Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
3rd INTERNATIONAL EGE CONGRESS ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, İzmir, Türkiye, 20 - 22 Aralık 2024, cilt.2, ss.664-669, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
Environmental problems are increasingly dragging life on earth into an unfamiliar situation.
In the past, international conferences assigned homework to each country individually to
tackle environmental problems. However, in the process until today, the fight against
environmental problems is not limited to the emphasis on cooperation between countries, but
also on the necessity of actors within the country to act in cooperation. It is important that
local governments fulfill their duties against environmental problems in order to identify
environmental problems and intervene quickly. This is because local governments are an
important area and actor of both the governance approach and environmental governance
processes, which is a specific type of governance approach. The ability to carry out
environmental governance processes depends on local governments having the necessary and
sufficient set of tools and characteristics. The first one is that local governments have an
effective organizational structure to realize environmental governance, and the other one is
equipped personnel who know environmental governance processes and can perceive and
manage them correctly. In this study, the data obtained from two different studies on Trabzon
Metropolitan Municipality and Çanakkale Municipality will be analyzed. Both studies
emphasize the importance of struggle at local, national and global levels in environmental
governance processes and point to the existence of a structure that is ready for environmental
governance, albeit minimal. On the other hand, the inadequacy of the relevant institutional
structure and some deficiencies in the perception of environmental governance are also
emphasized. In order for environmental governance to be a tool for solving environmental
problems, first, a governance culture must be established in every field; second, citizens
should pressure local governments regarding environmental governance; third, local
government personnel and departments must be capable of sustaining environmental
governance processes; and finally, local governments must receive the necessary support from
central governments.