Energy and its Impact on the Environment
Transportation is the major source of air pollution in the West Bank. Gasoline and diesel are used for transportation. Three factors make pollution from vehicles in the West Bank more serious. First, most of the used vehicles are in poor condition and [...]
The Pivotal Role of Israel
The paper offers a geopolitical background of Palestine, emphasizing the status of Palestinian built-up areas lying in Area C after March 2000 withdrawal from Gaza Strip. It then presents the colonization policy of Israel, and the areas that have been affected most [...]
The Status and Perspectives of the Negotiations on the Jordan River Basin
The Jordan river is an international water course that is shared hydrologically by Israelis, Jordanians, Lebanese, Palestinians and Syrians. Of all these riparians, Palestinians are the only side that have been denied the utilization of the waters of the Jordan River waters [...]
Middle East Transboundary Pollutant Transport Study
This paper was written as part of a USAID sponsored project that aims to generate information required by government air quality planning agencies in Israel and West Bank/Gaza to develop strategies for the socially and environmentally sustainable urbanization of their coastal areas. [...]
Political Use of Land and Water Distribution: An Analysis through Statistical Data, Demography and Remote Sensing
Sound natural resource management is the corner stone of sustainable development. This issue assumes a more important role in Palestine where the physically scarcity of natural resources is compounded by the political conflict that further reduces the accessibility of these resources to [...]
Infringements in Hebron District
The paper discusses the geography of the Hebron district, occupation and colonization there, in addition to house demolitions. It also talks about loss of agricultural land, water shortages, violence in Hebron city, erasing of the Green Line, bypass road construction, and bantustanization [...]
The Status of Transportation in the West Bank
The first section of this paper presents original data on the growth in the rate of motorization, the makeup of the car fleet, travel modes and trip destinations – data that have primarily been collected in surveys by the authors as part [...]
Water and Irrigation Management in the Palestinian West Bank
Water scarcity in the West Bank poses a critical constraint to further expanding, or even maintaining present irrigated areas. There is an increasing demand for agricultural water use to be restricted in favour of other water consumers, such as local communities and [...]