On the land-claims front, there have been a number of cases where aboriginal insistence that their rights be recognised before industrial development proceeds has led to agreements on job creation, revenue-sharing, training and land ownership.
He has developed a community-based Early Warning Network System and regional data-sharing along with simple technologies to measure water levels and land contours to accurately forecast flash floods and the possible heights to which the water may reach.
In fact, polls continue to show that a solid majority of Israeli Jews favours a peace based on exchanging land for peace, dismantling many settlements, making room for an independent Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza and sharing Jerusalem.