The effect of mining to sustainable development in Turkey

Defined as a development model, meeting the needs of today's generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs, "sustainable development" has entered in the global agenda towards the last quarter of 20th century and become a global implementation plan by the treaties signed at 1990s. Within framework of sustainable development requires ensuring compliance of a country's entire economic and social policies with the environment. The mining sector has strong and direct social, environmental and economic impact. The nature of mining processes creates a potential negative impact on environment and mining deplates finite resources therefore mining thought to be unsustainable but if derived income from mining is invested to alternative resources like as resarching new technology, social improvment, researching new mine side, mining would be provide positive contribution on sustainable development. A vector autoregression model (VAR) is estimated for Turkey mining sector. Using the impulse-response function, the long-run multiplier of mining income on GNP is calculated. The sustainability criterion developed in the thesis requires the the multiplier to exceed a minimum value. In this analysis, the model has been established by using the data for years 1989-2010 provided by Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK).Keywords: Sustainable Development, Mining Sector in Turkey, VAR