Twite, Robin: "Our shared environment". - S. 1-6. Issac, Jad: Environmental protection and sustainable development in Palestine. - S. 7-21. Fletcher, Elaine: Israel's environment: government, media and the public. - S. 22-57. Qleibo, Ali: Design for life. - S. 58-62. Mustafa, Ihsan: The general public and the environment: the role of environmental education and the media in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. - S. 63-76. Sagi, Yoav: Peace and open landscape. - S. 77-88. Abu-Asab, Mones S.: Sustaining the wonders: natural habits in the age of tranquility. - S. 89-96. Kuttab, Jonathan: Legal aspects of environmental control in Palestine. - S. 97-106. Laster, Richard: Environmental law in Israel today. - S. 107-146. Inbar, Yossi; Nissim, Ilan; Shapira, Dekel Amir: The state of solid waste in Israel. - S. 147-168. Hmaidi, Mohammad Said al-: The solid waste problem in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. - S. 169-181. Richter, Elihu: Sustainable agriculture and pesticides. - S. 182-196. Abu-el-Haj, Sameer: The pesticide dilemma. - S. 197-213. Fletcher, Elaine: Israelis transportation and the environment. - S. 214-245. Tal, Alon: Enmity in the wind: regulation of transboundary air pollution in an Israeli-Palestinian Environmental Agreement. S. 246-278. Assaf, Karen: Palestinian water resources - water quality. - S. 279-313. Eisenberg, Aharon: Drinking water quality in Israel. - S. 314-339. Brachya, Valerie: Environmental management through land use planning in Israel. - S. 339-354. Safi, Jamal M.: The state of the environment in Gaza Strip. - S. 355-373
Schwartz, Eilon: Are we as trees in the field? Jewish perspectives on environment ethics. - S. 4-11. Assaf, Said: Overview of some traditional agricultural practices used by Palestinians in the protection of the environment. - S. 11-18. Kumar, Satish: Spiritual ecology. - S. 19-25. Avnimelech, Yoram: Some considerations about sustainable water and land use. - S. 26-33. Isaac, Jan: Sustainable development and the Palestinians. - S.33-48. Khoshman, Mahmoud: The concept and prospect of sustainability in the Middle East. - S. 49-54. Assaf, Karen: Water - a national resource for Palestinians - and the significance of its quality. - S. 56-62. Abd-el-Jabbar, Faid: Preserving water quality; a case study Zarka River basin. - S. 62-70. Muszkat, Lea: Groundwater quality, problems and solutions. - S. 70-86. Tal, Alon: Environmental law in Israel and its enforcement. - S. 87-100. Kuttab, Jonathan: Palestinian environmental planning and legislation. - S. 100-120. Ajjour, Mohamed: Introduction to the Gaza environmental profile. - S. 121-126. Koopmans, Reitse: Environmental problems in the Gaza Strip. - S. 126-132. Gischler, Maarten: Water resources of the Gaza Strip. - S. 132-145. Marinov, Uri: Environmental management in a developing country. - S. 146-153. Qaq, Anis al-: The PNA and environmental management. - S. 154-168. Zohar, Aharon: To live with the environment in peace. - S. 168-189. Peri, Don: The protection of open spaces: guidelines for nature conservation in Israel. - S. 190-210. Gerlin, Dan: Pest controll-associated pollution, problems and possible solutions. - S. 211-228. Hmaidi, Mohammad Said al-: Solid waste management in the West Bank and Gaza. - S. 229-234. Inbar, Yossi: Solid waste management in Israel. - S. 234-254. Taylor, Chris: Environmental education: a project approach. - S. 255-263. Mustafa, Ihsan: Environmental education in the Palestinian Territories. - S. 263-267. Delson, Beth: Environmental learning in an environmental context. - S. 267-271. Shalit, Avner de: Where do environmentalists hide? - S. 271-279. Walker, Dwight: USAID and the environment. - S. 280-286. Hoadley, Bill: UNRWA and the environment. - S. 287-295. Safi, Jamal: The Gaza Strip and regional environmental cooperation programs. - S. 296-299. Burhenne, Wolfgang: The challenge of environmental protection. - S. 299-302. Goldsmith, John R.: Concluding remarks. - S. 303-310
Wiedergabe der Statements der Konferenzteilnehmer in den einzelnen Sektionen (Rolle von Umweltfaktoren bei der Förderung von Kooperation im Nahen Osten; Entwicklung und Umwelt; Transport-, Gesundheitswesen und Lebensqualität; Energie und Wasser; Wasserqualität in der Westbank und im Central District von Israel; Rolle des Rechts im Umweltschutz; Ressourcenprotektion für Gaza und Westbank; das Tote Meer; Naturschutz; ländliches Leben im 21. Jahrhundert; regionale Zusammenarbeit bei Pestiziden; Mechanismen für bessere Zusammenarbeit). (DÜI-Sdt)
In this paper, the author argues that conceptually there are supportive relationships between complex adaptive leadership frameworks and shared collaborative governance mechanisms. The purpose of this paper is to address the nexus between the framework of complex adaptive leadership and collaborative structure that necessitates organizational governance mechanisms that exists cross-functional boundaries. The organizational interests and politics, accountability and control, and the leadership challenges of complex organizational processes influence the firm’s relational and social capability to collaborate. The author proposes a paradigm shift to reform current traditional leadership methodologies to construct new adaptive leadership methodologies that govern collaborative relationships in today’s complex environment.
