The environmental history of land and water usage in the modernity period of Turkey

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Köroğlu, Nuri Tunga

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The thesis is an attempt to write the environmental history of the Modern Turkey from the second half of the 19th century to today. The central research focus and aim of the thesis is to explore the role of the modernity project at the transformation of the environment of Turkey during the republican period. For this, water and soil resources are taken to the core of the research, as both water and soil have the potential to highlight the transformative impacts of modernity project in most detail. Because of this, the conceptual framework of environmental history has been examined to outline its characteristics within the environmental sciences. Next, the development of the modern though has been scrutinized by the means of the transforming relation between human and nature, and through the development of human culture and society. For this, the shift from biological evolution to cultural evolution and its outcomes have been summarized. Finally, and the emerge of modernity and the development of the market society has been highlighted to define the relation between nature and human in according to the supply and demand relation in society. An institutional analysis is adopted to analyze the social, political and ideological forces that influenced the environmental impacts of the modernity project of Turkey. The impact of modernity project is analyzed through the relation between the increasing demand for natural resources, and the organization of supply processes within the modernization of Turkey.

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Modernity, environment, environmental transformation, environmental history, demand and supply, water, soil

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12605991/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15147

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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N. T. Köroğlu, “The environmental history of land and water usage in the modernity period of Turkey,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2005.