Environment is manageable. This should be the main principle for those who aspire to have a clean environment and to use the scarce resources to meet the needs of present generation without sacrificing the needs of the generations of tomorrow The overall objective of this course is to enable the participants - either in social or in engineering sciences- whose range of future professional duties might include environmental quality protection and enhancement tasks to and manage the environment at private or at public sector (local, provincial, regional, national and global levels) and therefore equip them with necessary and sufficient knowledge, information, understanding, know-how and skills. The course will cover the state-of-art technique and methods of contemporary environmental planning and management such as environmental standards, ISO 14000 series of "International Environmental Management Standards", environmental auditing, economic tools of environmental management, marketable pollution quotas, green taxes, waste markets, national/local agenda 21s, environmental impact assessment, environmental institutions at home and abroad Turkish environmental law and so many others.
