Asian Governance on the Transboundary Air Pollution: Intertwining of "Loose"Systems in Institutions

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24730158
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: Kumamoto Gakuen University
• Principal Investigator: MIYAZAKI ASAMI 熊本学園大学, 経済学部, 講師 (60579332)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 国際政治学 / アジア / 協力 / 条約 / 交渉 / 大気汚染 / 酸性雨 / PM2.5

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research investigates the process of networking among participating courtiers/ parties, interplaying of the related cooperative frameworks (ASEAN Haze Agreement, Acid Deposition Monitoring Network (EANET), and Malé declaration on transboundary air pollution in South Asia) on the transboundary atmospheric issues in Asia. Relations and features of political actors engaging in the intergovernmental negotiations in each environmental cooperative framework are visualized by applying the social network analysis to find the process of cooperation and non-cooperation seamlessly. Also, these sub-regional cooperative frameworks are intertwined with one another by other wider networking across the frameworks. These are new findings ever seen in these case studies.

Free Research Field

国際環境政治学、国際関係論、国際政治学、国際環境政策学