Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare

Herausgeber: Koch, Max; Mont, Oksana

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare raises the issue of what is required to make welfare societies ecologically sustainable. Consisting of three parts, this book regards the current financial, economic and political crisis in welfare state institutions and addresses methodological, theoretical and wider conceptual issues in integrating sustainability. Furthermore, this text is concerned with the main institutional obstacles to the achievement of sustainable welfare and wellbeing, and how these may feasibly be overcome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138925281
• ISBN-10: 1138925284
• Artikelnr.: 43678494

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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