Water Politics and Political Culture

Turkey's compatibility with the European Union
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-21478-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 4558 g

This book analyses the main traits of 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 the 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 Union’s 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 management is a useful prism through which to view the accession process as a whole. It showcases the complementarities and divergences between Turkish and EU bureaucratic constructs and value systems.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oktem, Onur

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Wasserversorgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Wasserwirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.