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| ORM7281 | The Economics of Natural Res. and Env. | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FOREST ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Devlet TOKSOY | | Co-Lecturer | Assoc. Prof. Mahmut M. BAYRAMOĞLU | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The aim of this course is practical, social, economic, scientific principles to plan, perform and providing knowledge and skills for evaluate and sustainable natural resource management projects and programs. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | describe the natural resources and environment. | 2,3,4,12 | 1,3 | | PO - 2 : | explain the interactive relations against the natural resources and human | 2,3,4,12 | 1,3 | | PO - 3 : | use and edit these interactive relations to solve the problems. | 2,3,4,12 | 1,3 | | PO - 4 : | understand the natural resources and their important for the Turkey. | 2,3,4,12 | 1,3 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| General ecosystem, natural resources and environment, classification of resources, human and natural resource relations, environmental issues, approaches to pollution control, social and legal approaches to solve environmental problems, examination of the direction of sustainable use of natural resources. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Ecology, natural resources and environment | | | Week 2 | classification of resources | | | Week 3 | human and natural resources, | | | Week 4 | natural economic regions, | | | Week 5 | supply and demand of natural resources | | | Week 6 | Relationship between the economic system and environmental pollution | | | Week 7 | pollution economics and economics investments for pollution control | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | economic, social and legal approaches for solving the natural reseorces and environmental pollutions and measurements of the costs and benefits of these instruments and determination of social discount rate | | | Week 10 | economic, social and legal approaches for solving the natural reseorces and environmental pollutions and measurements of the costs and benefits of these instruments and determination of social discount rate | | | Week 11 | evaluation of natural resources development investment from the viewpoint of sustainable development | | | Week 12 | evaluation of natural resources development investment from the viewpoint of sustainable development | | | Week 13 | Midterm | | | Week 14 | Environmental problems in Turkey | | | Week 15 | Traditional and renewable energy sources | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Özsabuncuoğlu, İ.H, Uğur, A.A., 2005, Doğal Kaynaklar Ekonomi, Yönetim ve Politika, İmaj Yayınevi, Ankara. | | | |
| 1 | Doğanay, H., 2002, Doğal Kaynaklar, Aktif Yayınevi, Erzurum. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 04/04/2016 | 1 | 30 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 13 | 05/05/2016 | 1 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 24/05/2016 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 13 | 39 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 3 | 5 | 15 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Ödev | 3 | 10 | 30 | | Proje | 3 | 10 | 30 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 4 | 11 | 44 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 202 |
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