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Following the Supreme Court of Canada's 2006 decision in Multani v. Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys, Quebec has been the stage of what can now be called the “reasonable accommodations crisis”. In response to the situation, the Quebec government set up the Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences, whose final report gives very little weight to the hypothesis that the accommodations crisis has legal roots. From a legal perspective, the criteria established by Canadian jurisprudence to identify religious beliefs that can benefit from specific legal protection have been broadened to such a point that courts and decisionmakers in civil society can no longer identify the line between religious and personal beliefs.The author develops his argument by examining issues relating to the definition of religion throughout the world and the criteria established by Canadian judicial bodies to identify forms of personal affiliation that can be legally protected.
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AbstractHow can scientists help institutions and local stakeholders be more involved in land use and territorial management processes? Decentralization of land use management is far from complete in Senegal and La Réunion Island. Despite exhaustive legislation, local populations remain little involved in the decisions that affect their land. This is partly due to the difficulties in understanding and managing the complexity of dynamic and interacting social and environmental systems. The Domino project aims at accompanying decision processes by proposing to stakeholders to build and explore scenarios of land use management. This experiment in participatory modelling, done on two contrasting sites, is built on complex partnership dynamics. In this paper we do a comparative analysis of difficulties raised by the involvement of partners in companion modelling. We conclude by discussing the need for quality process in action-research.
Keywords: montage de partenariat, démarche qualité, modèle, changement social, ComMod, interdisciplinarité, décentralisation, foncier, Sénégal, Réunion, partnership building, quality process, model, social change, ComMod, interdisciplinary, decentralization, land use, Senegal, Reunion Island
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The degradation of the planet's freshwater ecosystems constitutes one of the main dimensions of the “global water crisis”. As a result of human activity, this degradation is ultimately allowed to occur by an ethic that only takes people into account and therefore reduces water and freshwater ecosystems to the status of resources to be exploited. Given the impact of humanity's relationship with nature on water governance, there is a need to rethink the current anthropocentric ethic and to move beyond it. Such an ethical accomplishment would require that Homo sapiens accept limits to their freedom of action in the struggle for existence. These limits, it is suggested, could be based on a reverence for water as a life support system.
Keywords: crise mondiale de l'eau, gouvernance de l'eau, écosystèmes aquatiques, anthropocentrisme, éthique environnementale, construction sociale de la nature, développement durable, global water crisis, water governance, freshwater ecosystems, anthropocentrism, environmental ethics, social construction of nature, sustainable development
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