Michael Evenari's biography unfolds his exciting, manifold life: his love for botany, the confrontation with political events as a youngster and his thrilling experience of helping in the development of Israel. Evenari takes us on his exciting expeditions in the company of his beloved wife. He tells us of his meetings with many personalities and about his farm in the Negev. The discovery of long forgotten floodwater irrigated farm systems from the times of King Salomon and their reconstruction became a successful experiment which lead him to teach this approach of runoff agriculture in many parts of the world, initializing progress in the development of various arid areas. As a tribute to his successful scientific life, Evenari was awarded the Balzan Prize in 1988. In April 1989, Michael Evenari died at the age of 84.

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Michael Evenari

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Book Title: The Awakening Desert
Book Subtitle: The Autobiography of an Israeli Scientist
Authors: Michael Evenari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74460-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1989
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-50794-9Published: 14 September 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-74460-0Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 204
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Original German edition published by Bleicher Verlag 1987
Topics: Ecology, Agriculture, Forestry, Plant Sciences, Environmental Economics

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