1st Edition
Quality Infrastructure for China's Circular Economy Standards and Knowledge Practices in the Green Transition
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Annexes
Foreword
Preface
List of acronyms and abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction and Methodological Approach
Chapter 2. Conceptual framework – Circular Economy
Chapter 3. Conceptual Framework – Quality Infrastructure
Chapter 4. Evolution of Circular Economy in China
Chapter 5. China’s QI System and QI Instruments in Support of CE
Chapter 6. Status of China’s Transition towards a CE
Chapter 7. Role of China’s QI System in the CE Transition
Chapter 8. Conclusions and Extensions
Annexes
Index
Biography
Reinhard Weissinger has been Senior Expert, Research and Education, at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also worked as an external professor at the University of Geneva teaching on the relationship between standardization, social regulation and sustainability. He has been engaged in research, teaching and consultancy related to various aspects of standardization for many years. His research priorities have been standardization and quality infrastructure in China, service standardization, studies in the impact of standards, national standardization strategies in support of socio-economic development as well as circular economy. He holds a master’s degree in Chinese studies and linguistics from University of Tübingen, Germany, an executive MBA of the European University, Geneva and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
