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Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare book cover

1st Edition

Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare

Edited By Max Koch, Oksana Mont Copyright 2016
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge
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Welfare is commonly conceptualized in socio-economic terms of equity, highlighting distributive issues within growing economies. While GDP, income growth and rising material standards of living are normally not questioned as priorities in welfare theories and policy making, there is growing evidence that Western welfare standards are not generalizable to the rest of the planet if environmental... Read more

Introduction: Research on sustainable welfare:　State of the art and outline of the　book - Max Koch and Oksana Mont

PART I: Perspectives on Sustainable Welfare

Chapter 1: The concept of sustainable welfare - Eric Brandstedt and Maria Emmelin

Chapter 2: Human needs, steady-state economics and sustainable welfare - Max Koch and Hubert Buch-Hansen

Chapter 3: Reconceptualizing prosperity – Some reflections on the impact of globalization on health and welfare - Maria Emmelin and Kate Soper

Chapter 4: The future is not what it used to be: On the roles and function of assumptions in visions of the future - Eric Brandstedt and Oksana Mont

PART II: Policies Towards Establishing Sustainable Welfare

Chapter 5: Green political economy: Policies for and obstacles to sustainable welfare - Jamil Khan and Eric Clark

Chapter 6: Climate change and the welfare state: Do we see a new generation of social risks emerging? - Håkan Johansson, Jamil Khan and Roger Hildingsson

Chapter 7: Market solutions to climate change: Examples of of personal carbon trading and rationing - Roger Hildingsson and Max Koch

Chapter 8: The changing landscape of work time reduction: The past and the future - Oksana Mont

PART III: Emerging Practices of Sustainable Welfare

Chapter 9: Transitions towards degrowth and sustainable welfare: Carbon emission reduction and wealth and income distribution in France, the US and China - Hubert Buch-Hansen, Annika Pissin and Erin Kennedy

Chapter 10: Social economy and green social enterprises: Production for sustainable welfare? - Eric Clark and Håkan Johansson

Chapter 11: What is possible, what is imaginable? Stories about low carbon life in China - Erin Kennedy and Annika Pissin

Chapter 12: The interaction of policy and experience: An ‘alternative hedonist’ optic - Kate Soper

Conclusion: Looking back, looking forward: Results and future research directions - Oksana Mont and Max Koch

Biography

Max Koch is a Professor in Social Policy at Lund University, Sweden.

Oksana Mont is a Professor in Sustainable Consumption and Production at Lund University, Sweden.

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