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Today, world leaders are implementing their economic and political decisions based on the sustainable development goals. While countries continue their economic growth and development processes, they focus on ways and techniques that are less harming nature and the environment and using natural resources more efficiently. 2030 Sustainable Development Goals are an important and good guide for sustainable development. These goals put forward by United Miller in 2015 started to guide the world countries by offering 17 very detailed targets. 2030 Sustainable Development Goals specify what goals need to be achieved to achieve sustainability across a wide range of themes. Regarding seas and underwater life, the aim of Goal -14 shows the guiding elements of the conservation of the seas, the continuity of underwater life and the protection of diversity. In this context, the purpose of the study is to present a profile for Turkish seas and seafood through investigating the current status of Turkish seas and seafood according to sustainable development goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, environmental pollution and the accurate determination of the main factors affecting it are an important subject of investigation. The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between agricultural sector and environmental pollution in Turkey for the period of 1968-2016. There is no consensus on the empirical relationship between agricultural sector and environmental pollution in the literature. For this reason, the study both contributes to the literature and provides an important evidence for future studies. Agricultural value added and agricultural land are preferred as determinants of agriculture while carbon dioxide emission is used as a measure of environmental degradation. In addition, economic growth and renewable energy consumption are added to the models as other independent variables. In empirical analysis, the relationship between agriculture and environmental pollution is estimated by establishing two models. The methodology comprises of three stages. Firstly, the stationarity properties of the series are tested with conventional unit root tests such as DF-GLS and Ng-Perron. In addition, the stationarity levels of the series are investigated by Zivot-Andrews and Lee-Strazicich structural break unit root tests. Secondly, the cointegration between the series and long-run coefficients are estimated by the ARDL model. Lastly, the existence of causality between the series is determined by the Toda- Yamamoto test. The findings points out a cointegration between the underlying series. The findings also reveal that agricultural value added and agricultural land decrease carbon dioxide emission in the long run. The study supports that the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is valid for the Turkish economy. It is found that agriculture causes carbon dioxide emission. Moreover, it is detected that agricultural value added and agricultural land are the causation of renewable energy consumption. Consequently, policy makers should attach more importance to the agricultural sector for sustainable economic development in Turkey. Additionally, the agricultural lands should be protected and encouraged for value added manufacturing. Thus, environmental pollution will tend to decrease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Energy is an important production factor for the continuation of economic activities and sustainable development. With the innovations brought by industrialization and technology, the increasing use of energy in the last century brings with it the energy supply security problem. In this regard, the production and consumption of renewable energy is extremely important in the world. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between renewable energy production and economic growth for the 2000- 2016 period, 19 G20 member countries. In this context, firstly, horizontal cross-section dependency and homogeneity tests were applied for the countries in the panel data set. The stationarity of the series was examined by ADF and PP Fisher unit root tests. After obtaining stable series, the relationship between renewable energy production and economic growth was investigated by Kao and Johansen Fisher panel cointegration tests and the direction of the relationship was determined with FMOLS and DOLS test results. Empirical findings show that there is a positive relationship between edible energy production and economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mountainous regions have a global importance with their potentials like difficult topography, changing climate, biological, cultural and ethnical diversities, unique landscape values. However, despite to all the positive qualities, mountainous areas less developed in many parts of the world due to some limitations caused by above listed values. There are too many researches done on how the sustainable development, particularly in mountainous areas can be realized, and different development models for mountainous areas are proposed. Within the content of this article, the arguments on the subject of economic development of mountainous regions and the efficiency of tourism sector on this development with its positive and negative impacts are valued by measuring the sustainability indicators, and the findings of these studies were evaluated with the "multi criteria decision making method". The preferential development parameters were tried to be defined with the comparable results of the each province independently. Accordingly; "improving the accessibility of the region", "supporting of foreign investments and technical cooperation", "rates of current touristic entrepreneurs and managed by local actors" and "know-how network, structure and spreading level" parameters can be listed as having priority. For the economic development of mountainous regions, existence of local economic activities and the participatory planning processes for local people are the important steps for improving regional welfare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]