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In recent times, when environmental pollution has increased and climate change has accelerated, the impact of these changes and transformations on social life and welfare levels has become undeniable. This study aims to understand the determinants of green social policy. This new concept emerged in the context of social policy and the environment in conditions where the effects of environmental destruction on sustainable development are increasingly visible. In this stud, The importance of sustainable development in terms of the climate crisis, the place of social justice and ecological justice approach in social policy discussions, and discussions in the national and international literature on environmental ethics in sustainable development are included. This article is a compilation study prepared with the contribution of rich national and international literature to increase the visibility of “green social policy”, a relatively new concept in the literature and offers a unique perspective on sustainable development and social justice in the climate crisis. One of the main inferences of the study is that poverty and environmental problems take place in a nurturing cycle, that the policies to be developed are sustainable and that it is inevitable to move to a “green” understanding in the field of social policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the study, it is aimed to determine under the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis whether the newly industrialized countries, which need high output in order to gain competitive advantage, provide their economic development by considering environmental policies. For this purpose, the hypothesis was tested with panel data analysis for the years 1980-2021. In the study, CADF unit root, Westerlund cointegration and Augmented Mean Group Estimator (AMG) tests were used. According to the obtained findings, although it is observed that there is a long-term relationship between the variables, it has been determined that the increase in per capita income in Brazil and Turkey reduces carbon emissions. In Mexico and the Philippines, it has been observed that increases in income and per capita income, respectively, increase carbon dioxide emissions. Although there is no statistical significance in terms of income per capita for the panel in general within the scope of newly industrialized countries that have not yet completed their development, it has been determined that increases in income used as a control variable increase CO2 emissions. The results show that the environmental Kuznets curve, which states that increases in per capita income first increase environmental pollution and then decrease it, is valid only in Brazil and Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the effects of foreign direct investment inflows on renewable (clean) and fossil energy consumption in Turkey during the period 1970-2020. For this purpose, the long-term relationship between the series are analyzed with the Engle-Granger cointegration approach and the hidden cointegration approach of Granger and Yoon (2002) which considers shocks on the positive and negative components of the series by separating. Empirical findings show that foreign direct investment inflows do not have a significant effect on both renewable energy consumption and the positive and negative components of renewable energy consumption in the examined period in Turkey. On the other hand, foreign direct investment inflows have a significant and positive effect on fossil fuel consumption in the long run. These findings reveal that foreign direct investments to Turkey increase carbon-based fossil fuel consumption instead of supporting clean energy consumption. Therefore, it is of great importance to simultaneously include foreign direct investment inflows that will support clean/renewable energy consumption in economic and environmental policies in order to achieve sustainable environmental goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972 both triggered the organization of environmental management in many countries and brought about the formation of an understanding of environmental protection on a national and international scale. Similarly, the Conference has been a starting point in terms of institutionalizing environmental management, creating legislation, and developing environmental policy practice in Turkey. When the institutional structure is examined, a process comes to the fore in which the central government is the main actor in terms of institutional, legal, and representation. Parallel to this, when the environmental protection perspective of the environmental management organization in question is considered, an understanding that prioritizes economic development draws attention. The main argument of this paper is that environmental management has a institutionally centralized, practically developmentalist nature that displays a continuity. In order to illuminate the centralist and developmentalist continuity, this process which started in 1973, is handled over a period of 50 years and changes in the institutional structure of environmental management are discussed. Afterwards, the legal sources that support environmental policies and the institutional structures are discussed, and their positioning on the axis of protection-development is debated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ruşen Keleş takes active roles in many different institutions at a local, national, regional and international scale, making important contributions to the field of urbanization not only academically but also practically. In addition, Keleş has made significant contributions to the fight against real problems in the field of urban policy, urban planning, local governments and environmental policies, both at national and international level. The most important of these is the contributions and experiences of our Professor Ruşen Keleş as an independent expert in the Council of Europe for many years. This article aims to discuss the important steps taken by the Council of Europe to strengthen local democracy and local autonomy, with an interview where Ruşen Keleş shares his experiences. In addition, before moving on to Keleş's experiences at the Council of Europe, some of his other non-university experiences will be briefly included in the light of the interview. This interview based on the experiences of Ruşen Keleş also provides a picture of the institutions that left their mark on the practices of urbanization and environmental problems of the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

