Non­fic­tion

Pol­lu­tion in a Promised Land: An Envi­ron­men­tal His­to­ry of Israel

  • From the Publisher
October 11, 2011
Vir­tu­al­ly unde­vel­oped one hun­dred years ago, Israel, the promised land of milk and hon­ey,” is in eco­log­i­cal dis­ar­ray. In this grip­ping book, Alon Tal pro­vides – for the first time ever – a his­to­ry of envi­ron­men­tal­ism in Israel, inter­view­ing hun­dreds of experts and activists who have made it their mis­sion to keep the coun­try’s remark­able devel­op­ment sus­tain­able amid a cen­tu­ry of polit­i­cal and cul­tur­al turmoil.

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