1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797524103321

Autore

Goyal Megh Raj

Titolo

Wastewater management for irrigation : principles and practices / / edited by Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE and Vinod K. Tripathi, PhD

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ontario, Canada : , : Apple Academic Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-429-15249-3

1-4987-2739-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (458 p.)

Collana

Research Advances in Sustainable Micro Irrigation ; ; Volume 8

Disciplina

631.7

Soggetti

Irrigation water - Quality

Microirrigation

Water reuse

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

part 1. Irrigation management -- part 2. Current status of wastewater management -- part 3. Wastewater management practices.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154609803321

Titolo

Legal practice and cultural diversity / / edited by Ralph Grillo. [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

9781351922395

1351922394

9781138267831

113826783X

9781315250557

1315250551

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 345 pages)

Collana

Cultural diversity and law

Altri autori (Persone)

GrilloR. D

Disciplina

340.115

Soggetti

Religious minorities - Legal status, laws, etc

Legal polycentricity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di contenuto

1. Legal practice and cultural diversity : introduction / Roger Ballard. [and others] -- 2. Cultural diversity : challenge and accommodation / Roger Ballard. [and others] -- 3. Indian secular pluralism and its relevance for Europe / Werner Menski -- 4. Legal pluralism and differentiated morality : sharia in Ontario? / Veit Bader -- 5. Transforming to accommodate? : reflections on the sharia debate in Britain / Prakash Shah -- 6. Sharia in a European context / Mathias Rohe -- 7. Objection, your honour! accommodating niqab-wearing women in courtrooms / Natasha Bakht -- 8. The challenge of African customary laws to English legal culture / Gordon Woodman -- 9. Religious challenges to the secularized identity of an insecure polity : a tentative sociology of Québec’s 'reasonable accommodation' debate / Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens -- 10. Does the Dutch judiciary pluralize domestic law? / ANDRÉ J. HOEkEmA-- 11. The influence of culture on the determination of damages : how cultural relativism affects the analysis of trauma / Alison Renteln -- 12. Jews and Muslims in France : changing responses to cultural and religious diversity claims



/ Martine Cohen -- 13. L'affaire du foulard in the shadow of the Strasbourg Court : Article 9 and the public career of the veil in France / Claire de Galembert -- 14. The changing position of religious minorities in English law : the legacy of Begum / Russell Sandberg -- 15. Approaches to diversity in the domestic courts : Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights / Samantha Knights -- 16. Human rights in contexts of ethnic plurality : always a vehicle for liberation? / Roger Ballard.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice. Comparative in analysis, this study places particular cases in their widest context, taking into account international and transnational influences.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957461403321

Titolo

The politics of religion in South and Southeast Asia / / edited by Ishtiaq Ahmed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-72702-7

1-283-10320-6

9786613103208

1-136-72703-5

0-203-81713-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary Asia series ; ; 32

Altri autori (Persone)

AhmedIshtiaq <1947->

Disciplina

322/.1095

Soggetti

Religion and politics - South Asia

Religion and politics - Southeast Asia

South Asia Religion

Southeast Asia Religion

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

Cover; The Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1. The politics of religion in South and



Southeast Asia; 2. Religion as a political ideologyin South Asia; 3. Islamism beyond the Islamic heartland: A case study of Bangladesh; 4. Secular versus Hindu nation-building:  Dalit, Adivasi, Muslim and Christian experiences in India; 5. Sikh politics and the Indo-Pak relationship; 6. Religious nationalism and minorities in Pakistan:  Constitutional and legal bases of discrimination; 7. Women under Islamic Law in Pakistan

8. Religion as a political ideology in Southeast Asia9. Political Islam in Indonesia; 10. Religion and politics in the Philippines; 11. Creating a Muslim majority in plural Malaysia:Undermining minority and women's rights; 12. Keeping politics and religion separate in the public square:Managed pluralism and the regulatory state in Singapore; 13. Transnational religious-political movements: Negotiating Hindutva in the diaspora; 14. Negotiating rights through transnational puritan networks: Religious discourses;  cyber technology and Pakistani women; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The notion of a 'politics of religion' refers to the increasing role that religion plays in the politics of the contemporary world. This book presents comparative country case studies on the politics of religion in South and South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Indonesia. The politics of religion calls into question the relevance of modernist notions of secularism and democracy, with the emphasis instead on going back to indigenous roots in search of authentic ideologies and models of state and nation building. Within the context of the individual countries, chapters focus on the conse