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Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues - From Conflict To Cooperation This book Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues- From Conflict to Coope- tion authored by a group of leading Palestinian, Israeli and international water experts is a unique and timely document illustrating the imp- tance of mutual understanding, respect and amity among peoples d- ing a difficult period of stress, whose leaders, sadly, have not yet found the way of resolving the conflicts between them and of living in peace with each other. Nevertheless it is a book which demonstrates hope, - timism and belief that people with good will in their hearts can help contribute to finding the way to peace and mutual cooperation in so- ing shared problems essential for their mutual survival and welfare. nd The participants in the 2 Israeli- Palestinian International Conference on Water for Life in the Middle East held in Antalya Turkey in October 2004, which served as the source of most of the papers in this book concluded the Conference with the following declaration: We two hundred participants in this Israeli-Palestinian International Conference ... complete our conference with a sense of optimism. It is clear that the Palestinian and Israeli participants, along with their international partners remain committed to solving the many challenges associated with water quantity and quality in our region.
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Professor HILLEL SHUVAL is Director of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Hadassah Academic College-Jerusalem and Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He served as initiator and co-chairman of the First and Second Israeli-Palestinian International Conferences on Water held in Zurich in 1992 and Antalya, Turkey, 2004.
Professor HASSAN DWEIK is a Professor of Polymer and Industrial Chemistry at the Al-Quds University in Jerusalem; he served as the co-Chairman of the Second Israeli-Palestinian International Conference on Water in Antalya in 2004. He is Executive Vice President at Al-Quds University. He has published many articles on environmental issues in Palestine, in particular on water pollution and solid waste management.
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Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues – From Conflict To Cooperation This book Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues- From Conflict to Coope- tion authored by a group of leading Palestinian, Israeli and international water experts is a unique and timely document illustrating the imp- tance of mutual understanding, respect and amity among peoples d- ing a difficult period of stress, whose leaders, sadly, have not yet found the way of resolving the conflicts between them and of living in peace with each other. Nevertheless it is a book which demonstrates hope, - timism and belief that people with good will in their hearts can help contribute to finding the way to peace and mutual cooperation in so- ing shared problems essential for their mutual survival and welfare. nd The participants in the 2 Israeli- Palestinian International Conference on Water for Life in the Middle East held in Antalya Turkey in October 2004, which served as the source of most of the papers in this book concluded the Conference with the following declaration: We two hundred participants in this Israeli-Palestinian International Conference … complete our conference with a sense of optimism. It is clear that the Palestinian and Israeli participants, along with their international partners remain committed to solving the many challenges associated with water quantity and quality in our region.
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"… Einige der wichtigsten israelischen, palästinensischen und internationalen Wasserexperten zeigen die unterschiedlichen Facetten der Wasserfrage in Israel und Palästina auf und verdeutlichen die Wichtigkeit gegenseitigen Verständnisses, Respekts und freundschaftlichen Umgangs zwischen zwei Völkern ... Der Großteil der Beiträge beschäftigt sich mit natur- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Aspekten der israelisch-palästinensischen Wasserversorgung, das Buch enthält ... auch einige politische und völkerrechtliche Beiträge. Es stellt eine gute und umfassende Einführung in das Themenfeld ‘Wasser in Nahost‘ dar ..." (in: ZPol - Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Juli 2008)
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Aus den Rezensionen:
"... Einige der wichtigsten israelischen, palästinensischen und internationalen Wasserexperten zeigen die unterschiedlichen Facetten der Wasserfrage in Israel und Palästina auf und verdeutlichen die Wichtigkeit gegenseitigen Verständnisses, Respekts und freundschaftlichen Umgangs zwischen zwei Völkern ... Der Großteil der Beiträge beschäftigt sich mit natur- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Aspekten der israelisch-palästinensischen Wasserversorgung, das Buch enthält ... auch einige politische und völkerrechtliche Beiträge. Es stellt eine gute und umfassende Einführung in das Themenfeld 'Wasser in Nahost' dar ..." (in: ZPol - Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Juli 2008)