Existing behavior-genetic research implicates substantial influence of heredity and modest influence of shared environment on reading achievement and reading disability. Applying DeFries-Fulker analysis to a combined sample of twins and adoptees (N = 4,886, including 266 reading-disabled probands), the present study replicates prior findings of considerable heritability for both reading achievement and reading disability. A simple biometric model adequately described parent and offspring data (combined N = 9,430 parents and offspring) across differing types of families present in the sample Analyses yielded a high heritability estimate (around 0.70) and a negligible shared-environmentality estimate for both reading achievement and reading disability. No evidence of gene × environment interaction was found for parental reading ability and parental educational attainment, the two moderators analyzed.
Using a combined sample of adolescent twins, biological siblings, and adoptive siblings, we estimated and compared the differential shared-environmentality for high cognitive ability and the shared-environmental variance for the full range of ability during adolescence. Estimates obtained via multiple methods were in the neighborhood of 0.20, and suggest a modest effect of the shared environment on both high and full-range ability. We then examined the association of ability with three measures of the family environment in a subsample of adoptive siblings: parental occupational status, parental education, and disruptive life events. Only parental education showed significant (albeit modest) association with ability in both the biological and adoptive samples. We discuss these results in terms of the need for cognitive-development research to combine genetically sensitive designs and modern statistical methods with broad, thorough environmental measurement.
Recently, there has been a revolution in the availability of spatial information and in the development of tools and applications for managing geographical content in any field of interest and in particular, in the field of Environment and Biodiversity – the variety of ecosystems, species and genes, which is the world’s natural capital and its conservation is a key environmental priority for the EU. An ideal workflow would assume that all environmental data being made publicly available by authorities at local, regional, national or European level would be published making use of transparent standards, maximizing interoperability and hence enormously enhancing its usefulness to the public. The EU legislation, regarding the reports on biodiversity conservation in all Member States Protected Areas (Article 6, Habitats Directive, 1992; Articles 9 and 12, Birds Directive, 2009), as well as INSPIRE Directive, which requires that common Implementing Rules (IR) to be adopted in a number of specific areas and ensure that the spatial data infrastructures of the Member States are compatible and usable in a Community and trans boundary context, make possible the implementation of such an ideal workflow. In order to support this workflow in Romania, hence in order to support INSPIRE Directive implementation transposed into national legislation, it becomes feasible to make use of the national reported biodiversity data harvested as XML and additional spatial formats after the validation and official approval procedures have been completed. However, the absence of reliable information can have the most serious consequences for the understanding of biodiversity as well as for decision making. Therefore as a priority before reporting, there was a need for better information that needed to be equally accessible to all interested parties. In this context Esri Romania in association with different stakeholders responsible for environmental management (including the Romanian National Institute of Biology) takes part in such international efforts and in addition it contributes in developing different Shared Environmental Information Systems as well as a Biodiversity Monitoring System available at local, regional and national level. These systems tie in better all existing data gathering and information flows related to EU environmental policies and legislation, and it will make environmental information more readily available and easier to understand to policy makers and the public. In addition, the underlying aim of all these Shared Environmental Information systems and monitoring systems in Romania is also to move away from paper-based reporting to a national e-reporting system where information is managed as close as possible to its source and made available to users in an open and transparent way. This complex e-reporting system was implemented in a Consortium with the National Institute of Biology, and has already made significant progress to support Romanian legal reporting obligations under European Union and international environmental policies and legislation. Therefore, for a successful implementation at national level it is tremendously important to have a decentralized solution in order to develop a large scale assessment. As a further focus, all the Shared Environmental Information Systems available in Romanian, tide to this national e-reporting system in terms of shared environmentally-related data and information, aims to address INSPIRE Directive Implementation challenges, which is an on-going project. This presentation, exposes from a member state best practice perspective, the challenges of implementing Shared Environmental Information Systems as a solution to fulfill Romanian legal reporting obligations under European Union and to further address and sustain environment-related INSPIRE challenges. This solution, which can host both reporting services, monitoring services and services adapted to inform the public continuously on the state of their environment does not only facilitate better coherence and better accessibility of environmental data, but potentially can significantly decrease the efforts of INSPIRE Directive Implementation in Romania.