
Max Koch
FD och habilitation i sociologi från Freie Universität Berlin | Professor

Sustainable welfare without growth
Författare
Summary, in English
and consumption patterns into planetary limits through a decrease in material and energy throughputs, particularly in rich countries. However, if critical amounts of exclusion and anomy are to be prevented during this transition, this will presuppose a more or less parallel transition of a range of social institutions at roughly the same speed and various scales (local, national, global) that
are currently in different ways tied to economic growth—a ‘great transformation’ for which there are few or no historical precedents under democratic circumstances.
While degrowth and postgrowth approaches in general have to grapple with the corresponding complexity problem, this Special Issue particularly addresses the intersection of the environmental and welfare systems. Hence, it aims to contribute towards reducing the complexity associated with a degrowth transition. We develop further the concept of ‘sustainable welfare’, which has generally been conceptualized in terms of satisfying human needs within planetary boundaries. Given the lack of evidence for an absolute decoupling of GDP from matter and energy consumption, we are interested in understanding how welfare systems that are less dependent on economic growth can
work and be more focused on achieving integrated sustainability goals than currently.
Avdelning/ar
- Socialhögskolan
Publiceringsår
2020-02-28
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Sustainability
Volym
12
Issue
5
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
MDPI AG
Ämne
- Social Work
Nyckelord
- Sustainble Welfare
- Degrowth
- Eco-social policies
Aktiv
Published
Projekt
- The New Urban Challenge? Models of Sustainable Welfare in Swedish Metropolitan Cities
- Sustainable Welfare for a New Generation of Social Policy
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2071-1050