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The global freshwater crisis has been on the agenda of the international community for the past 30 years: rapidly increasing water demands due to population growth and economic development have to be met with limited resources that are further compromised by over use and pollution. The water crisis has forced people to develop new approaches for water resources management that could accommodate the ensuing conflicts between economic and environmental concerns.
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For an analysis of social movements in Turkey, see Arsel (2005) on social movements opposing gold mining in Bergama.
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River basins that terminate at lakes and/or inland deltas, with no exit to the sea are referred to as closed basins. Examples of closed basins in the world are the Caspian Basin, the Okavango Basin and the Jordan Basin.
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IBAs and Important Plant Areas are areas being globally important habitats for birds and plants respectively. However, IBA and Important Plant Areas, as well as Global 200 are no legal site designations but a tool for identifying sites of conservation priority.
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SIT is a protection status given by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism for areas of natural, cultural and historical importance.
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Divrak, B.B., Demirayak, F. (2011). NGOs Promote Integrated River Basin Management in Turkey: A Case-Study of the Konya Closed Basin. In: Kramer, A., Kibaroglu, A., Scheumann, W. (eds) Turkey's Water Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19636-2_9
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