Environmental governance in the European Union: A comparative approach with special reference to Turkey

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Marmara Üniversitesi, Avrupa Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, Avrupa Birliği Siyaseti ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Anabilim Dalı (İngilizce), Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2006

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: HÜMA BALCI

Danışman: Armağan Emre Çakır

Özet:

The aim of this thesis is to assess whether the EuropeanUnion is an efficient regional example to the globalenvironmental governance in which the USA is a powerfulactor. It is not only an attempt to analyze the Europeanenvironmental governance and policies but also an attempt tocombine the socio cultural, technological, economical, and legalapproaches towards environmental protection all around theworld. In this thesis, the multidisciplinary analysis, especially onraising environmental awareness at the grass root level,improvement of the environmental legislation, environmentaleconomics, and the environmental responsibilities are alsodiscussed on a wider scale. In this point, EU initiates uniquepolicies to control the market related failures. Consequently, theimportance of the USA as powerful environmental actor is takeninto consideration in terms of Transatlantic environmentalrelations and finally, Turkey is examined as a case study bygiving importance to the environmental participation, education,and institutionalization with regard to EU Turkey accessionpartnership.