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The Wadi el-Far’a ProjectA Birzeit University - Calvin College Partnership
An ALO/USAID-funded Project
OutlineI. Partnership for Peace in Education
and DevelopmentII. Sustaining the Wadi el-Far’a:
Realities and IdealsIII. Vision: Local Field School for the Study of
“The Eco-cultural Landscape”
I. Partnership for Peace in Education and Development
Course: The EnvironmentalGeographyof Palestineand Jordan (2001)
Greetings from project co-director Dr. Kamal Abdulfattah, Prof . of Geography, Birzeit University. Kamal was to be here, but two days before his departure he was trapped at home in Jenin. Project administrator Ms Riham Barghouti IS here, and brings greetings from Kamal and Birzeit President Hanna Nasir.
I. Partnership for Peace in Education and Development
I. Partnership for Peace in Education and Development
Persistence in Adversity:Overcoming the obstacles to complete the projectCameraderie and building friendship
26 July 2002. The team at final workshop in Beit Hanina, Palestine
I. Partnership for Peace in Education and Development
II. Sustaining the Wadi el-Far’a: Realities and Ideals
A. The Natural Landscape
TopographyPhysical geographyGeologyHydrologyClimateBio-diversity
A mid-wadi view
II. A. The Natural Landscape
II. B. The Human Landscape
Irrigation Agriculture
II. B. The Human Landscape
II. B. The HumanLandscape
Town
Bedouin Camp
Water Rights interview
II. B. The Human LandscapePast Communities: Archaeological survey - 110 sites
El ‘Issar Mill
II. Sustaining the Wadi el-Far’a
C.Recommendations
a 20-page wish list
HIGH PRIORITY MEASURES
rescue environment
conservation of heritage
relief for communities
Building sustainability regulation of landscape use monitoring the environments enhancing participation
II. C. Recommendations - Long term measures
Restructuring landscape and community coordination: vision of an integrated landscape democratization: vision of a single community
III. Vision: Local Field School for the Study of “The Eco-cultural Landscape of el-Far’a”Creating a pioneering model for Palestine
III. Vision: The Future of the Wadi el-Far’a Project A new two-year phase the partnership for peace the Environmental Geography course research and publication implementing the vision