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The Political Economy of the Environment in Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Fikret Adaman
Fikret Adaman*
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Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University, e-mail: adaman@boun.edu.tr.
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This paper aims to propose a political economy framework to analyze environmental problems in Turkey. A political economy approach seems to be the appropriate way of investigating environmental issues, as not only are economy and the environment interwoven entities, changes in one affecting the other, but also collective actions are almost always required in dealing with such problems. With this integrated approach one can thus better understand the causes of such a degradation and subsequently search for the economic and political conditions that are conducive to halt environmental degradation.

Despite its theoretical and implementational problems, conventional economic theory has a well developed body of tools for examining environmental degradation, i.e. pollution and overuse of natural resources. But the theory assumes the existence and competence of a rather sterile political authority which enforces corrective measures. The corollary of this assumption is that the enforceability of these measures will become lax should there exist various forms of government failures. This paper will focus on Turkey as an example of a country where such government failures have been a priori accepted.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 17 , fall 1997 , pp. 129 - 150
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1997

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