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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783319214788
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-319-21478-8
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Erscheinungstermin: 27.10.2015
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2016
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 4558 g
- Seiten: 182
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 16 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt