EditorialKirsten Jörgensen und and Christian Wagner

ASIEN – Nr. 117 (2010) pp. 5–6

As an emerging world power, India is becoming an important partner in critical areas of ecological sustainability. Its rapidly emerging economy and Germany’s pioneering environmental economy offer different but mutually complementary perspectives.

This issue of the journal presents various papers on environmental governance in India that stem from student research projects. The MA and PhD students participating in them performed their research work within the context of a student and research exchange programme called “German-Indian Climate Change and Sustainability Dialogue” (GISCCD). During their research stays at Freie Universität Berlin and TERI University (New Delhi), students from both countries addressed a variety of topics related to the environment, climate and energy, studying problems, policies and their impacts. They studied the way in which policies promote and impede sustainable development…