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Before the outbreak of the global covid-19 crisis, climate change had gained prominence on the international political agenda as perhaps the greatest contemporary global policy challenge. The pandemic is forcing economic restructuring onto the agenda and across the world governments are adopting economic rescue and recovery packages. Potentially, these may be designed in a way that accelerates the shift to net zero carbon societies. This is relevant because the covid-19 crisis does not reduce the urgency of mitigating the impacts of climate change and meeting the ambitions of the Paris Agreement through an interlinked ecological and social transformation that includes more sustainable forms of production, consumption and lifestyles. While the environmental risks of climate change are well understood, there is still very little knowledge about over-time patterns and cross-national varieties of the structural and institutional factors that affect a country’s trajectory of change towards net zero carbon societies. Conversely, it is little researched how the eco-social transformation affects societies at large as well as the new challenges and inequalities it may produce for different socioeconomic groups, countries and generations. Against this backdrop scholarly interest in the topic has gained momentum resulting in a quickly developing field of interdisciplinary scholarship. In this joint session we aim to shed light on the eco-social transformation, the changes, chances and the challenges it brings about, particularly for the social dimension in terms of well-being and inequality. The topic relates to several different political science sub-disciplines including political economy, welfare and society studies, public policy analysis as well as comparative politics among others.
To enhance the exchange among scholars from different sub-disciplines, we welcome theoretical as well as empirical contributions (both of quantitative and qualitative nature) from the Global North and South. We invite papers that study the linkage of climate change and welfare from three analytically distinct, but empirically overlapping angles: 1. First, we welcome contributions that discuss the theoretical-normative linkage between climate change and societal well-being and inequalities. Are some eco-social policies considered more legitimate or just than others? Are there limits or incompatibilities between environmental and equity goals? And what are the implications of new climate risks and mitigation policies for different groups of society, countries or generations? 2. Second, we are interested in papers describing and explaining empirical patterns of the eco-social transformation. Questions include but are not limited to: Which policies are at the forefront of the eco-social transformation? And how can we explain policy differences in terms of green taxes or subsidies between countries or region? Possible explanations can look into the role of institutional configuration (e.g., varieties of capitalism or welfare states), social movements, political parties or climate catastrophes as triggers or obstacles of change. 3. Third, we invite contributions that shed light on patterns of societal perceptions and attitudes towards different aspects of climate change and mitigation policies. How can we for instance, explain variation in preferences towards sustainable consumption patterns across cohorts or societal groups? From this perspective we are also interested in which societal groups are benefiting from the eco-social transformation and which ones are falling behind.
Papers will be avaliable once proposal and review has been completed.