Overview
- Results from a mega-ecological project spanning 70 years
- Provides special insights into the Hula Valley as a natural habitat
- Offers a unique contribution to global climate change research and to the regional geopolitical consequences
Part of the book series: Springer Geography (SPRINGERGEOGR)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The anxious search for agricultural income resources, and assurance of the national water supply in the northern newly created state of Israel initiated the national project of the Hula Drainage. The implementation of this project was accompanied as of today by research and monitoring of the ecological trait aimed at crop harvest improvement in the Hula valley and prevention of water quality deterioration in Lake Kinneret. Forty years later a reclamation project to improve the peat soil property and renovate the hydrological system was carried out. This book documents the scientific research carried out during this mega-ecological project. Several issues of the ecological renovation and its impact on the Hula valley management and water quality in lake Kinneret are presented in this book.
The advantage and contribution of a newly created shallow lake Agmon-Hula to nutrient dynamics, and hydrological control, accompanied by avian presence, (among others,Cranes, Storks, Pelicans, Flamingoes) and plants renewal which enhanced, tourism; potential impact of nitrogen and sulfate migration from the Hula valley on the Kinneret water quality; the role of climate change on the ecology of the Hula Valley and the Kinneret nutrient availabilities and phytoplankton community; the subterranean migration of water and nutrients and water loss. Further proposals for future development are under consideration.
This book presents a comprehensive practical management implementation of a long-term ecological project. Results of scientific and monitoring research which followed the project implementation benefit the international and national communities.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agriculture, Recreation, Water Quality and Nature Protection in the Hula Valley, Israel
Book Subtitle: 70 years of a Mega-ecological Project
Authors: Moshe Gophen
Series Title: Springer Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23412-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23411-8Published: 28 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23414-9Published: 01 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23412-5Published: 27 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2194-315X
Series E-ISSN: 2194-3168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 243
Number of Illustrations: 66 b/w illustrations, 72 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Environment, general, Ecosystems, Climate, general, Agriculture