Combating desertification: evolving perceptions and strategies

Alon Tal

Combating desertification: evolving perceptions and strategies

Alon Tal

The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Abstract

WHEN DAVID BEN-GURION stunned the nation in 1953 and moved to Sede Boqer, a newly formed, remote southern kibbutz, it was a radical statement from a radical leader reflecting the depth of his personal commitment to conquering the Negev desert. Ben-Gurion was obsessed with what he perceived to be the neglected state of Israel's southlands-an area that included some 60 percent of the country's area, but only a tiny fraction of its people. After leading his nation through a war of independence, it was as if he had decided to personally wage war against his country's hot and desolate desert: "If the state does not exterminate the desert.. the desert will exterminate the state" was his grim battle cry.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Between Ruin and Restoration
Subtitle of host publication	An Environmental History of Israel
Editors	Char Miller, Daniel E Orenstein, Tal Alon
Pages	106-128
Number of pages	23
Volume	9780822978114
ISBN (Electronic)	9780822978114
State	Published - 2013

Publication series

Name	History of the urban environment
Publisher	University of Pittsburgh Press

UN SDGs

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SDG 15 Life on Land

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Desertification -- Government policy -- Israel

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