Quality Infrastructure for China's Circular Economy

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 on 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 the University of Tübingen, Germany, an executive MBA from the European University, Geneva, and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of AnnexesForewordPrefaceList of acronyms and abbreviationsChapter 1. Introduction and Methodological ApproachChapter 2. Conceptual Framework: Circular EconomyChapter 3. Conceptual Framework: Quality InfrastructureChapter 4. Evolution of Circular Economy in ChinaChapter 5. China’s QI System in Support of a CE TransitionChapter 6. Status of China’s Transition Toward a CEChapter 7. Role of China’s QI System in the CE TransitionChapter 8. Conclusions and ExtensionsAnnexesIndex