Publié par l’OUI (Observatoire Urbain d’Istanbul) dans Hypotheses, le 31 mars 2022 Compte-rendu rédigé par Agathe Fautras et Julie Gaillet. https://oui.hypotheses.org/5936 Introduction La disponibilité en eau douce est indispensable à la santé, au bien-être et au développement économique de nos sociétés. À Istanbul, la zone urbaine s’est développée sur les rives du Bosphore, à une distance relativement éloignée des sources d’eau douce environnantes. Son histoire urbaine est dès lors marquée par le développement de systèmes d’acheminement d’eau douce dont on voit encore aujourd’hui les multiples vestiges dans le tissu urbain (aqueducs, citernes). Aujourd’hui, un système interbassin de gestion de l’eau, supervisé par l’Administration des Eaux et des Égouts d’Istanbul (İstanbul Su ve Kanalizasyon İdaresi, İSKİ), permet de fournir annuellement 1,7

Edité par Vanessa R. de Obaldía et Claudio Monge Préface de Claudio Monge The Isis Press ; Istanbul, 2022. 205 p. http://www.theisispress.org/book-b640.htm   PART ONE.STATUS: LEGALITY AND CONFLICT.1. “I shall not take their churches and turn them into mosques”: The Legal Status of Catholic Churches in Ottoman Galata as Prescribed by theʿAhdnāmes. Radu Dipratu2. An Endless Housing Dispute: Catholic – Muslim Conflict around the Yeni Valide and Arab Mosques in Galata (1693-1713). Kenan Yıldız PART TWO. PEOPLE: IDENTITY, REPRESENTATION AND RELATIONS3. From Master to Minority: the Genoese of Pera-Galata across the Byzantine-Ottoman Boundary. Padraic Rohan4. The Latin Vekil and the Vartaliti Family: Local Representation, Intermediary Work and Family Interests in Ottoman Istanbul (1844-1923). Gabriel Doyle5. Patriarch Maksīmūs Maẓlūm’s Reverse Missionary

B. Elevli, İ. Yaman, B. Laratte ; Estimation of the Turkish Boron Exportation to Europe. Mining 2022, 2, 155-169. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/mining2020009 Borate is an essential material to numerous industries and even to individual countries’ economies, defense, and politics. Almost all industries need borates for production, and almost everybody needs their products. Borate is a compound that contains or supplies boric oxide (B2O3). Among the minerals that contain boric oxide, there are only four minerals significant from an economic standpoint, namely borax (tincal), colemanite, ulexite, and kernite. Turkey has almost 70% of all known reserves in the world. Therefore, borates and their products could be one of the main topics for sustainable development in the whole world. The recent development and pursuit

T. Türkbay, B. Laratte, A. Çolak, S. Çoruh, B. Elevli ; Life Cycle Assessment of Boron Industry from Mining to Refined Products. Sustainability 2022, 14, 1787. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031787 Although there are a lot of studies in literature related to the life cycle assessment (LCA) of mining, there are only a few studies done on the boron mining industry. This paper presents an LCA of the boron mining industry including the extraction, beneficiation, and refinement processes. The main purpose is to identify and compare the environmental impacts associated with the production of 1 ton of refined products (boric acid, borax pentahydrate, borax decahydrate, and sodium perborate) starting from an open pit mine located in Turkey. The life cycle inventory (LCI) was obtained

Çolak, A.; Laratte, B.; Elevli, B.; Çoruh, S. Abiotic Depletion of Boron: An Update Characterization Factors for CML 2002 and ReCiPe. Minerals 2022, 12, 435. DOI : https://doi.org/10.3390/min12040435 The risk of resource depletion for future generations of humanity is often cited as an important issue. The choice of impact categories and characterization models for resource extraction in LCA is no more precise than other impact categories and models. This means that more discussion is needed on the use of resources. In this article, the potential depletion of Boron and Boron minerals (Colemanite, Ulexite, Tincal) are studied. These minerals have a big role for the world and for Turkey; however, this resource is limited. Using the life cycle assessment methodology, one can