Publications


November 12, 2011

Kidron master plan article

This book aims to serve as a practical guide for collaborative actions in Transboundary Water Resources Management (TWRM), and includes the latest developments in methodological tools, illustrated by practical case studies from around the world. On a national basis, water resources management is a complex issue mainly of water sharing and conflict resolution between different national administrations and various stakeholders. When waters cross international borders thus becomes even more challenging.
International guidelines and programmes are analysed, such as the UNESCO Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management (UNESCO-ISARM) initiative, UNESCO Potential Conflict to cooperation Potential (PCCP) programme, and the EU Water Framework Directive (EU-WFD) 2000/60. Practical tools, state-of-the-art methodologies and models for TWRM from different parts of the world are also provided, showing how to deal with data sharing, water scarcity, climate change, water related conflicts, enhance stakeholder participation and incorporate socio-economic issues. This will be very useful not only to engineers, hydrologists and hydrogeologists but also to lawyers, social and political scientists, decision makers, graduate students and researchers interested in TWRM.

Kidron master plan article

נחלים וניקוז- תהליכים, הנדסה ותכן

ספר זה מאסף מאמרים על תהליכים בנחלים, הנדסה ותכן הקשורים לניקוז נגר על-קרקעי בשטחים פתוחים. מטרתו להציג בתמצית את הידע הנדרש לעבודתם של מהנדסי ניקוז ולסייע בביצוע נאות של מטלותיהם.

"ניקוז, סחף קרקע ונחלים: המסגרת המשפטית והמנהלית" מאת ראובן לסטר, דני לבני ואריאלה גרינברג. פרק 20 עמ' 321,
מאמר זה מתאר את המערכת התחיקתית, אשר משמשת מדברת לטיפול בנגר עילי, נחלים, ואדיות ואגמים. כן מתוארת המערכת המנהלית, שהוקמה על בסיס המסגרת המשפטית, כדי לאכוף מדיניות ממשלתית לניהול מערכות ניקוז

נחלים וניקוז

Environmental Law in Israel

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides ready access to legislation and practice concerning the environment in Israel.
A general introduction covers geographic considerations, political, social and cultural aspects of environmental study, the sources and principles of environmental law, environmental legislation, and the role of public authorities.

The main body of the book deals first with laws aimed directly at protecting the environment from pollution in specific areas such as air, water, waste, soil, noise, and radiation. Then, a section on nature and conservation management covers protection of natural and cultural resources such as monuments, landscapes,
parks and reserves, wildlife, agriculture, forests, fish, subsoil, and minerals. Further treatment includes the application of zoning and land-use planning, rules on liability, and administrative and judicial remedies to environmental issues. There is also an analysis of the impact of international and regional legislation
and treaties on environmental regulation.

Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for environmental lawyers handling cases affecting Israel. Academics and researchers, as well as business investors and the various international organizations in the field, will welcome this very useful guide, and will appreciate its value in the study of comparative environmental law and policy.

Environmental Law in Israel

Social Participation In Water Governance And Management

Social participation in water management and governance recently became a reality in many economies and societies. Yet the dimensions in which power regulation, social equity and democracybuilding are connected with participation has been only tangentially analyzed for the water sector.

Understanding the growing interest in social participation involves appreciating the specificity of the contemporary period within its historic and geographic contexts as well as uncovering larger political, economic and cultural trends of recent decades which frame participatory actions. Within a wide variety of cases presented from around the world, the reader will find critical analyses of participation and an array of political ecological processes that influence water governance.

Sixteen chapters from a diverse group of scholars and practitioners examine water rights definition, hydropower dam construction, urban river renewal, irrigation organizations, water development NGOs, river basin management, water policy implementation and judicial decision-making in water conflicts.Yet there are commonalities in participatory experiences across this spectrum of water issues.

The book's five sections highlight key dimensions of contemporary water management that influence, and in turn are influenced by, social participation. These sections are: participation and indigenous water governance; participation and the dynamics of gender in water management; participation and river basin governance; participation and implementation of water management and participation and the politics of water governance

Social Participation In Water Governance And Management: Critical And Global Perspectives synopsis

The Public's Role as a Stakeholder in the Management Decision Making Process of the Yarqon River Authority in Israel

Chapter 11 - The Public's Role as a Stakeholder in the Yarqon River Authority, Israel

ים המלח הנעלם: כשל מערכתי בניהול אגם בינלאומי מן ההיבט המשפטי

בטרם מתפנים לקריאת החוברת ים המלח הנעלם ייטיבו הקוראים לעשות אם יעיינו גם בהרפתקאות אליסיה בארץ הפלאות. בהשראת ספרו הנפלא של לויס קרול אפשר להבין כיצד מנהלת המדינה משאב טבע שהוא מורשת עולמית.

  “Just look along the road, and tell me if you can see either of them”

“I see nobody on the road”, said Alice.

“I only wish I had such eyes”, the King remarked in a fretful tone. “To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too!".

 Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass 

ייחודו של ים המלח ומיקומו הגיאוגרפי והפוליטי מחייבים מערכת משפטית ומנהלית ייחודית להגנתו. כיצד אפשר לשמור על אוצר טבע ייחודי באמצעות שש מערכות  משפט: הדין הישראלי, הירדני, הפלסטיני, הצבאי והבינלאומי?

 מאמר זה מתאר את הזעזועים הפוקדים את ים המלח לנוכח מערכת משפטית שאינה מלוכדת דייה להושיט עזרה לים. החוקרים מתמודדים עם שאלות שאחרים חוששים לעלות: האם התדרדרות המצב נובעת מהזנחה או ממדיניות מיושנת וקלוקלת? האם הממשלה רשאית להעדיף מגזר אחד של המדינה לצורך אספקת מים כאשר מגזר אחר משלם את נזקי ההעדפה? מדוע ניתן זיכיון של 3% משטח המדינה לחברה פרטית בלי לחייבה לעמוד בסטנדרטים סביבתיים בינלאומיים? כיצד מיישמת ישראל את עקרונות הדין הבינלאומי בים המלח?

 בעמודים האחרונים של המאמר מוצגות מפת דרכים והמלצות לפעולה.

The Evolution of the Law and Politics of Water

The Evolution of the Law and Politics of Water presents an overview of global trends in water law and policy and assesses current global water governance. It provides an historic understanding of how and why after 5,000 years of water governance, that governance still has not reached stability. It identifies the key research questions for water law and policy while providing an overview of the current global water governance regime, its evolving characteristics, and the legal theories involved in these changes. It focuses on water law and discusses the characteristics of national, supranational, and international water law through a combination of case studies and thematic chapters.
Dani Livni and Richard Laster took part in this project, and contributed two chapters.

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