The multifunctional cultural landscape in the southern arid and semi-arid region in Israel (the Northern Negev) has been shaped by human activity over the millenia.
These anthropogenic ecosystems, common to the northern Negev, are degraded systems that regularly lose soil and water resources necessary to support the ecosystem in its entirety.
David Brand, Chief Forester, Head of the Forestry Department, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund;
Itshack Moshe, Deputy Director, Southern Region, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund; and
Moshe Shachak, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Published in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Living Land journal, 2015, pp.88-92
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