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Summary: The Definitive Environmental History of Israel
Review: Dr. Tal's book is a delight-- engaging, balanced,and very well written, while at the same time maintaining academic rigor. It focuses on both the considerable successes and notable failures of Israel's environmental movement and gives extensive profiles of all of the key players. I would highly recommend it for anyone who is interested in environmental policy, Israel, or anyone who just wants to read a well-written survey that encapsulates, in microcosm, many of the environmental challenges the world is facing today. As an environmentalist myself-- and as a staffer at Environmental Defense, a leading American environmental group, I can only salute the great work being done by Dr. Tal and his colleagues in Israel in bringing environmental awareness to a new generation of Israelis.
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Summary: The Definitive Environmental History of Israel
Review: Dr. Tal's book is a delight-- engaging, balanced,and very well written, while at the same time maintaining academic rigor. It focuses on both the considerable successes and notable failures of Israel's environmental movement and gives extensive profiles of all of the key players. I would highly recommend it for anyone who is interested in environmental policy, Israel, or anyone who just wants to read a well-written survey that encapsulates, in microcosm, many of the environmental challenges the world is facing today.
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Summary: The Definitive Environmental History of Israel
Review: Dr. Tal's book is a delight-- engaging, balanced,and very well written, while at the same time maintaining academic rigor. It focuses on both the considerable successes and notable failures of Israel's environmental movement and gives extensive profiles of all of the key players. I would highly recommend it for anyone who is interested in environmental policy, Israel, or anyone who just wants to read a well-written survey that encapsulates, in microcosm, many of the environmental challenges the world is facing today.
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Summary: Engaging read - Fascinating stories - a real lively book.
Review: It's really refreshing to read something about Israel that isn't focused, yet again, on the Arab-Israel conflict, but on an entirely different universe of challenges. If you like history that relies on interesting anecdotes then you'll really like this book. Oren Rosenthal
Newton, MA
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Summary: Engaging read - Fascinating stories - a real lively book.
Review: It's really refreshing to read something about Israel that isn't focused, yet again, on the Arab-Israel conflict, but on an entirely different universe of challenges. If you like history that relies on interesting anecdotes then you'll really like this book. Oren Rosenthal
Newton, MA
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Summary: The definitive text on Israel's environmental history
Review: Pollution in a Promised Land is a masterpiece of research and compilation written by the one Israeli who probably is as responsible as anyone in the country for moving the nascent Israeli environmental movement into the 21st century. If it is not already Pollution in a Promised Land is surely bound to become the text of choice for anyone interested in the development of the Israeli environmental movement in response to the environmental challenges faced by Israelis. Alon Tal has captured it all and told a very interesting story.
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Summary: Engaging History of Institutions and Activism
Review: This is an engaging book describing the economic and institutional development of the Holy Land from the time of the Turks, through the British Mandate period, to the present day. Despite the heft of this volume, the book is a very enjoyable read, and provides a fascinating perspective on the development of the institutions of the State of Israel, the priorities of the naescent state that led to environmental degredation, and the individuals, public interest groups, and government institutions that have tried and often succeeded to stem the tide.
The author, as a founding member of Israel's premier environmental legal advocacy group, has a unique, often first hand view of many of the recent events.
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Summary: Engaging History of Institutions and Activism
Review: This is an engaging book describing the economic and institutional development of the Holy Land from the time of the Turks, through the British Mandate period, to the present day. Despite the heft of this volume, the book is a very enjoyable read, and provides a fascinating perspective on the development of the institutions of the State of Israel, the priorities of the naescent state that led to environmental degredation, and the individuals, public interest groups, and government institutions that have tried and often succeeded to stem the tide.
The author, as a founding member of Israel's premier environmental legal advocacy group, has a unique, often first hand view of many of the recent events.
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