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| IKT4024 | Sustainable Development | 3+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of ECONOMICS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Lütfü ÖZTÜRK | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Aim of this course is to teach environmental problems and solutions; to emphasis social, economic and environmental dimensions of development, specify features of economic, social and environmental sustainability. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Understand importance of environment in economy and life | 6 | 1 | | LO - 2 : | learn social and environmental dimensions of economic development | 6 | 1 | | LO - 3 : | grasp difference between sustainable and unsustainable development | 6 | 1 | | LO - 4 : | know global environmental issues | 6 | 1 | | LO - 5 : | learn indicators of sustainability | 6 | 1 | | 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), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| The relationship between human and nature, environmental problems, environment and trade, Traditional Development Approach, Political Ecology, The Concept of Sustainability, Triangle of Economy-Society-Environment, Economic Sustainability, Environmental Sustainability, Social Sustainability, Economic Value of Nature, Green National Income, Ecological Footprints |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Human and Nature, Nuclear Power of the Human, Slient Spring, Born of the Modern Environmentalist Movements | | | Week 2 | Population Problem, Population Theory of Thomas R. Malthus, Population Bomb and Family Planning, Lifeboat Ethics, Ecological Approach: J-Curve and S-Curve, Demographic transformation | | | Week 3 | Limits of Growth, Cowboy Economy, Discussions about Unlimited Growth, Limits of Growth Report, Thermodynamic Limits of Growth, Towards sustainable growth | | | Week 4 | Seeking Solutions on Global Level, Human Environment Conference, World Conservation Strategy, Brundtland Report-Our Common Future, Ozone Layer and Montreal Protocol, Rio Summit and Agenda 21, Millenium Goals of United Nations, World Sustainable Development Summit, Rio +20 Summit: The Future We Want | | | Week 5 | Environment and Globalization, Environment and World Trade Organization, Environment and World Bank, Benefits of Environment from Free Trade, Damages of Environment from Free Trade. | | | Week 6 | Free Market Environmentalism, Sustainable Growth, Natural Resources Economics, Neo-classical environmental economics, environmental Kuznets Curve, Ecological Modernization, Reformists | | | Week 7 | Ecology and Ecosystems, Ecological Economics, Political Ecology, Deep Ecology, Eco-feminism, Eco-Socialism, Eco-Anarchism, Eco-fashism | | | Week 8 | Evolution of Development Economics, Growth problem in classical economists, born of development economics, crisis of development and Marxian Underdevelopment, re-born of free markets, environmental crisis and sustainable development | | | Week 9 | Mid term exam | | | Week 10 | Concepts of sustainable developments, scope of sustainability, economic sustainability, environmental sustainability, social sustainability, strong and weak sustainability | | | Week 11 | Sustainability as a transformation, meta-centric and human-centric development, ego-centric and eko-centric development, euro-centric and world-centric development, sustainable and unsustainable development, Kerala Model as a sustainability | | | Week 12 | What is economic value of nature?, total capital problem, economic capital, natural capital, human capital, social capital. | | | Week 13 | Economic Scales, adjusted GDP and green national income, Real Savings | | | Week 14 | Human Development Index, Sustainable Human Development Index, Sustainable Economic Welfare Index, Real Development Index, Happy Planet Index | | | Week 15 | Environmental Space, Ecological Footprints, Living Planet Index, Syndrome Approach, Press-State-Response Model | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Öztürk, Lütfü (2016), Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Ders Notları, Derya Kitabevi, Trabzon | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 1 | 04/2023 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 1 | 06/2023 | 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 | 14 | 42 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 7 | 2 | 14 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 10 | 2 | 20 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 120 |
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