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Environmental Policy |
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| Results 1 - 10 of 30 for Environmental Policy |
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| Patterns in the Utilization of Constructed Land in Israel |
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Planning is naturally meant to arrange future reality, with the present as its starting point. So, too, is the planning in Israel: it tries to put order into complex and complicated systems that are managed in the confines of a small piece of land, on which a constantly growing population lives.The major issue with which national planning has been trying to cope for the last decade is the demand for building and development, which has come in response to the increase in population and the rise in housing standards. |
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| Invasive plant species in Israel’s natural areas: Distribution, stages of invasion, degrees of ecological threat and a tool for prioritizing control of invasive plant populations. |
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This research addresses the issue of alien invasive and naturalized plant species in natural and semi-natural areas in Israel. Previous research on alien plant taxa in Israel focused on agriculture weeds (Dafni & Heller, 1980,1990), whereas botanical notes and surveys (Danin, 2000, 2004) only mentioned the presence of some alien taxa without further descriptions of their areas of occurrence, the size of their populations and their various stages of invasion. Therefore, there was a need for a detailed study on alien plant taxa that occur, and in numerous cases invade, natural and semi-natural areas in Israel. Moreover, no study has yet attempted to determine which plant taxa and what particular populations should be targeted and prioritized for control in natural areas throughout the country. |
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| Indicators for Sustainable Development in Israel - Second Phase. |
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Sustainable development policy in Israel aims to respond to the development needs of a progressive, modern and egalitarian society, while preserving vital spatial and environmental resources.
The policy is designed to accommodate a growing population and a continuous rise in standard of living while wisely and efciently utilizing the country's resources and assuring opportunities and services to the weakest population groups; to allocate space for development and building while conserving land resources, especially high quality and sensitive ones; to meet the annual demand for water while preserving the quality of diferent water sources and assuring their quantity and continuation for future generations; and to meet the needs of industry, transport and energy production while maintaining air quality for the pleasure and health of the general
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| Using Indirect Legislation to Protect Open Spaces and Farmland |
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Not all modern farmers have the deep connection to the land as their forefathers
did. Under economic pressure, many are ready to give up a life of hard work for
the promise of financial security that developers can provide. In an attempt to protect agricultural landscapes, numerous countries throughout the world use economic incentives and laws, but to no avail. |
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| Underground Mining of Aggregates for the Building and Road-Paving Industry |
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It is customary to plan for the provision of raw materials for building and paving roads for a span of 40 or 50 years, and that is due to their economic importance and the necessity of ensuring their accessibility on a continuous and unobstructed basis. An optimal system of planning, working in the surroundings of a free market and a developing economy, aims to offer quantities of raw materials for building and road paving that are double or triple the expected demand for a given period of planning. |
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