Personnel
Instructor: | Shihomi
Ara-Aksoy (Email: ![]() |
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Course Information
Schedule: | Thursdays 9:00-11:45, DK9 |
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Office hours: | By Appointment |
Course description: |
This course provides an introduction to environmental and natural resource economics and policy. Lectures are designed to provide insights into the economic aspects and a theoretical foundation of a wide range of environmental issues including air and water pollution and climate change. The basic concept of cost-benefit analysis and environmental evaluation are also discussed. |
Course objective | By the end of this course, students are expected to develop a capacity to evaluate the environmental/natural resources problem at hand, analyze the possible instruments, and assess the impacts of the chosen instrument. |
Prerequisites: |
Fundamental Microeconomics knowledge |
Course Syllabus
Example Questionnaires
1. Organic Rice Study in the Philippines
2. Air Pollution and Health Study (Hypothetical Questions A and B, Other Questions, Turkish version)
3. Renewable Energy Study by Cem (in Turkish)
ECO448 Contingent Valuation Journal
Papers
Title List
1.
What
determines urban households’ willingness to pay for CO2 emission reductions in
Turkey: A contingent valuation survey
2.
Consumer’s
Willingness to Pay for Organic Chicken Meat in Samsun Province of Turkey
5.
British Tourists’
Valuation of a Turkish beach Using Contingent Valuation and Travel Cost Methods
7.
Consumer
Willingness to Pay for Organic Products in Urban Turkey
8.
On Environmental
Concern, Willingness to Pay, and Postmaterialist Values: Evidence from Istanbul
9.
Consumer
Willingness to Pay for Organic Sea Bass in Turkey
12.
Recreational
value, user heterogeneity and site characteristics in contingent valuation
13.
Social
preferences regarding the delivery of ecosystem services in a semiarid
Mediterranean region
14. Willingness to pay for waste management improvement in Dhaka city, Bangladesh
Related Links
International and Others
- UNEP [ http://www.unep.org/ ]
- GEF [http://www.gefweb.org/ ]
- UNFCCC [ http://unfccc.int/ ]
- IPCC [ http://www.ipcc.ch/ ]
- EEA [ http://www.eea.europa.eu/ ]
- EIONET [ http://www.eionet.europa.eu/]
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EPA [ http://www.epa.gov/ ]
Turkey
- Ministry of Environment and Forestry [ http://www.cevreorman.gov.tr/ ]
- ÇOB, Air Quality Monitoring Network [ http://www.havaizleme.gov.tr/ ]
- Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources [ http://www.enerji.gov.tr/ ]
- State Planning Agency [ http://www.dpt.gov.tr/ ]
- UNDP Turkey [ http://www.undp.org.tr ]
- REC Turkey [ http://www.rec.org.tr ]
- REC Turkey, Climate Change [ http://www.rec.org.tr/climate.htm ]
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TEMA [http://english.tema.org.tr/index.htm]