The Voice of Science on Climate Change in the Mainstream Turkish Press

Üzelgün, Mehmet Ali; Castro, Paula

doi:10.1080/17524032.2014.898674

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“…Hence, Turkey needs to take bold decisions on its development paths if it is to go beyond special circumstances discourse in the new climate regime beyond Paris. It is in this context that more research and development should be invested in responding not only to the physical, socio‐economic, and political challenges lying ahead of Turkey vis‐à‐vis climate change but also to charting the potential opportunities and improving public opinion on climate change taking into account the multiplicity of framings …”

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Beyond special circumstances: climate change policy in Turkey 1992–2015

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Mazlum

Şahin

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The contours of Turkey's climate policy have remained almost intact over the past two decades. Being an Annex I party without any mitigation commitments, Turkey maintains a peculiar position under UNFCCC. Subsequent to 12 years of delay in signing both the Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, Turkey had the highest rate of increase in greenhouse gas emissions among the Annex I countries with 110.4% upsurge in the period 1990 and 2013. Yet with the new climate regime now in place, the country's mitigation pledges fall short of expectations both in terms of realistic projections and its ambition to step up in the post‐2020 period. Climate policies in Turkey, an EU candidate and OECD founding member with a growing economy, remain under‐investigated. Although the country has a wide range of policies and institutions in place, it shows limited progress in addressing climate change. Based on evidence from the literature, we observe that climate policies operationalize in Turkey insofar as they do not directly confront developmental ambitions, leaving policy diffusion with limited success. To provide a historic overview, we focus on climate policy development, actors, processes, and contemporary trends. Evidence shows that these are highly ridden with the politics of special circumstances: a notion that Turkey employs to refrain from bindings commitments. In order to go beyond special circumstances discourse, we argue the need for a bold policy shift in Turkey, a country subject to adverse impacts of climate change and high‐carbon lock‐in risk due to development policy preferences. WIREs Clim Change 2016, 7:448–460. doi: 10.1002/wcc.390 This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > National Climate Change Policy

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Beyond special circumstances: climate change policy in Turkey 1992–2015

Turhan

Mazlum

Şahin

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“… 4 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), “Report of the Conference of the Parties on Its Twenty-first Session, Held in Paris from 30 November to 13 December 2015,” FCCC/CP/2015/10. . …”

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“… 9 See also Mehmet Ali Üzelgün and Paula Castro, “The Voice of Science on Climate Change in the Mainstream Turkish Press,” Environmental Communication 8, no. 3 (2014): 326–344. …”

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Right here, right now: a call for engaged scholarship on climate justice in Turkey

Turhan¹

2017

New Perspect. Turk.

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“…According to several scholars, an idealistic view of science as a realm of pure facts uncontaminated by human values has been dominant in this debate (Latour, 2010; Oreskes, 2004; Wynne, 2014), not least because the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has strongly relied on scientific consensus as the criterion for assuring the public of the existence and anthropogenic nature of the problem (Goodwin, 2009). Moreover, other important actors—environmental NGOs, the media in many countries—also took this direction in their efforts for mediating between the (international) scientific and policy spheres and the (national) public spheres (Grundmann & Scott, 2014; Ramos & Carvalho, 2008; Uzelgun & Castro, 2014). Thus, along the years, scientific evidence and consensus generalized as foundational criteria for grounding the legitimacy of anthropogenic CC policy decisions and action (Hulme & Mahony, 2010).…”

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Lewiński

Castro

2016

Science Communication

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This article examines how two conflicting views regarding science-society relations—science as the arbiter of truth and as a social endeavor—perpetuate a tension in the way scientific consensus and evidence are called upon in climate change debate. In our analysis of interviews with climate change campaigners, we employ argumentation theory and social representations theory to identify and account for three discursive strategies of responding to climate contrarian arguments: direct confrontation by dichotomous arguments, de-dichotomization by addressing background assumptions, and concession to minor scientific uncertainties. We discuss these strategies emphasizing the science-society relations evident in each.

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The Voice of Science on Climate Change in the Mainstream Turkish Press

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

Beyond special circumstances: climate change policy in Turkey 1992–2015

Beyond special circumstances: climate change policy in Turkey 1992–2015

Right here, right now: a call for engaged scholarship on climate justice in Turkey

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