Water Politics and Political Culture

Turkey’s compatibility with the European Union

Onur Oktem (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XII, 182 Seiten

2016 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-36889-4 (ISBN)

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This book presents an analysis of the main traits of the Turkish political culture and articulates some of the most important deeply embedded social qualifications of political life in Turkey. It reveals that when water management is historically and socially shaped by heavily technical knowledge systems of engineering it becomes a particularly useful tool for various political interests. The book analyses how Turkish freshwater management is socially constructed as both an engineering discourse and a paternalistic bureaucratic transaction. Such a construction stands in stark contrast to the water management discourse of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Unions common water policy. Of all the issues faced in Turkish water management, none are as important and problematic as the issue of complying with European Union (EU) accession criteria. Not only is water socially, economically and environmentally important; its water management is a useful prism through which the EU accession process can be viewed as a whole. It showcases the complementarities and divergences between Turkish and EU bureaucratic constructs and value systems.

1. Introduction.- 2. The Social Construction of Water Management and Political Culture.- 3. IWRM as a Social Construct.- 4. Political Culture of Turkish Water Bureaucracy.- 5. Water Transfers and Turkish Political Culture: Melen Case.- 6. Comparing Political Cultures of Turkey and Spain.- 7. Conclusion.- Appendix.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	XII, 182 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
Schlagworte	Integrated water resources management and Turkey • Social Constructionism and Political Culture Spain • Social constructionism and Turkish water bureaucra • Social constructionism and Turkish water bureaucracy • Water Bureaucracy and European Union and Turkey • Water Bureaucracy and European Union and Turkey • Water Bureaucracy and IWRM • Water Management and Political Culture in Turkey • Water Policy • Water Quality and Water Pollution
ISBN-10	3-319-36889-3 / 3319368893
ISBN-13	978-3-319-36889-4 / 9783319368894
Zustand	Neuware