1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464455303321

Titolo

Religion and human rights : global challenges from intercultural perspectives / / edited by Wilhelm Gräb and Lars Charbonnier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-038471-X

3-11-034865-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Disciplina

201/.723

Soggetti

Human rights - Religious aspects

Globalization

Human rights - South Africa

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Human Rights and Globalization -- The Sacredness of the Person -- The “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”: A Confessional Basis of a Universal Religion? -- Limits of the Culturally Relative View of Human Rights -- Human Dignity and Human Rights -- Homo Aestheticus within the Framework of Inhabitational Theology -- Human dignity, Human Rights and Socio-Economic Exclusion? -- “Whose Law?” South African Struggles with Notions of Justice -- The Role of the Church in Human Rights in a Democratic South Africa -- HIV and AIDS as a Human Rights Challenge to Faith Communities in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa -- The Role of the Eucharist in Human Dignity: a South African Story -- Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Current processes of globalization are challenging Human Rights and the attempts to institutionalize them in many ways. The question of the connection between religion and human rights is a crucial point here. The genealogy of the Human Rights is still a point of controversies in the academic discussion. Nevertheless, there is consensus that the



Christian tradition – especially the doctrine that each human being is an image of God – played an important role within the emergence of the codification of the Human Rights in the period of enlightenment. It is also obvious that the struggle against the politics of apartheid in South Africa was strongly supported by initiatives of churchy and other religious groups referring to the Human Rights. Christian churches and other religious groups do still play an important role in the post-apartheid South Africa. They have a public voice concerning all the challenges with which the multiethnic and economically still deeply divided South African society is faced with. The reflections on these questions in the collected lectures and essays of this volume derive from an academic discourse between German and South African scholars that took place within the German-South African Year of Science 2012/13.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787577503321

Autore

Jahren Per.

Titolo

Concrete and sustainability / / Per Jahren, Tongbo Sui

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-429-07356-9

1-62870-756-9

1-4665-9249-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (437 p.)

Classificazione

TEC005000TEC063000

Altri autori (Persone)

SuiTongbo

Disciplina

624.1/8340286

624.18340286

Soggetti

Concrete construction

Concrete - Environmental aspects

Sustainable construction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A Spon Press book.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; The authors; About this book; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - Environmental issues; Chapter 3 - Emissions and absorptions; Chapter



4 - Recycling; Chapter 5 - The environmental challenges-other items; Chapter 6 - New possibilities and challenges; Chapter 7 - The future; References; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Concrete is the second most common commodity in the world, after water, and by far the most common building material. The industry has a great deal of responsibility for sustainable development. This book demonstrates the importance of sustainable thinking, examines the range of challenges facing the concrete engineer, and outlines how they can be addressed. It balances account resource availability, technical viability, economical feasibility, environmental sustainability and social responsibility. It presents a holistic view of the environmental challenges and conveys the complexity of the topic, while giving examples of good practice in various aspects from around the world--

In view of the development of world concrete and construction, we see an evolution of the focus in the direction of: Safety Durability Serviceability/Functionality Sustainability It is important in this context to learn at least two things: - All the focuses in the evolution process are closely linked to each other and function upon need instead of occurring and existing independently or replacing one by another. - The latest developed focus - Sustainability is not only evolved from the previous focuses but works as a function of them as well. We therefore believe that sustainability is not only an environmental performance, it is indeed a holistic thinking/approach that can be considered as the function of safety, durability, functionality and economical feasibility, environmental compatibility and social responsibility. The level/magnitude of each focus to sustainability varies depending on the specific requirement of the target and local boundary conditions--