Preferred Citation: Tal, Alon. Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel. Berkeley, Calif:  University of California Press,  c2002 2002. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6199q5jt/

 
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Contents

  List of Illustrations ix
  Acknowledgments xi
  Preface xv
1. The Pathology of a Polluted River:
An Introduction to Israel's Environmental Crises
1
2. Reclaiming a Homeland:
Zionism's Mixed Ecological Message 		19
3. Palestine's Environment, 1900–1949:
Prelude to Disaster or Benign Half-Century? 		35
4. The Forest's Many Shades of Green 69
5. The Emergence of an Israeli
Environmental Movement 		113
6. A General Launches a War for Wildlife 155
7. The Quantity and Quality of Israel's
Water Resources 		199
8. Israel's Urban Environment, 1948–1988:
The Politics of Neglect 		243
9. A Ministry of the Environment Comes of Age 283
10. Israel, Arabs, and the Environment 327
11. Environmental Activism Hits Its Stride 367
12. Toward a Sustainable Future? 405
  Notes 435
  Index 517
 

Preferred Citation: Tal, Alon. Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel. Berkeley, Calif:  University of California Press,  c2002 2002. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6199q5jt/