TThe global economy is highly dependent on oil due to its densely use as a primary energy source. For this reason, changes in oil prices can affect countries through many economic and environmental channels. Based on this motivation, in this study, the relations between oil prices, oil consumption and environmental degradation are investigated with Hatemi-J (2012) asymmetric causality analysis, which takes into account positive and negative shocks, in Turkey in the 1987-2020 periods. Empirical findings show that there are causal relationships between oil prices, oil consumption and environmental degradation in Turkey differs according to positive and negative shocks. According to this; negative shocks in oil consumption and positive shocks in oil prices cause positive shocks in environmental degradation, negative shocks in environmental degradation cause positive shocks in oil consumption and negative shocks in oil prices cause negative shocks in environmental degradation. Although there is no causal relationship between oil prices and oil consumption, environmental degradation is associated with both oil prices and oil consumption. These findings reveal that oil should be considered as an important component in environmental improvement policies in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate change which has showing its effects more severely both on a global and national scale requires global and national measures to be taken. In that means, European Green Deal (EGD) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are thought that they are like qualified climate change mitigation appeal which attract attention. For his reason, it is very important for future policies to examine these two climate change mitigation calls in detail and to internalize what can be done in this framework. About this, advisories, implementations, and precautions which are assimilated by individuals and sectors are going to be the most important steps in terms of the target of climate change mitigation. Within this scope, energy, economy, land use, soil management and agricultural implementations regarding what can be done in the direction of EGD and SDGs are mentioned in this review, and Turkey's current situation and applicable strategy and methods with just transition are examined in detail. Research which is investigated in the study show that SDGs and EGD in terms of Turkey can achieve common goals with supporting R&D studies, developing applicable economic and environmental policies, and changing sectoral production habits and individual consumption habits. In this sense, it may be possible for adaptation strategies towards climate change impact and risk to succeed with implementation plan which will be specified by Turkey within climate change mitigation appeal which attract attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The acceleration of the use of raw materials (resources), the increase in energy use, and the change in consumption levels and individual habits as a result of globalization, which emerged with the transition to mass production, are the basis of environmental degradation. The fact that the negative effects on the environmental structure are in direct / indirect relationship with certain costs-expenditures in the country economies causes the economies of the country to enter an unsustainable growth trend process with industrialization. Although both local and global effects on the environmental pollution factors related to the countries come to the fore; within the scope of global effects, it is important to reveal the effects of neighborly relations first. For this reason, it is necessary to use models that reveal the effect of spatial relations in order to evaluate environmental sustainability by taking into consideration the neighborhood relations. Within the scope of the article, it is aimed to emphasize the necessity of dynamic spatial panel data method in environmental sustainability evaluations by emphasizing the importance of both dynamic effects and spatial effects in the modeling phase in the conceptual framework of environmental sustainability. It is shown that consistent and non-deviating results can be obtained by using the dynamic spatial panel data approach, as environmental sustainability policies are affected by neighborhood relationships and the periodic (shortlong) impact level changes in the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this research is to measure the effect of people's environmentalist consciousness level on environmentalist behavior within the framework of green marketing activities. It is also aimed to determine whether environmentalist consciousness and environmentalist behaviors differ according to demographic characteristics. The population of the study is the province of Duzce. In accordance with the research purpose, data was collected by using survey from 275 people. There are five factors related to environmentalist consciousness. These are consciousness of sensitivity to environmental protection, consciousness of sensitivity against negative consumption habits, consciousness of sacrifice to protect the environment, consciousness against environmental policies in the world and consciousness of needlessness of environmentalist efforts. There are three factors related to environmentalist behavior. These are sacrifices made to protect the environment, preference of products suitable for recycling and avoidance from waste. When the answers of the participants were evaluated, it is shown that the environmentalist consciousness affects the environmentalist behavior. It is also appeared that environmentalist consciousness and environmentalist behavior differ depending on the demographic characteristics of the participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The stakeholders' views and opinions are important in the process of developing the environmental policy in the businesses. Depending on the developments that have taken place, environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) have become one of the important stakeholders of the businesses and have begun to have a say in environmental practices and environmental policies of them. Examining the relationship and interaction between these organizations and the accommodation establishments are important for new start-ups in terms of developing environmental policies. In this study, the effects of environmental nongovernmental organizations on environmental policies of chain hotels were investigated. The data were gathered by implementing a face-to-face questionnaire to the middle and senior managers of 156 chain hotels operating in Turkey. Ordinal logistic regression was used for the analysis of the data and 4 models were designed for this purpose. Findings of the research indicate that the relationship and interaction of chain hotels with ENGOs play an important role on environmental policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]