Global Governance on Standardization for Environmental Product Design

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24730145
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: WATANABE Tomoaki 九州大学, グリーンアジア国際リーダー教育センター, 助教 (00404088)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 標準化 / 環境規格 / グローバル・ガヴァナンス / EU / ドイツ / 国際政治

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The objective of this research is to elucidate the political process in which the European Union has promoted the Standardization System since the early 2000s. Taking up the standardization process for environment in electronic products designs, I examined how stakeholders, such as the European Union, member states, industries and environmental NGOs, promoted their interest and responded to the emergent system. Based on empirical findings, this research concludes that the political process of European standardization has developed actor’s understanding of “standardization” as not simply technical yardstick but “policy idea”, and consequently reshaped actor’s interest.

Free Research Field

国際関係論