Prof. Itai Beeri is an Associate Professor of the Local Government, Division of Public Administration & Policy, School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel. He obtained an MA in 2004 from the School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa and a PhD in 2007 from University College Cork, the National University of Ireland. With major expertise in public administration & policy, Prof. Beeri’s main research focuses on local governance, local democracy, central–local relations, spatial inequality, regionalism, and human–wildlife interactions in urban areas.