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Max Koch. Foto: Johan Persson.

Max Koch

FD och habilitation i sociologi från Freie Universität Berlin | Professor

Max Koch. Foto: Johan Persson.

Sustainable Welfare in the EU: Promoting Synergies between Climate and Social Policies

Författare

  • Max Koch
  • Anne Therese Gullberg
  • Mi Ah Schoyen
  • Bjørn Hvinden

Summary, in English

The commentary addresses the scope for synergy between climate change policy and social policy in the European Union (EU) from a ‘sustainable welfare’ perspective. The emerging sustainable welfare approach is oriented to the satisfaction of human needs within ecological limits, in an intergenerational and global perspective. While the overall goals of EU climate policy and EU welfare policies largely reflect this orientation, there are significant differences in policy priorities. A ‘policy auditing’ approach towards sustainable welfare defines critical thresholds for matter and energy throughput to identify how much room there is for economic and societal development. However, the EU refrains from prioritizing environmental over other, especially economic, goals and displays a remarkable degree of optimism in relation to the extent to which one can make these different policy goals compatible

Avdelning/ar

  • Socialhögskolan

Publiceringsår

2016-09-13

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

704-715

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Critical Social Policy

Volym

36

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Social Work

Nyckelord

  • Climate Change
  • social policy
  • sustainable welfare
  • EU
  • synergy

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0261-0183