The European Union water framework directive and Turkey‟s water management policy : an analysis

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This thesis focuses on the relationship with the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) and Turkey‟s water management policy. The aim of the thesis is to understand and analyze impacts of Water Framework Directive on different dimensions of Turkey‟s water management policy. This thesis argues that legal discourses, organizations and policy networks prevailing in Turkey‟s water management policy are more flexible in terms of change, whereas institutional arrangements, which constitute the substantive part of the necessary changes for the implementation of the WFD, are likely to change more subtly and gradually. Not only the embedded flexibility in the WFD, but also the established traditions and continuities in Turkey‟s water management policy contribute to the explanation of this argument.

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Water policy, Water Management.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20809

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V. Sümer, “ The European Union water framework directive and Turkey‟s water management policy : an analysis ,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2011.