A. (Amit) Ashkenazy
A. (Amit) Ashkenazy
Profile
Biography
Amit Ashkenazy is an expert consultant and researcher of environmental policy. Since 2008 he has been working with governmental agencies, cities, companies, foundations and NGOs to promote sustainability through local action, national legislation and inter-governmental collaboration. He directed the Social-Environmental Caucus in the Israeli Parliament, worked as senior policy analyst on environmental policy and markets, and was fellow of the prestigious Milken Institute fellowship program, the Argov program in leadership and diplomacy, and at the NYC Parks sustainability initiatives team. Amit holds a BA in government, diplomacy and strategy from the IDC, a Master's degree in environmental management from Yale University, and he is currently pursuing a PhD in Technology, Policy and Management from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
Expertise
Publications
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2017
Agricultural modernization and sustainable agriculture
contradictions and complementarities
Karlheinz Knickel / Amit Ashkenazy / Tzruya Calvão Chebach / Nicholas Parrot -
2017
Between aspirations and reality
Making farming, food systems and rural areas more resilient, sustainable and equitable
K Knickel / M. Redman / I. Darnhofer / A. Ashkenazy / T. Calvão Chebach / Sandra Šumane / Talis Tisenkopfs / R. Zemeckis / V. Atkociuniene / M Rivera / A Strauss / L. S. Kristensen / S de Schiller / M. E. Koopmans / E. Rogge -
2017
Operationalising resilience in farms and rural regions - Findings from fourteen case studies
Amit Ashkenazy / Tzruya Calvão Chebach / Karlheinz Knickel / Sarah Peter / Boaz Horowitz / Rivka Offenbach
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2017
Rethinking the connections between agricultural change and rural prosperity
A discussion of insights derived from case studies in seven countries
Maria Rivera / Karlheinz Knickel / Ignacio de los Rios / Amit Ashkenazy / David Qvist Pears / Tzruya Chebach / Sandra Šumane -
2016
Local and farmers' knowledge matters! How integrating informal and formal knowledge enhances sustainable and resilient agriculture
Sandra Šumane / Karlheinz Knickel / Agnes Strauss / Talis Tisenkopfs / Ignacio des Ios Rios / Maria Rivera / Tzruya Chebach / Amit Ashkenazy / I. Kunda
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