Madhav Adikari
M.A. 2004 |
Geographic Location as a Determinant of Urban Growth: A GIS Assisted Analysis of Urban Development Patterns in Nepal
Advisors: Moshe Schwartz, Boris Portnov |
Yael Bar-Ilan
M.A. 2008 |
Policy Mechanisms for Promoting Energy-efficient Building: Suitability and Application in Israel
Advisors: David Pearlmutter, Alon Tal |
Shiri Bass-Specktor
M.A. 2009 |
Cities and Climate Change: The CO2 Impact of Different Land Use Plans for Beer-Sheva
Advisors: Alon Tal, Yodan Rofè |
Sawsan Batarseh
M.Sc. 2008 |
Climate Change and Drought Analysis in Jordan: P/PET Aridity Index Classification and Mapping of the Dryland Zones
Advisor: Hendrik Bruins |
Maria Florencia Bellesi
M.A. 2004 |
Comparative Advantage: the Impact of ISO 14001 Environmental Certification on Israel Exports
Advisors: Moshe Schwartz, Alon Tal |
Illanit Ben Dor
M.A. 2004 |
Jewish Individual Farm Settlements in the Negev
Advisor: Pnina Motzafi-Haller |
Abra Berkowitz
M.A. 2009 |
What are Planners Planning and Why? Residential Development and Ideology in the Northern Negev
Advisors: Sarab Abu-Rabia, Daniel Orenstein |
Roni Biller
M.A. 2009 |
Comparative Advantage: the Impact of ISO 14001 Environmental Certification on Israel Exports
Advisors: Yaakov Garb, Moshe Schwartz |
Dmitry Brychkov
M.A. 2010* |
Cultural Aspects of Thermal Comfort
Advisors: David Pearlmutter, Yaakov Garb |
Asmini Bwebwe
M.A. 2007 |
Gender and Water Development in the Congo
Advisor: Pnina Motzafi-Haller |
Annita Churrie
M.A. 2006 |
Stakeholder Participation in Rural Collective Action Groups: Kitengela, Kajiado District, Kenya
Advisors: Moshe Schwartz, Hendrik Bruins |
Alex Cicelsky
M.Sc. 2010* |
Parametric Analysis of Environmentally Responsive (Energy Conserving) Strategies for Building Envelopes Specific for the Southern Arava Valley
Advisors: Isaac Meir, David Pearlmutter |
Jeremy Cohen
M.A. 2007 |
Lifestyle and Energy Consumption in Kibbutzim in the Arava Valley
Advisors: David Pearlmutter, Moshe Schwartz |
Bezalel Cohen
M.A. 2010* |
Desert Architecture - Midreshet Sde-Boker as a Case Study
Advisor: Isaac Meir |
Yosefa Davara
M.Sc. 2010* |
Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) of Office Buildings – The new government campus in Beer-Sheva
Advisors: Isaac Meir, Moshe Schwartz |
Jiao Dixin
M.Sc. 2010 |
The Relation between Urban Microclimate and Subjective Thermal Sensation in an Arid Region
Advisor: David Pearlmutter |
Avigail Dolev
M.A. 2005 |
The Courtyard as an Indicator of the Effect of Buildings on Dust Deposition in Several Wind Conditions
Advisors: Evyatar Erell, Sergey Birykov |
Roee Elisha
M.A. 2006 |
Water Budget Analysis around the Dead Sea in Israel, Jordan and the District of Jericho
Advisors: Hendrik Bruins, Clive Lipchin |
Sawsan Essa
M.Sc. 2009 |
Barriers to Widespread Adoption of Solar Water Heaters in Jordan and Israel
Advisors: Yaakov Garb, Evyatar Erell |
Gabriella Feierstein
M.A. 2009 |
Open Spaces in a Desert City: Is Green really Green?
Advisor: Yodan Rofè |
Kelly (Kalila) Feineman
M.A. 2005 |
Our Home and Place
Advisor: Moshe Schwartz |
Anat Folkman-Biller
M.Sc. 2007 |
The General Performance of Internal Courtyards - Beer Sheva's Patio Houses as a Case Study
Advisor: Isaac Meir |
Liat Frenkel
M.A. 2007 |
Iron-Age Settlements and Bedouin Encampments in the Central Negev Desert: Spatial Analysis, Site Characteristics and Resource Management
Advisor: Hendrik Bruins |
Chanoch Friedman
M.A. 2010* |
Financial Analysis of Production Under Israel's New Feed-In Tariff for Solar Power
Advisor: Yaakov Garb |
Shiri Fundaminsky
M.A. 2007 |
Stakeholder Attitudes toward Energy-efficient Building: A Neighborhood Case Study
Advisors: David Pearlmutter, Moshe Schwartz |
Rimma Gluhih
M.A. 2003 |
Private farming in Turkmenistan - Performance and constraints
Advisor: Moshe Schwartz |
Jennifer Golding
M.A. 2010* |
Assessing the Energy Efficiency of Straw-bale Domes in Kibbutz Lotan, Arava
Advisor: Isaac Meir |
Tsofit Goren
M.A. 2010* |
Negev Bedouin Conceptions of Child Abuse and Maltreatment: Implications for Practice and for a Multicultural Approach to Children "At Risk"
Advisor: Yaakov Garb |
Suleiman Halasah
M.Sc. 2009 |
Life-cycle Energy Analysis of Photovoltaic Systems in the Arava: A Generation-scale Comparison
Advisors: David Pearlmutter, Daniel Feuermann |
Tal Holzman
M.A. 2006 |
Settlement Patterns in the Negev from the Hellenistic to Early Muslim Period
