After months of waiting, a Hindu congregation will likely find out soon if it can move its spiritual home from Orlando to a new temple in Gotha, a rural settlement in west Orange County, where residents are bothered by the building’s proposed size. If granted permission, followers of the Hindu denomination known as BAPS, short for Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, would .
As we face the need to limit our environmental impacts, drawing attention to pre-industrial cultures and their ecological contexts may offer some useful pointers towards a viable future.
As the Zimbabwe Environment Lawyers Association (Zela), we observed violations of fundamental constitutional human rights due to some of these displacements.