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Welcome to the
Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Management
A graduate
program
A graduate
program in natural resource and environmental
management started in fall of 1998 at the
Faculty of Social Sciences at University of
Haifa.The special perspective of the department
is its balanced and comprehensive approach and
its practical orientation to problems of the
environment and managing natural resources and
the environment.
Special emphasis is placed the interrelationship
of the environment, resources, economics, and
society. The department does not focus on
ecology or the study of engineering aspects of
environmental pollution of any kind; rather, it
relates to all sectors of managing the
environment and natural resources, from the
global level of climatic change processes,
desertification, pollution, and the destruction
of resources to the decision-making system that
is necessary for the proper management of
resources.
The objective of the department is to train
personal at a high academic level to cope with
and find solutions for problems in the area of
policy-making and decision-making on the subject
of preserving the environment and lasting
development.
The department is also meant, among others, to
train personnel who will be able to integrate
into the professional level of governmental
ministries, local authorities, municipal
associations for environmental quality, such
public bodies as the Nature Preservation
Authority and the National Parks Authority, the
Jewish National Fund, and such voluntary groups
as the Nature Protection Society,
Man-Nature-Law, and others.
The proposed program includes a complementary
combination of courses from the relevant courses
in social sciences (geography, economics, public
administration, psychology, and sociology), life
sciences (biology, ecology), law, and
technology. Experts from the public and
commercial sector will also be integrated into
the instructional set up. Methodologically the
program rests on the existing laboratory
infrastructure at the University of Haifa in the
fields of biology, climate, geomorphology,
computerized cartography, geographical
information systems, and remote sensing.
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