A Multiple Variables Data Analysis on the Relationship between Turkey's Socio-Economic and Energy Indicators


Cakir M. T., SÖZEN A., Yucesu H. S.

ULUSLARARASI ILISKILER-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, cilt.5, sa.20, ss.27-56, 2009 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 5 Sayı: 20
  • Basım Tarihi: 2009
  • Dergi Adı: ULUSLARARASI ILISKILER-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.27-56
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Turkey, as a candidate country for the EU, has to make significant regional plans about energy supply, investment and consumption patterns. This study aims to offer meaningful clusters of data at regional and local levels to identify how a balanced development of the cities located in various geographic regions of Turkey might be possible with the application of an efficient energy development policy. The analysis aims to facilitate development and investment, plans by offering measurable and comparable energy production and consumption data of the cities and the regions. The main goal of this study, therefore, is to determine regional situation of energy indicators in Turkey by using the method of multiple variables data analysis. Basic regional energy, demographical and economical indicators such as gross generation, installed capacity, net energy consumption, provincial gross domestic income per person, are used in the analysis. The ultimate goal, based on the existing administrative structure of Turkey, and by using the selected social and economical indicators which reflect the development and also the indicators reflecting the energy structures of the 81 cities, is to reveal the energy structure of Turkey for public and private sectors.