Book chapters

Garb, Y., Desalination in Israel: Status, Prospects, and Contexts to appear in Tal, A. and A. Abed Rabbo, eds. Water Wisdom: Preparing the Groundwork for Cooperative and Sustainable Water Management Between Israelis and Palestinians, Rutgers University Press, 2010. The talk on which this chapter is based is downloadable here.
Garb, Y. Retail Deconcentration’s Impacts on Travel To Prague Hypermarkets in Eran Razin et al, eds. Employment Deconcentration in European Metropolitan Areas: Market Forces vs. Planning Regulations (Springer 2007). [download]
Garb, Y. ( 2007), The Bet Jalla Bridge, Sheli Cohen and Haim Yakobi (eds.), Separation: The Politics of Israeli Space. Tel Aviv: Am Oved/Hargol, 2007. [In Hebrew].
Garb, Y. Miriam Manon, and Deike Peters, Environmental Impact Assessment: Between Bureaucratic Process and Social Learning in Frank Fischer, Gerald Miller, and Mara Sidney, eds. Handbook of Public Policy Analysis: Theory, Politics and Methods (New York: Taylor and Francis, 2007). [download]
Garb, Y., Mobility and Gender, in Tovi Fenster and Shuli Hartman (eds.) [Aize Min Merhav?] What Kind of Space?: Planning Policy from a Gender Perspective (Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 2006). [In Hebrew].
Garb, Y. with Tomasz Dybicz, The Retail Revolution in Post-socialist Central Europe and Its Lessons, in Tsenkova and Nedovic-Budic, eds, The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: Space,Institutions and Policy (Springer: 2006). [download]
Garb, Y. The Softer Side of Collision, in Misselowitz & Rieniets, eds., City of Collision: Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism (Basel: Birkhauser, 2006). [download]
Garb, Y. , Jackson, J., Central Europe’s Brownfields: Catalyzing a Planning Response in the Czech Republic. In: Altrock, U., Güntner, S., Huning, S. and Peters, D. (eds.) Spatial Planning and Urban Development in the New EU Member States: From Adjustment to Reinvention, (Altershot: Ashgate, 2006). [download]
Garb Y. and Hanson, M. Population and Consumption: Trends and Their Relation. In Frumkin and Khenin, eds. Vital Signs 2001--Israel (Worldwatch Institute/Heschel Center: Tel Aviv), pp. 158-9. [In Hebrew].
Garb, Y., Sustainable Transport in Jerusalem, in Maya Hossen, Shlomo Hasson, and Israel Kimhi, eds, Sustainable Jerusalem: Issues in Development and Preservation, (Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2004). [In Hebrew].
Conway, J. and Y. Garb, Gender, Environment, and Nature: Two Episodes in Feminist Politics in Conway, Marx, and Keniston, eds. Earth, Air, Fire, Water: the Humanities and the Environment (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999). [download]
Garb, Y., Lost in Translation: Toward a Feminist Account of Chipko, in Joan Scott, Cora Kaplan, and Debra Keates, eds. Transitions, Environments, Translation: Feminism in International Politics (New York: Routledge, 1997). [download]
Garb, Y., Change and Continuity in Environmental World-view: The Politics of Nature in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, in David Macauley, ed. Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecology, (New York: Guilford Press, 1996). [download]
Garb, Y., Perspective or Escape? Feminist Musings on Contemporary Earth Imagery, in Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein, eds, Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism, (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990).
Garb, Y. Attitudes Toward Nature: An Analysis of Modern Imagery, in Dianna DeLuca, ed. Essays on Perceiving Nature (Honolulu: Perceiving Nature Conference Committee, University of Hawaii,1988).

