Selected Publications

2025

Netzer, M., Gan, D., & Ayalon, O. (2025). The unexplored relationships between forest schools and climate change: the parental perspective. Environmental Education Research, 1-22.

Reingewertz, Y., & Ayalon, O. (2025). The effect of the intensive margin on waste separation behavior: a discrete choice experiment. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-25.

Katz, D. (Ed.) (2025) Tapping Technologies: The Role of Technological Change in Transboundary Water Management. Volume 2 in World Scientific Handbook of Transboundary Water Management: Science, Economics, Policy and Politics. World Scientific Publications

Katz, D. and Tabanksy, L. (2025) Cyber-security in the water sector: a transboundary perspective, in Tapping Technologies: The Role of Technological Change in Transboundary Water Management, Katz, D. (ed.). World Scientific Publications, pp. 223-246.

Mandelberg, Y. S., Zemah-Shamir, Z., Belkin, I. S., Brenner, S., & Zemah-Shamir, S. (2025). Marine Zoning: A Two-Decade Bibliographic Analysis—A Systematic Review. Sustainability, 17(4), 1-31.

Palatnik, R. R., Raviv, O., Sirota, J., & Shechter, M. (2025). Water Scarcity and Food Security in the Mediterranean Region: The Role of Alternative Water Sources and Controlled-Environment Agriculture. Water Resources and Economics, 100256.

2024

Boaz, D., Palatnik, R. R., & Ayalon, O. (2024). Not All about the Money: The Role of Financial Information in Promoting Residential Rooftop Photovoltaics. Energies, 17(9), 2043.

Brander LM, de Groot R, Schägner JP, Guisado-Goñi V, van ‘t Hoff V, Solomonides S, McVittie A, Eppink F, Sposato M, Do L, Ghermandi A, Sinclair M, Thomas R (2024) Economic values for ecosystem services: A global synthesis and way forward. Ecosystem Services 66, 101606.

Elimelech, E., Segal-Klein, H., Mintz, K. K., Katz-Gerro, T., & Ayalon, O. (2024). Food Waste Prevention and Reduction: Practices, Cultural and Personal Determinants. Appetite, 107565.

Levy T, Ghermandi A, Lehahn Y, Edelist D, Angel DL (2024) Monitoring jellyfish outbreaks along Israel’s Mediterranean coast using digital footprints. Science of The Total Environment 171275.

Mintz, K. K., Ayalon, O., Eshet, T., & Nathan, O. (2024). The influence of social context and activity on the emotional well-being of forest visitors: A field study. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 94, 102234.

Raviv, O., Palatnik, R. R., Castellini, M., Gusperti, C., Vergalli, S., Sirota, J., & Shechter, M. (2024). Synergies of CGE and IAM modelling for climate change implications on WEFE nexus in the Mediterranean. Climate Risk Management, 44, 100608.

Tannenbaum-Baruchi, C., Ashkenazi, I., & Rapaport, C. (2024). Risk inclusion of vulnerable people during a climate-related disaster: a case study of people with hearing loss facing wildfires. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 103, 104335.

Walschot, M. and D. Katz. (2024). Desalination and Transboundary Water Governance in Conflict Settings. Journal of Environmental Management,355(120509).

2023

Bregman, G., Lalzar, M., Livne, L., Bigal, E., Zemah-Shamir, Z., Morick, D., … & Meron, D. (2023). Preliminary study of shark microbiota at a unique mix-species shark aggregation site, in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1027804.

Cahn, A., D. Katz, A. Ghermandi, and P. Prevos. (2023). Initiating data-as-a-service adoption in water utilities: A service design approach. Utilities Policy, 84, 101656

Cohen, A., I. Fischhendler, and D. Katz (2023). Institutional acceptance of wildlife mitigation technologies for wind energy: The case of Israel. Energy Policy, 173, 113359.

Elimelech, E., Mintz, K. K., Katz-Gerro, T., Segal-Klein, H., Hussein, L., & Ayalon, O. (2023). Between perceptions and practices: the religious and cultural aspects of food wastage in households. Appetite, 180, 106374.

Ghermandi A, Langemeyer J, Van Berkel D, Calcagni F, Depietri Y, Egarter Vigl L, Fox N, Havinga I, Jaeger H, Kaiser N, Karaxov O, McPhearson T, Podschun S, Ruiz-Frau A, Sinclair M, Venohr M, Wood SA (2023) Social media data for environmental sustainability: a critical review of opportunities, threats and ethical use. One Earth 6: 236-250.

Lev, N., Negev, M., & Ayalon, O. (2023). Sometimes Littering Is Acceptable—Understanding and Addressing Littering Perceptions in Natural Settings. Sustainability, 15(18), 13784.

Palatnik, R. R., Davidovitch, A., Krey, V., Sussman, N., Riahi, K., & Gidden, M. (2023). Accelerating emission reduction in Israel: carbon pricing vs. policy standards. Energy Strategy Reviews, 45, 101032.

Raviv, O., Palatnik, R. R., & Shechter, M. (2023). Correction to: Review of the Economic Impact of Water Availability on Food Security and the Related Ecosystems. Connecting the Sustainable Development Goals: The WEF Nexus: Understanding the Role of the WEF Nexus in the 2030 Agenda, C3-C4.

Salomons, E., M. Housh, D. Katz, & L. Sela. (2023). Water-energy nexus in a desalination-based water sector: the impact of electricity load shedding programs. npj Clean Water, 6(1), 67.‏

Schirpke U, Ghermandi A, Sinclair M, Van Berkel D, Fox N, Vargas L, Willemen L. (2023) Emerging technologies in ecosystem services research: a synthesis of opportunities and challenges. Ecosystem Services 63, 101558.

