The Global Research Forum in East Asia
East Asia, in particular China, has gone through rapid changes over the last decades bringing both opportunities and challenges. The region has developed into one of the world’s most significant production houses and raised a significant proportion of its population out of poverty. However, economic developments are placing growing pressure on already limited natural resources threatening many fragile environments. New affluent consumers are developing increasingly resource intense lifestyles which further accelerate these environmental threats. At the same time, poverty remains an important issue that needs to be urgently tackled.
GRF research sheds further light on these pressing consumption and production related opportunities and challenges as well as the array of existing and potential institutional responses, ranging from strong top down regulation, over local protests and civil societal movements, to the use of market instruments such as product labelling and certification.
GRF research sheds further light on these pressing consumption and production related opportunities and challenges as well as the array of existing and potential institutional responses, ranging from strong top down regulation, over local protests and civil societal movements, to the use of market instruments such as product labelling and certification.
Regional Highlights
Research: Prospects for high-legitimacy product carbon labeling for China
Project partners: Tyndall Centre Fudan (Fudan University, China) and Sustainable Consumption Institute (The University of Manchester, UK)
Project duration: March 2013 - June 2015
Contact: [email protected]
Product labeling has become an increasingly prominent instrument in China to address some of its emerging consumption and production challenges. Based upon theoretical arguments of constructivist institutionalism and the concept of legitimacy, and drawing from case study research on existing Chinese product labeling schemes, this project investigates the institutionalisation of Chinese product labeling schemes and makes comparisons with Western contexts. Conclusions are drawn as to what currently hinders and facilitates the institutionalisation of product labeling schemes in China as well as the prospects for the planned implementation of a Chinese carbon labeling scheme.
Project partners: Tyndall Centre Fudan (Fudan University, China) and Sustainable Consumption Institute (The University of Manchester, UK)
Project duration: March 2013 - June 2015
Contact: [email protected]
Product labeling has become an increasingly prominent instrument in China to address some of its emerging consumption and production challenges. Based upon theoretical arguments of constructivist institutionalism and the concept of legitimacy, and drawing from case study research on existing Chinese product labeling schemes, this project investigates the institutionalisation of Chinese product labeling schemes and makes comparisons with Western contexts. Conclusions are drawn as to what currently hinders and facilitates the institutionalisation of product labeling schemes in China as well as the prospects for the planned implementation of a Chinese carbon labeling scheme.
Papers and Case Studies
Leonie Dendler: Effective Institutionalisation of Sustainability-related Product Labeling Schemes | |
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