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In this study, it is aimed to investigate the effect of renewable energy consumption on economic growth in BRICS countries and Turkey. In this context, panel data analysis in the form of coefficient estimates and causality analysis was applied using annual data for the period 1990-2018. Within the scope of the determinants of economic growth, besides the renewable energy consumption variable which forms the basis of the study, the variables of capital accumulation, population, trade openness, foreign direct investments and non-renewable energy consumption are also used. According to the coefficient estimation results made with the fixed effects model, it has been determined that the increase in renewable energy consumption has negative and significant effects on economic growth. On the other hand, it has been determined that the increase in non-renewable energy consumption has a positive effect. In addition, it is among the findings that the increase in capital accumulation has a positive effect on economic growth and the increase in trade openness has a negative effect. Finally, Dumitrescu-Hurlin (2012) panel causality test results revealed that there is a unidirectional causality relationship from renewable energy consumption to economic growth. Accordingly, it was seen that the growth hypothesis was valid among the variables.

This study attempts to examine the impact of human rights and economic growth by utilizing two measures of economic growth for developing countries and an unbalanced data spanning from 1961-2017. The hypothesis of the study asserts that improvement in human right protection score increases economic growth in an economy. Firstly I conducted panel unit root test to see if the variables are stationary. After verifying the stationarity of variables at levels (i.e., I(0)) based on panel unit root tests, empirical estimations were conducted without the fear of potential spurious regression problem. According to the estimation results, in parallel to prior expectations, positive statistically significant effect on economic growth was identified for the variables of human right protection, physical capital investment, education investment, openness whereas negative statistically significant effect on economic growth was identified for the variable of inflation in all models estimated. Estimation results indicate that countries trying to reach to higher economic growth, besides the other determinants of economic growth, must pay attention to human right protection and implement policies that prioritizing human right protection.

Sustainability means meeting our own needs and wishes without compromising the needs of future generations, and having a conscious consumption habit. In addition to non-governmental organizations, local governments, governments, every individual living in the society has important duties for sustainable consumption. One of the factors affecting the sustainable consumption behaviors of individuals is personality traits. In this study, the effect of personality types of local people living in touristic destinations on sustainable consumption behavior was examined. In the study whose population consisted of the local people living in Bodrum, the five-factor personality types scale (extroverted, accommodating, self-controlled, neuroticism and openness to experience) developed by Costa and McCrae (1987) as a data collection tool was used by Doğan, Bulut, and Çımrın (2015). Sustainable consumption behavior scale developed by . The scale of sustainable consumption behavior consists of 4 factors: environmental awareness, non-necessary purchasing, savings, and reusability. Path Analysis was used to determine the effect of personality types on sustainable consumption behaviors. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that some personality types have a positive or negative significant effect on sustainable consumption behavior. In the light of the findings obtained, it is recommended to examine sustainable consumption behaviors according to the demographic characteristics of the participants, permanent or temporary residence and sustainable consumption motivations in future studies.

Digital applications such as e-municipality and e-government are accepted as important tools that shape the service understanding of today's society. These tools provide important gains both to the public administration, which is the essential element of public service provision, and to the citizens who are the addressees of the service. Municipalities find the opportunity to respond to the expectations and demands of the people more quickly and appropriately, as well as their close relations with the public, with e-municipality applications. The developments in the field of communication and communication have helped this opportunity to arise. The contents of public services offered by municipalities online through their web addresses are getting richer day by day in this direction. Undoubtedly, the expectations of the citizens in this direction play an important role in this enrichment. With this study, it has been determined to what extent the e-municipality understanding can be realized through web sites, with the e-municipality practices at the provincial level, democratization in local governments, quality and efficiency in service delivery, fight against bureaucracy, economical use of resources, openness and transparency. It is aimed to reveal with a content analysis to be carried out over the web addresses of 81 provincial municipalities.
In this framework, first of all, the necessity of digital applications such as e-municipality and e-government and the emergence of them are conceptually discussed, then examples of e-municipality applications in Turkey are mentioned and the problems encountered in the implementation process are emphasized. In the application part, the cross-sectional, general survey model, which was carried out in quantitative methodology, is included. While the universe of the study was determined as the official web pages of all provincial municipalities in Turkey, the research was carried out on all 81 provinces without sampling. In the study, the data were collected with the help of the form prepared by the authors based on the literature review and analyzed in the SPSS program. The findings were compiled under the headings of general information on the web pages of municipalities, information on e-municipality, and information on the functionality of municipalities' e-municipality applications. As a result, it has been concluded that provincial municipalities have a tendency to show due diligence in e-municipality. It has been observed in the site analysis that this result is more concentrated in large and developed provinces and less reflected in the application in small and developing provinces.