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Article Citation - WoS: 4Unraveling the Major Determinants Behind Price Changes in Four Selected Representative Agricultural Products(Mdpi, 2024) Aktepe, Nisa Sansel Tandogan; Kayral, Ihsan ErdemThis study aims to analyze the drivers behind price changes in agricultural products in T & uuml;rkiye from 2002 to 2021, considering the impacts of three crises of different causes which are the global food crisis, the Russia-T & uuml;rkiye aircraft crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The potential factors are categorized into four subgroups: governmental effects, agricultural inputs, macroeconomic indicators, and climatic conditions. The selected agricultural goods for price change measurement include wheat and maize representing subsistence goods, and olive oil and cotton as marketing goods. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is applied to observe both the short- and long-term impacts of the variables on price developments. The results suggest that government effectiveness, regulatory quality, nitrogen use, water price, money supply, exchange rate, and GDP under the related categories are the most effective factors in price changes. Among the variables under the category of climatic conditions, significant values are obtained only in the analysis of the temperature impact on olive oil. The analysis also reveals the variable impact of crises on the prices of the chosen products, depending on the goods involved. The maize and wheat analyses yield particularly noteworthy results. In the long run, nitrogen use demonstrates a substantial positive impact, registering at 29% for wheat and 19.47% for maize, respectively. Conversely, GDP exhibits a significant negative impact, with 26.15% and 20.08%. Short-term observations reveal that a unit increase in the governmental effect leads to a reduction in inflation for these products by 17.01% and 21.42%. However, changes in regulatory quality result in an increase in inflation by 25.45% and 20.77% for these products, respectively.Article Citation - WoS: 52Citation - Scopus: 63What Is That Thing Called Climate Change? an Investigation Into the Understanding of Climate Change by Seventh-Grade Students(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) Ozdem, Yasemin; Dal, Burckin; Ozturk, Nilay; Sonmez, Duygu; Alper, UmutThis paper presents findings from research on students' general environmental concerns, experiences, beliefs, attitudes, worldviews, values, and actions relating to climate change. Data was gathered from a sample of 646 seventh-grade students. The findings indicate that students identify climate change as a consequence of modern life. They consider the issue personally important but they also state that there is nothing they can do about the issue. Since they identify their primary sources of information as media and education, climate change should be addressed in national curricula as well as on media to provide an accurate understanding and awareness.Article Citation - WoS: 23Citation - Scopus: 30A Model for Pre-Service Teachers' Climate Change Awareness and Willingness To Act for Pro-Climate Change Friendly Behavior: Adaptation of Awareness To Climate Change Questionnaire(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015) Dal, Burckin; Alper, Umut; Ozdem-Yilmaz, Yasemin; Ozturk, Nilay; Sonmez, DuyguPublic awareness of the negative effects of climate change is vital since it leads to collective action for prevention and adaptation. However, investigations on to what extent people are aware of the climate change issue are rare in the literature. The present study reported the adaptation process of awareness to climate change questionnaire into Turkish, and tested the conceptual model of willingness to act for pro-climate change friendly behavior in Turkish context. For these purposes, the questionnaire was administered to 603 pre-service teachers. The study also provided an insight through the analysis of the questionnaire for pre-service teachers' ideas about climate change and the terms related to climate change with an aim to provide information that can be useful for the international and national audiences. Therefore, the findings of the project shed light on to pre-service teachers' awareness regarding impacts of climate change, individual and industry initiative friendly behavior through a conceptual model.
