Political ecology of inter-basin water transfers in Turkish water governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4239016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mine Islar (0000-0001-9479-4734, Lund University), Chad Boda (0000-0002-3837-3510, Lund University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087 |
| Publisher | Resilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.5751/es-06885-190415 |
| OpenAlex | W2062868106 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 12 |
We explore the emergence of two contemporary mega water projects in Turkey that are designed to meet the demands of the country's major urban centers. Moreover, we analyze how policy makers in the water sector frame problems and solutions. We argue that these projects represent a tendency to depoliticize water management and steer away from controversial issues of water allocation by emphasizing large-scale, centralized, technical, and supply-oriented solutions. In doing so, urgent concerns are ignored regarding unsustainable water use, impacts on rural livelihoods, and institutional shortcomings in the water sector. These aspirations build heavily on prevailing discourses of modernity, development, and economic growth, and how urban centers are perceived as drivers of this growth. In the light of these tendencies, social and environmental implications are downplayed, even though the projects will change or already have changed the dynamics within urban-rural life and agricultural water resources practices. We develop an understanding of how such projects are presented as the only solution to problems of water scarcity in Turkey
Biology · Business · Corporate governance · Environmental governance · Environmental resource management · Geography · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Structural basin · Turkish · Water resource management · Environmental Science · Water resources management and optimization · Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |