Towards an eco-welfare state: Enabling factors for transformative eco-social initiatives

IF 1.5 Q3 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Tuuli Hirvilammi, Juha Peltomaa, Matti Pihlajamaa, S. Tiilikainen
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Abstract

In eco-welfare states, welfare provision must operate within planetary boundaries, entailing societal transformations and significant emission reductions. This article contributes to the research on sustainable welfare and eco-social policies by examining transformative and integrative eco-social initiatives that aim to reduce environmental impacts while also ensuring that public actors have the capacities to reach legally binding social outcomes and enhance social inclusion. Theoretically, we combine welfare state transformation research with the concepts of social-ecological systems, provisioning systems and transformative capacity. Our empirical cases in Finland include public actors promoting sustainable public procurement, a network of carbon-neutral municipalities, sustainable lifestyles accelerators at the household level, and carbon footprint calculators as a potential free-to-use technique that supports widespread carbon reductions. We apply a qualitative research design to investigate what kinds of factors are crucial in enhancing the transformative capacity of provisioning systems and how various factors in practice enable the eco-social initiatives to support the transformation towards an eco-welfare state. Our findings identify key enabling factors for transformative capacity: social networks, collaboration and participation; knowledge, learning and monitoring; shared policy frameworks and visions; and financial resources. These factors are interrelated and can be brought to bear in no particular sequence. The results offer valuable insights into how welfare state characteristics with democratically governed public actors may facilitate transformation.
迈向生态福利国家:转型生态社会倡议的促成因素
在生态福利国家,福利提供必须在全球范围内运作,这需要社会变革和大幅减排。本文通过研究旨在减少环境影响的变革性和综合性生态社会举措,同时确保公共行为者有能力实现具有法律约束力的社会成果和加强社会包容,为可持续福利和生态社会政策的研究做出了贡献。从理论上讲,我们将福利国家转型研究与社会生态系统、供应系统和转型能力的概念相结合。我们在芬兰的经验案例包括促进可持续公共采购的公共行为者、碳中和的市政府网络、家庭层面的可持续生活方式加速器,以及作为支持广泛碳减排的潜在自由使用技术的碳足迹计算器。我们采用定性研究设计来调查哪些因素对提高供应系统的变革能力至关重要,以及实践中的各种因素如何使生态社会倡议能够支持向生态福利国家的转型。我们的研究结果确定了变革能力的关键促成因素:社交网络、合作和参与;知识、学习和监测;共享政策框架和愿景;以及财政资源。这些因素是相互关联的,不能按特定的顺序产生影响。研究结果为具有民主治理公共行为者的福利国家特征如何促进转型提供了宝贵的见解。
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European Journal of Social Security
European Journal of Social Security PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-
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