Max Koch
Professor
Sustainable Welfare in the EU: Promoting Synergies between Climate and Social Policies
Author
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
Department/s
- School of Social Work
Publishing year
2016-09-13
Language
English
Pages
704-715
Publication/Series
Critical Social Policy
Volume
36
Issue
4
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Topic
- Social Work
Keywords
- Climate Change
- social policy
- sustainable welfare
- EU
- synergy
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0261-0183