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Course Name	Turkish	Urban and Environmental Politics / Kent ve Çevre Siyaseti
	English	Urban and Environmental Politcs
Course Code	SYC 508E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Aslı Erbil
Course Objectives		I. To provide advanced level understanding for urban and environmental politics as sub-disciplines of political studies. II. Exploring a range of critical issues in contemporary urban and environmental politics III. Developing the ability to think theoretically and conceptually. IV. Developing the ability to communicate and discuss issues effectively. V. Developing the ability to read and understand texts, make research and write
Course Description		The course includes the discussions on urban and environmental politics based on the concepts of place which the humans are in relation and have been restructuring. Urban and environmental politics is concerned with the issues such as production of the physical environment-consumption of natural environment; the role of the state and the local government; environmental and urban social movements; globalization; institutional organization; poverty, social exclusion which are examined within the general framework of power, government/governance and citizens.
Course Outcomes		Students who succeed in this course will improve their ability to; I. Have advanced level understanding for urban and environmental politics sub-disciplines II. Have specific knowledge on a range of critical issues in contemporary urban and environmental politics. III. Think theoretically and conceptually, IV. Communicate and discuss issues effectively, V. Read and understand texts, make research and write.
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Textbook		Environmental Policy and Politics (5th ed.), Michael E. Kraft, Longman, London, 2010 Theories of Urban Politics (2 nd ed.), Jonathan S Davies and David Imbroscio (eds), Sage Publications, New York, 2008.
Other References		-Cities and Sovereignty: Identity Politics in Urban Spaces by Diane E. Davis and Nora Libertun de Duren, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2011 -Cities in a World Economy (3rd ed.), Saskia Sassen, Pine Forge Press, 2006 -Democracy and Public-Private Partnerships in Global Governance, Magdalena Bexell, Ulrika Mörth (Eds), Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010 -Environmental Politics and Deliberative Democracy: Examining the Promise of New Modes of Governance , Karin Backstrand, Jamil Khan, Annica Kronsell, Eva Lövbrand (Eds), Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, 2010. -Environmental Politics: Domestic and Global Dimensions (6th ed.), Jacqueline Vaughn, Wadsworth Publishing; NY, 2011 -Environmental Politics: Scale and Power, Shannon O'Lear, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010. -International Handbook of Urban Policy. Vol.1: Contentious Global Issues, H.S. Geyer (ed). Edward Elgar Press, Cheltenham, UK, 2007. -The New Urban Sociology, Mark Gottdiener and Ray Hutchison, Westview Press, Boulder, 2006 -The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses (2nd ed.), John S. Dryzek, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005. -The Urban Politics Reader, Elizabeth Strom and John H. Mollenkopf (eds), Taylor & Francis, Inc., New York, 2006.

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