Cem İskender Aydın
Ecological Economics
Environmental Governance
Environmental Valuation and Evaluation
Energy and Climate Politics
Environmental Justice
Ph. D., Ecological Economics, Université de Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines – Université Paris Saclay, FR, 2017
M.A., Master in Environmental and Resource Economics, Toulouse School of Economics, FR, 2011
M.A., Economics, Boğaziçi University, TR, 2010
B. A., Economics, Boğaziçi University, TR, 2007
Assistant Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 2020 - Present
Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Fellow for Values of Nature Assessment October 2018 – ongoing
Mercator-IPC Fellow, Sabancı Universıty, Istanbul Policy Center, September 2018 – August 2019
1. A Transformative Innovation Ecosystem for Resilient Water Management through Scalable Nature-Based Solutions in the Mediterranean: NBS360, Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Region (PRIMA)
2. Sustainable water storage and distribution in the Mediterranean: OurMED, Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Region (PRIMA)
3. International Science Council. Transformations to Sustainability Programme, Academic-Activist Co-Produced Knowledge for Environmental Justice (Acknowl-EJ), 2016-2019
4. European Research Council FP7. Science in Society– Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities, and Trade (EJOLT), 2011-2015.
- Aydın, C. İ. (2026). Structural Contradictions in Turkish Climate Policy. Environmental Research Letters. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aeac71
- Aydın, C. İ., Gündüz, İ. R., Daloglu Cetinkaya, I., Anyfanti, I. v, Belloulid, M. O., Godoy, V. A., Hamidan, N., Roggero, P.-P., Rouhani, A., Soussi, I., & Jomaa, S. (2026). A multi-site assessment of nature’s contributions to people in Mediterranean region. Environmental Research Communications. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/aeaad3
- Kırcı, Ç., & Aydın, C. İ. (2026). Feeding Istanbul: The Melen Water Transfer Project and the Anatomy of a Silent Environmental Conflict. Water Alternatives, 19(2), 2. https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol19/v19issue2/809-a19-2-2
- Öztürk, D. M., & Aydın, C. İ. (2025). Beneath the surface, injustice boils: Environmental justice struggles against geothermal energy in Turkey. Energy Research & Social Science, 130, 104412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104412 (SSCI)
- Pascual, U., Balvanera, P., Anderson, C.B. et al. (2023). Diverse values of nature for sustainability. Nature 620, 813–823 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06406-9
- Aydın, C. İ. (2020). Nuclear energy debate in Turkey: Stakeholders, policy alternatives, and governance issues. Energy Policy , 136 https://doi.org/10.1016/
J.ENPOL.2019.111041 - Aydın, C. İ. (2019). Identifying Ecological Distribution Conflicts around the Inter-Regional Flow of Energy in Turkey: A Mapping Exercise. Frontiers in Energy Research, 7(33). https://doi.org/10.3389/FENRG.
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