Sevil Acar

Bogazici University · Department of Tourism Administration

This study uses reconstructions of historical Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts (EPEA) in Sweden from 1970–2020 to present a time series approach that analyses the demand for environmental servic�es. The paper’s aim is to analyse environmental adaptation as a historical, economic and environmental process and to explore structural sh...

Recent global and regional assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) show that Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) are under an alarming threat due to the continuing loss of biodiversity. These assessments call for increasing conservation efforts and a more sustainable use of biod...

Bu makalenin yeşil dönüşüm sürecinde AB ve Türkiye arasında işbirliğinin hangi potansiyel kanallar üzerinden geliştirilebileceğini ortaya koymaktır. Avrupa Yeşil Mutabakatı (AYM) var olan düzenlemeleri birbiriyle uyumlu bir biçimde toplulaştırmıştır. Dahası, AYM Sınırda Karbon Düzenlemesi gibi yeni mekanizmalar tasarlamış ve Döngüsel Ekonomi Eylem...

In December 2019, the EU announced the European Green Deal (EGD) to create a climate-neutral continent by 2050. Accordingly, the EU Emission Trading System (ETS) will be revised to maintain economic growth against possible losses in competitiveness, leading to “carbon leakage.” Carbon border adjustment (CBA) is one of the mechanisms proposed to tac...

The report, commissioned by the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, aims to determine possible platforms on which Turkey and the EU can cooperate over green transition.

It contains the summary of the I-O and Applied General Equilibrium analysis on the effect of the EU's Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanism over the Turkish economy.

TÜSİAD Ekonomi Göstergeleri Merceğinden Yeni İklim Rejimi Raporu, Paris Anlaşması ve Avrupa Yeşil Mutabakatı ile şekillenen yeni iklim rejiminin ülkemiz ekonomisi ve ticaretine olası doğrudan ve dolaylı etkilerini ele alıyor. Rapor, iklim değişikliğiyle mücadeleye yönelik politika araçlarını irdeliyor.

This chapter explores plausible environmental effects on American well-being from a historical perceptive, using quantitative data and a methodological approach that draws from green economics. This adds an environmental dimension of welfare to Robert Gordon’s interpretation of the development of well-being. First, it may be hypothesized that the l...

Climate change is impacting marine ecosystems and their goods and services in diverse ways, which can directly hinder our ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), set out under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Through expert elicitation and a literature review, we find that most climate change effects have a wide var...

In the vast tropical Pacific Basin islands, corals reef ecosystems are one of the defining marine habitats, critical for maintaining biodiversity and supporting highly productive fisheries. These reefs are also vital for tourism and armoring exposed shorelines against erosion and other storm-related effects. Since the 1980’s, there has been growing...

Coral reef preservation is a challenge for the whole of humanity, not just for the estimated three billion people that directly depend upon coral reefs for their livelihoods and food security. Ocean acidification combined with rising sea surface temperatures, and an array of other anthropogenic influences such as pollution, sedimentation, over fish...

This Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere1 in a Changing Climate (SROCC) was prepared following an IPCC Panel decision in 2016 to prepare three Special Reports during the Sixth Assessment Cycle2 . By assessing new scientific literature3 , the SROCC4 responds to government and observer organization proposals. The SROCC follows the other two Sp...

Turkey is known to suffer from severe volatility in its growth patterns, as well as from the uneven sectoral growth and employment. Volatile rates of emissions across sectors are further manifestations of this uneven structure. The purpose of this study is two-fold: first, we check for dynamic patterns of convergence of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissio...

Attempts at common agreements to phase out fossil fuel subsidies (FFS) have been increasing, as the topic generated momentum through the Rio Dialogues prior to the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) and following the Paris Agreement in 2016. This study quantifies the magnitude and the relative importance of FFS in th...

There is a rich empirical literature testing whether per capita carbon dioxide emissions tend to converge over time and across countries. This article provides a meta-analysis of the results from this research, and discusses how carbon emissions convergence may be understood in, for instance, the presence of international knowledge spillovers and p...

The aim of the paper is to investigate how the location of non-carbon ecological footprint (home or abroad) changes along with environmental regulation. Ecological footprint measures the amount of biocapacity required to sustain the consumption patterns of human beings. Employing panel data analysis, the relationship between income and footprints t...

This study analyzes convergence in CO2 emissions in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries with respect to the source of emissions (oil vs. coal). The investigated period 1973–2010 is divided into two subperiods, 1973–1991 and 1992–2010. The first period covers the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countrie...

This chapter outlines the theoretical background of how natural resources can be influential in enhancing economic prosperity with a focus on early theories of staples and export-base models as well as the more recent resource curse hypothesis. Factors leading to the resource curse that have been frequently cited in the literature are discussed. Di...

This chapter is committed to unfolding the relationship between resource dependence and human development. The historical and current situation of countries and inequalities among regions are unveiled through an overview of the patterns of human development. A recent dataset combining the original Human Development Index components with a new formu...

