The Negev : The Challenge of a Desert / Naphtali Tadmor, Michael Evenari, Leslie Shanan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evenari, Michael, author.

Shanan, Leslie, author.

Tadmor, Naphtali, author.

Contributor:

Itzhaki, Yehoshua.

Shkolnik, Amiram.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arid regions agriculture.

Desert ecology.

Hydrology.

Wirtschaft.

Agriculture--Israel--Negev.

Arid regions agriculture--Israel--Negev.

Hydrology--Israel--Negev.

Physical geography--Israel--Negev.

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany.

Local Subjects:

Agriculture--Israel--Negev.

Arid regions agriculture--Israel--Negev.

Hydrology--Israel--Negev.

Physical geography--Israel--Negev.

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 p.): Zahlr. Abb.

Edition:

2nd ed. Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Negev, first published over a decade ago, told the story of some twenty years of study of southern Israel's desert. It synthesized the findings of botanists, geologists, soil scientists, agronomists, archaeologists, historians, and engineers and told how the applications of their work produced an agricultural surplus in this forbiddingly dry, hot region. , Now Michael Evenari has amplified the book with data from another decade of work. He describes the efforts at a new farm at Wadi Mashash, extends the weather data another ten years, presents further work on the adaptations of plants and animals to desert conditions, and takes a much deeper look at the historical precedents for the method of runoff agriculture, which has made the desert bloom.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

I. In The Beginning

II. Desert Challenges

III. Man in the Negev

IV. The Negev-A Desert

V. Landforms and Landscapes

VI. The Geological History of the Negev

VII. Ancient Runoff Agriculture in the Negev

VIII. The Nitzana Papyri

IX. Stone Mounds and the Mechanics of Runoff

X. Drinking Water in the Desert

XI. Tapping Underground Water: The Chain of Wells

XII. The Reconstruction of the Farms

XIII. Agricultural Results: Field Crops, Vegetables, Medicinal and Pasture Plants

XIV. Agricultural Results: Fruit Trees

XV. Microcatchments (Negarin)

XVI. Adaptation of Plants to Desert Conditions. I

XVII. Adaptation of Plants to Desert Conditions. II

XVIII. Adaptation of Animals to Desert Conditions

XIX. The Farm at Wadi Mashash

XX. Recent Developments

XXI. Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-41925-1

OCLC:

979576387