Europe, Israel and Environmental Politics: Lessons to be Learnt

  • Avner de-Shalit
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Abstract

Comparing Israeli politics with ‘Europe’—whatever we compare—may seem prima face not fair, if not academically speaking useless. On the one hand we have a tiny country of six million people and on the other hand we have a continent. On the one hand we have a relatively young state, fifty-two years old, and on the other hand ‘established’ states. On the one hand we have a Middle Eastern state and on the other hand we have Western states. So what is the point of comparing the two?

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Local Organization Environmental Consciousness Political Agenda Environmental Politics Environmental Matter 
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