Undermining Peace: “Israel’s Unilateral Segregation Plans in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”
The paper addresses the geopolitical situation in Palestine, highlighting the ongoing fragmentation of Palestinian lands and communities in the West Bank into disconnected cantons, based on the Israeli policies, plans and unilateral acts of segregation between the Palestinian and Israeli communities. Click [...]
Climatic Zoning for Energy Efficient Buildings in the Palestinian Territories (the West Bank and Gaza)
The paper addresses the geopolitical situation in Palestine, highlighting the ongoing fragmentation of Palestinian lands and communities in the West Bank into disconnected cantons, based on the Israeli policies, plans and unilateral acts of segregation between the Palestinian and Israeli communities. Click [...]
Environmental Degradation and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The paper starts with a geopolitical background of Palestine, highlighting the changes after Oslo Agreement, and the impacts of this on the ground. It then moves on to talk about house demolitions, illegal outposts, bypass roads, closed military areas and military bases. [...]
Detection and Mapping of Land Use Changes in Jordan Valley
Information about change is necessary for updating Land Use/ Land Cover LULC maps and the management of natural resources (XiaoMei Y, & RongQing L.Q.Y., 1999). The paper aims to map the changes in the LULC using different classification methods and to quantify [...]
An Analysis on the Recent Geopolitical Situation in the Gaza Strip
The paper presents the geopolitical situation in the Gaza Strip by giving a historical overview about the area and the different agreements that took place. It then explains the Israeli colonization policies, land fragmentation and restrictions of movement. In addition, it offers [...]
Hydro Politics in the Eastern Mediterranean
The paper attempts to describe and classify the water resources in the region into the admitted water colors. The admitted water colors are the Blue Water and the Green Water. In addition, the Yellow Water is proposed herein to denote the fraction [...]
Land and the Israeli – Palestinian Conflict
The paper starts with a brief history overview of land in Palestine, through the Ottoman period, British mandate period, 1948 war and the geopolitical changes, the 1967 war and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the peace accords, [...]