Search

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]

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]

Relations between the European Union (EU) and Turkey and the impact of the EU on social, economic and political spheres in Turkey have been discussed for a long time both in the EU and Turkey. On the eve of a new turn in this relationship, however, a long-forgotten dimension of European integration seems to challenge the debates concerning the environment and development in Turkey. Parallel to the developments taken place at the international level, both Turkey and the states constituting the European Economic Community, and the European Economic Community itself started to establish some administrative units and to develop policy responses for ever-growing environmental problems in the 1970s. Hence the evolution of the EU environmental policy was closely associated with the requirements of economic rationality of the integration which at the same time promised regional development, stability and peace in the region. The aim of this rather brief study is two-fold. To begin with it underlines that environment and development is inexorably linked. The overriding focus, here, however is not about the corrective and preventive ramifications but is also about alternative views on development. Secondly this study asserts that environmental considerations have an important role in shaping the future of the European integration project. Through an incremental process now it is possible to talk about "European environmental governance" which engenders domestic changes in Member States in economic, social, legal and political terms. Integration of environmental considerations into the legal structure of the European Union has also paved the way for new discussions on the possible effects of membership of candidate countries' economic and social structures. It is possible to assume the current status as a departure point to discuss whether and how patchwork environmentalism in Turkey can turn into a more integrated and comprehensive approach or to assume the current... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]