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| Code | ÇM0028 |
| Name | Environmental Policy: Analysis and Evaluation |
| Term | 2024-2025 Academic Year |
| Term | Spring |
| Duration (T+A) | 4-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 6 ECTS |
| National Credit | 4 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Doktora Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | |
| Course Instructor |
Prof. Dr. FUAT BUDAK
(A Group)
(Ins. in Charge)
|
Course Goal / Objective
To provide students with an advanced understanding of the formulation, analysis, and evaluation of environmental policies. The course examines the interaction between science, policy, and politics in environmental decision-making and equips students with the ability to analyze policy impacts using various assessment methods and develop sustainable management strategies.
Course Content
Environmental policy formulation processes and components, environmental impact assessment (EIA) and strategic environmental assessment (SEA), interaction between science, policy, and politics in environmental decision-making, cost-benefit analysis and its applications, ecosystem services analysis and its use in environmental management, scenario planning methods, market-based environmental valuation methods (carbon markets, pollutant trading, ecosystem payments, etc.), global environmental policies and governance mechanisms.
Course Precondition
Students are expected to have an advanced understanding of environmental policies, economics, and management processes.
Resources
The handbook of environmental policy evaluation by Ann Crabbé and Pieter Leroy.
Notes
Environmental Policy Evaluation: Concepts And Practice by Per Mickwitz.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | Analyze the processes of environmental policy formulation and evaluate policy components. |
| LO02 | Interpret the interactions between science, policy, and politics in environmental decision-making. |
| LO03 | Apply environmental assessment methods such as cost-benefit analysis and ecosystem services analysis. |
| LO04 | Develop environmental policy scenarios using scenario planning techniques. |
| LO05 | Assess market-based environmental valuation methods and formulate sustainable management strategies. |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLO01 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Improves and provides required information on the basis of the basic competencies gained at the undergraduate level in the field of Environmental Engineering. | |
| PLO02 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Understands the interdisciplinary interactions related to their field. | |
| PLO03 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Uses the theoretical and practical knowledge at his specialized level in his field. | 4 |
| PLO04 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Combines and comments on the knowledge in their area with various scientific discipline and ability to produce new knowledge, to be able to solve the problems demanding expertise using scientific methods. | |
| PLO05 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Describes the problem independently in their field, evaluates solving methods, comments on the results and applies of the results when necessary. | 3 |
| PLO06 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Develops new strategic methods in order to solve unexpected complex problems encountered related to their field and takes initiatives to formulate a solution. | 4 |
| PLO07 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Analyses the knowledge in his field in a critical way and and directs his learning and performs advanced level research independetly | |
| PLO08 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Transfers current developments in the field of his studies, supporting them with quantitative and qualitative data, systematically to the area outside of the field, written, orally and visually. | |
| PLO09 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Examines, develops social relationships and the norms which diverts these social relationships with a critical view of and acts to change them if necessary. | 3 |
| PLO10 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Has the command of a foreign language at a level to translate and understand an article written in. | 3 |
| PLO11 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Uses advanced information and communication technologies along with the required level of his computer software. | 3 |
| PLO12 | Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği | Develops plans of strategy, policy, and implementation issues related to their area and evaluates results obtained within the framework of processes of quality. | 5 |
| PLO13 | Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği | Teaches each and supervises scientific and ethical values at the stages of data collection, interpretation related to their field. | |
| PLO14 | Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği | Uses knowledge in their field for problem solving and / or practical skills in interdisciplinary studies. |
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The policy-making process | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 2 | A theory of environmental planning and policy-making | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 3 | Environmental Analysis: science, policy, and politics in environmental decision-making | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım |
| 4 | Environmental impact assessment | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 5 | Cost-benefit analysis | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 6 | Environmental risk assessment | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 7 | Ecosystem services analysis | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | Reading the topic from the given sources | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
| 9 | Scenario planning | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 10 | Scenario planning-continue | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 11 | Multi-criteria decision analysis | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 12 | Public Participation and Group Decision-Making | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 13 | Environmental and Resource Valuation | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 14 | Market based method of environmental valuation | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 15 | Market based method of environmental valuation-continue | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım |
| 16 | Examples of market-based environmental valuation methods | Reading the topic from the given sources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Alıştırma ve Uygulama, Anlatım |
| 17 | Final Exam | Reading the topic from the given sources | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
Student Workload - ECTS
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Related Works | |||
| Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 28 | 28 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 152 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 6,08 | ||
| ECTS | 6 ECTS | ||