ASIEN – Nr. 117 Oktober 2010 Umweltpolitik in IndienIssue Editor Kirsten Jörgensen und and Christian Wagner
Editorial Team Günter Schucher
Editorial Manager Max Jakob Fölster

• Nr. 117 (2010) Editorial 5–6 {:en}EditorialAs 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 … von by Kirsten Jörgensen und and Christian Wagner
• Nr. 117 (2010) Artikel Article 7–26 {:de}The Challenges of E-Waste Management in India: Can India draw lessons from the EU and the USA?This article examines e-waste management in India, identifying lessons and implications from e-waste management in the European Union and the United States which may influence or predict both strengths and obstacles to effectiveness in Indian e-waste regulation. India’s new draft E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules are much more comprehensive than any US e-waste regulations and … von by Alexandra Skinner, Yvonne Dinter, Alex Lloyd und and Philip Strothmann
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• Nr. 117 (2010) Artikel Article 27–44 {:en}Water Stress in the Cauvery Basin, South India — How current water management approaches and allocation conflict constrain reformThis article presents insights on the state of water management in the Cauvery basin in South India and the ongoing interstate dispute concerning the allocation of the Cauvery’s water between the riparian states Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. A lack of multi-level, intersectoral, and participative approaches on the one hand have led to inadequate conditions in … von by Marius Ferdin, Stefan Görlitz und and Steffen Schwörer
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• Nr. 117 (2010) Artikel Article 45–57 {:en}Towards a Public-Private Partnership Regime: An Analysis of Water-supply Systems in Urban IndiaThe institutional arrangements for supplying water to people living in urban conurbations in India is gradually being transformed from a conventional departmental arrangement to a new, rather fragmented structure of public-private partnerships with regulatory set-ups in a few cases. This article tracks the course of this development. It also identifies the prevailing patterns of public-private … von by Gopal K. Sarangi
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• Nr. 117 (2010) Research Note 58–78 {:de}Pakistan nach den Islamisten: Transformationsprozesse innerislamischer Rivalität und PopulärislamismusIslamic interpretations heavily impact on political culture and practice in Pakistan. Religious extremisms, which repeatedly have been resulting directly from state politics in Pakistan, become at times dominant to an extent that they threaten to undermine the foundations of state and society. Radical groups engage in several jihads: internal sectarian, regional jihads in Afghanistan and … von by Thomas K. Gugler
• Nr. 117 (2010) Neuere Literatur 123–34 {:de}Neuere Literatur über AsienDie Mitglieder der DGA sind herzlich aufgefordert, ihre neuesten Veröffentlichungen der Redaktion zu melden. von by Uwe Kotzel

Konferenzberichte

• Summer School 2010 des Exzellenzclusters „Asien und Europa im globalen Kontext“ an der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg 25. – 29. Juli 2010 (Verena Vöckel)
• Migration und ihre Grenzen – Asien als Perspektive?, Korea-Verband e.V. & Südasien-Informationsnetz e.V., Bildungszentrum Clara Sahlberg, Berlin 17. – 18. Sept. 2010 (Daniel Kremers)
• Deutschlands Verantwortung am Hindukusch. Herausforderungen, Strategien und Ziele des deutschen Engagements in Afghanistan, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin 22. Sept. 2010 (Patrick Keller)
• 13. Konferenz der European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA), Freie Universität Berlin, 27. Sept. – 1.Okt. 2010 (Dominik Bonatz, Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz)
• Die koreanische Halbinsel -Politischer Brennpunkt mit kulturellem Charme Theodor-Heuss-Akademie, Gummersbach 1. – 3. Okt. 2010 (Brigitte Bremer)
• Understanding the emergence of new industries. Between path dependency and path plasticity, University of Torino, Department of Economics & Collegio Carlo Alberto, 7. – 8. Okt. 2010 (Cornelia Storz)

Rezensionen

• Barbara Brower, Barbara Rose Johnston (Hgg.): Disappearing Peoples? Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia (Manfred Hutter)
• R. Michael Feener, Terenjit Sevea (Hgg.): Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia (Raphael Susewind)
• Sammelrezension: EU Perceptions in Asia: Martin Holland, Peter Ryan, Alojzy Z. Nowak, Nathalia Chaban (Hgg.): The EU through the Eyes of Asia. Media and Elite Perceptions in China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Thailand Nathalia Chaban, Martin Holland, Peter Ryan (Hgg.): The EU through the Eys of Asia. Volume II, New cases, new finding (Albrecht Rothacher)
• Arundhati Roy: Aus der Werkstatt der Demokratie (Pierre Gottschlich)
• Anand Kumar, Manish Tiwari (Hgg.): Quest for Participatory Democracy. Towards Understanding the Approach of Gandhi and Jayaprakash Narayan (Tamer Söyler)
• Robin Bush: Nahdlatul Ulama and the Struggle for Power within Islam and Politics in Indonesia (Daniel Köhler)
• Sammelrezension: Neuere chinesische Veröffentlichungen über die westlichen Chinawissenschaften (Thomas Kampen)
• Yunfeng Lu: The Transformation of Yiguan Dao in Taiwan. Adapting to a Changing Religious Economy (Lukas Pokorny)
• Thomas Heberer, Gunter Schubert: Politische Partizipation und Regimelegitimität in der VR China. Band 2: Der ländliche Raum (Ylva Monschein)
• Hauke Neddermann: Sozialismus in Xinjiang. Das Produktions- und Aufbaukorps in den 1950er Jahren (Oskar Weggel)

Forschung / Lehre / Informationen

• Konferenzankündigungen
• 11 Jahre Stipendiatenseminare des DAAD und JDZB: Bilanz und Ausblick (Jörg Reinowski)
• Appell zur Freilassung des Friedensnobelpreisträgers 2010 Liu Xiaobo

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