Environmental services and e-municipal relations in Turkey: Elazig municipality example

The environmental problem stems from human behavior. Such problems do not only complicate and threaten human life. The environmental problem, which is the result of human behavior, threatens the life of all living things. In this sense, it is a fact that environmental services are of vital importance. Environmental policies and legislation cannot be regulated with a centralized understanding. Municipalities such as countries, international organizations and other local government institutions should be in the foreground. Environmental problems go beyond the local communities, cities, countries and even continents and therefore it is not possible to put these entities in the background. It provides guidance to municipalities in many aspects such as e-municipality applications, service delivery, new management approach and new employment opportunities. With this application, it is provided to manage the information and data related to the city with information and communication technologies based applications, to produce various information that will benefit the society from the data obtained and to provide this information to the service of the citizens effectively. In the context of e-municipality and environmental services, Elâzığ Municipality tried to adapt to today's conditions and Elâzığ Municipality implemented the E-municipality Application project and put it into service. In the first part of this three-part work consisting of environmental services of municipalities with environmental issues in Turkey, it has been studied environmental-municipal relationship. In addition, in the first part, general explanations such as e-government concept, features and stages have been tried to be made. In the second part of this study, the concept of e-municipality is discussed. In this sense, the definition, purpose, benefits, stages, technical infrastructure and e-municipality application examples in our country were evaluated. In the third and the last part of the study, Elazig Municipality E-municipality Application is tried to be examined. The systems in the application in this section are tried to be examined in detail with the figures.