An eco-social policy typology: From system reproduction to transformation

IF 1.5 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI:10.1177/14680181231205777

Robin Schulze Waltrup

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Abstract

Eco-social policy research has emerged to address the interconnected and escalating pressures of social reproduction, climate change, and biodiversity loss, which require structural and behavioural changes for environmental and social welfare. However, conceptual ambiguity persists in applying an eco-social policy perspective to empirical research. After reviewing the interconnections and tensions of environmental and social policy, this article proposes a novel eco-social policy typology to assess policy discourses for their eco-social potential and to imagine different pathways towards sustainable policy-integration. The typology discusses four perspectives: Green Economy, Green Keynesianism, Recomposing Consumption and Production, and Degrowth. Each perspective is analysed based on its approach towards economic growth, the extent to which it appreciates public modes of governance, and its potential to either perpetuate existing institutionalised policymaking frameworks or lead to transformative shifts. This typology fosters constructive debates on integrating environmental and social policy, facilitates empirical research on policy proposals’ eco-social potential and offers guidance in evaluating policy discourses through an eco-social lens.

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生态社会政策类型学:从系统再生产到转型

生态社会政策研究的出现是为了解决社会再生产、气候变化和生物多样性丧失等相互关联且不断升级的压力，这些压力需要为了环境和社会福利而进行结构和行为上的改变。然而，在将生态社会政策观点应用于实证研究时，概念上的歧义仍然存在。在回顾了环境和社会政策的相互联系和紧张关系之后，本文提出了一种新的生态社会政策类型学来评估政策话语的生态社会潜力，并设想实现可持续政策整合的不同途径。该类型学讨论了四个观点:绿色经济、绿色凯恩斯主义、消费和生产重组以及去增长。对每一种观点的分析都是基于其对经济增长的态度、对公共治理模式的赞赏程度，以及其延续现有制度化政策制定框架或导致转型转变的潜力。这种类型促进了关于整合环境和社会政策的建设性辩论，促进了对政策建议的生态社会潜力的实证研究，并为通过生态社会视角评估政策话语提供了指导。

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Global Social Policy POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.20

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6.70%

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期刊介绍： Global Social Policy is a fully peer-reviewed journal that advances the understanding of the impact of globalisation processes upon social policy and social development on the one hand, and the impact of social policy upon globalisation processes on the other hand. The journal analyses the contributions of a range of national and international actors, both governmental and non-governmental, to global social policy and social development discourse and practice. Global Social Policy publishes scholarly policy-oriented articles and reports that focus on aspects of social policy and social and human development as broadly defined in the context of globalisation be it in contemporary or historical contexts.