Public participation in EIA process of small hydro power plants (HES) in Turkey

Over the past few decades, participation in environmental decision-making has become a topic of considerable debate. Since there are different values and worldviews, pluralist democracy provides a relevant basis for planning participative natural resource management and implementing an inclusive env...

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Autor principal: Karakitapoglu, Emine Behiye
Formato: H2
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development 2015
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description Over the past few decades, participation in environmental decision-making has become a topic of considerable debate. Since there are different values and worldviews, pluralist democracy provides a relevant basis for planning participative natural resource management and implementing an inclusive environmental decision-making process. For about 15 years, widespread demonstrations to oppose construction of small hydro power plants (called „HES‟ in Turkey) and countless lawsuits seeking for a fair, rational and inclusive construction process, brought the issue of „public participation‟(PP) into the Turkish political discussion. As a major occasion for the citizens to be effective in environmental decision-making in Turkey, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process is the focus of the study. In addition to the EIA legislation, perceptions of actors are analyzed to display the current state of the public participation issue in Turkey. Detecting existing shortcomings in the design of the PP process and implementation of three different HES project, made it possible to acquire recommendations for improvement of the system.
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spelling RepoSLU85752015-10-26T15:54:42Z Public participation in EIA process of small hydro power plants (HES) in Turkey Karakitapoglu, Emine Behiye hydro HES public participation environmental impact assessment democracy Turkey Over the past few decades, participation in environmental decision-making has become a topic of considerable debate. Since there are different values and worldviews, pluralist democracy provides a relevant basis for planning participative natural resource management and implementing an inclusive environmental decision-making process. For about 15 years, widespread demonstrations to oppose construction of small hydro power plants (called „HES‟ in Turkey) and countless lawsuits seeking for a fair, rational and inclusive construction process, brought the issue of „public participation‟(PP) into the Turkish political discussion. As a major occasion for the citizens to be effective in environmental decision-making in Turkey, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process is the focus of the study. In addition to the EIA legislation, perceptions of actors are analyzed to display the current state of the public participation issue in Turkey. Detecting existing shortcomings in the design of the PP process and implementation of three different HES project, made it possible to acquire recommendations for improvement of the system. SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development 2015 H2 eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/8575/
spellingShingle hydro
HES
public participation
environmental impact assessment
democracy
Turkey
Karakitapoglu, Emine Behiye
Public participation in EIA process of small hydro power plants (HES) in Turkey
title Public participation in EIA process of small hydro power plants (HES) in Turkey
title_full Public participation in EIA process of small hydro power plants (HES) in Turkey
title_fullStr Public participation in EIA process of small hydro power plants (HES) in Turkey
title_full_unstemmed Public participation in EIA process of small hydro power plants (HES) in Turkey
title_short Public participation in EIA process of small hydro power plants (HES) in Turkey
title_sort public participation in eia process of small hydro power plants (hes) in turkey
topic hydro
HES
public participation
environmental impact assessment
democracy
Turkey