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.

Integrated water resources management and Turkey
Social Constructionism and Political Culture Spain
Social constructionism and Turkish water bureaucracy
Water Bureaucracy and European Union and Turkey
Water Bureaucracy and IWRM
Water Management and Political Culture in Turkey
water quality and water pollution
water policy

• Front Matter
• Introduction
• The Social Construction of Water Management and Political Culture
• IWRM as a Social Construct
• Political Culture of Turkish Water Bureaucracy
• Water Transfers and Turkish Political Culture: Melen Case
• Comparing Political Cultures of Turkey and Spain
• Conclusion
• Back Matter

Wellington, New Zealand
Onur Oktem

Book Title
Water Politics and Political Culture

Book Subtitle
Turkey’s compatibility with the European Union

Authors
Onur Oktem

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21479-5

Hardcover ISBN
978-3-319-21478-8
Published: 27 October 2015

Softcover ISBN
978-3-319-36889-4
Published: 23 August 2016

eBook ISBN
978-3-319-21479-5
Published: 19 October 2015

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XII, 182

Topics
Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Comparative Politics, Cultural Studies