Water Issues and the Extended Understanding of 'Security': The Southeast Anatolia Project as a Multidimensional Potential for Crisis

Year 1996, , 81 - 99, 01.05.1996

Andrea K. Riemer

https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000249

Abstract

Water Issues and the Extended Understanding of 'Security': The Southeast Anatolia Project as a Multidimensional Potential for Crisis

Abstract

it takes no stretch of the imagination to see that the human species is
now an agenl of change of geologic proportions. We literally move
mountains to mine the earth's minerals, redirect rivers to bui Id cities in
the desert, torch forests to make way for crops and catıle, and alter the
chemistry of the atmosphere in disposing of our wastes. At humanity's
hand, the earth is undergoing a profound transformatian - one with
consequences we cannot fully grasp.1

Keywords

Water Issues, Extended Understanding, The Southeast Anatolia