Drought and cooperation in a conflict prone area: Bedouin herders and Jewish farmers in Israel's northern Negev, 1957–1963

Tubi, Amit; Feitelson, Eran

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.11.009

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Drought and cooperation in a conflict prone area: Bedouin herders and Jewish farmers in Israel's northern Negev, 1957–1963

Tubi, Amit, Feitelson, Eran·2016·Political Geography

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The rarity of violence between Bedouin herders and Jewish farmers in Israel during the most severe drought of the twentieth century was partly attributed to effective state interventions, such as patrols preventing the encroachment of herds on fields.
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Authors: Tubi, A., & Feitelson, E.
Affiliations: Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
Corresponding author: Tubi, Amit
ORCID: Tubi, Amit
Feitelson, Eran
Venue: Political Geography
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2016-03
Volume: 51
Pages: 30-42
ISSN: 0962-6298 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.11.009
OpenAlex: W2198361652
Cited by: 37
References: 34
Citations by year: 2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 3
FWCI: 13.27
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Political Geography (publishedVersion)
Funders: Amiran foundation
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Transboundary Water Resource Management
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Middle East Politics and Society
Keywords: drought, conflict and cooperation, Jewish farmers, northern Negev, climate change and security, semi-arid agriculture, political affiliation, power disparities

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