This study investigates the income–environment relationship in Turkey by examining the components of the ecological footprint indicator within the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework. Using co-integration techniques for the 1961–2008 period, we find an inverted U-shaped, hence EKC-type, relationship only between production footprint and inc...

This chapter is devoted to the analysis of sustainability measured by genuine savings in the post-1970 period. First, a theoretical model is presented where the definition and content of the welfare indicator (genuine saving) is extended by the inclusion of institutional capital as a productive asset among other assets. Second, this background mode...

This book examines the paradox that resource-rich countries often struggle to manage their resources in a way that will help their economies thrive. It looks at how a country's political regime and quality of governance can determine the degree to which it benefits - or suffers - from having natural resources, shifting away from the traditional foc...

This chapter analyzes the development path of Norway before and after oil compared to that of Sweden. First, the components of wealth and welfare are displayed in each country. Second, a difference-in-differences approach is implemented to answer how Norway would develop without oil (in comparison to Sweden). Sweden and Norway had been following al...

Exploitation of valuable natural resources like oil, gas, diamonds, and minerals has proven more of a curse than a blessing for many countries—giving rise to economic and political problems such as the Dutch Disease, deterioration of terms of trade, lower GDP per capita or economic growth rates, corruption, reduced government accountability, increa...

This paper examines convergence of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions caused by oil combustion for a panel of 86 countries considering the importance of analyzing sub-periods separately. The investigation also points at the necessity of choosing a restricted global sample, which takes into account, for instance, that Eastern Bloc countries reacted diff...

Over the last two decades, Turkey has enjoyed high rates of economic growth. This study uses “the adjusted net saving” approach to explore to what extent Turkey achieved this growth at the expense of rapid natural resource use and increased environmental pollution in violation of basic sustainability criteria. We examine the components of adjusted...

In this study we aim at providing an analytical framework for Turkey to study the macroeconomics and environmental impacts of the existing coal subsidization scheme. To this end we develop a regionally differentiated applied general equilibrium model spanning over 2015–2030. Our analytical apparatus focuses exclusively on the fiscal implications as...

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether countries tend to relocate their ecological footprint as they grow richer. The analysis is carried out for a panel of 116 countries by employing the production and import components of the ecological footprint data of the Global Footprint Network for the period 2004–2008. With few exceptions, the exis...

One of the most dramatic dimensions of the current economic problems is the level of unequal income distribution across the globe. According to a recent UNCTAD Trade and Development Report (2012), rising income inequality has become “a feature of the past three decades”. The problem of inequality surfaces not only in underdeveloped countries, but a...

This study aims at unveiling regional development differences in Norway with respect to various natural resource-based activities that take place in the NUTS 3 regions. Norway’s natural riches range from agricultural and forest resources to fisheries, mines, petroleum and gas. Considering the possible spatial links for various regional characterist...

The objective of this paper is to review previous research on convergence of carbon dioxide emissions among countries. We discuss the key findings in this work, how the choices of model, data, statistical tests, etc. influence the results, and highlight some policy implications. The empirical research on convergence in per capita carbon dioxide emi...

The dynamics of environmental problems is among other things affected by knowledge and economic growth and the perception of welfare. In this article, we present a method for aggregating historically relevant environmental pressure indicators, thereby acknowledging that the complexity of environmental problems calls for multi-indicator approaches....

In this article we estimate the long-run development of genuine savings in Sweden during the period 1850 to 2000. By doing so we are able to present a first analysis of long-run sustainable development during a single country's transition to modern economic growth rates and high income levels. We find that genuine savings may have been negative up...

The paper deals with income inequality in the selected MENA countries focusing on the dynamics of domestic wage differentiations. The main aim is to identify the sources of inequalities. GDP per capita, share of manufacturing sector, urban share of population, gender participation in the labor force, education and openness may be possible factors....

This study attempts to identify the evolution of labor markets paying specific attention to female labor in the developing world and to its relationship with recent trends of globalized production, investment and trade. This is an inductive study which uses summarized statistics, tables and figures to provide an understanding of the developing worl...

Free zones (FZs) have been used to promote export-orientation of Turkey after 1980. These zones initially focused on labour and resource-intensive manufacturing goods. In time, sectoral diversification took place accompanying the deepening industrialization in the country. This paper examines the sectoral restructuring of Turkish FZs. The analysis...

Until 2006, trade policy of the European Union (EU) had mainly been focused on multilateralism embraced by the Doha Development Agenda (DDA). Meanwhile, the EU maintained an effective suspension on the opening of bilateral or regional negotiations where their increasing number was considered a 'spaghetti bowl' that creates problems for the internat...

This study intends to analyze the evolution of the world trading system in light of the developments from multilateralism to bilateralism and regionalism. The point of departure is that the expectation of shaping a multilateral trade system based on the WTO rules has become blurred as the Doha Round could not be concluded and has been in a deadlock...

This study intends to analyze the evolution of the world trading system in light of the developments from multilateralism to bilateralism and regionalism. The point of departure is that the expectation of shaping a multilateral trade system based on the WTO rules has become blurred as the Doha Round could not be concluded and has been in a deadlock...