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Time/ Location Evens Auditorium 8:30-10:30 PS7 parallel sessions Saving the Dead Sea: Evaluating Red Sea- Dead Sea Water Conveyance Old Administration Building Carbon accounting and Minimization in Rural and Arid Environments 6 Thursday, 15 November Hydrology Seminar room Classroom 1 Italian-Israeli Bilateral Cooperation Session 10:30-10:40 Room change and coffee break 10:40-12:10 PS8 parallel sessions International Arid Lands Consortium (IALC) Program Review 12:10-13:30 Closing Remarks 13:30-14:30 Lunch 15:00 Buses depart Transboundary management of Water Resources in the Drylands Soil and Land Restoration in the Drylands (1) Soil and Land Restoration in the Drylands (2) Classroom 2 Informal Employment of women in Rural Arid Lands Environmental Education (2) Biology Classrooms (33+ 132) Special program Spanish/ Russian Mashav groups (2 rooms) Special program Spanish/ Russian Mashav groups (2 rooms)
7 Table of Contents OPENING STATEMENT......................................................................................................................................... 13 Israel, Desertification, and the Human Predicament .............................................................................. 13 APPLICATION OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN RANGELAND RESEARCH ....................................... 14 Temporal evolution of grasslands and open shrublands in pastoral landscapes of Greece .................... 14 State of the art in monitoring the behavior and nutrition of grazing animals: the Italian and Israeli experience ............................................................................................................................................... 14 Possibilities and limitations of intake estimation in goats foraging a Mediterranean shrubland using acoustic variables .................................................................................................................................... 15 Patch-size distribution of dwarf shrubs in a semiarid grazing land under different soil moisture conditions ............................................................................................................................................... 16 CARBON ACCOUNTING AND MINIMIZATION IN RURAL AND DRYLAND ENVIRONMENTS ......... 16 Climate change impact on the livelihood of farmers .............................................................................. 16 Options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions during wastewater treatment for agricultural reuse ......... 17 Carbon accounting in smallholder dryland farming for sustainable development ................................. 17 Carbon cautious: Israel’s policies regarding afforestation and carbon sequestration ............................. 18 On-site sheep and goat manure digestion followed by Biogas production & aerobic composting. ....... 18 Decision support system for development and integration of technologies for energy reclamation from municipal wastes..................................................................................................................................... 19 CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE DRYLANDS: ADAPTATION AND BEYOND ABSTRACTS ........................ 20 Adapting drylands to the changing climate ............................................................................................ 20 Multilateral Climate Change Funds and the Governance of Climate Risks ........................................... 20 The Green Belt Movement’s Grassroots Community Empowerment: Climate Change Adaptation and Beyond .................................................................................................................................................... 21 CREATING WATER SENSITIVE CITIES IN ISRAEL ...................................................................................... 21 Rethinking the Law and Policy of Protected Areas in a Warming World .............................................. 22 Sustainable urban water management and Urban Design: the Israeli case ............................................. 22 Water-sensitive urban design: Effect of surface moisture and vegetation on thermal comfort in desert cities ........................................................................................................................................................ 22 Setting the Scene and Vision for Water Sensitive Cities in Israel .......................................................... 23 A physically-based approach to simulate urban stormwater pollution ................................................... 23 Piloting water sensitive urban technologies in Israel; 1 st pilot in Kfar-Sava .......................................... 24 DESERT AGRICULTURE: WATER AND ENERGY FLUXES FROM AGRICULTURAL SOILS ............. 24 Soil evaporation in a drip-irrigated vineyard in a desert area ................................................................. 24 Evaporation from layered soil profiles: Impact of soil surface sealing on water regime in a semiarid hillslope .................................................................................................................................................. 25 Nano irrigation: The next step in water management practices .............................................................. 25 Study of evapotranspiration for estimation of harvested water storage efficiency ................................. 26 Estimating precipitation and actual evaporation from precision lysimeter measurements ..................... 26 Effects of wind and sand on cotton seedling establishment and survival. .............................................. 27 Biocrusts increase evaporation from sand dunes: The role of surface albedo, temperature and wind upon evaporation .................................................................................................................................... 27 Study of vulnerability of the Northern Negev agriculture to droughts with the spatially explicit model of agriculture land-use dynamics ............................................................................................................ 28 Soil evaporation revisited – what controls evaporation dynamics from porous surfaces? ..................... 28 Saline Aquaponics: Perspectives for Drylands Food Production ........................................................... 29 Agro-biowaste management scheme: Biosolids stabilization and reuse as amendment to arid agricultural soil ....................................................................................................................................... 29
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Page 3 and 4: Time/ Location Evens Auditorium 8:0
Page 5: 5 Wednesday, 14 November- Tentative
Page 9 and 10: 9 Elimination of predators is a suf
Page 11 and 12: 11 The impact of detailed land-cove
Page 13 and 14: Opening Statement Israel, Desertifi
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Page 19 and 20: 19 The focus of this project is to
Page 21 and 22: 21 which these funds are affecting
Page 23 and 24: 23 In addition to collection and tr
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Page 27 and 28: 27 Whereas the soil water mass bala
Page 29 and 30: Saline Aquaponics: Perspectives for
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Page 33 and 34: 33 and its landscape. Finally, the
Page 35 and 36: Critical transitions due to interac
Page 37 and 38: 37 sustainable use of wildlife. The
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Page 41 and 42: 41 The results derived from the exp
Page 43 and 44: Turning a green leaf towards sustai
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57 Geographical indications, employ
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59 This study provides evidence for
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Nomadic People in Desert Regions: R
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65 in the same community, and in th
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Achieving ZNLD through people power
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national monitoring capacities - wh
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71 Conclusion: Evidence indicates t
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73 means of getting tangible result
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Assessment of afforestation managem
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79 the RMSE observed in the model o
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Using two complementary long-term r
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83 primarily from the AVHRR and MOD
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it is degradation and not woody enc
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89 great number of research works c
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emind us that in similar future sce
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Studies of Biological and Structura
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97 biome, but is characterized by a
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99 desalination, alternative conser
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101 West Africa faces rapid populat
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103 Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Ent
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