Revisiting policy and practices of sustainable development in Turkey

IF 4.7 3区环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environment, Development and Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI:10.1007/s10668-024-05346-2

Sertif Demir, Adnan Guzel

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Environmental decline has been a global concern for all humanity and living species for many years. Despite the ongoing global response to increasing environmental degradation, the world still faces unrelenting environmental decline. Turkey sees sustainable development and green growth as responses to environmental decline while maintaining steady growth. The key issue here is how to manage/reduce environmental decline without jeopardizing rapid growth to meet the needs of the current generation. Therefore, this article analyzes sustainable development in Turkey in terms of policy and practices. For this purpose, it first presents a literature review on environmentalism, sustainable development and green growth, and then scrutinizes sustainable development policy and practices in Turkey. Briefly, although Turkey has embraced the policies of environmental conservation, Turkey’s core environmental discourse favors the steady growth and industrialization while ensuring the environmental conservation. Bear in mind that Turkey is still grappling with rapid growth to sustain a livable life for every citizen. As a result, the state is striving to balance various policies and the interests of many stakeholders to achieve sustainable development.

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重新审视土耳其的可持续发展政策与实践

多年来，环境恶化一直是全人类和生物物种关注的全球性问题。尽管全球正在应对日益严重的环境退化，但世界仍然面临着无情的环境衰退。土耳其认为，可持续发展和绿色增长是在保持稳定增长的同时应对环境恶化的对策。这里的关键问题是如何管理/减少环境退化，同时又不影响快速增长，以满足当代人的需求。因此，本文从政策和实践两个方面对土耳其的可持续发展进行了分析。为此，本文首先对环境主义、可持续发展和绿色增长进行了文献综述，然后对土耳其的可持续发展政策和实践进行了仔细研究。简而言之，尽管土耳其已经接受了环境保护政策，但土耳其的核心环境论述倾向于在确保环境保护的同时实现稳定增长和工业化。要知道，土耳其仍在努力实现快速增长，以维持每个公民的宜居生活。因此，国家正在努力平衡各种政策和许多利益相关者的利益，以实现可持续发展。

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Environment, Development and Sustainability Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics and Econometrics

CiteScore

10.20

自引率

6.10%

发文量

754

期刊介绍： Environment, Development and Sustainability is an international and multidisciplinary journal covering all aspects of the environmental impacts of socio-economic development. It is also concerned with the complex interactions which occur between development and environment, and its purpose is to seek ways and means for achieving sustainability in all human activities aimed at such development. The subject matter of the journal includes the following and related issues: -mutual interactions among society, development and environment, and their implications for sustainable development -technical, economic, ethical and philosophical aspects of sustainable development -global sustainability - the obstacles and ways in which they could be overcome -local and regional sustainability initiatives, their practical implementation, and relevance for use in a wider context -development and application of indicators of sustainability -development, verification, implementation and monitoring of policies for sustainable development -sustainable use of land, water, energy and biological resources in development -impacts of agriculture and forestry activities on soil and aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity -effects of energy use and global climate change on development and sustainability -impacts of population growth and human activities on food and other essential resources for development -role of national and international agencies, and of international aid and trade arrangements in sustainable development -social and cultural contexts of sustainable development -role of education and public awareness in sustainable development -role of political and economic instruments in sustainable development -shortcomings of sustainable development and its alternatives.