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Book Part Sustainable Blue Economy Policy in Turkey: Challenges and Opportunities(Springer Nature, 2024) Karlı, AygünThe interest in the marine environment which plays an especially significant role in solving climate change and plastic pollution problems has shown itself with the formation of various concepts. Significant developments have been started in recent years in life below water, the 14th goal of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. In this context, the sustainable blue economy concept put forward by the European Union for the oceans and seas is the last of these developments. In this section, the concept of sustainable blue economy has been evaluated together with its economic, political, and environmental aspects, and sectoral processes such as shipping, fishing, tourism, etc. have been exam ined in Turkey. The fact that Turkey has a coast to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea has brought it to a critical position in marine environmental policies. For this reason, both its position as a candidate country for the European Union and its role in African and Asian countries have necessitated studies on the maritime policies of Turkey. As a result, it is also essential for those who will work on this subject in the future to evaluate the processes of sustainable blue economy policies in Turkey with topics such as tourism, employment, shipping, fisheries, and pollution and to show the data on these issues in a systematic way.Article Citation - WoS: 14Citation - Scopus: 18Psychometric Properties of the Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale (heas-13) and the Prediction of Pro-Environmental Behavior(Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, 2023) Turkarslan, Kutlu Kagan; Kozak, Ekin Doga; Yildirim, Juelide CerenObjectives: Eco-anxiety, a novel conceptualization of anxiety in relation to ecological problems, has become a significant subject of interest in psychology. The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale (HEAS-13) is a recently developed, valid, and reliable measure of eco-anxiety. The present study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the HEAS-13 in Turkish-speaking samples. Methods: 605 individuals, recruited via social media and the internet, participated in the study. The sample was randomly split in half (first sample, 69.00% and second sample, 70.90% females), and exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted on separate samples. The concurrent and incremental validities were evaluated in the total sample. The three-week test-retest reliability of the HEAS-13 was assessed in a third separate sample (83.13% females). Results: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses found and validated a four-factor structure with 13 items. The associations of HEAS-13 with concurrent measures indicated that the scale had good concurrent validity. The anxiety and behavioral symptoms subscales of the HEAS-13 explained the additional variance (6.60%) in proenvironmental behavior beyond activist identity and commitment. Finally, the HEAS-13 and its subscales had good internal consistency coefficients, ranging from 0.82 to 0.93. and mediocre three-week intra-class correlations, ranging from 0.47 to 0.56. Conclusion: The Turkish HEAS-13 was a valid and reliable measure of eco-anxiety that can be used to assess anxiety about ecological problems. Moreover, optimizing levels of anxiety symptoms, alleviating behavioral symptoms, and enhancing individuals' activist identity and commitment may be targets for interventions aiming to increase pro-environmental behaviors.