Türkiye’de Çevre Yönetimi ve Çevre ve Şehircilik Bakanlığının Uygulamaları

Environmental problems and search for solutions has come to the agenda as one of the most important issues of today'sworld. Turkey has also shown much effort in politics about solutions of increasingly growing environmental issues. Interms of community, thiseffort is beingconducted at thelevel of publicministry. The organization concerned with environmental management is not very old and frequently changedits format. Today, the responsibility of environmental managementand urban areas management belongs to the same ministry. In this paper, historica ldevelopment of environmental managemen tand legislation, institutions responsible for environmental management and other relevant institutions are examined. Inaddition, the role of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization in environmental management is examined. It was concluded that a successfull environmental management can not be achieved in Turkey with the fragmented structure of environmental management.