Towards Sustainable Welfare States in Europe
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-83910-462-6 (ISBN)
This seminal book addresses the critical and urgent question of ‘what makes welfare states sustainable?’ in the era of climate change. Expert authors challenge traditional perspectives on questions of sustainability which have focused on population ageing, global economic turbulence and on containing current and future public social spending.
The chapters present new empirical evidence in the form of in-depth comparative country studies from across Europe, offering an insight into how political actors, social partners and civil society organisations in countries associated with different welfare models address questions of sustainability and the extent to which they balance social, ecological and economic considerations. The editors conclude by mapping out ways in which welfare states can address these increasingly urgent and complex issues and facilitate an eco-social transition towards true sustainability.
This book will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of comparative social policy, environmental politics and policy and climate change. Highlighting the political and structural challenges European societies face in the transition to low carbon economies, this book will also be beneficial for policymakers and practitioners in these areas.
Edited by Mi Ah Schoyen, Bjørn Hvinden, Norwegian Social Research (NOVA), Oslo Metropolitan University and Merethe Dotterud Leiren, CICERO – Center for International Climate Research, Norway
Contents:
Foreword xiv
Ian Gough
PART I RETHINKING WELFARE STATE SUSTAINABILITY
1 Welfare state sustainability in the 21st century 2
Mi Ah Schoyen, Bjørn Hvinden and Merethe Dotterud Leiren
2 Sustainable development and sustainable welfare:
a changing international agenda 28
Bjørn Hvinden, Mi Ah Schoyen and Merethe Dotterud Leiren
PART II QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS OF THE
POTENTIAL FOR AN ECO-SOCIAL TRANSITION
3 Attitudes towards climate change and economic inequality:
a cross-national comparative study 53
Kristian Heggebø and Bjørn Hvinden
4 Integrating environmental issues within party manifestos:
exploring trends across European welfare states 80
Judith Derndorfer, Roman Hoffmann and Hendrik Theine
PART III ECO-SOCIAL POLICYMAKING (POLITICS
AND POLICY) AT NATIONAL LEVEL
5 Partially institutionalized eco-social policymaking in Germany 109
Mi Ah Schoyen, Max Koch and Marianne Takle
6 Bottom-up pressures, institutional hurdles and political
concerns: the long path towards an ‘eco-welfare state’ in Italy 131
Marcello Natili, Angelica Puricelli and Matteo Jessoula
7 The Norwegian sustainability paradox: leader abroad,
laggard at home 153
Mi Ah Schoyen and Marianne Takle
8 The United Kingdom: a merging climate and sustainability
agenda 175
Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Marianne Takle
PART IV EUROPE AS A DRIVER FOR THE
ECO-SOCIAL AGENDA?
9 Towards an EU eco-social agenda? From Europe 2020 to
the European Green Deal 199
Sebastiano Sabato, Matteo Mandelli and Matteo Jessoula
10 Eco-social mobilization at the supranational level? The
case of ‘The Right to Energy for All Europeans’ coalition 220
Matteo Jessoula and Matteo Mandelli
PART V CONCLUSIONS
11 Sustainable European welfare states: the way forward 241
Bjørn Hvinden, Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Mi Ah
Schoyen
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.09.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cheltenham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83910-462-7 / 1839104627 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83910-462-6 / 9781839104626 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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