Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact

Recent research and policies recognize the importance of environmental defenders for global sustainability and emphasize their need for protection against violence and repression. However, effective support may benefit from a more systematic understanding of the underlying environmental conflicts, as well as from bett…

• IRMAK ERTÖR

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• İBRAHİM YÜKSEL

Participatory approaches within development programs involving common-pool resources are intended to revive a community’s role in managing these resources. Certainly, to ensure the successful and equitable use of such resources, community participation is essential. However, in many cases, attempts at applying a parti…

• AYŞEGÜL KİBAROĞLU

The global debate about large dams is at once overwhelmingly complex and fundamentally simple. It is complex because the issues are not confined to the design, construction, and operation of dams themselves but embrace the range of social, environmental, and political choices on which the human aspiration to developme…

The global debate about large dams is at once overwhelmingly complex and fundamentally simple. It is complex because the issues are not confined to the design, construction, and operation of dams themselves but embrace the range of social, environmental, and political choices on which the human aspiration to developme…

• İBRAHİM YÜKSEL

This article reviews the state of the art of transboundary water governance in the Euphrates–Tigris river basin, which is characterized by both political confrontation and cooperative institutional development. First, research on the physical characteristics of the basin is presented, with references to the literature…

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• MEHMET KÜÇÜKMEHMETOĞLU

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• MURAT KANKAL

The aim of this article is to investigate the small hydropower plants (SHPs) in Turkey. Total hydropower potential of Turkey is annually 433,000 GWh. Almost 50% of the total potential is technically exploitable and 29% (122,322 GWh/year) is economically exploitable. The country is planning to make use of the exploitab…

• RECEP BAKIŞ

This paper gives an overview of energy and water potential of the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) in Turkey. This integrated socioeconomic development project is one of the largest of its kind in the world. The GAP region is rich in water for irrigation and hydroelectric power. The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers repr…

• İBRAHİM YÜKSEL

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Abstract. \nThis report aims at exploring contemporary mining conflicts in the context of the \nsustainable development and environmental justice movement. This is done \nbased on 24 real case studies from 18 different countries which are described by \nlocal activists and scholars. While 17 of the reported cases focu…