Information

Socio-Economic Information

• Demographic, health and labor information for Israel and Palestinian Territories - Compiled by the Population Resource Center , a non-profit organization based in Washington D.C. and Princeton , N.J.
• CIA- The World Factbook: Gaza Strip , West Bank and Israel

Maps and Satellite Images

• Map of Palestine , Map of Palestine � An interactive map from the Palestinian Census Bureau with population data for each district.
• Yale University regional maps - Includes maps of topography, roads and settlements.
• Collection of area maps - Maps of Israel/Palestine, showing changing borders, cities and towns and water sources. Compiled by the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA).
• Israel's Story in Maps - An Israeli government collection of maps outlining the changes in Israel 's territory.
• Satellite images of Israel and the Middle East - Taken from the NASA John son Space Center . Compiled independently by Israel Hanukoglu.
• Atlas of Palestine - Applied Research Institute Jerusalem' historical maps of Palestine , including borders under various peace plans.

International and Regional Environmental Agreements

• Database of International Environmental Agreements - Headed by Ronald Mitchell of the University of Oregon . Includes over 700 multilateral agreements, 1000 bilateral agreements and 200 intergovernmental secretariats that deal with environmental agreements.
• Israel's participation in International Environmental Agreements - List compiled by Friends of the Earth- Middle East.
• Israel and the World Summit on Sustainable Development - Israeli government resource site for the WSSD. Contains the full text of the government report and much else.
• The Palestinian Authority and the World Summit on Sustainable Development - Prepared as background document for the WSSD by the Applied Research Institute- Jerusalem in cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of the Environment.
• The Israel Shadow Report to the World Summit on Sustainable Development - Links provided by the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
• Palestinian environmental NGOs and the World Summit on Sustainable Development - Gateway to WSSD materials produced by the Palestinian Environmental Non-Government Organizations Network.
• Environmentally related articles of the Oslo Accord - Under Annex III, appendix 1. Compiled by Friends of the Earth- Middle East,
• Resources on water and conflict in the Middle East - Includes articles, maps and agreements and policies of Middle Eastern countries related to conflict and water scarcity. Provided by Waternet, a website dedicated to water policy international law and cooperation.

Environmental quality reports for the Middle East

• Sustainable development in the Palestinian Authority - Assessment of Sustainable Development in the Palestinian Authority. Provided by the Israeli government for the WSSD.
• World Bank Group Environmental Brief on the Middle East - World Bank site describing environmental problems in the Middle East and strategies to combat them.
• Desk Study on the Environment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories - Prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme, included in list of UNEP reports.

Organizations

Academic departments and Research Institutions with Representatives working in the MEEF project:

• Haifa University- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management , Department of Sociology , and Department of Geography
• Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
• Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies
• Brown University- Watson Institute , Center for Environmental Studies
• York University- York Centre for Applied Sustainability , Department of Sociology
• University of Wisconsin, Madison- Department of Rural Sociology
• Applied Research Institute, Jerusalem

Regional Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations

Israel :

• Israeli Environmental Policy Center
• Green Action
• The Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership
• Israel Union for Environmental Defense
• Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
• Israeli/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI)
• Jewish Global Environment Network
• Sustainable Jerusalem Coalition

Palestine :

• Palestine Wildlife Society
• The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network
• Palestinian Hydrology Group

Global (with activities in Israel/Palestine):

• Friends of the Earth- Middle East
• Greenpeace- Mediterranean
• USAID West Bank and Gaza
• City Farmer - �Urban Agricultural Notes� published by City Farmer, Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture page on Middle East and Urban Agriculture.

Middle East Cooperative Projects

• Remarks on regional cooperation - Comments by the Israeli Director General of the Ministry of Regional Cooperation on environmental management in the Middle East .
• Selected list of cooperative regional projects - Israeli government list of regional projects in sustainable development.
• United Nations Environment Programme- Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) - UN website on this plan to preserve the Mediterranean and coastal areas.
• USAID- Middle East Regional Cooperation (MERC) Program - Information on USAID's program to promote collaborative research in the Middle East .
• The Dead Sea Project- Information on a cooperative project between European and Middle Eastern partners working towards protection of the Dead Sea.
• Developing Sustainable Water Management in the Jordan Valley - Website for a cooperative project to develop the scientific basis for a water management plan in the lower Jordan Valley .

Environmental Research

Security and environment

• University of Toronto's Project on the Environment, population and Security website - Information on a project between 1994 and 1996 that assessed linkages between population growth, conflict and resource scarcity.
• Environmental Security Database - A database of around 20,000 items related to environmental security coordinated by the Trudeau Center for Peace and Conflict Studies
• Environmental Change and Security Project (ECSP) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Homepage of a project addressing connections between environmental change conflict and foreign policy.
• Nautilus Institute: Energy, Security and Environment Program - Information on this program which researches linkages between energy, security and the environment in Northeast Asia .
• Resource on the environment and security - List of books on environment and security compiled by the University of Toronto Project on Environment, Population, and Security.