Towards a New Generation of Social Policy: Commonalities between Sustainable Welfare and the IPCC

Koch, MaxLund University,Lunds universitet,Socialpolitik och hållbarhet,Socialhögskolan,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,LU profilområde: Naturbaserade framtidslösningar,Lunds universitets profilområden,Social Policy and Sustainability,School of Social Work,Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences,LU Profile Area: Nature-based future solutions,Lund University Profile areas (author)

The climate crisis calls for a new generation of social policy compatible with planetary limits and economic postgrowth circumstances. This article analyses how some of the pillars of such a new generation of social policy may be conceptualized by highlighting commonalities between the most recent IPCC report and the sustainable welfare literature. Methodologically triangulating content analysis of the IPCC report, literature review and qualitative data analysis from citizen forums, we argue that this convergence is particularly evident in four areas central to policymaking: the importance of human needs in eco-social policymaking; the identification of governance structures suitable for a social-ecological transformation; the requirement to co-develop policies via a deliberative, «bottom-up» element; and the need to decouple welfare provision from economic growth.

Buchs, MilenaUniversity of Leeds (author)
Lee, Jayeon,1986Lund University,Lunds universitet,Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för socialt arbete,Department of Social Work,Socialpolitik och hållbarhet,Socialhögskolan,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,Social Policy and Sustainability,School of Social Work,Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences(Swepub:lu)soc-jel (author)
Socialpolitik och hållbarhetSocialhögskolan (creator_code:org_t)

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