİĞİ (YL) (TEZSİZ)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer MEHMET ÖZEL (mehmetozel@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To grasp the nature of a lot of human and environmental relationships, and teaching dispensability of nature. To examine relationship between environmental pollution and the existing economic, social, cultural and political life

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Establish the relationship between cause and effect of environmental problems PO-
LO-2 Knows the process of historical development of environmental problems PO-
LO-3 Knows the importance of nature PO-
LO-4 Understand the ecological costs in economic activities PO-
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
The emergence of environmental problems, human environment interaction, environmental problems caused by industrialization and urbanization, environmental values, pollution, the economic dimension of environmental problems, environmental flows, environmental problems in Turkey
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 The nature of environmental problems Lecture
2 The basic principles and concepts of ecology, Lecture
3 Environment-human relations, population, natural resources Lecture
4 Environmental values, air pollution, acid rain, noise Lecture
5 Problems of water pollution and soil pollution Lecture
6 Flora and fauna, and cultural environmental problems Lecture
7 Economic growth and the environment Lecture
8 mid-term exam
9 Business and environmental policy alternatives Lecture
10 Environmental problems, externalities, Pareto optimization Lecture
11 Environmental movements Lecture
12 Environmental administration and policy Lecture
13 Environmental administration and policy tools Lecture
14 Environmental management and policy in Turkey, the central government and local governments Lecture
15 Environmental management and policy in Turkey, legislation, judicial decisions Lecture
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Çevre Politikası; Ruşen Keleş-Can Hamamcı-Aykut Çoban
Required Course instruments and materials
projection, books, essays

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 4 14 56
       b) Search in internet/Library 4 14 56
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 9 1 9
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 9 1 9
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 174