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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator Assist. Prof. Dr. RAMAZAN KURTOĞLU
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The basic objectives of the course are to teach the students the significance of the environment and natural resources and the role of the resources for the trade level of the country and also economic development. The natural resources are the core factors for industrialization and the contribution of the resources to the national income and economy are analysed.
Course Content Environment and the natural resources, natural resources and the national economy and the trade level. The relations in between natural resources usage and the environment. Natural resources to the sustainable development, the relation in between the natural resoruces and the environment, energy resources and economic development.

Weekly Course Subjects

1The importance of the natural resources for the economic activities,
2The calssification of the natural resources,
3The criteria to extract the natural resources,
4The factors determining the need fort he natural resources,
5Social development and the relation in between the usage of natural resources,
6Increase in population and the problems of this increase,
7The effects of the technological imporovements,
8The issue of energy, Energy resources,
9Midterm Exam
10Petrolium and natural gas,
11Renewable energy resources,
12The usage of natural resources and environment,
13Some examples of sustainable development,
14Review for final exam.

Resources

1. Erhun Kula, Economics of natural resources and the environment, Chapman & Hall, New York, 1994.
2. J. Rona Tucson, Ethics of environment and development : global challenge, international response, University of Arizona Press, 1990.