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The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research
The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research

The 9th

Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research

student symposium

 Rational

Decision-making

From individual behavior to policy making

May 27–29

Sede Boqer Campus,

Ben-Gurion University,

Israel

Download the program

Download the book of abstracts

SPEAKERS
  Key note speakers:

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Prof. H. Ronald Pulliam

Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, USA

Borderlands Restoration, L3C 

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Prof. Maya Bar-Hillel 

Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Invited talks by:

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Dr. Avraham Be'er 

Department of Desalination & Water Treatment, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Prof. Guy Bloch  

Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Prof. Amos Bouskila 

Department of Life Sciences , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Shoshana Dann

Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Prof. Ido Erev

The Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion

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Dr. Ya'akov Gal

Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Dr. Daphna Gottlieb

Department of Food Quality & Safety, The Volcani Center

 

Tom Gordon-Hacker

Department of Psychology , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Prof. Ally R. Harari

Department of Entomology, The Volcani Center

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Prof. Aviad Heifetz 

Department of Management and Economy, the Open University of Israel

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Prof. Tamar Keasar

Department of Biology, University of Haifa at Oranim

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Prof. Burt Kotler

Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Dr. Inon Scharf

Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University

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Prof. Mordeachi Shechter

Department of Economics and Department of Natural Resource; Environmental Management, University of Haifa

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Dr. Orr Spiegel

Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev   

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Dr. Ro'i Zultan

Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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The symposium is funded by
The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research
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