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This course provides students with principles of environmental ecology and make students aware of ecological perspective of the current and future environmental problems. In this course, freshwater ecology, marine ecology, terrestrial ecology, eutrophication, natural resources and their management, functional parts of ecosystem, energy flows, nutrient cycles and significance of pollution in the ecosystem topics will be discussed. 

The aim of this course is to discuss personal, industrial and countrywide water consumption behavior and factors affecting it as well as strategies to achieve goals set for sustainable water consumption by United Nations. Some of the themes that will be covered in this course are water footprint, blue, green and grey water footprints, water footprint evaluation steps, personal water footprints, agricultural and industrial footprints, Country’s footprints, availability and dependency on water, status of country’s water footprints. Students will be able to calculate their own footprints. They will evaluate the water footprint values for various countries and discuss the differences. Students will observe the uneven distribution of the world’s water resources and also the differences in worldwide consumption habits. In this course the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals particularly the ones involving water footprint themes will be investigated.

Environmental geology and natural hazards is
designed to provide students with a basic understanding on surveying of
environmental processes with respect to the interactions between humans and the
Earth. During the course students will learn how to identify environmental
hazards, understand the challenges of predicting and preventing natural disasters,
and prevent pollution. Various catastrophic events such as earthquakes,
tsunamis, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions will be clarified and
discussed on real case studies. In addition, the relationship of natural
resources to pollution distribution, resource usage and impacts, waste management,
hydrologic cycle,  water quality,
desalination, resource availability, toxic and radioactive waste disposal
problems and proposed solutions, landfill, global climate change, sea level
rise, greenhouse gases, extreme weather and so on will be mentioned.

By
the end of this module students should:

science

This course provides an advanced, systems-based understanding of solid waste management with a strong focus on quantitative waste analysis, system design, performance evaluation, and decision-making tools. Students examine solid waste streams from generation to final disposal, integrating engineering, environmental, economic, and regulatory perspectives. Emphasis is placed on waste characterization, data analysis, modeling, and optimization of modern solid waste management systems, including circular economy and sustainability approaches.