Author(s): Mustafa Caner TİMUR, Zehra DOĞAN-ÇALIŞKAN

Abstract: Since the existence of human beings, people have begun to change their surroundings and the shape of environment according to their life habits. This altering effort, which is embarked to provide better life conditions, has resulted in devastation of environment and other creatures. In the beginning the subject was only the environmental pollution of the cities, especially after the industrial revolution the demand for raw materials and the energy hunger, as a result of processing massive amounts of underground and surface resources that result of massive and global environmental pollution that has moved to such a crucial point that it has not reached that day. Nowadays, the significant part of the environmental pollution is still emerging during the efforts of the society to obtain energy, despite developing technology, efficient tools and increasing environmental awareness. In this study, the reduction of environmental pollution during the efforts of our society to obtain energy should be placed in the conclusions in terms of importance and role for preferred energy resources.

Keywords: Environmental Economics, Energy, Valuation of Environmental Effects.

DOI: 10.24001/ijels.2.4.9