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A Political Ecology of 'Apolitical' Water Governance Lessons from Turkish Experience

Caner Sayan

International Journal of Water Governance, Volume: 4, Pages: 1 - 18

Swansea University Author: Caner Sayan

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Widely applied water governance practices, like the construction of dams, hydroelectricitypower plants, irrigation canals, reservoirs, and water infrastructure/sewage systems are globallyregarded as technical, expert-oriented and/or scientific issues. They are rhetorically detached fromsocio-politic...

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ISSN: 2211-4491
Published: TU Delft OPEN 2016
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