MATSUURA MASAHIRO    Department   Professional Graduate School  , Graduate School of Governance Studies    Position   Professor
Research Period	2009/04～2013/03
Research Topic	Governance Reform and Policy Process Management for Sustainability
Research Type	KAKENHI Research
Consignor	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Program Type	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
KAKENHI Grant No.	21243008
Responsibility	Research Contributor
Representative Person	SHIROYAMA Hideaki
Collaborative Researcher	NAKAGAWA Yoshinori, ONISHI Akio, MATSUI Tomoyo, KAJIKI Shinya, MATSUO Makiko, SATO Chiaki, OHTA Kyoko
Details	Transition to the sustainable society requires governance reforms in the various policy fields such as energy, agriculture and food and health care. This project, with the transition governance perspective, explored the way of policy process management which enabled these reforms. We focused on the inter-relations between various factors in different policy areas through the case studies of domestic as well as international policy issues which require consistent arrangements with the former. The roles of laws and communication schemes in transition governance were also examined. Practical and institutional instruments such as problem structuring, stakeholder analysis and technology assessment, all of which were expected to support policy process management were experimentally implemented and then evaluated.