Dr. Benny Furst

Lecturer in The Following courses:

40481 - The environment: A multifaceted issue
40112 - Environmental activism in Israel- social and political aspects
40254 - Holy EcologyEnvironmental Aspects of Contemporary Jerusalem

Geographer, urban planner and environmentalist. Formerly coordinator of planning at the Ministry of Environmental Protection. research topics: regional and urban planning, environmental activism, environmental history of Israel, historical geography of Jerusalem, development and sustainability in Africa.  

 

Publications:

A Morphology of Cultural Transformation: The Campaign to Save Israel's Wildflowers and its Spatial Impacts, Research Paper 17, Institute for Israel Studies, University of Maryland, September 2017.  

Ecology, Environment, Sustainability: The Development of the Environmental Movement in IsraelCultural and Religious Studies, Vol. 4(4), April 2016.

Scale and Scope of Environmental Planning Transformations- the Israeli Case (with Shmueli, D., Feitelson, E., Hann, I.), Planning Theory and Practice,Vol.16(3), 2015.

Environmental Campaigns in Israel and their Spatial Impact, chapter from "Occupy the Earth: Global Environmental Movements", Emerald publishers, 2014.

"Think Global- Act Local": A Descriptive Analysis of Environmental Protest Organization- The Case of GreenPeace IsraelResearch Paper 7, Institute for Israel Studies, University of Maryland, April 2012.