Journal articles--refereed

Na'ama Teschner, Yaakov Garb, Alon Tal, The Environment in Successive Regional Development Plans for Israel’s Periphery, International Planning Studies, 15(2): 79–97, 2010. Pre-publication manuscript here; email Yaakov Garb for published version.
Yaakov Garb and Tsofit Goren, Cultural and Ecological Contexts of Violent Punishment and Restraint of Negev Bedouin Children: From Understandings to Interventions. Accepted April 13, 2010 to Child Abuse Review (Volume 19, 2010), special issue on "Punishment, Restraint and Child Harm." Pre-publication manuscript available from author.
Meallem, I, Yaakov Garb, and Julie Cwikel, Environmental Hazards of Waste Disposal Patterns- A Multi-method Study in an Unrecognized Bedouin Village in the Negev Area of Israel, Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health. Accepted, March. 2010.
Negev, M., Garb, Y., Biller, R., Sagy, G., Tal, A.. Environmental Problems, Causes and Solutions: an Open Question. Journal of Environmental Education, 41(2): 101-115, 2010. [download]
Garb, Y. and Jirina Jackson, Brownfields in the Czech Republic 1989–2009: The Long Path to Integrated Land Management, Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal 3(3), 2010. [Download penultimate draft here and publisher site version here]
Sigal Sviri, Yaakov Garb, Ilana Stav, Alan Rubinow, David M. Linton, Yehezkel G. Caine, Esther-Lee Marcus, Long Term Ventilation: Conflicts in End of Life Decision Making by Relatives, Journal of Critical Care (2009) 24, 293–301. [download]
Isaac A. Meir, Yaakov Garb, Dixin Jiao, Alex Cicelsky, Post Occupancy Evaluation: An Inevitable Step Toward Sustainability, Advances in Building Energy Research, 3:189-220, 2009. [download]
Gonen Sagy, Maya Negev, Yaakov Garb, Alan Salzberg, Alon Tal (2008), Trends in Environmental Education in Israel, in Studies in Natural Resources and Environment, Vol. 6, 2008. [In Hebrew.] [download]
Gonen Sagy, Maya Negev, Yaakov Garb, Alan Salzberg, Alon Tal (2008), Environmental Literacy: Results from a Representative Sample in the Israeli Educational System, in Studies in Natural Resources and Environment, Vol. 6, 2008. [In Hebrew.] [download]
Y. Garb, S. Pulver, and VanDeveer, S. Scenarios in Society, Society in Scenarios: Toward a Social Scientific Analysis of Storyline-driven Environmental Modeling.Environmental Research Letters, 3(4) Nov.-Dec. 2008. [download]
Brian O’Neill, Simone Pulver, Stacy VanDeveer, Yaakov Garb, Where Next With Global Environmental Scenarios?, Environmental Research Letters, 3(4), Nov.-Dec. 2008. Introduction to special issue [download]. The special issue is available here. A poster summarizing its contents and conclusions is available here.
Negev, M., Sagy, G., Garb, Y., Salzberg, S. and Tal, A., 2008. Evaluating the Environmental Literacy of Israeli Elementary and High School Students, Journal of Environmental Education, 39(2), pp. 3-20, winter 2008. [download].
H. V. Savitch, and Y. Garb, Terror, Barriers, and the Changing Topography of Jerusalem , Journal of Planning Education and Research 2006 26: 152-173.
Garb, Y. , Constructing the Trans-Israel Highway’s Inevitability, Israel Studies, Summer 2005. [download]
Newmark, G., Plaut, P. and Y. Garb, Shopping Travel Behaviors in an Era of Rapid Economic Transition: Evidence from Newly Built Malls in Prague, Czech Republic, Transportation Research Record 1898 (2004), pp. 165-174.
Levine, J. and Y. Garb, 2002. Congestion Pricing’s Conditional Promise: Promotion of Accessibility or Mobility? Transport Policy 9 (2002). [download].
Garb, Y. , Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Dissent, Fall 1995, pp. 539-546. [download of scan ; download of text version]
Garb, Y. , Psychological and Moral Responses to Environmental Knowledge, Educational Horizons 66(3), 82-87, 1989.

