1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910616360403321

Titolo

Groundwater and Water Quality : Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering / / edited by Ramakar Jha, Vijay P. Singh, Vivekanand Singh, L.B. Roy, Roshni Thendiyath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

3-031-09551-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 pages)

Collana

Water Science and Technology Library, , 1872-4663 ; ; 119

Disciplina

628.114

551.49

Soggetti

Earth sciences

Physical geography

Water

Hydrology

Natural disasters

Earth Sciences

Earth System Sciences

Natural Hazards

Hidrologia d'aigües subterrànies

Qualitat de l'aigua

Canvi climàtic

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Identification of the parameters to estimate the capillary rise from shallow groundwater table using field crop experiments -- Study of Groundwater Table fluctuation in the command area of Bhagwanpur Distributary of the Eastern Gandak Project -- Assessment of heavy metals in sediments from exploratory wells for riverbank filtration sites impacted by extreme environmental conditions using principal component analysis -- Simulation of re-aeration coefficient using ANFIS and ARIMA models -- Identification of unknown number of



clandestine groundwater pollution source locations and their release flux histories - by Anirban Chakraborty and Om Prakash. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with topics of current interest, such as climate change, floods, drought, and hydrological extremes. The impact of climate change on water resources is drawing worldwide attention these days, for water resources in many countries are already stressed and climate change along with burgeoning population, rising standard of living, and increasing demand are adding to the stress. Further, river basins are becoming less resilient to climatic vagaries. Fundamental to addressing these issues is hydrological modelling which is covered in these books. Further, integrated water resources management is vital to ensure water and food security. Integral to the management is groundwater and solute transport. The books encompass tools that will be useful to mitigate the adverse consequences of natural disasters. This book provides many new and innovative methods to assess groundwater and estimate water pollution. Groundwater recharge, solutetransport, ground water modelling are some of the important variable used to estimate the groundwater movement, hydraulic gradient and pollution movement. The water quality is another important variable of river Ganga and its tributaries in India and other rivers over the globe. .



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961281703321

Titolo

Forced migration, human rights and security / / edited by Jane McAdam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2008

ISBN

9786611761370

9781472564283

1472564286

9781281761378

1281761370

9781847314147

1847314147

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

Studies in international law ; ; v. 17

Classificazione

86.81

Disciplina

341.486

Soggetti

Forced migration

Human rights

Refugees - Legal status, laws, etc

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Forced migration : refugees, rights and security / Guy S. Goodwin-Gill -- Resolution 1373 : a call to pre-empt Asylum Seekers? (or 'Osama, the Asylum Seeker') / Penelope Mathew -- National security and 'non-refoulment' in New Zealand : commentary on 'Zaoui v Attorney-General (No 2)' / Rodger Haines Q. C. -- Offshore barriers to Asylum Seeker movement : the exercise of power without responsibility? / Savitri Taylor -- The legal and ethical implications of extraterritorial processing of Asylum Seekers : the 'safe third country' concept / Susan Kneebone -- Re-thinking the paradigms of protection : children as convention refugees in Australia / Mary Crock -- Wearing thin : restrictions on Islamic headscarves and other religious symbols / Ben Saul -- Subjectivity and refugee fact-finding / Arthur Glass -- Towards convergence in the interpretation of the refugee convention : a proposal for the establishment of an international judicial commission for refugees / Anthony M. North and Joyce Chia -- The refugee



convention as a rights blueprint for persons in need of international protection / Jane McAdam -- The  responsibility to protect : closing the gaps in the international protection regime / Erika Feller.

Sommario/riassunto

"The international protection regime for refugees and other forced migrants seems increasingly at risk as measures designed to enhance security-of borders, of people, of institutions, and of national identity-encroach upon human rights. This timely edited collection responds to some of the contemporary challenges faced by the international protection regime, with a particular focus on the human rights of those displaced. The book begins by assessing the impact of anti-terrorism laws on refugee status, both at the international and domestic levels, before turning to examine the function of offshore immigration control mechanisms and extraterritorial processing on asylum seekers' access to territory and entitlements (both procedural and substantive). It considers the particular needs and rights of children as forced migrants, but also as children; the role of human rights law in protecting religious minorities in the context of debates about national identity; the approaches of refugee decision-makers in assessing the credibility of evidence; and the scope for an international judicial commission to provide consistent interpretative guidance on refugee law, so as to overcome (or at least diminish) the currently diverse and sometimes conflicting approaches of national courts. The last part of the book examines the status of people who benefit from 'complementary protection'-such as those who cannot be removed from a country because they face a risk of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment-and the scope for the broader concept of the 'responsibility to protect' to address gaps in the international protection regime"--Bloomsbury Publishing.