The urban and regional planning for the Jordan Valley area aims to achieve integration between the
communities and centres in the region and achieve balance in development regarding population
distribution and services. In order to do so, plans and programmes must be put forward to interlink
the national plans and implement them on the local and regional levels to make a connection between
the national and local plans. The regional plan for the Jordan Valley area also aims to approach the
various development issues in order to put forward appropriate solutions for them according to a future
vision for the development of the region that is set up through sectoral policies and development
programmes and plans that lead and direct the development process during the coming years.
In order to reach the stage of preparing the sectoral plans for the development of the Jordan Valley
region, we studied the geographical reality of the region regarding the natural and human geographic
characteristics. In addition, we investigated the planning reality in Palestine and the Jordan Valley
region and determined the most significant obstacles and problems that face urban and regional
planning. Furthermore, we studied the current political situation in the Jordan Valley region which is
an occupied territory by Israel and most of its lands are under the total control of the Israeli occupation
in respect of security and civil aspects. We also studied the planning experiences in some neighbouring
countries to Palestine such as Jordan and Egypt. In addition, the modified Delphi and semi-structured
interview methods were selected for this research to provide triangulation and further validation and
reliability for the research.
The proposals for promotion of sectoral plans for the Jordan Valley region were prepared according
to a methodology based on updating and analyzing the present situation data putting forward the future
scenarios for the region, and formulating the future trends in all the development sectors through
analyzing the modified Delphi study, the perspectives of the planning experts who participated in the
study, and the researcher's study of the necessary needs to develop the various sectors. These aspects
are explained in the fifth chapter of the present study. The study reached the conclusion that the Jordan
Valley region needs to set up efficient applicable regional plans in order to develop all the planning
sectors.
The most influential factors that affect the development of planning in the Jordan Valley region and
in the Palestinian territories are the political situation and low population density. The study also
reached the conclusion that the services and infrastructure sector is the most important since it is the

sector which faces the most obstacles and needs development, followed by the educational and health
sectors in the second place.

Title

صفاء حماده

Publisher

An-Najah National University

Publisher Country

Palestine

Publication Type

Both (Printed and Online)

Volume

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Year

2017

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