Other publications

Yaakov Garb, Tour Bus Traffic at the Gilo/Bethlehem Checkpoint, report to the Office of the Quartet Representative, Tony Blair. March 2010. A study commissioned and funded by UNDP and the Office of the Quartet Representative for distribution to key decisionmakers. Will be posted for download once released by sponsors.
Yaakov Garb, Wadi Nar Freight Vehicle Travel: Survey and Analysis of Patterns a report funded by USAID and submitted to the Economic Cooperation Foundation for distribution to key Israeli, Palestinian, and foreign decisionmakers. March 2010. Will be posted for download once released by sponsors.
Chanoch Friedman and Y. Garb, The Photovoltaic Feed In Tariff in Israel, Teva Hadvarim (In the Nature of Things) 162 (April 2009). In Hebrew. [download]
Yaakov Garb and Chanoch Friedman, "The Financial Viability for Producers of Israel's Solar Feed-In Tarrif Law of 2008," Proceedings of the 15th Sede Boqer Symposium on Solar Electricity Production, October 27-29, 2008. [download]
Garb, Y., A Survey of Freight Traffic between Israel and the Southern West Bank and the Tarqumia Crossing in Particular, a report funded by USAID and submitted to the Economic Cooperation Foundation. March 2008. [Download]
Garb, Y., Special Place or Special Zone: The Future of Aqaba, WorldWatch, March/April 2008, pp. 16-23. [Download ]
Meallem, I. and Y. Garb, The Exposure of Bedouin Women to Waste Related Hazards: Gender, Toxins and Multiple Marginality in the Negev, Women & Environments, Fall/Winter 2008, pp. 44-48. [download]
Garb Y, Shatz O, Linton DM, Levin PD, Stav I and Sviri S. (2007) Outcome of Medical Intensive Care Unit Patients: Characterization and a Staged Predictive Model. Abstract in Intensive Care Medicine 33 (2);S116. [Download]
Garb, Y. , and H. Savitch, Urban Trauma and Possibilities for Recovery in Jerusalem, Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies, 2005.
Garb, Y. , The Separation Barrier and Jerusalem’s Arab Neighborhoods: Integrate or Separate but Don’t Defer, Policy Brief, Floershimer Institute for Policy Studies, Oct. 2004. [download]
Garb, Y. , Population dynamics and sustainability in the Israeli context: Navigating between demographic warfare and Malthusianism, in Paths to Sustainability: A Shadow Report to the Government of Israel’s Assessment of Progress in Implementing Agenda 21 presented at The World Summit for Sustainable Development, Johannesburg 2002. Published as an initiative of environmental and social NGOs, Israel 2002. [download]
Jackson, J., and Y. Garb, Hledani Nositele Vedouci Ulohy Pro Reseni Problematiky Brownfields Ve Stredoevropskych Mestech (Searching for Brownfields leadership in the Central European cities) in Urbanismus A Uzemni Rozvoj (Czech planning journal) 2002, Issue 4, pp. 11-16.
Jackson, J. and Y. Garb, The Search for Brownfield Leadership in Central European Cities: Overview and Case Study of the Czech Republic, policy report distributed to key decision-makers and researchers in Central Europe, Institute for Transport and Development Policy, 2002.
Walter Hook and Yaakov Garb, Nowa Huta: Can the “Model City” Be Rebuilt? Sustainable Transport, Fall 2002. [download]
Levine, J. and Y. Garb, Evaluating the Promise and Hazards of Congestion Pricing Proposals: An Access Centered Approach. Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies, publication No. 2/11. 2000.
Janner-Klausner, D., Y. Garb, and E. Yedvab, Redefining the Authorities of Government Ministries: Prerequisite for Changing Priorities in Infrastructure Planning, Traffic and Transport, (Israeli periodical for the transportation professional community), June 1999.
Garb, Y. , Prague on the Edge: Fighting Sprawl in the Czech Republic, Sustainable Transport (11), Fall 1999, pp. 8-11.
Janner-Klausner, D. and Y. Garb, Sustainable Transport in Israel: The Concept and its Translation into Policy and Practice, Traffic and Transport, (Israeli periodical for the transportation professional community), December 1998.
Garb, Y. , Sustainable Transport for Israel and Palestine: Some Challenges, World Transport Policy and Practice, 1998.
Garb, Y. , The Challenge of Sustainable Transport for Israel and Palestine, Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol. 5, No.1: [59-68], 1998.
Garb, Y. , The Trans-Israel Highway: Do We Know Enough to Proceed? Working Paper #5, Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies, April 1997.
Gardner, F. with Y. Garb and M. Williams, Guatemala: A Political Ecology (San Francisco: Environmental Project on Central America, Earth Island Institute), 1990.

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