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Description of Individual Course Units| Course Unit Code | Course Unit Title | Type of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | Number of ECTS Credits | | UT310B.2 | Energy and Natural Resources Economics | Elective | 3 | 6 | 4 |
| | Level of Course Unit | | First Cycle | | Objectives of the Course | | The aim of this course is to examine the economic importance of energy and natural resources and their place in the economy, to establish the relationship between natural resources, energy and environment. The course also examines how social, economic and political aspects of these issues have been handled throughout the history of mankind and in which frameworks are discussed. | | Name of Lecturer(s) | | DOÇ. DR. FATİH OKUR | | Learning Outcomes | | 1 | Students will be able to evaluate the place of energy and natural resources in economic, social and political life. | | 2 | Students will be able to discuss the conditions under which the transformation of energy and the use of resources develop, which forms they take, and how they are handled by different thought currents and schools in the process of human development. | | 3 | Students will be able to discuss the international dimensions of energy problems. |
| | Mode of Delivery | | Normal Education | | Prerequisites and co-requisities | | None | | Recommended Optional Programme Components | | none | | Course Contents | | Climate, agricultural land assets, water resources, mineral resources, energy production, the conditions necessary to be classified as an asset to the source, the classification of natural resources, protection of critical points and resources, problems related to natural resources, demand and supply situation of natural resources, Turkey's energy resources (traditional and renewable), ecological balance, externalities and public goods, environmental problems and the situation in Turkey, protection and use of natural resources policies, economic development and welfare of society, technological progress. | | Weekly Detailed Course Contents | |
| 1 | Natural resources: The World and Turkey data, climate, land assets, water resources, energy production | | | | 2 | Classification and properties of natural resources, stock resources, current resources, critical point, resource conservation, problems related to natural resources | | | | 3 | Classification and properties of natural resources, stock resources, current resources, critical point, resource conservation, problems related to natural resources | | | | 4 | Natural resources: demand and supply conditions, population, agricultural lands, special circumstances related to resources, physical depletion and economic depletion, policies that can be formed about natural resources | | | | 5 | Energy resources and Turkey: traditional energy sources, renewable energy sources, comparative costs | | | | 6 | Energy resources and Turkey: traditional energy sources, renewable energy sources, comparative costs
| | | | 7 | Economic balance, externality and public goods: ecological balance, ecosystem, externality, public solutions to externalities, special solutions to externalities | | | | 8 | Midterm exam | | | | 9 | Conservation and use of natural resources (consumption) policies, implementation methods | | | | 10 | Technological development and natural resources: some definitions of economic development, development strategies, barriers and cost of economic development, choices | | | | 11 | What is the environment, the factors that determine and shape the environment, cost of abandonment, discount rate, risk-benefit analysis, development and environment relationship | | | | 12 | What is the environment, the factors that determine and shape the environment, cost of abandonment, discount rate, risk-benefit analysis, development and environment relationship | | | | 13 | Approaches of some thinkers and schools on environment, energy and natural resources | | | | 14 | Capital-production-environment relationship | | | | 15 | Readings and discussions on current issues | | | | 16 | Final exam | | |
| | Recommended or Required Reading | | İsmail H. Özsabuncuoğlu, A. Atilla Uğur, Doğal Kaynaklar: Ekonomi, Yönetim ve Politika, İmaj Yayınevi, Ankara, 2005. İlgili makaleler ve kitap bölümleri. | | Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods | | | Assessment Methods and Criteria | |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 100 | | SUM | 100 | |
| Final Examination | 1 | 100 | | SUM | 100 | | Term (or Year) Learning Activities | 40 | | End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities | 60 | | SUM | 100 |
| | Language of Instruction | | Turkish | | Work Placement(s) | | none |
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| Midterm Examination | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Final Examination | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Attending Lectures | 14 | 3 | 42 | | Self Study | 14 | 3 | 42 | | Individual Study for Mid term Examination | 1 | 10 | 10 | | Individual Study for Final Examination | 1 | 15 | 15 | |
| Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes | | LO1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | | LO2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | | LO3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| | * Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |
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