Between Ruin and Restoration: An Environmental History of Israel

Contributors

385 Rachelle Adam worked for many years as deputy legal adviser in israel’s ministry of the environment, where she was involved in israel’s ratification and implementation of international environmental agreements. today she is a doctoral candidate at Hebrew University’s Law faculty, researching international biodiversity agreements. she also helps run an nGo dedicated to saving Jerusalem’s forestland. Pinhas Alpert is head of the Porter school of environmental studies, professor in dynamic meteorology and climate, faculty of exact sciences, tel aviv University , and coauthor of Factor Separation in the Atmosphere, Applications and Future Prospects. His research focuses on atmospheric dynamics, climatology, numerical methods, limited area modeling, and climate change. Valerie Brachya is director of the environmental Policy Center at the Jerusalem institute for israel studies. she retired from her previous position as senior deputy director general for Policy and Planning in the ministry of environmental Protection, where she had been responsible for five departments: environmental planning, environmental economics, landscape and biodiversity , international relations, and environmental policy. During thirty-five years in government service, ms. brachya was a founding member of the environmental protection service and a central figure in establishing environment as an integral part of decision making in israel. Uri gordon, PhD in philosophy, oxford, is a lecturer in environmental politics and ethics at the arava institute for environmental studies. His research interests include environmental peacemaking, grassroots sustainability, and anarchist political theory. CONTRIBUTORS 386 CONTRIbUTORS Iris Han is head of the research and Planning Department in the open Landscape institute (oLi). she has been a member, since 2000, of the national Council for Planning and building as a public representative for environmental nongovernmental organizations. she holds a master of science degree in urban and regional planning, law studies (LLb). Orr karassin is a lecturer and head of the environmental Law and Policy Program at the sapir College school of Law. she was a visiting researcher at the London school of economics Grantham research institute on Climate Change and the environment. Her research interests include environmental law and policy, climate change regulation, private law and environmental liability, natural disaster law, and vulnerability and institutional responses. Ruth kark is professor of geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. she has written and edited twenty books and 150 articles on the history and historical geography of Palestine and israel. Her research interests include the study of land-use patterns in the middle east and Palestine and israel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; urban and rural settlement processes; and Western nations’ and civilizations’ ideologies, interests, and activities in the Holy Land. Dorit kerret is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy, tel aviv University. Her research in marine pollution started when she served in JaG as a legal adviser of the israeli navy. Her main research interests involve international and comparative aspects of environmental policy, focusing on promoting environmental enforcement and compliance in israel. Noam Levin is a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He uses remote sensing and geographic information systems to study terrestrial ecosystems and the interactions between people and their environment. Lucy Michaels is a british-israeli environmental activist and researcher. she is currently studying for a doctorate in environmental studies at the blaustein institutes for Desert research, ben-Gurion University, israel. she lives in midreshet ben Gurion with her husband, Uri Gordon, and daughter. Char Miller is W. m. Keck Professor of environmental analysis at Pomona College (U.s.), has served as associate editor of the Journal of Forestry and Environmental History, and is author of Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism and Public Lands/Public Debates: A Century of Controversy . He is editor most recently of Cities and Nature in the American West and River Basins of the American West. CONTRIbUTORS 387 Daniel E. Orenstein is a senior lecturer in the faculty of architecture and town Planning at the technion–israel institute of technology. His research focuses on population growth and land-use change, land-use policy, ecosystem service assessment, and population-environment discourse. Stuart Schoenfeld is associate professor and chair of the Department of sociology , Glendon College–york University (toronto). He works on the sociologies of environment and religion, with a continuing interest in transnational networks in both areas and the potential for the emergence of cosmopolitan identities and empathy. His current major research is in the area of environmentalism in the middle east, using social...