Water Politics and Political Culture: Turkey's Compatibility with the European Union

ISBN-13: 9783319214788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 182 str.

Onur Oktem

Opis

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."

Spis treści

1.Introduction

2.  The Social Construction of Water Management and Political Culture

2.1  What is Social Constructionism?

2.2  Main Assumptions of Social Constructionism

2.3  Why Social Constructionism?

2.4  Social Constructionism Applied

3.  IWRM as a Social Construct

3.1 Historical Background of IWRM

3.2 Modern Definition and Emergence of IWRM

3.3 Problematic Implications of IWRM    62

3.4 Example of IWRM: The EU Water Framework Directive

3.5 Caveats of the Directive

4.  Political Culture of Turkish Water Bureaucracy

4.1 Turkish Political Culture

4.2  Political Culture of Turkish Water Bureaucracy

4.3  Political Culture of Turkish Water Bureaucracy and its Compatibility with IWRM and the EU

4.4 Water Framework Directive and Turkey’s Current Water Policy: Technical Issues or Attitudes?

5.  Water Transfers and Turkish Political Culture: Melen Case

5.1  IBWTs: What are they?

5.2  Water Transfers and IWRM

5.3  Melen Water Transfer, IWRM and Turkish Political Culture

6. Comparing Political Cultures of Turkey and Spain

6.1 Comparing Turkey with Spain

6.2 Spanish Political Culture

6.3. Political Culture of Spanish Water Bureaucracy

6.4 Case Study: Ebro Inter-basin Water Transfer        &n

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6.5  Why is the Implementation of IWRM and WFD Unsuccessful in Spain?

7. Conclusion

Appendix   

   
 

 

Blurb

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 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 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.