Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
9105025041998Local Administration and Environmental UtilitiesElective128
Level of Course Unit
Second Cycle
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Objectives of the Course
At the end of this cource, our students are able to inquire environmental perspective of local administration bodies and public (Non Govermental Organizations), also they are able to investigate reuires of sustainable environment with participatory approaches and they are able to forward them to applications
Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Dr. Ümit ERDEM
Learning Outcomes
1To be able to criticize local administrations in the framework of environmental rights and laws
2To be able to examine and compare scope of environmental management and local administration activities in the world and Turkey
3Identification of the concept of local administration and its components and tools; Identification of duties and responsibilities of local administration within environmental management; Identification of laws, regulations and guidelines which effect local administrations
4To be able to axplicate duties and responsibilities of judgment, legislation, execution, media and NGO’s as components of local administrations within environmental utilities
5To be able to explicate local administrations within the environmental rights and laws
6To be able to explicate legal and administrative structure for local administrations
7To be able to explicate local administrations in the framework of international obligations depending within the scope of environmental management and utilities
8To be able to recognize the concept of local administration and its bodies and components
9To be able to identify principal responsibilities of local administrations within environment management and environmental utilities
Mode of Delivery
Face to Face
Prerequisites and co-requisities
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
Identification of the concept of local administration and its components and tools; Identification of duties and responsibilities of local administration within environmental management; Identification of laws, regulations and guidelines which effect local ad
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Concept og Local Administration and its bodies, components and tools
2Basic responsibilities of lacal administration
3Scope of Environmental Utilities
4Duties and responsibilities of local administration within environmental utilities
5As components of local administration judgment, legislation, execution, media and NGO’s
6Municipalities, special provincial administrations, village administaritons and Environmental Utilities
7Local Agenda 21 and Environmental Utilities
8MID-TERM EXAM
9Implementation of local administrations and environmental utilities with examples in the world
10Implementation of local administrations and environmental utilities in Turkey
11Laws, regulations and guidelines of Turkey which effect local administrations
12Local administrations and waste management
13Local administrations and sanitation
14Local administrations and environmental protection
15Local administrations and environmental planning
16FINAL EXAM
Recommended or Required Reading
“İnsan, Çevre ve Toplum”, 1992, Derleyen:Ruşen KELEŞ, İmge Kitapevi, ANKARA. Miller, G.T., 2000: Çevre Bilimi Sürdürülebilir Dünya, (Ed. Ü. ERDEM, Çev: F. DOĞAN, Ü., ERDEM, E., HENDEN, E., ONOĞUR, M., ÖZTÜRK, İ., TÜRKAN, E., NURLU, U., SUNLU), Ege Üniversitesi Çevre Sorunları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi Yayınları, Yayın No:1, İZMİR. Ruşen Keleş, Can Hamamcı; “Çevre Politikası,”İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, 5. Baskı, Ankara, 2005. Cevat Geray; “Yerel Yönetimler ve Çevre,” Çağdaş Yerel Yönetimler Dergisi, Cilt 7, Sayı 3, Temmuz 1998. Ruşen Keleş; “Kentleşme Politikası,” İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, 3. Baskı, Ankara, 1996,
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Activities are given in detail in the sections of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation".
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
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End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
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Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination122
Final Examination122
Attending Lectures14228
Report Preparation13030
Individual Study for Mid term Examination13030
Individual Study for Final Examination13030
Reading149126
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)248
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High
 
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