Geographical information on Palestine
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Palestine:
Environmental and Nature Links
Added January 13,
2004
UNEP
Desk Study on the Environment in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories
U.N. Environment Programme report, released January 2003.
United
Nations Environment Programme to Study Palestinian Territories
Environment in late June/early July 2002:
News release
Applied
Research Institute -- Jerusalem
Monitors effects of Israeli settlement policies in the occupied
territories. Planning of land use, environmental policies, and
modeling of sustainable development for Palestine.
The
Palestinian Environment Between the Anvil of Sociopolitical Change
and the Hammer of Occupation
An environmental report by the Applied Research Institute --
Jerusalem.
PENGON
The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network.
Maps
of Israeli Interests in Judea and
Samaria
A 1998 Israeli report that outlines four main criteria for deciding
which lands in the West Bank should be handed over to Palestinian
control, and which Israel should retain. One of these is the location
of underground aquifers.
Magazine Articles
Cockburn, Andrew. 2002. Lines in the sand: Deadly times in the West Bank and Gaza. National Geographic: October 2002, pp. 102-111.
Cockburn, Andrew. 2002 (Online Extra). No respite for West Bank locals. National Geographic on-line.
Jordan River, north of the Dead Sea, seen from the Jordanian side. On the other side is the West Bank. Photo credit: Marlin E. Rice.
This page was created on December 22, 2002, and most recently
updated on January 13, 2004.