Abstract
Turkish water bureaucracy operates within a strictly technocratic-engineering framework that has a paternalistic view of its stakeholders. Chapter 4 demonstrated the main national character traits of this bureaucracy and its political culture. Turkish water bureaucracy decision-making occurs against this background in which deeply embedded social constructs negatively impact on the way in which water resources are managed and developed.
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“It should be noted that the term “demand”, in the context of water resources management, generally means requirements, and is very rarely used in its traditional economic sense. Indeed, very rarely is the concept of demand elasticity explicitly considered within the water planning process per se. Consequently very little is known about constructing realistic demand functions under varying socio-economic considerations. Expressed differently, it means that emphasis so far has been on supply management -that is, increase in supply is considered to be virtually the only management alternative- rather than consideration of demand management”. See: Biswas (1983).
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AuthoSenior SHW engineer also stated “the yeast factory has been undertaking some activities that blatantly pollutes Melen water. You need to go and ask farmers and fishermen what do they think of it and also ask the factory officials what they have been up to here.”
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A recent quantitative social science study called ‘Environment in Turkey 2010’ by Ali Carkoglu and Ersin Kalaycioglu proved this further and provided evidence regarding the environmental sentiments of Turkish society.
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Oktem, O. (2016). Water Transfers and Turkish Political Culture: Melen Case. In: Water Politics and Political Culture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21479-5_5
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