Drought and cooperation in a conflict prone area: Bedouin herders and Jewish farmers in Israel's northern Negev, 1957-1963

Political Geography

Volumn 51, Issue , 2016, Pages 30-42

  Tubi, Amit ^a   Feitelson, Eran ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conflict; Cooperation; Drought; Farmer; Herder

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; POLITICAL CONFLICT; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL HISTORY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84959254871     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.11.009     Document Type: Article

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