Advisor: Hendrik Bruins |
Angela Danielle Horvath
M.A. 2006 |
Smallholder Cotton in Kita, Western Mali
Advisor: Moshe Schwartz |
Nora Huberman
M.A. 2006 |
Life Cycle Energy Costs of Building Materials: Alternatives for a Desert Environment
Advisors: David Pearlmutter, Yair Etzion |
Hemu Kafle Kharel
M.Sc. 2004 |
The Dryland Zones of Israel according to the Convention to Combat Desertification: Temporal and Spatial Variations 1970-2002
Advisor: Hendrik Bruins |
Elana Katz-Mink
M.A. 2010* |
Cooperative Governance Structure for the Proposed Red Sea-Dead Sea Conduit
Advisors: Hendrik Bruins, Clive Lipchin |
Phoenix Lawhon
M.A. 2006 |
The Politics of Wastewater Standards: Technocracy, Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Decline of Agricultural Power
Advisor: Moshe Schwartz |
Oded Lerman
M.A. 2008 |
Kibbutz Neot Smadar – Between Autarky and Utopia
Advisor: Isaac Meir |
Elise Machline
M.A. 2006 |
Demographic Decline in A Rural Periphery: the Eshkol region in Israel
Advisor: Moshe Schwartz |
Hadeel Mageed
M.Sc. 2007 |
Catastrophic Shifts and Pattern Formation in Poa bulbosa as Responses to Simulated Grazing
Advisors: Moshe Shachak, Yaakov Garb |
Ilana Meallem
M.A. 2006 |
Patterns of Solid Waste Disposal among Bedouin Settlements in the Negev: Environmental and Cultural Analysis
Advisors: Pnina Motzafi-Haller, Yaakov Garb |
Ariel Meraiot
M.A. 2005 |
The ancient city of Avdat: Spatial planning connections between the built up city and the surroundings
Advisors: Isaac Meir, Hendrik Bruins |
Yonat Mordoch
M.A. 2009 |
The Use and Domestication of Desert Plants by the Bedouins
Advisors: Sarab Abu-Rabia, Elaine Soloway |
Maya Negev
M.A. 2008 |
Environmental Literacy in Israel: A National Survey
Advisors: Alon Tal, Yaakov Garb |
Monica Njeri
M.A. 2007 |
Critical Analysis of Projects of Housing for the Poor in Kenya
Advisor: Pnina Motzafi-Haller |
Abel Njuguna
M.A. 2005 |
Public Healthcare and Development in Kenya
Advisors: Pnina Motzafi-Haller, Allan Degen |
Benjamin Okyere
M.A. 2007 |
The Political Organization of Agriculture in Zimbabwe
Advisor: Moshe Schwartz |
Gabriel Ore
M.A. 2008 |
Characteristics and Preservation of Cross-Channel Terraces in Ancient Agricultural Runoff Systems: Human-Environment Relationships in the Negev Highlands
Advisor: Hendrik Bruins |
Dana Rassas
M.A. 2007 |
Seawater Desalination in Israel: A Stakeholders’ View of Agriculture and Environmental Implications
Advisors: Moshe Schwartz, Alon Tal |
Sigal Rosenfeld
M.A. 2006 |
The Passive Cooling Potential of Watered Roofs
Advisor: David Pearlmutter, Yair Etzion |
Henri Rueff
M.A. 2003 |
Integrating Forest Management and Beduin Pastoralism in Israel’s Afforested Drylands: A Cost Benefit Analysis
Advisor: Moshe Schwartz |
Ziv Schertzer
M.A. 2010* |
Springs in the Arava Desert: Changes through Time in relation to Human and Environmental Impact
Advisor: Hendrik Bruins |
Ilan Schwartz
M.A. 2006 |
Mass Emergencies in Drylands: Optimization of the Relief Aid Supply Process
Advisors: Isaac Meir, Hendrik Bruins, David Charutz |
Dana Shapiro
M.A. 2010* |
The Effects of Transportation Costs on Kibbutz Enterprises
Advisors: Moshe Schwartz, David Pearlmutter |
Vanesa Stankeler
M.Sc. 2006 |
Physical Development in Ecologically Sensitive Areas: Environmental Awareness in the Planning Process of the Dead Sea Region
Advisor: Isaac Meir |
Yael Steinwurzel
M.A. 2005 |
Learning from the ChaharBagh: An Historical, Morphological Research of the Traditional Persian Garden and Possible Implementations in a Contemporary Urban Desert Environment
Advisor: Isaac Meir |
Samah Sultan
M.A. 2009 |
Urban Changes in Aqaba (Jordan)
Advisors: Yaakov Garb, Yodan Rofè |
Na'ama Theshner
M.A. 2007 |
The Negev 2015 Plan: Contexts and Prospects
Advisors: Alon Tal, Yaakov Garb |
Kewir Catherine Vioyi Tidze
M.A. 2003 |
Traditional Healers and HIV Aids - The Case of the NSO in Cameroun
Advisor: Moshe Schwartz |
James Wilson
M.A. 2004 |
Time-series Analysis of Global Cereal Trade, Reserves and Cereal Food Aid for the Period 1961-2001, with an Emphasis on Dryland Nations
Advisor: Hendrik Bruins |
Wenyun Yue
M.A. 2008 |
How do the Open Space and Climate Influence Human Activity in Desert Regions?
Advisor: Yodan Rofè |
Inbal Zarhin
M.A. 2010* |
The Experience of Open Spaces in Different Climate Zones in Israel
Advisor: Yodan Rofè |
