Turkey has had a prolonged exemplary experience with economic development. In this paper we will trace the emergence of an environmental concern within development planning in Turkey, after a brief theoretical discussion on rival frameworks. It is our contention that, whereas economic policies...

Shortly after its emergence in the nineteenth century, homo oeconomicus was deployed as a yardstick to measure individual economic behaviour irrespective of temporal and spatial differences. With the European penetration into the Levant, the concept was applied to the evaluation of the economic...