Intro
Foreword: Agricultural Development and Soil Deterioration After the Hula Drainage
Introduction
Soil Features
Initial Stages of Agriculture
Soil Deterioration
Measures for Land Reclamation
Plans and Research for the Development of New Agro-tourism Scheme
References
Acknowledgments
Hula Book: Introduction
The Hula Valley: Anthropocene Historical Headlines
Contents
Chapter 1: Hula Drainage Project
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 Before Drainage Period
1.1.2 Historical Highlights
1.1.3 Hula Drainage Operation

1.2 Conclusive Remarks and Future Perspectives
References
Chapter 2: Climatological Conditions in the Hula Valley
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Data Sources
2.1.2 Statistical Methods
2.1.3 Mapping of Subterranean Water Distribution
2.2 Results
2.2.1 The Impact of Climate Condition Changes on Rain Distribution
2.3 Discussion
2.4 Conclusive Summary
References
Chapter 3: Subterranean Migration of Nutrients in the Hula Valley
3.1 Introduction
3.1.1 Results and Discussion
3.1.2 Seasonal Changes
3.2 Summary
References

Chapter 4: Crane (Grus grus) Ecotourism in the Hula Valley: A Compensated Conflict of Interest
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Results and Discussion
4.2.1 The Summer Increase of TP in Lake Agmon-Hula
4.3 Summary
4.4 Conclusive Remarks
Epilogue: Avian Influenza Outbreak
References
Chapter 5: Nutrients Dynamics in Lake Agmon-Hula
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Data Sources
5.3 Results and Discussion
5.4 Submerged and Emerged Macrophytes
5.5 Summary
References
Chapter 6: Land Use-Land Cover and Climate Change in the Hula Valley
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Data Sources

6.3 Results and Discussion
6.4 Regional Water Balance
6.5 The Impact of Climate Change: Temperature, Solar Radiation
6.6 Climate Change
6.6.1 Hydrology
6.6.2 Air Temperature
6.6.3 Chill Hours Record
6.6.4 Solar Radiation
6.7 Conclusive Remarks
References
Chapter 7: Air Temperature Hula Reclamation Project and Albedo in the Hula Valley
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Data Sources
7.3 Results and Discussion
7.4 Conclusive Summary
References
Chapter 8: Hula Valley and Lake Kinneret Interrelationships: Future Management Proposition of Lake Agmon-Hula System

8.1 Introduction
8.2 Source of Information
8.3 Results and Discussion
8.3.1 Lake Agmon Water Balance
8.3.2 Water Balance (2005, 2006) in Lake Agmon-Hula
8.3.3 Nutrient Dynamics
8.3.4 Bird Distribution the Hula Valley
8.4 Summary
References
Chapter 9: N2-Fixer Cyanobacterium Dependent on Sulfate Supply from the Hula Valley
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Material and Methods
9.3 Results
9.3.1 Headwater Discharges as Sulfate Resourcing
9.4 Sulfate Load in the Hula Valley
9.5 Hula Valley-Lake Kinneret Sulfate-Molybdenum Linkage