Schuber, M. and Collins-Kreiner, N. (2023) “Older adults at nature-tourism sites: Experiments with aging suits”, Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights 

Tsadok, R., Zemah-Shamir, Z., Shemesh, E., Martinez, S., Ramon, D., Kolski, I., … & Tchernov, D. (2023). Dietary habits change of Lessepsian migrants’ fish from the Red Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Aquatic Invasions, 18(4), 521-531.

Trop, T., Shoshany Tavory, S., & Portnov, B. A. (2023). Factors affecting pedestrians’ perceptions of safety, comfort, and pleasantness induced by public space lighting: A systematic literature review. Environment and Behavior, 55(1-2), 3-46.

2022

Doctori, M., Collins-Kreiner, N. and Kliot, N. (2022). “Much More than Voluntourism: The Altruistic Volunteer Tourism Motivation and Experience”. International Journal of Tourism Policy (IJTP). 67-83

Ghermandi A (2022) Geolocated social media data counts as a proxy for recreational visits in natural areas: a meta-analysis. Journal of Environmental Management 317, 115325.

Ghermandi A, Depietri Y, Sinclair M (2022) In the AI of the beholder: a comparative analysis of computer vision-assisted characterizations of human-nature interactions in urban green spaces. Landscape and Urban Planning 217, 104261.

Kenett, R. S., Manzi, G., Rapaport, C., & Salini, S. (2022). Integrated analysis of behavioural and health COVID-19 data combining Bayesian networks and structural equation models. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(8), 4859.

Liu, M., Zhang, B., Luo, T., Liu, Y., Portnov, B. A., Trop, T., … & Liu, Q. (2022). Evaluating street lighting quality in residential areas by combining remote sensing tools and a survey on pedestrians’ perceptions of safety and visual comfort. Remote Sensing, 14(4), 826.

Ram, Y., Collins-Kreiner, N., Gozansky, E., Moscona, G., & Okon-Singer, H. (2022). Is there a COVID-19 vaccination effect? A three-wave cross-sectional study. Current Issues in Tourism, 25(3), 379-386.

Teitler Regev, S., & Palatnik, R. R. (2022). Implications of climate change on outdoor recreation: the case of national parks in Israel. Earth, 3(1), 345-362.

Zemah-Shamir, Z., Mourier, J., Ilany, A., Bigal, E., Scheinin, A., & Tchernov, D. (2022). Preliminary insights of a mixed-species shark aggregation: a case study of two carcharhinids from the Mediterranean Sea. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 105(5), 623-634.

Zohar, T., Parag, Y., & Ayalon, O. (2022). Weaving an innovation network from the middle-out: the case of the renewable energy ecosystem. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 12(1), 37.

2021

Depietri Y, Ghermandi A, Campisi-Pinto S, Orenstein D (2021) Participatory GIS and geolocated social media data to assess urban cultural ecosystem services: instances of complementarity. Ecosystem Services 50, 101277.

Katz, D. (2021). Desalination and hydrodiplomacy: Refreshening transboundary water negotiations or adding salt to the wounds? Environmental Science and Policy, 116: 171-180.

Mintz, K. K., Ayalon, O., Nathan, O., & Eshet, T. (2021). See or be? Contact with nature and well-being during COVID-19 lockdown. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 78, 101714.

Rapaport, C., & Ashkenazi, I. (2021). Why does Israel lead the world in COVID-19 vaccinations? Applying mass casualty event principles to COVID-19 vaccination programs. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(10), 5362.

2020

Abu-Kalla, H., Palatnik, R. R., Ayalon, O., & Shechter, M. (2020). Hoard or Exploit? Intergenerational Allocation of Exhaustible Natural Resources. Energies, 13(24), 6657. 

Collins-Kreiner N. (2020) A Review of Research into Religion and Tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on religion and tourism “. Annals of Tourism Research. 82. 102892

Collins-Kreiner N. (2020) Pilgrimage Tourism – Past, Present and Future Rejuvenation: A Perspective Article. Tourism Review. 75, 1, 145-148

Ghermandi A, Sinclair M, Fichtman E, Gish M (2020) Novel insights on intensity and typology of direct human-nature interactions in protected areas through passive crowdsourcing. Global Environmental Change 65, 102189.

Katz, D. and A. Shafran. (2020) Energizing Mid-East Water Diplomacy: The potential for regional water-energy exchanges. Water International, 1-19

Koren-Lawrence, N., Collins-Kreiner, N., & Israeli, Y. H. (2020). The future of the past: Sustainable management of archaeological tourist sites–The case study of Israel. Tourism Management Perspectives, 35, 100700.

Sinclair M, Mayer M, Woltering M, Ghermandi A (2020) Valuing nature-based recreation using a crowdsourced travel cost method: A comparison to onsite survey data and value transfer. Ecosystem Services 45, 101165.

Raviv O., Zemah Shamir S., Izhaki I., Sagie H., Negev M., Mazor-Tregerman M., Collins-Kreiner N., Mansfeld Y., Lotan A. (2020). The socioeconomic value of multiple ecosystem types in a biosphere reserve as a baseline for one, holistic conservation plan. Ecosystem Services, 41.

Svechkina, A., Portnov, B. A., & Trop, T. (2020). The impact of artificial light at night on human and ecosystem health: a systematic literature review. Landscape Ecology, 35, 1725-1742.