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Introduction: The Dilemma Introduction: The Dilemma
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A Safe and Just Space for Humanity A Safe and Just Space for Humanity
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Scenario 1: Green Growth Plus ‘Eco-Social’ Policies in the North Scenario 1: Green Growth Plus ‘Eco-Social’ Policies in the North
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Scenario 2: Address the Consumer Society Scenario 2: Address the Consumer Society
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Widening Public Consumption: Towards Universal Basic Services Widening Public Consumption: Towards Universal Basic Services
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Reshaping Private Consumption: Towards a ‘Consumption Corridor’ Reshaping Private Consumption: Towards a ‘Consumption Corridor’
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Scenario 3: Post-Growth? Scenario 3: Post-Growth?
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Reducing Paid Work Time Reducing Paid Work Time
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New Policies on Redistribution New Policies on Redistribution
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Finally—The Absent Global Dimension Finally—The Absent Global Dimension
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Conclusions Conclusions
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References References
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51 From Welfare States to Planetary Well-Being
Get accessIan Gough is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of Bath and Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE).
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Published:08 December 2021
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Abstract
This final chapter concentrates on global environmental challenges to rich-country welfare states: climate breakdown and associated ecological disasters. These common threats add two new raison d’êtres for welfare states: first, that the security and equity they seek should be sustainable through time; second, that their scope is broadened to take account of global equity and well-being. With a few notable exceptions, these fundamental questions have been ignored in the social policy community. I argue here that we need to transform our understanding of social policy in four ways, each more difficult than the previous one. First, we need to develop novel eco-social programmes to tap synergies between well-being and sustainability via transformative investment programmes such as a Green New Deal. Second, we need to recompose consumption in rich countries in two ways: to realize the best principles of the welfare state by extending the range of universal basic services and to work towards a private ‘consumption corridor’ to end waste, meet basic needs, and reduce inequality. Third, we must develop strategies of ‘reduce and redistribute’ to adapt welfare systems for a future of slower, if not negative, economic growth. And finally, we need to develop a global equity framework to meet climatic and ecological threats in a globally just way that recognizes current international inequalities.
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