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Bu çalışmanın amacı, çevre sorunları ile ilgili politik desteğin temel belirleyicisi olarak siyasal güven başta olmak üzere diğer sosyopolitik ve demografik unsurların etki düzeylerini incelemektir. Özellikle bireylerin çevreci eğilim ve güven seviyesi ile politik destekleri arasındaki ilişki düzeyinin ülkeler arasında nasıl değişim gösterdiği ve geliştirilen politikaların nasıl farklılaştığı akademik ve politik alanda tartışılan konulardandır. Siyasal güven yanı sıra bireylerin sosyal güven düzeyi, demokrasiye atfedilen önem ve postmateryalist değerlere yatkınlık gibi politik ve kültürel unsurlar; cinsiyet, eğitim ve gelir düzeyi gibi demografik etmenler çevresel politik destek üzerinde belirleyici etkisi olmaktadır. Bu kapsamda 7. Dalga Dünya Değerler Araştırmaları (2017-2021) anketi sonuçları dikkate alınarak çevresel politik destek üzerinde etkili olan unsurlar Lojistik Regresyon Analizi ile tespit edilmektedir. Çalışma sonucunda siyasal güven ve sosyal güven başta olmak üzere sosyopolitik ve kültürel bileşenlerin demografik etmenlerden daha fazla çevre hususundaki politik destek üzerinde açıklayıcı bir etki düzeyine sahip olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bu minvalde siyasal ve sosyal güven düzeyi yüksek olan ülkelerde çevreci eğilimlerde daha yüksek çıkmaktadır.

Emission control and reduction initiatives required to achieve low carbon society necessitate collaboration and capacity building between the public and non-public authorities vertically and horizontally at the international, national and local level. In particular, measures taken at the local level are important on the issue of climate change. To this end, this paper examines local climate protection initiatives of the metropolitan municipalities in the framework of modes of governance including self-governance, provision, enabling and regulation in Turkey. Content analysis with distinct urban policy sectors including mitigation and adaptation for Annual Action Reports and Strategic Plans of the municipalities was applied to determine the level of achievement for local climate protection actions. The study concludes that the local climate change mitigation activities are frequently implemented by provision modes in the sector of urban infrastructure and transportation in the Turkish metropolitan municipalities.

Abstract. Most of the energy-environmental policy studies have argued nuclear energy since the second half of the 20th century as it includes a number of risk factors such as high cost of plant building, radiation, diseases, power plant accidents, nuclear waste, nuclear weapon proliferation and terrorism. The length and severity of the nuclear energy debates vary from country to country based on the several factors, in particular, the economic and social development level of the countries. Due to increasing global environmental concerns such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, natural research depletion, deforestation, ozone layer depletion and recent problems that countries experienced in terms of energy security, especially for such developing countries as Turkey, the governments have relaunched nuclear energy program again and follow their energy policy agenda in spite of occasional anti-nuclear protests in the society. In this regard, the main purpose of this study is to evaluate the public attitude in Turkey to nuclear energy in terms of environmental values like climate change and energy security and at the same time to examine reconciliation of environmental values and energy security with public attitude to nuclear energy. In the literature, many studies concerning environmental values, energy security, and attitudes towards nuclear energy have been conducted for only industrialized countries such as the USA, England, and Japan. However, developing countries with a high energy demand, technical and financial difficulties for low-carbon and renewable energy technology have been neglected, which is the source of inspiration and motivation for this study. The main finding of the study is that environmental values, especially, climate change plays a more important role in public attitude to nuclear energy in the community than energy security, which might be evaluated as an essential input for relevant stakeholders on energy policy in Turkey.Keywords. Nuclear energy, Public attitude, Climate change, Energy security.JEL. O13, Q42, Q54.