Book of Abstracts

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New technique for measuring surface energy balance and soil water evaporation beneath sparse plant
canopies .................................................................................................................................................. 30
Sustainable agriculture in water-stressed, arid regions using aeroponics ............................................... 30
Modelling the water balance in low rainfall cereal systems of Southern Australia ................................ 30
DESERT ARCHITECTURE .................................................................................................................................... 31
Practical research supporting climatic and sustainable design in Zin School ........................................ 31
Architecture and city planning in dry areas: A case study of the Pink city of India .............................. 32
The services of cultural heritage in drylands: An approach from water traditional technologies as a
territory heritage system of desert .......................................................................................................... 32
Recognizing morphological patterns in built environments ................................................................... 33
Exploring barriers to providing resilience to buildings through design ................................................. 33
DESERTIFICATION AS CATASTROPHIC REGIME SHIFT: EMPIRICAL AND MATHEMATICAL
ASPECTS ................................................................................................................................................................... 34
Desertification as a gradual regime shift in spatially extended ecosystems ........................................... 34
Critical transitions due to interactions between climate and vegetation in drylands .............................. 35
Pattern dynamic in self-organized semi-arid vegetations: field and remote-sensing evidences ............. 35
The dynamics of vegetation patterns under slowly varying conditions .................................................. 35
Desertification vulnerability in Morocco ................................................................................................ 36
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ....................................................................................................................................... 36
Drylands conundrums: kangaroos versus sheep for conservation of Australia’s rangelands ................. 36
Overview of Jordan biodiversity and ecosystem services ...................................................................... 37
Spiders in Desert Agro-Ecosystems ....................................................................................................... 38
An Ecosystem Service Inventory: Lessons from the Northern Negev long-term social ecological
research (LTSER) platform .................................................................................................................... 38
Trans-border perceptions of ecosystem services in the desert: A social inquiry in the Southern Arava
Valley on both sides of the Israeli-Jordanian border .............................................................................. 38
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ........................................................................................................................ 39
Waste hazard implications on health and welfare in the Negev's Bedouin Arab community- the
children’s point of view .......................................................................................................................... 39
Construction of new place identity in an unrecognized Bedouin village – from alienation to
environmental responsibility .................................................................................................................. 40
Developing a renewable energy curriculum, based on experts' and 9th grade students’ perceptions .... 40
A place-based approach to enhancing 7th-9th grade students' systems thinking and understanding of
biodiversity ............................................................................................................................................. 41
Outdoor education and ecology literacy in the desert............................................................................. 41
Learning to live more lightly: Children’s understanding, attitudes and behavior in arid regions .......... 42
Turning a green leaf towards sustainability ............................................................................................ 43
Engineering for developing communities: A case study of education for sustainability in higher
education ................................................................................................................................................. 43
The schoolyard as a tool for addressing sustainable development and environmental issues in arid
countries ................................................................................................................................................. 43
EVOLUTION, CLIMATE AND MAN AS FACTORS LEADING TO DEGRADATION AND
PRODUCTIVITY LOSS IN TERRESTRIAL BIOMES ....................................................................................... 44
From evolutionary to anthropomorphic habitat degradation: a lesson from past cycles of
“desertification” to the present crises ..................................................................................................... 44
Spatial heterogeneity and food-web complexity – the role of ecosystem engineers in dryland
ecosystems .............................................................................................................................................. 45
Uncertain ecosystems: the ecology of open, non-forested vegetation .................................................... 46
Fragmentation and biodiversity patterns in fragmented semi-arid landscapes ....................................... 46