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Israel’s marine resources – This course covers Israel’s various marine and coastal resources: sand and its use to establish marine structures and rehabilitate and expand sandy beaches; renewable energy generation from the sea and especially from wind and waves; desalination of seawater; development of ports, marinas, various types of breakwaters, and bathing beaches; laying underwater pipeline infrastructure on the seabed; and protecting the coastal cliffs.
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Energy from marine resources (fossil fuels) – This course deals with the search for natural gas and oil in the ocean and focuses on locating and producing gas in Israel’s territorial waters.
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Marine environmental economics and marine resources – This course addresses the interaction between human behavior, economic systems, and marine systems. The course presents central ideas in economic thinking and theory, examines their application in marine environments, and considers environmental and economic policymaking in the marine arena. In this course, students obtain experience building simple economic models and more complex bioeconomic models, which enable them to characterize equilibria in marine economic systems and analyze the efficiency of different economic branches in the marine arena.
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Environmental impact of water initiatives – This course endows students with broad, cutting-edge knowledge on selected topics regarding environmental, economic, and social dilemmas and challenges surrounding Israel’s marine resources along the Mediterranean Sea. It also examines initiatives in Israel’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) such as use of marine life (fishing, marine agriculture, use of live carbon-generating resources) and utilizing seawater for industrial purposes (for example, cooling coastal power stations and desalination).
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Law and the marine environment – This course analyzes the legal and juridical approach to environmental and marine environmental issues in western society in general and in Israel in particular. The course considers the legal and environmental principles and the existing legal tools to preserve the marine environment.
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Practical aspects in regulation of the marine environment – This course covers the regulation of the marine environment and the way in which it is expressed in Israel. The course outlines how protecting the marine environment is expressed in international agreements and national legislation and analyzes the activities of the government regulation system in Israel and its activities, their efficiency, and their goals.
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Managing marine expanses – This courses teaches the basic principles and methods of action of Israel’s planning and licensing system, with an emphasis on planning institutions and relevant programs in the state’s territorial waters in the Mediterranean Sea. The course reveals the main planning and administrative challenges that characterize the marine environment and the way in which other states handle similar challenges and introduces the plans being promoted for Israel’s EEZ today.
