In person icon Politics and Policies of a Just Transition: Reconciling Welfare and Climate Change

Abstract

In the welfare state debate, eco-social policy has gained purchase as a paradigm capable of combining social goals, such as income security and skill upgrading, with aims of decarbonization and respect for planetary boundaries. Similarly, some scholars and practitioners have set forth the idea of a ‘just transition’ as a strategy for industrial reconversion, balancing social justice with environmental imperatives. The panel explores the variety of eco-social policies and the political dynamics underlying them, which have emerged in response to social and environmental challenges posed by transition processes in the European Union and beyond. We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions addressing, but not limited, to the following questions: - How do welfare states confront the environmental crisis? - To what extent has the green state integrated social risks and concerns? - Is climate change inherently a threat to welfare infrastructures, making social and environmental needs irreconcilable? - Are there ‘silver linings’ in combining ecological and social policy goals?

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